EPISODE 1

The School Environment

ACTIVITY 1: Exploring the School Campus

ANALYSIS:
1. How do the school campus and classroom in particular impact the
learning of the students going to school? What are your conclusions?
2. How does this relate to your knowledge of child and adolescent
development/ How does this relate to your knowledge of facilitating
learning?

REFLECTION:
1. Would you like to teach in the school environment you just observed?
Why? Why not?

2. What kind of classroom is conducive to learning?

3. What kind of school campus is conducive to learning?

4. In the future, how can you accomplish your answer in number 3?

5. Write your additional learnings and insights here.

ACTIVITY 1.1: Observing Bulletin Board Displays

ANALYSIS:
1. What do you think was the purpose of the board display?
2. Did the board display design reflect the likes/interests of its target
audience? Why? Why not?
3. Was the language used clear and simple for the target audience to
understand? Why? Why not?
4. Was the board display effective? Why? Why not?
5. What suggestions can you make?

REFLECTION:
 1. Name at least 5 skills that a teacher should have to be able to come up
with effective board displays. Elaborate on why each skill is needed.

2. Which of the skills you named in # 1 do you already have? Recall your
past experiences in making board displays. How do you practice these
skills?

3. Which skills do you still need to develop? What concrete steps will you
take on how you can improve on or acquire these skills.

EPISODE 2
Learner Diversity: Developmental Characteristics, Needs and Interests
ACTIVITY 1: Observing learner characteristics at different stages
REFLECTION:
1. While you were observing the learners, did you recall your own
experiences when you were their age? What similarities do you have with
the learners you observed?

2. Think of a teacher you cannot forget for positive or negative reasons.

How did she/he help or not help you with your needs (physical,
emotional, social, and cognitive)? How did it affect you?

3. Share your insights here.

LEARNING EPISODE 3
Focus on Gender, Needs, Strengths, Interests, Experiences Language, Race,
Culture, Religion, Socio-economic Status, Difficult Circumstances, and
Indigenous Peoples

ACTIVITY 3.1: Observing differences among learners’ gender, needs,

strengths, interests, and experiences; and differences among learners’
linguistic, cultural, socio-economic, religious backgrounds, and difficult
circumstances.
OBSERVE, ANALYZE, REFLECT
ANALYZE
1. Identify the persons who play key roles in the relationships and
interactions in the classrooms. What roles do they play? Is there
somebody who appears to be the leader, a mascot/joker, an attention
seeker, a little teacher, a doubter/pessimist?
What makes the learners assume these roles? What factors affect their
behavior?
2. Is there anyone you observed who appear left out? Are students who
appear “different?” Why do they appear different? Are they accepted or
rejected by the others? How is this shown?

What does the teacher do to address issues like this?

3. How does the teacher influence the class interaction considering the
individual differences of the students?

4. What strategies does the teacher use to maximize the benefits of diversity
in the classroom? How does the teacher leverage diversity?

REFLECTION:
1. How did you feel being in that classroom? Did you feel a sense of
oneness or unity among the learners and between the teacher and the
learner?

ACTIVITY 3.2: Observing differences among learners with disabilities,

giftedness, and talents.

ANALYZE
1. Did your observation match the information given by the teacher?
2. Describe the differences in ability levels of the students in the class?
What practices or strategies are done or should be done to differentiate
instruction to meet the needs of the learners.
3. Describe the methods used by the teacher in handling the students’
differences in abilities. How did the students respond to the teacher? Did
the teacher use differentiated instruction? If yes, describe how.
REFLECTION
1. Recall the time when you were in elementary or high school. Recall the
high and low achievers in your class. How did your teacher deal with
differences in abilities? Was your teacher effective?
2. What dispositions and traits will you need as a future teacher to meet
the needs of the learners?

EPISODE 4
Learner Diversity: The Community and Home Environment

ACTIVITY 4.1: Observing the learner’s community and home environment.

ANALYZE:
1. From your home visit and interview, what do you think is the style of
parenting experienced by the learner? Explain your answer.
2. Relating your data with what you learned from child development, what
family factors do you think contribute to the development and over-all
adjustment of the learner in school?
3. Does the communication between the home-school have an effect on the
learner? If yes, what are these effects?
4. How can the teacher partner with the community to contribute to the
development and learning of the students? Who are the people or which
institutions can the teacher tap to seek advice regarding the development
and learning of students?
REFLECTION:
1. Reflect on your own development as a child. What type of parenting did
you experience? How did it affect you?
2. As a future teacher, how would you establish good home-school
collaboration? How can you work well with the parents? How can you
help them? How can they help you?

EPISODE 5
 Creating an Appropriate Learning Environment
ACTIVITY 5.1: Managing Time, Space, and Learning Resources
REFLECTION:
1. Why do you need to enforce positive discipline?

Activity 5.2: Identifying the Different Aspects of Classroom Management

ANALYZE:
1. How did the classroom organization and routines affect the learners’
behavior?
2. What should the teacher have in mind when she/he designs the
classroom organization and routines? What theories and principles
should you have in mind?
3. Which behavior strategies were effective in managing behavior of the
learners? In motivating students? Why were they effective?

