FS 3-Technology in the Learning Environment
Episode 4-Tools of the Trade (Teaching Aids Bank)
Name of FS Student: Greggy Q. Encinares
Course: _CPRT Year & Section: First
Resource Teacher: Mrs. Melinda A. Colasito Signature: ________________________
Cooperating School: Doña Juana Actub Lluch Memorial Central School
Instructions:
1. Decide on a specific topic
2. Find out the learning resources relevant to your topic that are available from your school’s learning resource center
3. Develop a pile of teaching aids
4. Organize them in a box
Class Observational Guide:
1. Are there learning resources useful for your topics in the resources center you visited?
2. Are the available materials appropriate for your target grade/year level?
3. List down those that can be useful for your topic?
4. What other materials can you make?
Observational Report
Name of School Observed: Greggy Q. Encinares
Location of School: Palao, Iligan City
Grade/Year Level of Class Observed: Grade 5
Date of Visit/Observation: September 16, 2011
II- Learning Resources on a Specific Content Area-
Use this graphic organizer to present the learning resources relevant to the topic chosen. On the line inside the box, indicate if the resource is already AVAILABLE, MAY BE PURCHASED or WILL BE MADE.
Topic: Presidents of the Philippines Grade/Year Level: Grade 5
AVAILABLE
_______________
Computer
MAY BE PURCHASED
_________________
Posters
AVAILABLE
_________________
Overhead Projector
WILL BE MADE
__________________
Timeline
MAY BE PIRCHASED
___________________
Flash cards
AVAILABLE
_________________
Chalkboard
AVAILABLE
_________________
Tv Monitor/ Audio – Visual
Room
WILL BE MADE
________________
Cut-outs
II- Analysis
Give at least three benefits of doing a survey of available materials before making your own materials? Explain each.
1.
Elementary students should be taught about our country’s presidents. They are an impor -
tant figures in our Philippine culture and these personalities shaped our country of what it has
become today. Since most learners in the public schools are visual learners, it is very important
for them to know more about these political figures especially what they look like. That’s why is
important to present the topic accompanied by pictures or anything that they have vision or they
can see who these personalities are.
2.
Using teaching aids are very important. Since my topic is about past presidents of the Phili
ppines, the lesson should be presented chronologically. I could use a timeline for this topic, even
a postcards with the date they became president. After the familiarization of the ordering on
when they became presidents, I can have a film showing depicting the events that truly hap-
pened during their reign as president of the Philippines and showcasing their great contribution
to the country. At the beginning of the film showing, I could insert their lifestory and how they
became the most powerful person in the country, and the struggle they’ve been through before
they’ve reached the highest position in the land. That would be very interesting since it could
inspire and motivate the learners to reach their ambition in life.
3.
The sequencing or the order of events are very important, that is why learner should be
familiar as to who comes first. The timeline chart is a good teaching aid to help students analyze
the sequencing or the chronological pattern of events. You need to ask the learners first if they
know the past presidents or who among the past presidents they are familiar with and the year
they became president, or if they’ve seen or familiar with their faces. The young learners of to-
day don’t know who are our past presidents and what they look like that’s why it is of great im-
portance to have a film showing about this topic.
III-Reflections
1. Which of the materials did you like making the most? Why?
Making timeline about the presidents of the Philippines is what I like the most doing. In
Making a PowerPoint presentation regarding this topic is a good teaching-aid for students to
Learn since you can add many important information about the subject matter. You can also add
some videos or documentary films and relevant photos in presenting this to your class. Projec-
tion system or PowerPoint presentation is a good tool for students to be engaged in classroom
discussion and a great help for the teaching – learning process in general.
2. What difficulties, if any, did you encounter in making the materials? How did you overcome them?
Since there’s a lot of information that students need to know or would like to know
About these personalities, the hardest part is to narrow down the most important information
Or details about these presidents that your are going to present in the class. And another could
Be a hindrance is that PowerPoint presentation need an electronic device, like projection system
And a computer or laptop, if one these equipment is not available or not working, then it can
Jeopardize your presentation or your plan. Also, you need to have an electricity to run these
Equipment so that means your room should have an electrical outlet or you need to go to a room
Which you can have a film showing. No presentation will be made if one of these equipment aint
Working or not available.
3. What tips can you give teachers regarding preparation of teaching materials?
They need to plan it before presenting it to the class. Planning on what to present and
how to present it is very important since the outcome or result of this will be base mostly on the
Planning stage. You should also be familiar with the topic that your are going to present in the
Class. Make sure that you are knowledgeable on the subject matter and how you were able to
Come-up or made such materials since students may ask you about this and you should be pre-
Pared in answering them or giving them information.