"The Class"

     

 This movie was entitled “The Class” and the main character of the movie was Mr. Francis Marin, who is teaching on one of the public school in France. The movie shows on how the teacher handles a class and how they manage different attitudes of their students.

                As a teacher we must know how to manage different types of students. We think what are the best methods/ strategies that we can apply with that kind of students. In this kinds of students like who named Esmeralda. She is a kind of girl that always made a debate with Mr. Marin, she have a brilliant mind and she was very confident with her ability that leads to het boastfulness. She always admits that she is better than her teacher. Khumba is very talkative in the class she did not listen when her teacher speak in front. One time Khumba called her teacher to read but she did not obey her teacher. That’s why she made an argument with Mr. Marin. Soleymane is a kind of student who has no interest with his study because he has a broken family. He always get into trouble in their classmates and to the other people who around him. Even to his teacher he did not respect. Mr. Marin always complains with his bad attitudes. Wei is the most behave in the class and he is a smart person. His problem is his silent behavior.

                If we can encounter this type of students in the future, what will you do? As a teacher we must know how to handle a class and we know about the classroom management. Before having a class orients your students first regarding the policies in the class. It is a one way that the students should know their limitations. Before you start your proper class you must conduct a pre-test exam so that, you should know where to focus your lessons and to know their capabilities.

                 In the last scene of the story, I noticed that the teacher having deficiency in the application of method and strategy. Handling different race and culture is not easy for the teacher, as well as the students. One of the students of Mr. Marin told him that “I have learned nothing” If I were a teacher, I don’t let the students to interact disrespectfully instead I impose discipline that makes the students become more effective in the class. Teacher also, focused the students who are poor in the class and motivate them to become a successful one. Because performance of the teacher reflects on the students achievements.

"Art of Questioning"

                                      

        One of the methods of teaching used was questioning. Questioning is an intrapersonal communication of a teacher and the students. It is developing social and democratic skills and ideals. Question are used to serve a wide range of function; these are to stimulate pupils to think, motivate pupils, diagnose pupil difficulties, discover pupils interests, help pupils/ students organize and evaluate, aid pupils to relate pertinent experiences to the lesson, focus pupils attention on the key points of the lesson, develop new appreciations and attitudes, provide drill or practice, show relationships, encourage application of concepts and encourage pupils evaluation.

In questioning, there are charateristics of questions these are: Cognitive Memory Questions these require pupils to reproduce facts as rote memory or selective recall;Convergent Questions these require pupils to recall information that leads to correct answer; Divergent Questions these require pupil’s to generate their own data on a given topic; and last the Evaluation Questions these requires pupils to make value judgments about the quality, correctness or adequacy of information. 

                As a future teacher, we must know the characteristics of a good question, the techniques of questioning, as well as the techniques of handling pupil’s responses and questions.

"Classroom Management"

                 

         Classroom Management as the administration or direction of activities with special references to such problems as discipline, democratic techniques use and care of supplies and reference materials, the physical, features of the classroom and the social relationship of pupils. The teacher in the classroom is an actual manager because the class cannot function well without the teacher. The success of all activities in the classroom depends on the teacher ability on how they manage the class.

      Classroom management includes operation and control of activities a well-mange class is conductive to mental growth and development. Learning becomes interesting and enjoyable. He/she can teach effectively only when conditions around him are good. Pleasant surrounding makes good thoughts and inspires both teacher and pupils to do their best. The teacher and his pupils together can plan how to make their room attractive. Some rooms are better looking than others because of the fine taste of the teachers and pupils.

"Laboratory Method"

The Laboratory Method is a set of firsthand learning activity such as: investigate problem, conducts experiments, observes processes, and applied theories in a simulated setting.

The laboratory method as a teaching procedure dealing with firsthand experience regarding materials or facts obtained from investigation or experimentation. In experimentation, observation, or application by individuals or small group dealing with actual materials. It is applied in laboratory method.

There are two types of laboratory method, the experimental and the observational. The experimental aim to train pupils in problem solving with incidental acquisition of information and motor skills. The emphasis is on discovery original procedure, analysis, and solution of problems. In the observational type, the acquisition of facts is the dominant aim of method. Facts can be acquired through activities such as exhibits, watching demonstration, listening to lecture. They can learned their own experiment and observational.