REFLECTION:
1. Imagine yourself organizing your classroom in the future. In what grade
level do you see yourself? What routines and procedures would you
consider for this level? Why?
2. Make a list of the rules you are likely to implement at this level. Why
would you choose these rules?
3. Should learners be involved in making the class rules? Why?

EPISODE 6
Classroom Management and Classroom Routines
Activity 6.1: Observing Classroom Management and Routines
ANALYZE:

1. Were the routines effective in ensuring discipline and order in the class?
Why? Why not?

2. Which of those routines were systematic and consistently implemented?

Explain your answer.
REFLECTION:
1. Which of the routines will you most likely to apply in your class?
Why? Why not?

Activity 6.2: Listing Down Classroom Rules

ANALYZE:
1. Analyze each given rule. What circumstances led to the formation of the
rule?
2. Are classroom rules really important?
3.
REFLECTION:
Reflect on the various classroom rules set by the Resource Teacher. Will
you have the same rules? If not, what are you going to employ? Explain your
answer.
Documentation:

EPISODE 7
Physical and Personal Aspects of Classroom Management
Activity 7.1: Identifying Personal and Physical Aspects of Classroom
Management
ANALYZE:

1. How does the voice of the teacher affect classroom instruction?

2. How does the punctuality of the teacher affect the classroom discipline?
3. Why do we need to check on the physical aspects of classroom
management?

REFLECTION:
1. What does this statement mean to you as a future teacher? Explain. “No
amount of good instruction will come out without effective classroom
management.”
 2. What are your plans in ensuring effective classroom management?

Activity 7.2: Demonstrating knowledge of positive and non-violent discipline

in the management of learner behavior.

ANALYZE:
1. How many strategies were employed by the Resource Teacher? Did these
contribute to better classroom management? Explain your answer.
2. What were not used by the Resource Teacher? Were these important?
What should have been used instead? Explain.
3.
REFLECTION:
As a future teacher, reflect on the observations then answer the given question.
1. What classroom management strategies do I need to employ to
respond to diverse types of learners?

EPISODE 8
Close Encounter with the School Curriculum
Activity 8.1: Curricula in the school setting.
ANALYZE:

Which of the seven types of curriculum in the school setting is easy to find?
Why?

Which is difficult to observe? Why?

Are these all found in the school setting? How do curricula relate to one
another?

Draw a diagram to show the relationship of one curriculum to the other.

Activity 8.2: The Miniscule School Curriculum: The Lesson A Closer Look.
ANALYZE:
 1. How does the teacher whom you observed compare to the ideal
characteristics or competencies of global quality teacher?
2. Was the lesson implemented as planned? Describe.
3. Can you describe the disposition of the teacher after the lesson was
taught? Happy and eager? Satisfied and contented? Disappointed and
Exhausted?
4. Can you describe the majority of students’ reactions after the lesson was
taught? Confused? Happy and eager? Contented? No reactions at all.

REFLECTION:
Based on your observations and tasks in Activity 2 how will you prepare
your lesson plan? Make a short paragraph on the topic.

Activity 8.3: Constructive Alignment of the Components of a Lesson Plan

ANALYZE:

1. Are the three components constructively aligned? Explain.

2. Will the outcomes be achieved with the teaching methods used? Why?
3. What component would tell if the outcomes have been achieved?
4.

REFLECTION:

What lessons have you learned in developing or writing a lesson plan?

What value will it give to the teacher if the three components are aligned?

EPISODE 9
Preparing for Teaching and Learning
Activity 9.1: Demonstrating and Understanding of Research-Based Knowledge
Principles of Teaching and Learning
ANALYZE:

1. What principles of learning were most applied? Least applied?

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Least applied
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Give instances where this/these principle/s could have been applied.

REFLECTION:
From among the principles of learning, which one do you think is the most
important?

Activity 9.2: Identifying Learning Outcomes that are Aligned with Learning
Competencies
ANALYZE:
Do SMART objectives make the lesson more focused?
REFLECTION:
Reflect on the Lessons learned in determining SMART learning outcomes.

Activity 9.3: Distinguishing Between Inductive and Deductive Methods of

Teaching
ANALYZE:

1. What are possible consequences of teaching purely subject matter for

mastery and for the test?

2. If you were to reteach the classes you observed, would you be teacher-
centered or student-centered? Why?

REFLECTION:
Reflect on Principles of teaching worth applying.
 LEARNING EPISODE 10

ACTIVITY 10.1: Applying the Guiding Principles in the Selection and Use of
Strategies

ANALYZE

What is the best method of teaching? Is there such a thing?

REFLECT

How do we select the appropriate strategy for our lessons?

ACTIVITY 10.2: Determining Outcome-Based Teaching and Learning.

ANALYZE

What are your thoughts about Outcome-Based Teaching and Learning (OBTL)?

REFLECT

Reflect on the use of OBTL

ACTIVITY 10.3: Applying Effective Questioning Techniques.

ANALYZE

Neil Postman once said: “Children go to school as question marks and leave
school as periods!” Does this have something to do with the type of questions
that teachers ask and the questioning and reacting techniques that they
employ?

REFLECT

The importance of using various reacting techniques