FIELD STUDY 1 LEARNING EPISODE 1

OBSERVE ANALYZE, REFLECT

Activity
Activity 1.1
1.1 Exploring the school campus
Resource teacher: ________________ Teacher’s signature: ________________ School: ________
Grade/Year: ____________________ Subject area: ______________________ Date: ____________
To realize the Intended Learning Outcomes, work my way through these steps:
1. Visit a school. Look into facilities and support learning areas in the campus, then in the
classroom.
2. Observe and use the checklist as you move around the school premises.
3. Analyze your gathered data about the school environment.
4. Reflect on the characteristics of a school environment that promotes learning.
5. Present your idea of a good school environment through any of these:
a) Descriptive paragraph
b) photo essay
c) Sketch or drawing
d) Poem, song or rap

OBSERVE
As you move around the campus, observation forms are provided for you to document your
observation. It is advised that you read the entire worksheet before proceeding to the school site. A good
understanding of the activities and tasks to be accomplished in the activity sheets will yield better
learning results.
SCHOOL FACILITIES OBSERVATION CHECKLIST
Familiarize yourself with the different areas and facilities of the school. Check the column to indicate
their availability. Give a brief description of those that are available, and stay how each will contribute to
the students learning and development.

Facilities / Description Will it contribute to the

students ‘learning and
development. Why?
Office of the principal

Library

Facilities / Description Will it contribute to the

students ‘learning and
development. Why?

Counselling
 Canteen/Cafeteria

Medical Clinic

Audio Visual / learning

Resource Center

Science Laboratory

Gymnasium

Auditorium

Outdoor/Garden
 Facilities / Description Will it contribute to the
students ‘learning and
development. Why?

Home Economics
Room

Industrial Workshop
Area

PTA Office

Comfort Room for

Boys

Comfort Room for

Girls

Others
(Please specify.)
 An Observation Guide for the CLASSROOM VISIT
Read the following statements carefully. Then write your observation report on the space provide.

Guide Question Classroom Observation Report

1. Describe the
community or
neighbourhood
where the school is
found.

2. Describe the school

campus. What
colours do you see?
What is condition of
the buildings?

3. Pass by the offices.

What impression do
you have of these
offices?

4. Walk through the

school hall, the
library, the cafeteria.
Look around and
find out the other
facilities that the
school has.
Resource teacher: ________________ Teacher’s signature: ________________ School: ________
Grade/Year: ____________________ Subject area: ______________________ Date: _________

1. Look at the walls of the classroom. What are posted on the walls? What
heroes, religious figures, lessons, visual aids, announcements, do you see
posted?
2. Examine how the pieces of furniture are arranged. Where is the teacher’s
table located? How are the tables and chairs/desks arranged?
3. What learning materials/equipment are present?
4. Observe the students. How many are occupying the room?
5. Is the room well-lit and well-ventilated?

“I entered the
classroom with the
convictions that it
was crucial for me
and every other
student to be an
active participant,
not a passive
consumer.
Learning is a place
where paradise
can be created.”

-Bell Hooks,
Teaching to
Transgress, NY:
Routledge, 1994.
 An observation Guide for the CLASSROOM VISIT
Be guided by these tasks as you do your observation. Then accomplish the matrix to record your data.
CLASSROOM FACILITIES MATRIX

Classroom Facilities Description

(location, number, arrangement, condition)
1. Wall Displays

2. Teacher’s Table

3. Learner’s Desks

4. Blackboard

5. Learning Materials/
Visual Aids

6.

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10.

Write your observation report here.

Name of the School Observed ________________________________ The breaking down

of information into
Location of the school ______________________________________
the components
Date to Visit ______________________________________________ parts examining
(and trying to
understand the
organizational
structure of) such
information to
ANALYZE develop divergent
conclusions by
Hoe do the school campus and the classroom in particular impact the learning of the identifying motives
students going to school? What are your conclusions? or causes, making
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2. What kind of school campus is conducive to learning?
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3. What kind of classroom is conducive to learning?
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4. In the future, how can you accomplish your answer in number 3?
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5 .Write your additional learnings and insights here.
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OBSERVE, ANALYZE, REFLECT

Activity 1.2 Observing bulletin board displays
Resource Teacher: _______________ Teacher’s Signature ________ School: ______________
Grade/Year Level: ________________ Subject Area: _____________ Date: _______________
The display board, or what we more commonly refer to as bulletin board, is one of the most readily
available and versatile learning resources.
To achieve the Intended Learning Outcomes, work your way through these steps: 1. Examine for
bulletin board displays. Include samples of those found at the entrance, lobby, hallways and classrooms 2.
Pick one and evaluate the display. 3. Propose enhancements to make the display more effective.
OBSERVE
As you look around and examine board displays, use the observation and forms provided for you to
document your observations.

An Observation Guide for BOARD DISPLAYS

Read the following carefully before you observe.

1. Go around the school and examine the board displays. How many board displays do you see?

2. Where are the display boards found? Are they in places where target viewers can see them?

3. What are the displays about? What key messages do they convey? What images and colors do
you see? How are the pieces of information and images arranged?

4. What materials were used in making the displays? Are borders used?
Based on the question on the observation guide, write you observation report:
 Observation REPORT
(You may paste pictures of the board display here.)

From among the board display that you saw, pick the one that you got most interested in
Evaluate it using the evaluation form below.