"The Seminar"

                The seminar group is a deliberative body looking for the solution to the problem from the evidence based on readings, experiences, and minds of its participants. In conducting a seminar of course, they have an speaker who lead in the seminar. And that speaker must knowledgeable about the topic that he/she going to discuss in a group. It is better when the speaker have more knowledge about the subject matter and he/she knows the topic well.

"Learning Module as Instructional Materials"

 A module is a self-learning kit which usually consists of package of learning activities, usually papers that have to be accomplished by the students. Module is needed of the students because they can work at their own pace, assume responsibility for learning, to find that textbook are not only the source of learning and encourage the students to master the module. For the teacher module is very important because they have time to pay attention to individual learning problems, they can identify problems earlier, they are free to serve as resources persons to answer question and to help those who need help and it is better cooperation between teachers and students.

Since a module involves self-study the students need self-discipline to work toward mastering a module. Preparing a module is not an easy task. Teacher may also find it hard to change the traditional role they are familiar to.  The teacher also has to be on the alert most of the time since the students are encouraged to ask questions.

There are twelve (12) components of a module learning namely: title, target population, overview, objectives, instruction to the learners, entry behavior and prerequisites skills, pretest, pretest feedback and evaluations, learning activities, post-test feedback and evaluation. These components of a module must be found in module.

"Postscript: Some Random Thoughts on Demonstration"

One of the common methods in teaching, which is most efficient to use in teaching, is Demonstration.There are many important points to tackle in this type of methods in teaching but if you use this method without dividing it, you will run your demonstration learning a lot a little. Because it will be too long to show and they will simply forget it. The best way to do is to divided it into two, first you must show them the step by step procedures then after that let them experience it with the guidance of the instructor. The demonstration method task is just not to let the student learned but also they can be a demonstrator in the future.

In demonstration, there are important things to remember, the one thing is “Do not hurry your demonstration”. The second one is “Assume that your audience has no knowledge in your topic or zero knowledge to get the results of demonstration.

Demonstration is not efficient if you just hurry it and not clearly taught them. But it will be the best method if you follow the right way of demonstrating. 

The Demonstration, Lecture and Meta-Cognition

The Demonstration Method is the type of methods that shows the topic by using video and audio presentation step by step and later on the student will imitate the demonstration by themselves  with guidance of the instructor.

The Lecture Method is the type of method that very common in the class, the teacher will write something in board and the student will write then it will explain later. However, these type of lesson can be not effective in teaching if the teacher will not let the student interact in the topic to question. It is important to have a short exchange of thoughts about the topic to make it interesting and not boring.

The Meta-Cognition, according to the reporter it is "Beyond the Critical Thinking" the teacher should have this, because the teacher must have further knowledge than the student. The teacher must have more intellectual ability to make believes that he/she knows the topic.

The use of the good methods of teaching is efficient to let the student learn more and this strategy will give the teacher satisfaction into his/her work.

Methods of Teaching

This report is about Methods of Teaching these refers to comprises the principles and methods used for instruction example of this are demonstration, lecture, cooperative learnings, experiential learnings, dramatization, questioning, discussion and the other kind of methods in teaching. It help the teacher to give the students more meaningful way of learning. The teaching methods according to the reporter is either Inductive Method which is process from specific to general while Deductive process opposite from general to specific.

Regardless of what process of teaching method would you follow, the important is the teaching methods may help the learners meets it goal of achieving learning outcomes.

Drill and Application Lesson

This topic was assigned to me to discuss and it is all about Drill Lesson and Application Lesson. The Drill Lesson is intended for automatization of certain facts, information, habits, attitudes and skills to fix association for permanency or to perfect a certain degree a particular skills. This lesson purpose to let the learners not just knowing it but also doing it.

The Application Lesson, lesson is a type of learning instruction that gives the learners the opportunity to relate, express and apply what they have learned. In application lessons, certain conditions or situation are created that will lead learners to express their thoughts construction or illustration of the concept, or language what they think or feel. There are kinds of application lessons namely; story telling, oral reading, dramatization,written composition, construction and illustration, singing, creative work or composition and test that the learners can apply the topic through this.

The Different types of Lessons

The report is about The Different types of Lessons, first is the Developmental Lesson, this lesson is all about the  new idea is develop and presented. This lesson is developing the needs of the students which can be presented much knowledgeable.The next one is Supervised Study Lesson, this lesson purpose is to give a study to the students with the guidance of the teacher. Which means that the learners trained the techniques of learnings while the instructor work as the guide in the various methods in the classroom.

