Narrative Report Writing

Guide, Contents, Mechanics and

Organization

JOEL M. TORRES, PhD

Professor III
Department of Secondary Education
College of Education, Central Luzon State University
•Parts of the narrative report
•Writing the parts: essentials, tips and
common errors
•Review on the mechanics of writing
Parts of the Narrative Report

•Preliminaries
•Introduction
•Summary of Experiences
•Appendices
Parts of the Narrative Report

•Preliminaries
Title Page
Acceptance Sheet
Acknowledgement
Table of Contents
Writing the Introduction
• The Student Teaching Program
- feature and importance of the student
teaching program
Sample

The course SED 4302 is the last subject taken by pre-service

teachers pursuing the degree, Bachelor of Secondary
Education. It is commonly termed as “practice teaching”. It is
a transition from the student life to the teacher life.
Sample

Teaching Internship is the culminating field experience of the

teacher education program. It is the most significant phase of
the student’s certification program. It represents the bridge
between professional preparation and professional practice. By
definition, student teaching is a period of guided teaching
when the teacher candidate takes increasing responsibility for
leading the school experiences of a group of learners over a
period of consecutive weeks. The major goal of student
teaching is to provide an opportunity for the student teacher to
make practical applications of knowledge, learning principles,
and techniques of teaching.
Writing the Introduction
• The Cooperating School
- historical background
(establishment of school, administrators then and now)
-mission, vision, core values
- current profile
(school category, programs offered, number of departments,
teachers, students enrolled, achievements)
Writing the Introduction
• The Principal
-overview of the principal’s roles
-educational attainment including the institutions where the degrees
where obtained
-professional experiences (journey from teacher to principal)
-personal background
-legacy and dreams for the institution
-principles in life, teaching, and educational leadership
-your impression and work experience with the principal
Writing the Introduction
• The Principal
-overview of a teacher’s multi-faceted roles
-educational attainment including the institutions where the degrees

where obtained
-professional experiences
-personal background
-principles in life and in teaching
Writing the Summary of Experiences
• First Day and Orientation
• The Head Teacher and the Cooperating Teacher
• Working and Dealing with the Cooperating Teacher
• Working and Dealing with the Students
• Working and Dealing with Other Student Teachers
• Working and Dealing with Other School Personnel and
the Community
• First Classroom Teaching Experience
• Initial Demonstration Teaching
• Final Demonstration Teaching
• Insights Gained
Narrative Report:
Its Mechanics and Organization
Use personal
pronoun
Use active voice
rather passive
voice
accurate
and
concise
Language is
formal
colour vs. color
labour vs. labor
humour vs. humor
licence vs. license
travelling vs. traveling
metre vs. meter
PRUNING THE REDUNDANT

Avoid saying the same thing twice.

Consider the sentence:

When my cooperating teacher saw my lesson

plan, she told and instructed me to repeat my
lesson plan again one more time so that It would
be improved for the better.
Better:

When my cooperating teacher

saw my lesson plan, she
instructed me to improve it.
 "true fact,"
A phrase that repeats itself—like

"twelve noon," "I saw it with my

own eyes"—is sometimes called a pleonasm.
Redundant phrases are bad habits just waiting to take control of your
writing. Beware of the following.
12 midnight
midnight
a total of 14
students
14 students
biography of her life
biography
circle around
circle
close proximity
proximity
each and every
each
end result
result
exactly the same
the same
free gift
gift
repeat again
again
Reducing Clauses to Phrases, Phrases to Single Words

• Be alert for clauses or phrases that can be pared to simpler, shorter

constructions. The "which clause" can often be shortened to a simple
adjective. (Be careful, however, not to lose some needed emphasis by
over-pruning; the word "which," which is sometimes necessary [as it
is in this sentence], is not evil.)
Look for
Phrases You
Can Omit!
• as a matter of
fact
 as far as I'm
concerned
at the
present time
•because of
the fact that
by means
of
due to
the fact
that
what I
mean to
say is
the point I
am trying
to make
it seems
that
in the
process
of
in the event
that
Common Sentence Errors
• Run-on Sentence
• Lacks Conciseness
• Error in Word Choice
• Misplaced Modifier
• Faulty Parallelism
• Error in Preposition Usage
• Dangling Modifier
• Lacks Unity
• Error in Pronoun Antecedent
 Sentence

To prepare myself for my final

demonstration teaching, I use self-
psychology on myself.

Lacks Conciseness
 Sentence

Caring for students can be rewarding, but they

require a certain amount of patience.

Pronoun Antecedent
 Sentence

He ordered this stationary from the

printing press.

Wrong Choice of Word

 Sentence

My students like to sleep my class is

their favorite nap time.

Run-on Sentence
 Sentence

My cooperating teacher likes to write on

the board, calling students to recite, and
attend to different seminars.

Parallelism
 Sentence

I and my fellow cooperating teachers will

divide the task between ourselves.

Error in Preposition
Usage
 Identify the correct form of verbs.
• Neither the teacher nor the student (has, have)
attended the class.
• All of us (was, were) ready to leave at five
o’clock.
• In the group, there (are, is) three females and
four males.
 Identify the correct form of verbs.
• Measles (make, makes) some children very ill.
• Either Ester or her cousins (is, are) mistaken.
• Two million pesos (is, are) a lot of money.
• Three-fourths of the delegates (are, is) students.
• The captain and pitcher of the team (is, are)
Alvin.
 Identify the correct form of verbs.

• The team (has, have) a wonderful spirit of unity.

• A number of questions (remain, remains)
unanswered.
• The number of guests (exceed, exceeds) our
expectations.