BOARD DISPLAY EVALUATION FORM

Topic of the Board Display ______________________________________
Location of the Board Display in School ___________________________

Check the column that indicates your rating. Write comments to back up your rating.
4-Outstanding 3-Very Satisfactory 2-Satisfactory 1-Needs Improvement

Criteria NI S VS O Comments
1 2 3 4

Effective
Communication
It conveys the
message quickly
and clearly.
Attractiveness
Colors and
arrangement catch
and hold interest.

Balance
Objects are
arranged, so
stability is
perceived.

Unity
Repeated shapes
or colors or use of
borders hold
display together.

Interactivity
The style and
approach entice
learners to be
involved and
engaged

Legibility
Letters and
illustration can be
seen from a good
distance

Correctness
Free from
grammar errors,
misspelled words,
ambiguity

Durability
Well-constructed,
items are securely
attached

Bulletin Board Evaluated by:

Location
Brief Discussion of the Bulletin Board
EVALUATION

Strengths Weaknesses
Description of
the Bulletin
Board Layout
 Evaluation
Of educational content.
And other aspects

Recommendations or
Suggestion for
Improvement

Signature of Evaluator over Printed Name:

Based on your suggestion, make you board display lay-out, you may present your outputs
Through any of these:
 A hand-made drawing or layout
 An electronic drawing (computer) drawing/illustration or layout
 A collage
 My Board Display Lay-out

What do you think was the purpose of the board display?

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Did the board display design reflect the likes/interest of its target audience? Why? Why not?

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Was the language used clear and simple for the target audience to understand? Why? Why not?

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Was the board display effective? Why? Why not?

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What suggestion can you make?

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Based on your suggestion, propose an enhanced version of the display board. Use the form below

My proposed Board Display

Theme:

Board Time

Rational
(purpose)

Objectives:

Best feature of my proposed bulletin enhancement:

 Content Resource (Name each needed resource and give each a brief description):

Materials for aesthetic enhancement:

1. Name at least five skills that a teacher should have to be able to come up with effective board displays.
Elaborate on why each skill is needed.
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2. Which of the skill you named in #1 do you already have? Recall you past experiences in making board
displays. How do you practice these skills?
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3. Which skill do you still need to develop? What concreate steps will you take on how you can improve
on or acquire these skills?
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1. With the PPST as guide, an ideal learning environment should have the following characteristics,
EXCEPT: ______________
 A. the learning environment promotes fairness
B. is safe and conducive for learning
C. builds many professional linkages
D. establishes and maintains consistent
standards of learner’s behavior

2. Which facilities are present in a health-promoting

school environment?
I. Canteen that sells all kind of food including junk food
II. Comfort rooms common for boys and girls
III. Sanitary drinking fountains
IV. Safe playground
IV. Safe playground
A. II, III and IV C. I, II,
III and IV
B. I and II
D. III and IV

3. Which physical school environment supports

learning?
A. Availability of flexible classroom furniture
B. Presence of spacious classrooms
C. Prominence of bulletin boards in every building
D. Tall school buildings

4. Examine the bulletin board display. This bulletin

board fulfils which primary purpose?
A. Instructional-interactive
B. Informational
C. Motivational
D. Decorative

5. Examine the bulletin board display. This bulletin board fulfills which primary purpose?
A. Instructional-interactive
B. Informational
C. Motivational
D. Decorative

6. Examine the bulletin board display. This bulletin board fulfill which primary purpose?
A. Instructional-interactive
B. Informational, decorative
C. Motivational, decorative
D. Instructional, informational

My Personal Illustration of an Effective

School Environment
Evaluate Your Work Task Field Study 1, Episode 1 -The School as a Learning Environment
Learning Outcome: Determine the characteristics of a school environment that provides social,
psychological and physical environment supportive of learning.

Name of FS Student: ___________________________________ Date Submitted: ___________

Year & Section: _________________________ ______________Course:__________________
Learning EXCELLENT VERY SATISFACTOR NEEDS IMPROVEMEN
episodes 4 SATISFACTORY Y T
3 2 1

ACCOMPLISHE All One (1) or two (2) Three (3) Four (4) or more
D observation observation observation observation questions/
OBSERVATION questions/tasks questions/tasks not questions/tasks tasks not answered/
SHEET completely answered/ not answered/ accomplished.
answered/ accomplished accomplished
accomplished.
ANALYSIS All questions All questions were Questions were Four (4) or more
were answered answered not answered observation were not
 completely; completely; completely; answered; answers not
answers are in answers are answers are not connected to theories;
depth and are clearly connected clearly connected more than four (4)
thoroughly to theories; to theories; one grammatical/spelling
grounded on grammar and (1) to three errors.
theories; spelling are free 
grammar and from errors. (3) grammatical
spelling are spelling errors
free from
error.
REFLECTIONS Profound and Clear but lacks Not so clear and Unclear and shallow;
clear; depth; supported shallow; rarely supported by what
supported by by what were somewhat were observed and
what were observed and supported by analyzed
observed and analysed what were
analyzed observed and
analyzed
LEARNING Submitted Submitted on Submitted a day Submitted two (2) days
ARTIFACTS before the deadline after the deadline or more after the deadline
deadline
Comment/s Overall score Rating:
(Based on
Transmutation)

TRANSMUTATION OF SCORE TO GRADING/RATING

Score 20 19-18 17 16 15 14 13-12 11 10 9- 7-
8 belo
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Grade 1.0 1.25 1. 1.7 2.00 2.05 2.50 2.75 3.00 3.5 5.00
5 5