The next one is Appreciation Lesson, in order to appreciate something, one must understand to enjoy this, the lesson instruct the class to understand, appreciate and enjoy something. If we enjoy the lesson, we can arouse our interest to do it, That is why it is appreciation lesson. The last topic in this day is Review Lesson, In other word, this lesson is for recalling the previous discussion to know if the students understands the whole topic.

Taxonomy of Educational Objectives

The report is about the Taxonomy of Educational Objectives of Bloom's Taxonomy. There are three domains in bloom's taxonomy, which can help the teacher to guide their students to achieve the good outcome of the lesson, the Cognitive, Affective and the Psychomotor domains.

The cognitive domain, is a kind of objective level that gives the learners knowledge, ideas and information. It is the head level objective that gives students thoughts about the lesson outcomes.

The affective domain, is a kind of objective level that gives the learners values, beliefs and molds attitude through the lesson. It cultivate the behavior of the students by the outcome of the lesson.

The psychomotor domain, is a kind of objectives level that gives the learners not just by giving them information but also letting them to learn by doing it or applying it into action that may help the student familiarize on the tools or material usage.

This three domain is important to form the learners to more competent in any kind of jobs as long as they learned it well.

Creativity Lesson Plan

The report is about Creativity Lesson Plan, it is a type of lesson that has a twist in teaching strategy of the teacher.Such as singing, role play, games and any other teaching strategy that can lead the students get interested in the class.

Students get more interested in the topic that you will discuss, if you will give them an activity that they just not to be learn but also they will enjoy the activity. Creative lesson plan purposes to give the teacher a good guide to give the learners knowledge and also familiarize the lesson because they enjoy it and it will remain to their minds.

Lesson Plan

The report is about Lesson Plan. Lesson Plan is a very important tool of a teacher and it also a guide which include the aims and objectives, subject matter, materials and devices to be used, time frame, anticipated problems and procedure.

Lesson Plan is a guide of a teacher of what he/she were going to discuss in the class. In making a lesson plan you must have a content to be followed. First the Objectives, Subject matter, Procedure, Evaluation, Values, and Assignment. Your objectives should have this classification of objectives which is the Cognitive, Affective, and Psycho motor domain. It must be found in your objectives. It is important to make a lesson plan.

Unit Plan

This week the report is all about Unit Plan it reflects long-range goals and is means of organizing various aspects of the course of study and serves as a basis for developing a set of related daily teachings and educational activities. It is also necessary to us to know your lesson to discuss and also to plan what to teach in a certain period.

Teachers should plan what activities or works that a learner can learn. It should be efficient and knowledgeable to learn, after teaching them we must evaluate the learners so that we are aware of things especially who are slow learners that needs a good attention.

Instructional Plan

This week the report is all about the Instructional Planning it is the ability of the teacher to visualize and forecast into of what, why, and how of the teaching learning process.  And it is also a guide to the teacher so that she/he can easily know what the response of the learner through teaching way.

It is efficient in the side of the teacher to easily know what their students’ needs in terms of knowledge. The teacher already knows what to do to response and to give reinforcement on what the learners wants to satisfy their self. 

Social Learning

This week the report is all about the Function of Teachings. There’s a lot of function of teaching like initiating, directing and administering class activities, providing security and self-confidence among learners and diagnosing learning problem of people or students. The importance of function of teaching is not only to give a knowledge or learning’s to the students but also to mold them to be a good citizen. Learning is not only by experiencing by yourself but it is also you learn by the help of your surrounding and that is social learning. It was defines as one learns with other people in the social environment in which he lives. We can also learn through our observation, by observing other people.

In learning there are some roles that the learners must considered to learn well it is the Law of Learning. It composed of three different laws the law of readiness, exercise, effects that should be implementing to learn well. As we learn there’s a lot of thing to consider and to follow so that we can learn more and efficient by doing it not only in you but also with the other people.

Cognitive Learning

This week the report is all about Cognitive Learning is defined within the fields of psychology as being aware of current intellectuality such as knowing and thinking. We all know that cognitive is a process or activity within the brain through thinking, remembering, perceive, speak, and solve problem. Learning by doing is a good advice, because we learn through our experiences. Through this, new information results in modification of long-term memory. By analysis, focusing, comparative analysis, narrowing, complex cognitive, sharpening, and tolerance that learners can be develop the skills.

