FIELD STUDY 2 LEARNING EPISODE:

Utilizing Learning
FS 2 14 Management Systems

Resource Teacher: _______________________ Teacher’s Signature ____________ School _______________

Participate and Assist

Your guide to participate and assist:
1. Request your FS resource teacher or another teacher who uses an LMS for his/her class to give you access
and allow you to, “observe” his/her virtual classroom through the LMS.
2. If possible, request the teacher to demonstrate how to navigate and use the LMS.
3. Ask the teacher how you can participate or assist in tasks that the teacher is organizing or preparing in the
LMS.
4. Be guided by the TPACK Infographics in this episode. The questions found there will help you notice,
analyze and reflect very well.
Level/Grade of the Class:
Subject:
Lesson or Topic:
Lesson objectives/learning outcomes:

Which LMS did the teacher use: Check one or more that were used.
_____Moodle
_____Schoology
_____Google Classroom
_____Edmodo
_____Genyo
_____See saw
_____Others ____________________________________________
What tasks did you participate or assist in? Fill out the table below.

What components or parts were present in the LMS used by

Under these LMS components or parts, what tasks did you
the teacher?
participate /assist in?
Notice

After you participated or assisted in the LMS, describe what you observed and experienced by answering the
items below.

1. Describe the structure of the LMS utilized by the teacher. How was it organized? What main components did
you find?

2. How was the content taught or delivered? How were the learning activities arranged? What strategies did
the teacher or you use to help students attain the objectives/outcomes?

3. What was your experience in participating and assisting?

Analyze
1. What do you think are the best features of the LMS that the teacher used? How did these features help the
students learn the content?
 2. How did the teacher/ or you use the LMS to implement the strategies/activities planned?

3. How did this connect with what you know about LMS and TPACK?

4. What p[problem or challenges did the teacher/ you or the students encounter in working with the LMS? How
did it/ they affect the teacher/learners? What part/s of the LMS do you think can still be improved? How can
this/these be improved?

Reflect

1. How ready are you in organizing and using an LMS?

2. Enumerate the knowledge, skills and attitudes you already have to organize your virtual learning environment
and uses an LMS:
Content:

Pedagogical:

Technological:

3. What do you still need to learn in order to use the LMS effectively?
 Write Action research Prompts
This part allows you to synthesize or put together what you noticed, analysed, and reflect4ed on to come up with a
possible topic for action research.
OBSERVE

1. What problematic situation/ challenges/ area of improvement did you see while you participated and assisted
using an LMS?
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List at least three sources that you have read about this problem/challenge/area of improvement
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Key points/ findings in what I read

Resource or Reference about the Topic

On what theories/ principles can this problem be anchored?

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REFLECT
What do I hope to achieve to address the challenge/area of improvement? (What change do I want to achieve?)
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PLAN
2. What strategies/solutions/means can I employ to improve the situation/solve the problem?
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ACT
3. If you will conduct action research, what will be the title (Based this on your answers in nos. 1-3):
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Check for Mastery

1. Mr. Mahusay is ensuring using the polling feature of the LMS as a strategy to increase participation of his
students in their lesson on qualities of national leaders. He is utilizing his _____.
a. Technological Content Knowledge (TCK)
b. Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK)
c. Technological Content Knowledge (TPK)
d. Content Technology Knowledge (CTK)

2. Ms. Del Rosario is careful to match the learning outcomes with the content and activities she is going to do.
She also sees to it that the assessment measures the attainment of the learning outcomes. She is using her
______.
a. Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK)
b. Pedagogy Technological Knowledge
c. Technological Content Knowledge (TPK)
d. Technological Content Knowledge (TCK)

3. Ms. Juan is utilizing the feature of the LMS to prived regular information updates on the topic she and her
students are exploring. She is using ____.
a. Technological Content Knowledge (TCK)
b. Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK)
c. Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK)
d. Content Technology Knowledge (CTK)

4. All are true about learning management systems, EXCEPT:

a. Has components and features that teacher can use in teaching
b. Is a platform for a virtual learning environment
c. Microsoft office is an example of this
 d. Canvas is an example of this

5. Through the LMS, the teacher can do the following tasks, EXCEPT:
a. Post assignments and projects
b. Set up discussion boards
c. Make students collaborate
d. Meet students face to face

Work on my Artifacts

Attach pieces of evidence of what you accomplished in this episode.