FIELD STUDY 2 LEARNING EPISODE:

Selecting Non-digital or
Conventional Resources and
FS 2 12
Instructional Materials

Resource Teacher: _______________________ Teacher’s Signature ____________ School _______________

Participate and Assist

1. Consult your FS Resource Teacher about this episode. Let your teacher know that the task for this
episode is for you to assist the teacher by providing suggestions on resources and materials that
the teacher can use in delivering a lesson on a specific topic.
2. Request your FS Resource Teacher for a topic/lesson he/she will be teaching soon. You will also
need the learning objectives/outcomes for this lesson. Some teachers may instruct you to write a
complete lesson plan.
3. Refer to these guide points. Consider which ones are applicable. The non-digital or conventional
resource or instructional material:
a. Has accurate and meaningful content
b. Aligns to the learning objectives/outcomes of the lesson
c. Elicits student interest and engagement
d. Is inclusive and free from cultural bias
e. Is developmentally appropriate
f. Fosters critical thinking/aesthetic appreciation
g. Allows collaboration among learners
h. Flexible for group or self-study
i. Time and cost-efficient

4. Fill out the table below.

Subject: Grade level:

Topic:

Learning Objectives/Outcomes:

Resources/ Instructional What is the use or purpose or resource/ Explain why you selected the resource/
Materials you plan to material? Describe how you will use the material based on the guide points
utilize in the lesson. resources/ materials to attain the learning mentioned above. How are these
objectives/ outcomes. criteria met?
5. As the situation would permit, try out the resources/ materials with the students. Be sure to follow
the steps on using instructional materials found in the Infographics section of this episode.

Notice

After you participated or assisted in using resources/ instructional materials in teaching learning,
described what you observed and experienced by answering the items below.

1. How did you prepare for this activity?

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2. Describe how you or the teacher utilized the resources/ instructional materials. Narrate your
experience as you participated and assisted.
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3. What were the feelings and thoughts while you were assisting with the use of the resources/
materials?
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4. Describe how the students responded and participated.

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Analyze

What worked well during the activity using the resource/ materials?
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What part can be improved?

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What would you have done differently? What would I change?

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How does this connect with what you know about selecting and using instructional materials?
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Reflect

1. How ready am I in selecting and developing resources/ instructional materials in the teaching-
learning process?

2. What do I still need to learn to select and develop resources/ instructional materials in teaching
effectively?

3. What can I do to learn more about and practice the use of resources and instructional materials?
 Write Action Research Prompts

This part allows you to synthesize or put together what you noticed, analysed, and reflected on to
come up with a possible topic to explore for an action research.

OBSERVE

1. Doing this episode on selecting and using resources/ instructional materials, what problematic
situation/ challenges/ area of improvement did I find?
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REFLECT
2. List at least three sources that you have read about this problem/challenge/area of improvement
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Key points/ findings in what I read

Resource or Reference about the Topic

On what theories/ principles can this problem be anchored?

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3. What do I hope to achieve to address the challenge/area of improvement? What change do I want
to achieve?
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PLAN
4. What strategies/solutions/means can I employ to improve the situation/solve the problem?
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ACT
5. If you will conduct action research, what will be the title (Based this on your answers in nos. 1-3):
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Check for Mastery

1. The Dale Cone of Experience can help a teacher be mindful of the choice of resources or
instructional materials in terms of _______.
a. Level of thinking
b. Extent of being flexible or fixed
c. Extent of being concrete or abstract
d. Extent of adaptation and modification

2. Miss Violo told the story of the Giving Tree in her toddler class. She used the book itself to show
the illustration to the two-year-olds and showed all thirty pages of the books. Miss Violo
struggled just to finish the book because the toddles were not focusing. Some lay on the floor
stretching; others ran around the room. Which criterion did she fail to consider in choosing a
material?
a. Collaboration among learners
b. Inclusive and free of cultural bias
c. Student interest and engagement
d. Developmental appropriateness

3. For a theme on Careers, Mr. Menggay let his students watch interview clips of successful people
in business who were all males. The clips seemed to send a message that only men succeed in the
business field. Mr. Menggay did have any follow-up discussion on the clips. Which criterion in
selecting resources/ materials should the teacher have considered?
a. Student interest and engagement
b. Inclusive and free of cultural bias
c. Developmental appropriateness
d. Time and cost-efficient

4. Which of the following gives the learners the most concrete experience?
a. Watching a theatre play on The Death March
b. Listening to the teacher discuss about the first chapter of Noli Me Tangere
c. Viewing a photo exhibit of the EDSA Revolution
d. Independently reading the Biography of Andres Bonifacio

5. A teacher should consider all these criteria for choosing a resource or material. EXCEPT:
a. Aligns to the learning objectives/outcomes of the lesson
b. Is the most expensive therefore the most durable
c. Is inclusive and free from cultural bias
d. Is developmentally appropriate
Work on my Artifacts

Attach pieces of evidence of what you accomplished in this episode.