F.S. 5 - Learning Activity 7: E - Presentations

Tools:

Reflection:

Write your reflections on your experience.

                As i experienced in finding the websites about the topic, it was quite easy because online searching engine are available online namely, google, bing, yahoo, and others. These online searching engines really helped me to locate and find websites and other resources that could be very helpful for the discussion about the topic.

How did you find the task of surfing the net relevant in generating more information for your support materials to the topic?

                In surfing the web, I could see and find many information for my support materials to the topic easily. it is because, many people post their discussions and tutorials about any topic I want. Those people are not just ordinary people, there are some who are Doctors, Engineers, Teachers, and other professionals. But I always see and inspect their post always because there are some people who are pretending as professionals and are bluffing in their posts. Not all informations available in the web are true and reliable, some are only based on someone's thought and not based on facts. But above all, searching the net for support materials about the topic, could be somehow relevant because many ideas and information are available and accessible.

Insights:

Imagine how schools in communities without internet facilities cope with this need.

                Internet gives many information to people. It could be very hard for the teachers and students in the communities without internet facilities because they will not be able to find more information for their lessons. However, if they have many resources other than internet just like books, it would not be that hard for them. But what if they don't even have books? They will surely have a hard time learning things  up.

F.S. 5 - Learning Activity 6: Slide Presentations

Tools:

Click the link below to see my Slide Presentation. 
My Slide Presentation - Dropbox

A screenshot of my slide presentations

Analysis:

Based on the slide presentation you have made, what are the features of a good slide presentation?

                A good slide presentation,

• Gives a bunch of information to the students.
• Must contain the entire ideas about a topic.
• Must have large font sizes that can be seen at far.
• Must contain consistent ideas.
• Understandable

How do you describe your slide presentation in terms of its good features? 

                My presentation really gives a bunch of information to the students because it has a large range of ideas about the topic. It contains all the ideas about my topic discussed. My presentation also has large font sizes so that the students can clearly see even at far what are written in my presentation. My presentation contains consistent ideas in such a way that the ideas in my slides are connected to each other.

Reflection:

What difficulties have you encountered in preparing the slide presentation?

                I took a hard time collecting many definitions about my topic. In order for the students to understand my topic, I included there various definitions and I did not only rely on one. In addition to that difficulty, I also took a hard time searching those definitions from the internet.  I also took a hard time typing equations most especially the fractions, exponents, and others. It was difficult for me because there is no shortcut in typing them and copying from web is not compatible to the software, so I needed to click here and there in order to complete those.

What are the feedbacks of the class about your slide presentation?

According to my classmates, it was nice and they said that they were able to see the consistency of the ideas included in my slide presentation. They also said that the words are big and that they can see from apart. They said that the ideas of the presentation about the topic were comprehensive. And lastly they said that about the topic, they couldn’t ask for more.

F.S. 5 - Learning Activity 5: Paper Works (Hand-Outs Use)

Tools:

Click the link below to see my Handout. Some of the characters in the document may not be seen so better download it and open in MS-Word
My Hand-Out - Dropbox

A screenshot of my Hand-Out Document

Analysis:

Which feature of the hand-out is not effective?

                For me, the feature of a hand-out that is not really effective is its being outlined-form. If a hand-out is given at first, surely the students will not understand what’s on it because it only contains the summarized ideas about a topic. I say it is not effective because the students will not really learn from it at first. It still needs to be explained. Maybe somehow after discussions, the hand-out is more effective because the ideas about the topic are already at the students mind and the hand-out will serve as the review because it is already summarized / outlined in nature.

Reflection:

Recall any difficulties encountered in making hand-outs? How did you overcome them?

                In the making of my hand-out, I did not encounter any difficulty because it is just easy to create because it only needs the summarized/outlined form of the topic and it should not contain the entire topic. In terms of its content, I just took hard cutting the ideas about the topic because since it is mathematics, it involves critical process and that it should be stated step by step and should not discard even one step. By that, I just included all the processes in each step and only cut some between the processes but not in the steps.

F.S. 5 - Learning Activity 4: Teaching Aids Bank

Tools:

Analysis:

Why is there a need to make a survey of available materials before making your own materials?

1. So that I can know the different kinds/types of instructional materials used for teaching.
2. So that I can know how to make and where to find those instructional materials.
3. So that I can know how to use those instructional materials when I teach someday. 

Reflection:

What materials did you like most? Why?

                Of all the materials I observed, I really like the CDs and DVDs. It is because the students will really watch it and listen to it. I observed that some of the students don’t usually listen to the teacher, so presenting educational videos or videos related to the lesson sometimes will let them pay attention.

What difficulties did you encounter in making the materials?

                In terms of the technological instructional materials, I did not really have any difficulties because I am good in accessing computer. I can access most of the software in computer. But, in terms of the written instructional materials, it is really difficult for me to style through writing because I have bad hand writing.

How did you overcome it?

                Since it is hard for me to style through writing, I print out those things that need to be written. In computer software, there are various font styles so it is not really hard to style. There is also a printer at home that is why it is not really hard for me to print.

Make suggestions to the teachers in the preparation of teaching materials.

1. Make sure that the materials are aligned to your teaching objectives. Use the instructional materials that can be used or suitable for your topic.
2. If you’re having difficulties in making instructional materials, approach people who are expert on making those. For example, in making slideshow presentation, we know that some older teachers can’t access computers anymore so it is better to approach people who know how to make slides.
3. Make sure that the materials can be seen or, if should be used, can be used by the students. Most especially for visual aids, the words should be big enough so that all the students can see what is written or projected.

F.S. 5 - Learning Activity 3: Utilization of Teaching Aids

Tools:

Analysis:

What is the basis of the teacher in choosing such instructional material in the lesson?

                Clearly, the basis of the teacher in choosing the instructional materials used in her lesson is the scope of her subject taught. Since the teacher’s lesson is more on problem solving that really involves writing, she just appropriately used visual aids and chalkboard in her teaching. Teaching the lesson “measures of variability” which includes mean, median, mode, standard deviation and others, really needs to use those instructional materials.

Do you observe any difficulty in the use of the instructional materials? How did she manage it?

                As I observed, she did not have any difficulty in using her instructional materials because she already mastered using those instructional materials. Since the teacher already mastered using those instructional materials, the students easily learned because the can get easily with to the teacher and to the teachers’ instructional materials used.

Was the use of the materials effective? Why? Why not?

                Somehow, for me, the use of the instructional materials was effective because those materials were able to show to the students what the subject matter was all about. It was able to let the students visualize and perform the topic discussed.

How did the learners respond to the teacher’s use of the visual aids?

                As I have seen, the students actively responded to the teacher’s teaching method with the use of the teaching aids. The teacher successfully got the student’s attention through the use of those teaching aids. The students also positively participated to the teacher’s lesson.

Reflection:

Imagine yourself as the teacher. What would you do or not do if you were to teach the same subject to the same group of students? 

                If I were to teach the same subject and the same lesson to the same group of students, I will use more teaching aids so that the students will really learn not only the process but also where those processes came from. For example, by explaining where the formulas came from, the use of interactive teaching materials is helpful for me just like power point presentations/slideshows, video tutorials and others. With the use of these interactive teaching materials, the students will surely lend their eyes and ears to me. Another is by using teaching materials for classroom games just like flash cards. By this way, the students are all included and no one is exempted. Even if it is in a form of game, learning still presides in each of the students. The lifestyle of the new generation people nowadays are modernized, that is why if I were to teach that lesson, I will not use the traditional visual aids because it may be still effective but students who will not listen are still inevitable and by the use of technological teaching aids, the students will surely involve in the teaching-learning process.