Glenn Arimas, BSED II February 17, 2021

EDUC 222│The Teacher and the Community, School Culture, and Organizational Leadership
Module 1
Learning Activity 3
Succinctly, describe the best learning experience you have had.
Unfortunately, I can’t recall a specific class session or a lesson that involved the best
learning experience because, of all my years in going to school, I think all teachers meet the
teaching standard except for one. I was in high school when we all agreed that she was the worst
teacher ever to handle our batch. She rarely explains the lesson and gives exams that only some
of us know the answers to. What she always does is assigning us reports that aren’t being
assessed or given feedback to. This situation had served my inspiration, a reminder that I should
not rely everything to my teacher and that I should give as much efforts as all my teachers’
efforts combined in my quest for knowledge. This self-learning ability that have honed since
then is for me, the best learning experience I have had.
Learning Activity 4
1. List down five learning strategies which you have experienced in the classroom.
2. Rank the strategies with 1 as the most effective and 5 as the least effective.
The following are five of the learning strategies I have experienced in school, ranked 1 for
the most effective and 5 as the least effective:
1. grouped discussion
2. working by pair
3. one by one recitation
4. memorization.
5. post-lecture quiz

I find a grouped discussion the most effective in mastering a lesson because the more
people involved in exchanging one’s explanation of a concept, the faster the topic is
understood. However, this process does not always workout because there might be instances
where there is only one or two members that are explaining and the others are just listening.
That is why working by pair is ranked two in this list. This way, both students have a chance
to talk about what they have understood. Student A might have missed a concept that Student
B didn’t thus making it a comprehensive discussion, unless of course otherwise.
Memorization is also good, but not always, as most of my classmates describe it. It is the
third most effective because we also need to memorize concepts in process, the placement of
 variables in solutions, and the newly learned topic itself indication that we have learned
them.
Following at rank 4, is a one-by-one recitation. This only happened in my 8 th grade
English class. Right after our teacher had fully explained the concept she calls us individually
and asks us for an example. This is effective in the sense that students will try their best to
familiarize the lesson within an enough period of time. But there are cases that this did not
work in our class because some of my classmates may have been pressured.
Still in high school, our science teacher will always quiz us at every end of the period. I
find this the least effective here in my list because for me, there no guarantee that all the
students have learned the topic. Although this could be the teacher’s strategy in knowing
which part of the topic should be given further explanation the following day, but the fact
each quiz is being recorded only adds up pressure during the “5-min study time” she gives
us, making the post-lecture quiz in rank 5.

Learning Activity 5
Give one school practice and discuss it tersely in relation to a specific educational philosophy.
Back in high school and even in college, the teachers, students, and staff would attend a
one-hour religious activity. The differences on the religious sects that have conducted the
sermons I’ve listened to didn’t matter because they were reading from the same Bible; the same
Jesus Christ was still being followed. This is in lined with the idealist’s view of education where
to be taught using textbook knowledge from the “great books” like the Bible is part of the goal of
the idealism philosophy of education. The teachers, or the preachers in this case, act as the
“sages of the stage” in which they integrate to the current curriculum what they think students
should learn, presenting themselves in roles such as an authoritarian, a mental disciplinarian or in
simpler terms, an influencer.
Learning Activity 6
In your own words, explain the saying briefly but substantially: “Tell me and I forget. Teach me
and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin is right, I must say, because learning is not as easy as it seems. In my
case, I can say that I can run my way around the chess board with 15 minutes on the chess clock,
thanks to 15 years of playing. The game was first introduced to me by my father as were walking
pass two players in the market. It took a long time after my father bought me an actual
chessboard and started teaching me the basics and almost a year when I played against someone
that wasn’t my dad.
When we merely describe concepts like chess to someone who has no idea at all what
chess is, chances are they will really forget what you said. Explaining a bit further, well, it might
build up interests to know more about the matter and actually allowing them play is actual
learning because this experience creates new ideas in the game. Our involvement in a particular
subject shapes our intellect as we start to live by these experiences and take them as part of our
lives. Getting involved is at the same time listening and embracing what’s there that is worth
learning and letting go of useless ideas. For me, when we are involved, we are also being told
and taught the same time – we remember and forget things now and then -- a part of the saying
Franklin forgot to add.