Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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Record the data gathered about the learners’ characteristics and needs in the matrix. This will allow
you to compare the characteristics and needs of learners at different levels. The items under each domain are
by no means exhausted. These are just sample indicators. You may add other aspects which you may have
observed.
High School
Development Domain
Indicate age range of children observe:____
Interaction with
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independence
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Write the most salient developmental characteristics of the learners you observed. Based on the
characteristics, think of implications for the teacher.
1. While you were observing the learners, did you recall your own experiences when you were their age?
What similarities or differences do you have with the learners you observed?
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2. Think of a teacher you cannot forget for positive or negative reasons. How did she/he help or not help you
with your needs (physical, emotional, social, and cognitive)? How did it affect you?
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Activity 3.1: Observing differences among learners’ gender, needs, strengths, interests, and
experiences; and differences among learners’ linguistic, cultural, socio-economic, religious
backgrounds, and difficult circumstances.
During Class:
1. How much interaction is there in the classroom? Describe how the students interact with one another and
with the teacher. Are there groups that interact more with the teacher than others?
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3. Describe the relationship among the learners. Do the learners cooperate with or compete against each
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4. Who among the students participate actively? Who among them ask for most help?
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5. When a student is called and cannot answer the teachers’ question, do the classmates try to help him? Or
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Ask the teachers about strategies they apply to address the needs of diverse students due to the following
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3. How does the teacher influence the class interaction considering the individual differences of the
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4. What strategies does the teacher use to maximize the benefits of diversity in the classroom? How does the
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1. How did you feel being in that classroom? Did you feel a sense of oneness or unity among the learners
and between the teacher and the learners?
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2. Describe the differences in ability levels of the students in the class? What practices or strategies are done
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3. Describe the methods used by the teacher in handling the students’ differences in abilities. How did the
students respond to the teacher? Did the teacher use differentiated instruction? If yes, describe how.
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1. Recall the time when you were in elementary or high school. Recall the high and low achievers in your
class? How did your teacher deal with differences in abilities? Was your teacher affective?
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2. What dispositions and traits will you need as a future teacher to meet the needs of the learners?
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FIELD STUDY 1 LEARNING EPISODE
Learner Diversity: The Community
FS 1 4 and Home Environment
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Your teacher may ask you to use a more detailed interview guide. Be free to translate the questions,
if necessary.
Name of Learners:
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3. Does your child go to you when she/he feels down or has a problem? What do you do to meet his/her
emotional needs?
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4. How do you monitor his/her performance in school? How do you motivate him/her?
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5. Do you have rules at home to help him develop good study habits?
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1. From your home visit and interview, what do you think is the style of parenting experienced by the
learner? Explain your answer.
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2. Relating your data with what you learned from child development, what family factors do you think
contribute to the development and over-all adjustment of the learner in school?
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3. Does the communication between the home-school have an effect on the learner? If yes, what are these
effects?
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4. How can the teacher partner with the community to contribute to the development and learning of the
students? Who are the people or which institutions can the teacher tap to seek advice regarding the
development and learning of students?
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Your findings and recommendations in the Learner Development Profile will help you answer the questions
here:
1. From your home visit and interview, what do you think is the style of parenting experienced by the
learner? Explain your answer.
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2. Relating your data with what you learned from child development, what family factors do you think
contribute to the development and over-all adjustment of the learner in school?
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3. Does the communication between the home-school have an effect on the learner? If yes, what are these
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REFLECT (Page 63)
1. Reflect on your own development as a child. What type of parenting did you experience? How did it
affect you?
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2. As a future teacher, how would you establish good home-school collaboration? How can you work well
with the parents? How can you help them? How can they help you?
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FIELD STUDY 1 LEARNING EPISODE
Creating an Appropriate Learning
FS 1 5 Environment
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Observe and use the observation sheet provided for you to document your observations.
1. As you observe the class, look into the characteristics of the learners. Note their ages.
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Analyze and answer these questions on observed classroom management practices. It is also good to
ask the teacher for additional information, so you can validate your observation. Write your notes below;
and then organize your data in the Table that follows.
2. Are there rules and procedures posted in the room? List them down. Do these rules reinforce positive
behavior?
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3. Did the students participate in making the classroom rules? If the Resource Teacher is available, ask
him/her to describe the process. What's the effect of students participation in rule-making on student's
behavior?
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4. What are the daily routines done by the Resource Teacher? (prayer, attendance, assignment of monitors,
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6. Observe the noise level in the classroom. How is this managed?
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7. If a learner is not following instruction or is off-task, what does the Resource Teacher do? Describe the
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1. Classroom Rules
2. Classroom Procedures
3. Daily Routines
4. Handling
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1. How did the classroom organization and routines affect the learners’ behavior?
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2. What should the teacher have in mind when she/he designs the classroom organization and routines?
