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FIELD STUDY 3 Technology in the Learning Environment. Date of Observation: June 27, 2011 School Observed: Saint Michael’s College. Group Six. Student Observers:. Saddam Bazer Honey Swiert Larayos Filipina Liquigan Nasphia Malawani. Group Six. Target Competency.
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FIELD STUDY 3Technology in the Learning Environment Date of Observation: June 27, 2011 School Observed: Saint Michael’s College
Group Six Student Observers: Saddam Bazer Honey SwiertLarayos Filipina Liquigan NasphiaMalawani
Group Six Target Competency 1. Identify resources that facilitate teaching and learning processes 2. Classify resources that facilitate teaching and learning process
Group Six Observations • Learning Resources available at the school according to location
Creative Enhancement Center
Group Six Learning resources classified according to their functions and characteristics
Reflections Saddam Bazer Remembering the different learning resources that we have observed in Saint Michael’s College Basic Education campus is such an amazing feeling, amazing because somehow it shows me the real picture of what a learning environment really is. A learning environment that is full of various learning resources such as laboratories (computer, physics, chemistry, and etc.), learning centers, creativity areas, play rooms, and etc. that could respond to the aspirations of the learners and teachers, develop learners’ skills and
Reflections abilities (cognitive, psychomotor, and affective), and create psychological climate for the learners which could support and help teachers to attain their intentions, goals, and objectives in order to have a beneficial effect or successful learning outcome. With these observations, I have come to realize that indeed learning resources have a great impact on students’ learning (growth and development) particularly to the elementary learners for it could help them see, feel, manipulate, hear, and taste the concepts (from basic to complicated things) that they deserve to learn.
Reflections And that as future educators, we need to discover these things for we never know where are we going to teach in the future (public or private) and somehow we could adapt it and find ways and means to innovate it (in a cheaper way) in order to apply it in the future teaching learning process because I believe that teachers are imaginative and creative in utilizing any available instructional material, after all according to Hargreaves and Fullaw, “it is what teachers think, what teachers do, and what teachers are …that ultimately shapes the kind of learning that young people get”.
Reflections Filipina Liquigan Upon entering Saint Michaels College, I didn’t expect that this would be one of the unforgettable observations that we have done ever since we having our Field Study. The school was nice and wide that it may occupy their enrollees there. They have laboratories there for the students to perform in the real scenario. They have their amazing library that they will use when they have something to look for. Aside from those amazing views, we also observed classroom which enhances our knowledge and skills in teaching.
Reflections I mean techniques that can be used in the near future. As I go back to what we have observed, teacher should be creative and innovative that we have to reuse that visual materials that we’ve been using in the past lesson. It is our responsibility to find out what is going on with the students in the classroom, we have the opportunity to guide students’ discoveries, and learn a great deal in the process. Also one of the roles that a teacher carries is to encourage students in the issues that bother them about school in their personal life.
Reflections It could make a big difference in the student’s life if he/she is lift up to keep going and to not let anything put us down.
Reflections Honey SwiertLarayos As my professors in English subjects would always say, "We cannot teach what we don't have and what we don't know. Student teachers who are likely to become teachers in the future should always put in their minds that learning always starts with the teacher." Upon reflecting to this idea and reminiscing the things we have seen and experienced upon visiting the Basic Education Department of Saint Michael's College, I could say that, I'm way too excited to teach and yet there are still lots of things that I need to know, to understand and apply. My college days were way too fast.
Reflections Concepts and theories kept on adding up in my head, yet I felt like something important is lacking. Then I realized that I was craving for true to life experiences, an application to the concepts of teaching to the real classroom scenario. I find field study subjects vital avenue for us student teachers to see what our life would likely be if we pursue teaching as our profession. When I get to realize the idea that learning starts with the teacher, I could imagine the burden on my part as becoming one someday. I will be very honest to say that I’m literate when it comes to computer use but when it comes to uploading videos, sound clips and
Reflections making discussion in Prezi format, I find it very challenging to do. I know that there are so many Things that internet and advance technology of the 21st century could offer to the success of teaching Learning experience yet there is so much learning and practicing that is left for me to do. I have to learn, I have to adjust and I have to be proficient with technology for I am soon to become a teacher. At SMC, during my high school years, I could see that our teachers really loved their work for they don’t stop to where the book could only offer.
Reflections I remembered that in our Economics class we Seldom stay in our classroom. Our Economics Teacher invited us to a field trip inside the school, we discussed under a tree. The setting may not be familiar, but the important thing is we learned. When we give reports, we don’t present it inside the classroom instead we proceed to the Audio Visual Room and do the reporting with power point presentation. We even do role playing and talk show for this subject. In our Filipino class our teacher made us draw our favorite chapters in El Filibusterismo and then we present our work to the class.
Reflections I could only imagine how my teachers have come into those ideas, maybe because they were really creative and they are seeing effective avenues of teaching beyond the classroom. And now, the school never ceases to innovate the resources that they have and update it with the latest trend in technology. Especially in the primary years, pupils will likely have greater retention to what is taught to them when teaching is presented in way that it captures their curiosity and attention and when senses are used. That is why we have the idea “fun in learning.”
Reflections In this way I could say that even though teachers are the best instructional media, still we cannot deny the fact that teacher alone isn’t enough, we need the different learning avenues that learning resources could offer. Some concepts and contents in the subjects we are teaching needs demonstration, graphical and auditory representation to make teaching and learning easier. Now the bottom line of all the things I have Realized on that day is this, “Teachers, being the catalyst of learning should see teaching beyond the things provided to them.”
Reflections As future teachers, we should seek or even make opportunities to make learning become fun-filled and relevant to our learners. As productive mentors it is important for us to know our learners and take note of their weaknesses and strengths in order for us to develop lesson plans and use instructional materials that will fit to the kind of learners that we have. We should always remember that the learning resources that each school provides is intended for better learning of the students, we should use it and make the best of the things that it could offer. If ever we face a scenario of limited resources then it is our responsibility to indulge our mind into creative and productive thinking for us to develop learning aids from available resources. ;)
Reflections NasphiaMalawani "Learning starts with the teachers." This is the phrase that we should not forget as a future educator. As an education student we have learned that teaching profession is not that easy, that teacher is the most crucial role, and that teacher is a character and education builder. Visiting or shall we say observing the Basic Education Department in St. Michaels College shows the real picture of my dream school. They have lots of updated learning resources that help The teachers and learners make schooling life easy.
Reflections But in a real life situation majority of the schools here in Philippines don't have such learning resources. Visiting the school does not just introduce me the learning resources and its use but also somehow shows me the difference between public and private school. It warned me that public is far low tech to that private school. It made me realize that being flexible, imaginative, creative, and resourceful is all what we need to have learning resources that can be competed to the other high tech gadgets/learning resources.
Reflections We can recycle and innovate things, and we can use real objects that can be seen in our environment. There’s a lot of way of making learning resources for the learners to meet the objectives of a lesson. I believe that teachers don’t have the right to reason out that he/she is not an effective teacher just because of lack of learning resources.
Group Six Thanks and God Bless
