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BOHOL ISLAND STATE UNIVERSITY

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Name: Jannin A. Marapao Program & Year: BSEd- English 3

Course: The Teacher and The School Instructor: Mrs. Mae Evardo
Curriculum

Lesson 2: The School Curriculum and the Teacher

Activity No. 2.1

The School Curriculum and the Teacher

A. Think - Pair Share

1. Describe the kind of curriculum that has been used in the New Normal setting?

Answer:

A vast number of changes took place in our society due to the demonic pandemic.
With that, the curriculum has become a dynamic process. The pandemic brought us a
"new normal" in which digitalization imposes new modes of working and learning. It
propels education even further towards technologization. Thus, our educational system
currently deals with a learner-centered approach since our flexibility as learners allows us
to study at our own pace as we prepare for the future. For instance, the Department of
Education (DepEd) has implemented a blended learning curriculum design for its students
with the assurance that learners may appropriately continue their education at home in
the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Of course, the safety and security of the individuals,
most especially the students, were already considered.
 2. Give the advantages and disadvantages of online and face to face classroom
setting using Graphic Organizer.

ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES

• -More concentrate • -Travel time

• -Saves time • -Internet
• -Gain greater and cost.
• -Fosters Connection problems
• -Lacks of warmth
understanding, • -Attendance times
convenience stories and Can be restrictive or
• -Reduces of face to face real- world examples.
interaction incovenient
Expenses • -Greater chance
• -Unsuitable for • -Face-to-face tuition
• -Less tiring of completing the course
hands-on fields successfullyby doing it can be quite
and boring
expensive
• -Fast and easy • -Stressful for those in classroom situation.
with weak character • -Feel more comfortable • -Classes vary from
sharing of resources
and learn more in a early morning
• -Supports • -Possibility
familiar, to afternoons.
flexible schedules distractions
• -Requies a good
traditional classroom • If you have
• -Build a situation. a day-time job
learner’s character grasp of tech skills • -Have opportunity or other
• -Reduces • -Lack of digital to connect with, problem responsibilities,
expenses technologies solving, and network
it might not fit into
• -Away from • -No face to face with other students
your schedule.
group of people contact with fellow • -Ask questions directly
• -Access to the students or • -Have an access
course 24/7 course staff to on-campus
student
facilities.
 B. Interview

Interview at least two elementary/secondary teachers.

Focus your interview on the aspect of teaching modalities and learner's learnings.

1. What teaching modality is your school using in the New Normal setting?
2. Ask them their experiences in the process of teaching-learning.
3. How did you encourage learner's creativity and honesty?
4. How did you modify your teaching to help students who are struggling with the
lesson and learning resources?
5. How did you consider the learners' different learning styles?
6. What do you see as the most significant challenges involved in online teaching?

Teacher 1: Ronilyn Garay

Teacher 2: Frances Jean I. Bulac

Teacher 1: Ronilyn Garay

1. What teaching modality is your school using in the New Normal

setting?
• Starting & during pandemic, we are offering printed modular learning as our mode
of instruction. It's quite difficult for us especially adjusting to the new norm of
providing, instilling & assessing adequate learning to our students and if we
consider the things that are needed in a quality assured education both for our
Junior & Senior High School Students. Some of those experiences that we
encountered in the process of teaching-learning, is the availability or the
accessibility of gadgets both for students & teachers. Though we are practicing
modular instruction, we also need to engage and widen our minds for the
alternative ways that we can offer to our students aside from modules. We are also
administering substantial learning to our students through communications either
offline or online way and if there's scarcity or unavailability of the gadgets or any
form of modern technologies, then that's another serious problem that we need to
look for & that we need to consider in looking for a suitable intervention or an
appropriate solution to the problem.

2. How did you encourage learner’s creativity and honesty?

• We are encouraging our student’s creativity & honesty by letting or instructing them
to have a video recording of themselves in doing that certain task or performance.
We are also providing them rubric as their guide in doing and creating their video
presentation & creativity & honesty are one of those criterias included in our
analytic rubric. Other way of assessing the honesty of the students especially if we
are going to determine the learning of our students of that specific lesson. We've
scheduled a virtual meeting with them for an oral recitation. With that, we are
partially to fully assured that they really learned out from our lessons & that they
are really the one who answered their given worksheets.

3. How did you modify your teaching to help students who are
struggling with the lesson and learning resources?
• We are modifying our lessons by providing them specific examples to every lesson
for better comprehension. Aside from that, we let ourselves to prepare
supplementary or differentiated materials & instruction needed to our diverse
students, like having a record video of ourselves doing a step-by-step procedures
in getting to the answer to a given or specific problem. This procedure is highly
recommended for Math & Science Subjects and even to the other subjects.