What theories and principles should you have in mind?
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3. Which behavior strategies were effective in managing the behavior of the learners? In motivating
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1. Imagine yourself organizing your classroom in the future. In what level do you see yourself? What
routines and procedures would you consider for this level? Why?
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5. Passing of papers
8. Tardy students
9. Absent students
Analyze the routines set by the Resource Teacher by answering the following questions.
1. Were the routines effective in ensuring discipline and order in the class? Why? Why not?
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Observe a class and list down the classroom rules formulated by the Resource Teacher. Cite the
importance of these rules.
Classroom rules are imperative and must be reinforced for learners" safety and security. Rules also
teach discipline and self-control. Rules eliminate stress and will provide a more pleasant, secured and non-
threatening environment. Rules ensure the students' engagement and focus in their classroom activities.
1. E.g. Read directions well. - Ensures less error in answering the activity.
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1. Analyze each given rule. What circumstances led to the formulation of the rule?
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Reflect on the various classroom rules set by the resource Teacher. Will you have the same rules?
What rules are you going to employ? Explain your answer.
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FIELD STUDY 1 LEARNING EPISODE
Physical and Personal Aspects of
FS 1 7 Classroom Management
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Observe a class and interview the Resource Teacher. Ask how the personal and physical aspects of
classroom management ensure proper classroom management and discipline.
Check if these aspects were observed in the classroom.
Aspects of Classroom Management YES NO
1.1 Is the teacher well-groomed that he/she demands respect from the learners?
1.2 Is the teacher's voice modulated and can be heard by the entire class?
Analyze the different elements of personal/physical classroom management and answer the
following questions
1. How does the voice of the teacher affect the classroom instructions?
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1. What does the statement mean to you as a future teacher? Explain. “No amount of good instruction will
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2. What are your plans in ensuring effective classroom management?
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Observe the classroom management strategies that your Resource Teacher employs in the classroom.
You may also conduct an interview to substantiate your observation.
Check ( ) Observed, put an (X) if not observed and (O) for no opportunity to observe.
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Analyze the checklist you have accomplished and answer the given questions:
1. How many strategies were employed by the Resource Teacher? Did these contribute to the better
classroom management? Explain your answer.
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2. What were not used by the Resource Teacher? Were these important? What should have been used
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As a future teacher, reflect on the observations then answer the given question.
1. What classroom management strategies do I need to employ to respond to diverse types of learners?
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Show piece(s) of evidence of learning to capture the classroom management strategies used by
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FIELD STUDY 1 LEARNING EPISODE
Close Encounter with the School
FS 1 8 Curriculum
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It’s time to look around. Discover what curriculum is operating in the school setting. Recall the types
of curriculum mentioned earlier. Can you spot where these are found?
Locate where you can find the following curriculum in the school setting. Secure a copy, make
observations of the process and record your information in the matrix below. Describe your observation.
1. Recommended
Curriculum (K to 12
Guidelines)
2. Written Curriculum
(Teacher's Lesson Plan)
3. Taught Curriculum
(Teaching Learning
Process)
4. Supported Curriculum
(Subject textbook)
5. Assessed Curriculum
(Assessment Process)
6. Learned Curriculum
(Achieved Learning
Outcomes)
7. Hidden Curriculum
(Media)
Which of the seven types curriculum in the school setting is easy to find? Why?
Which is difficult to observe? Why?
Are these all found in the school setting? How do curricula relate to one another?
Draw a diagram to show the relationship of one curriculum to the other.
REFLECT (Page 93)
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ACTIVITY 8.2: THE MINISCULE SCHOOL CURRICULUM: THE LESSON, A CLOSER LOOK
Procedure:
1. Secure permit to observe one complete lesson in a particular subject, in a particular grade year level.
2. Keep a close watch on the different components of the miniscule curriculum: the lesson
3. Follow the three major components of a curriculum (Planning, Implementing and Evaluating/Assessing).
Observe and record your observation.
A. Planning 1. Borrow the teacher's lesson plan for the day. What major parts do you see?
Request a copy for your use.
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B. Implementing Now it's time to observe how the teacher implemented the prepared lesson plan.
Observe closely the procedure.
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Did learning occur in the lesson taught? Here you make observations to find evidence
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Write a paragraph based on the data you gathered using these key questions?
1. How does the teacher whom you observed compare to the ideal characteristics or competencies of global
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2. Was the lesson implemented as planned? Describe.
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3. Can you describe the disposition of the teacher after the lesson was taught? Happy and eager? Satisfied
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4. Can you describe the majority of students' reactions after the lesson was taught? Confused? Happy and
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Based on your observations and tasks in Activity 2 how will you prepare your lesson plan?
