FS 3 Technology in the Learning Environment School of Education, Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan First Semester, School Year 2010-2011 Name

of FS Student: __Mary Kates Palamine________________ Date of Visit: __August 1, 2013_____ Course: _BEED - 4____ Major:____SPED__________________ FS 3 (Section):___EDD__________ Cooperating School: __City Central School_________________________________________________ Cooperating Teacher: ___Ms. Sandra Cabuguas_____________________________________________ Important Reminders: 1) Extend due courtesy to the Administrators, Teachers, and Staff Members of the school. 2) Follow the rules and regulations of the school and the centers you are visiting. 3) Always ask permission from the cooperating teacher if you can conduct this interview. 4) After you have completed your interview, express your gratitude for the time and assistance they gave you for this FS episode.

Aim of this activity: The aim of this activity is for you to have an interview with a teacher handling your area of concentration/major. In the interview, you will ask about his/her experience of utilizing instructional materials in the learning tasks. After the interview, you will answer accomplish the task found in Part 2 of this sheet.
Instructions: 1) Look for a teacher who is currently teaching your major/area of concentration. (Ex. A SPED teacher, pre-school teacher, high school Mathematics teacher, and the like) 2) When s/he agrees to have this interview with you, please indicate the needed information in the template below.
Form A: UTILIZATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
Grade/Year Level Taught: CHILDREN WITH AUTISM (NO SPECIFIC GRADE) Subject: MATH, ENGLISH, BASIC SKILLS, Best teaching practices used in the subject: (You can ask what strategies and methods s/he uses)

Actual demonstration Scaffolding

Reasons for using these teaching practices:

Children with autism doesnt have an eye contact with people, it is very important that you need to teach them using actual demonstration while looking eagerly into their eyes specially in teaching basic skills, scaffolding is also very useful to them specially that they dont have proper eye coordination, guiding them would be very useful in teaching them.

Reference: Trinidad (2010) Learning Episode 2: TECHNOLOGY FOR INSTRUCTION AND LEARNING1 from

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FS 3 Technology in the Learning Environment School of Education, Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan First Semester, School Year 2010-2011

Instructional Materials that are used in the teaching of the subject

Strengths

Weaknesses

PECS Flashcards with pictures Tactile Materials (ex. plastic fruits, school supplies, etc.) CHARTS

Students can visualize the lesson Students can see and feel the materials

Takes time and effort in making PECS and flash cards Can easily be damage

What instructional materials are not currently used by the teacher but are being explored and are expected to be of great help in the teaching and learning of the subject?

Computer and Projector

TIPS (Please ask the teacher of any recommendation/advise s/he can give on how you can best maximize the use

of instructional materials in teaching a subject.) 1. Sharing and borrowing of

instructional materials with fellow SPED

teachers._
2. 3.

Preserving the instructional materials. Prepare and make the instructional materials ahead of time.

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Reference: Trinidad (2010) Learning Episode 2: TECHNOLOGY FOR INSTRUCTION AND LEARNING2 from

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FS 3 Technology in the Learning Environment School of Education, Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan First Semester, School Year 2010-2011
Part 2. Using MS Word, make a creative interpretation of the things you have learned from this interview.

REFLECTION

With my interview with Ms. Sandra, I realized the teaching special children takes effort and patience. It is not easy dealing with this kind of students. In relation to the topic instructional materials, it is very important that you provide these students with an appropriate materials fit for their disability. In dealing with children with autism, tactile materials are very important knowing they have an eye coordination problem, they can t focus on one thing, so these PECS and flashcards would be very helpful specially if youre going to teach them about basic skills. Ive also learned that time is very important so is patience, in making the instructional materials for these kids, you need to do and make it ahead of time to make sure theyll be very useful when the time comes, and preserving these materials would be a great help for your next students.

Reference: Trinidad (2010) Learning Episode 2: TECHNOLOGY FOR INSTRUCTION AND LEARNING3 from

elearn.xu.edu.ph