4. How did you consider the learners' different learning styles?

• By giving or providing them differentiated instructions & materials. Also, by
indulging them to some pre-tests or diagnostic tests in knowing what their learning
styles and what appropriate differentiated learning materials & instructions are am
I going to give to that certain student.

5. What do you see as the most significant challenges involved in

online teaching?
• Based on our common observations that may also serve as the most significant
challenges in our students and teachers when it comes to online is the
unavailability & inaccessibility to modern gadgets & technologies needed for the
teaching-learning process. Also, the slow connectivity to signals and internet
connection.
Teacher 2: Frances Jean I. Bulac

1. What teaching modality is your school using in the New Normal

setting?

• In our school, we use printed/modular, digital and online as teaching modality. In

my case, since most of my students have chosen online learning, I conduct online
classes everyday. It maybe tiresome but seeing my students and having a chance
to interact with them make my teaching in the New Normal setting enjoyable and
meaningful. It seems like I'm just having a face-to-face classes with them only that
we are physically apart from one another.

2. How did you encourage learner’s creativity and honesty?

• I encourage learner's creativity by giving them differentiated tasks which cater their
individual strengths and interests and will require them to be their most creative
selves. On the other hand, I encourage learner's honesty by always reminding
them to accomplish their tasks on their own because it's better to get an average
grade that they've worked hard for than a higher one that they've learned nothing.
Above all, I always emphasize to them that God will bless those who live in
honesty.

3. How did you modify your teaching to help students who are
struggling with the lesson and learning resources?

• I modify my teaching strategies whenever I have students who struggle in

understanding the lesson. Though they are already in Senior High School, if there's
a need for me to go back to the basic and simplify everything, I do it as long as
that strategy works best on them, and they understand the lesson well. As for the
learning resources, since they are not provided with books unlike before and they
can't go to the school library too, I provide them PowerPoint presentation where all
of the important concepts about the lesson is presented, and I also send them
educational videos that are essential in understanding the lesson.

4. How did you consider the learners’ different learning styles?

• I give them differentiated tasks/activities that suit their varying learning styles.

5. What do you see as the most significant challenges involved in

online teaching?

• For me, the most significant challenge involved in online teaching that I have
observed is student's lack of focus in class. While having classes, they are
distracted to so many things since they are just at home and it's very hard for me
to monitor them one by one. Though this is not observed to all learners but still it's
a major concern that I need to address. Setting classroom rules helped a lot in
dealing with this matter.
 Activity 2.2
Type of Curriculum
A. Direction: Describe the type of curriculum that has been implemented in school in
the new normal setting.

Type of What information did I get from my Interview

Curriculum
1. Recommended In this new normal setting, the school implemented a blended learning
curriculum in which both teachers and students adapt to the different
learning modalities like modular, online, and even providing video lessons
through flash drives and reading materials, to consider some students who
cannot access merely online, most especially those who are living in remote
areas. They must also have the school policies, regulations to get the
attention of the student and focus of the learning provided by the teacher.
In this way, they both believed that we are able to continue the quality of
education in our country.
2. Written These printed modules come from a lesson plan or a syllabus that are
provided by the teachers. They also have the school policies, regulations to
get the desired outcomes of the assessment from the different subjects.
3. Supported Both schools of the interviewee were utilizing the modular learning modality.
The printed learning modules and activities in every subject are needed to
be studied and answered by the students only. The teacher also has
additional learning materials like a flash drive or OTG for the video lessons
and reading materials. Furthermore, teachers also encouraged their
students to provide documentation during performance assessment and
other necessary matters.
4. Assessed Both school admins and parents are challenged to assist and support the
learning of the students. Parents are responsible for checking on their
children at home, while school admins provide the best modalities for
assisting and assessing their students to achieve the desired outcome for
the sustainable development of the learners.
5. Learned Students are expected to learn from the given output activities in every end
of the week and must also achieve the desired outcomes in every
assessment given.
6. Hidden Students should be motivated by the people around them to work out at
their best and letting them do what they can really do at their own pace, with
their own ideas and comfortable ways, or by discovering their uniqueness.
Thus, even if we are in distant learning, they are going to answer the
modules honestly, instill.

B. Self-Reflect:
In 100 words, answer this essay question.
Is it necessary for teachers to learn about the school curriculum? Why?

A curriculum is considered the most essential part in any learning institution. I

believe schools cannot survive without it. Teachers must have a thorough understanding
of their curriculum in order to be effective in their responsibilities of boosting students’
sustainable development. Teachers need a curriculum which serves as their guide to
provide authentic information in creating their own lesson. They must create lessons that
contain simulations, experiments, case studies, and exercises to engage students
attentively in learning. The curriculum approach allows instructors to be creative and put
their own stamp on the classroom experience. In conclusion, curriculum is important both
within and outside the classroom.