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ACTIVITY 8.3: CONSTRUCTIVE ALIGNMENT OF THE COMPONENTS OF A LESSON PLAN
Using the diagram below fill the component part of s lesson plan
2. Will the outcomes be achieved with the teaching methods used? Why?
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A teaching method consists of systematic and orderly steps in the teaching-learning process. It is the
practical realization or application of an approach. All methods of teaching can be classified either as
deductive (direct) or inductive (indirect).
DEDUCTIVE
INDUCTIVE
Begins with a rule, Begins with the
Methods concreate, experience,
generalization, of
abstraction and ends details, examples
Teaching and ends with a rule,
with concreate,
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examples abstraction
Observe a class with the use of the principles of learning given in Revisit the Learning Essentials. I
will identify evidence of applications/violations of the principles of learning. I can cite more than one
evidence per principle of learning.
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REFLECT (Page 103)
From one of the principles of learning, which one do yo think is the most important?
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Observe a class, this time focusing on how the learning outcomes were stated. Determined if the learning
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LIST OF AVAILABLE LEARNING RESOURCES
1. Print Resources
2. Audio Resources
4. ICT Resources
1. Are the learning resources/materials arranged properly according to their functions and
characteristics?
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2. Do the guidelines and procedures facilitate easy access to the materials by the teachers? Why? Why
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1. Which or the materials in the Learning Resource Center caught your interest the most? Why?
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Based on the Technology Integration Matrix, what isa the characteristic of the learning environment in the
class that you observed? Point your observation that justify your answer.
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Over-all, were the learning resources used effectively? Why not? Give your suggestions.
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Put yourself in the place of the teacher. What would you do similarly and what would differently if you
would teach the same lesson to the group of students? Why?
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Analyzing the information you got from observing the class, surf the internet to select electronic
resources, including OERs, social networking sites, and apps with virtual or augmented reality that will be
useful in teaching the same lesson. Evaluate the resources you found, using the set of criteria discussed in
the Revisit the Learning Essentials part of this Episode. Use the form below to note your analysis and
evaluation.
Lesson Objectives/Learning
Outcomes
Name and Type Describe the electronic Describe how you can
of Electronic (include use it if you were to
Put a check if the resource satisfies the teach in the class you
Resource Author publisher source). criterion. observed
1. Describe your experience in surfing the internet for appropriate electronic resources for the class? What
made it easy? Difficult?
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2. How did you choose which electronic resources to include here? What did you consider?
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3. Explain. Which of the new trends in Education 4.0 would you like to explore more for your work as a
teacher? Why?
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4. Reflect on your technology skills. What skills do you already have, and what skills would you continue to
work on to be better at utilizing education 4.0 resources?
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1. Observe what Teacher does or listen to what Teacher says to find out if the students understood the
lesson while teaching learning is in progress.
2. Did the teacher ask the class "Did you understand"? If she did, what was the class response?
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3. Did the students make the teacher feel or sense they did not understand the lesson or a part of the
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4. If they did, how did the teacher respond?
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5. Were the students given the opportunity to ask questions for clarification? How was this done?
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6. If she found out that her/his lesson was not clearly understood, what did teacher do? Did you observe
any of these activities? Please check.
________ Peer tutoring (Tutors were assigned by teacher to teach one or two classmates
________ Each- one-teach-one (Students paired with one another)
________ Teacher gave a Module for more exercises for lesson mastery
________ Teacher did re-teaching
________ Others, please specify.
7. If she engaged himself/herself in re-teaching, how did she do it? Did he/she use the same teaching
strategy? Describe.
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8. While re-teaching by himself/herself and /or with other students-turned tutors, did teacher check on
students" progress? If yes, how?
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1. Why should a teacher find out if students understand the lesson while teaching is in progress? It
is not better to do a once-and-for- all assessment at the completion of the entire lesson?
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2. Why is not enough for a teacher to ask "Did you understand, class?" when he/she intends to
check on learners' progress?
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3. Should teacher record results of formative assessment for grading purposes? Why or why not?
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5. For formative assessment, why is peer tutoring in class sometimes seen to be more effective than
teacher himself/herself doing the re-teaching or tutoring?
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6. Could an unreasonable number of failures at the end of the term/grading period be attributed to the
non-application of formative assessment? Why or why not?
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● Formative assessment is tasting the soup while cooking. Reflect on this and write your reflections.
● Should you record results of formative assessment? Why or why not?
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FIELD STUDY 1 LEARNING EPISODE
Assessment Of Learning
FS 1 13 (Summative Assessment)
(Page 165)
2. What are possible consequences if teacher’s assessment tasks are not aligned to learning outcome/s ?
Does this affect assessment result? How?
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● Reflect on past assessment you have been through. Were they all aligned with what your teacher
taught with learning outcomes?
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● How does this affect your performance? As a future teacher, what lesson do you learn from this past
experience and from this observation?
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