Date of Visit: December 13, 2021

Grade 4 - Confidence Due Date of Submission: December

Learning Story
“My Treasured Family”

I. Story of Visit
We had a long preparation time for this homeroom facilitation due to changes within our
homeroom visits. Our team conducted a meeting and dry run two days before the actual
facilitation to ensure that we would accomplish the final facilitation excellently for the pupils. On
the day of the final facilitation, we followed the usual sequence of how facilitation runs. The
facilitated started from the opening prayer, introduction, ice breaker, short introduction of the
topic and its relation to the ice breaker, main activity, processing questions, insights, integration,
and closing prayer. This is so far the best facilitation we conducted; we did not encounter
problems that would interfere with the presentation. We provided a worksheet posted on their
google classroom three days before the homeroom visit. We somehow expected that some of
them might not be able to print the worksheet, which is why we were prepared on what to
instruct them if they did not have the worksheet. They can simply draw the symbols as we go
through the activity, and some of them did. We played music as they answered the main activity
to keep the ambiance lively while busy, which I think they enjoyed because we could see them
dancing and singing. We also prepared examples on some parts that we think they might find
hard to answer during the activity proper. For the processing questions, we gave insights right
after a pupil answers; this is to provide insight that is particular to each pupil’s response and
introspect each answer. Gladly, each pupil gave a meaningful insight about the activity we
prepared, which guarantees that they enjoyed the activity and understood the essence of it. In
the latter part of our presentation, we played two videos about family. The first video is about
family roles, in which I explained the importance of roles and their relevance to our topic. As for
the second video, my co-intern explained that each family is different and should be
appreciated, not just the family we have at home but also the family we have in school, church,
and community. In the end, we bid our goodbyes with the adviser and pupils. They gave us their
heartwarming excellent claps; we all teared up a little because we felt appreciated and will miss
them. They were participative from the start, and it made our facilitation with them easier and
enjoyable ☺

II. Analysis/Interpretation of What Happened

As a result of our preparation, listening to the comments of their adviser, and the pupils'
participation, I believe that it helped us to conduct our final facilitation smoothly and excellently.
About those who weren't able to print the worksheet, I think it was because for some of them 3
days is a short time and we should’ve given it to an earlier date so that they had ample time to
print it. Moreover, acknowledging teacher Lyka’s comments and suggestions improved us to be
better facilitators, she shared what she thinks best for the pupils; we applied it to our facilitations
and also evaluated ourselves on what we could improve. Every facilitation, we spend ample
time to prepare everything we need. Through this, we are now more confident compared to our
first facilitation, and more calm to manage unexpected occurrences. In addition to that, our
interesting activities from the previous facilitation and their participation greatly contributed to
our session today; it resulted in a smooth flow of facilitation with a lot of learning for the pupils. I
also think that we established rapport and a connection with the pupils that resulted in them to
enjoy and be a lot more participative for this homeroom visit. It can be seen that pupils enjoyed
the facilitation and learned more about roles, family, and the bigger community when they gave
meaningful answers during the processing questions.

III. Extension of Learning

To sum up today’s facilitation, I believe that we all did great. I was prepared, calm,
enthusiastic, and knowledgeable about our activity. I felt confident speaking and felt happy
seeing the pupils enjoy it. Compared to our previous facilitations, I am more contained now. I
can maintain this if I always keep the confidence I have. However, despite doing great, there is
always room for improvement. One of our weaknesses as a group and individuals is providing a
simple insight. Although it’s already good, we can still improve how we give insights to process
each answer. Another thing I should improve is calling pupils who rarely answer rather than
those who always raise their hands to answer. Personally, I’m not a cheerful person, even if I am
happy, I don’t show big smiles but I try to appear more cheerful for the sake of facilitation. If
there is another facilitation, these are the things that I will improve better.