Learners can easily understand the lessons of their teachers if the teaching style of the teacher was effective. Also the effective school can help students to give a good facility so that they can study, read, and focus because of the good environment. The effective teacher and effective school have a role to provide students sufficient knowledge to learn.

Characteristics of Learning

Learning is fundamental, interactive or developmental as the reporter tackled about the characteristics of learning. When we are young we are very curious of something around us that makes us explore and discover new learning that we can apply in our daily life. Every individual has ability to percept and to give intuitive ideas that comes in their mind, that’s including problem solving, thinking and remembering.

The Principles of Learning is important to guide us on how to learn well in every task we do and to take focus as well. Motivation helps us to give importance to learners to give importance to the things that they have learned. This is one of the principles that a teacher should bear it while teaching their students. There’s a lot of method that teacher should do so that the learners can be easily learn by the activities they do. As my instructor said student can be easily to learn by doing things.

Meaningful Learning Theory

This week the report is all about Meaningful Learning Theory, Condition of Learning and Transfer of Learning. As the reporter said that Meaningful Learning Theory where an individual learns by relating newly acquired information to what learner already knows. Therefore, we can easily learn by relating old information to the new information that you have learned.   

Condition of Learning has a different way of learning one of them is Motivation it refers to the internal state or condition that influences behavior and gives direction in relation to physical conditions, interest, attitudes and aspiration. Motivation is either your willingness to do the task because of the deficits within individuals or you are been driven to do those task by the other people. The other one is Retention it is the ability of the individual to remembered or retained information because of continuing using it, or in the other hand you might forget it.

Transfer of Learning it is the application of knowledge learned in one situation to a new or different learning environment or situation.  By applying information through the situation you can learn and that is the process of learning through experience.

This week the reporter discussed about the Sequence process of learning.        

Once we can learn it is always remain in our mind because learning is a lifetime process and they a process of learning which is the sensory registers says that we can receive the big amount of information from our senses and it holds for a very short time period and it is transfer to the short term or working memory says that it is hold a limited amount of information to paid our attention and connecting to another information which is the long term memory this information will process for a long period of rime and it will never fade in our mind. Even if how many years past it is always remain in our mind our learning is unending process. And we can learn from different ways of learning.

Behavioral Theories of Learning

             Being an educator is not an easy task, we mist motivate our students and guide them in a right way. You need to give attention to those students who needs your help.

As a teacher you must have along patience especially to those students who are hardheaded. Sometimes they cannot pay attention to their teacher. Although it is hard, tired but you need to enjoy. There was a situation that you and your students are exchanging opinions and ideas. The students will learn from you and you as a teacher can learn from your students as well.

 In terms of giving punishment to your students you need to be fair. Patience is very important if you are a teacher. You need to reinforce the bad behavior of your students because a teacher is a second parent of their students.

"LEARNING"

Learning is a process of giving more knowledge by studying through our daily experiences because people can learn through an observation and experiences.

Everyday in our life people can learn because of our capability to work. In every challenges, temptation that comes into our life that has a reason but take note if there is a reason , there is a lesson to learn and through that it leads us to enhance our skills, we learn from our mistakes and that’s we call the learning processing.

Learning is a lifetime process. Everyday, every minute, and every second we keep on learning. Learning is something that stays in your mind but yet keeps on growing. Growing because everyday we encounter new things and that help us to grow and learn in life. In other words it’s just like what we learn but yet in knowledge keeps on improving and at the same time growing. 

Learning is like education is “the only treasure that no one can take away from us”; it is one of the lifestyle of each and everyone. And it is important because learning is the key to success.

About Teaching

"A good leader is a good follower as what we are".

On the first week of our class we had discussed about a lot of things about teaching and how to become a good teacher. Being a teacher is a big challenge to us, because you need to understand your students and you need to give your effort to handle them. Students behavior are not the same, because some of them needs a lot of attention from their teacher.

Teaching is very simple as what we observed, but when the time comes that you may become a teacher you will realize the difficulties given to you is not easy. Yes, for me it is hard but it doesn't mean that you will not enjoy your career. Being a teacher is a good job, you are teaching not just to give knowledge to your students but also to develop their good manners, skills and their pleasing personality.

I learned that teaching  is not the one thing to be afraid of, honestly i am scared to be in the front of the audience, because I don't have a lot of confidence to do so. But I will do my best to develop my confidence so that I can teach well.