Monday, January 28, 2013
Lesson:8 Teaching with Contrived Experiences
Teaching with Contrived Experience
These are "edited"copies of reality and are used as substitutes for real things when it is not practical or not possible to bring or do the real thing in the classroom .These contrived experience are designed to simulate to real-life situation.A model is a reproduction of a real thing in a small scale,or large scale,or exact size but made of synthetic materials.
Monday, January 14, 2013
Lesson:7 Direct Purposeful Experiences
Direct
Purposeful Experience and Beyond
After seeing instructional materials as a whole, let us single out direct, purposeful experiences as instructional materials. This lesson we learn on how can be effectively used for instruction. All these experiences point to the need to use, whenever we can, direct, purposeful experiences in the teaching-learning process. These direct, purposeful experience referred to a first hand experiences that make up the foundation of our learning. These are the rich experiences that our senses bring from which we construct the ideas, the concepts, the generalizations that give meaning and order to our lives. They are sensory experiences.
These direct activities may be preparing meals, making a piece of furniture, doing power point presentation, performing a laboratory experiment, delivering a speech, or taking a trip. It has described as purposeful because the experiences are not purely mechanical. They are not a matter of going through the motion. They are also described as purposeful because these experiences are undergone in relation to a purpose or learning. Out of the direct experience, thoughts or meanings following reflection must flow or run the risk of a lesson consisting of activity after another activity enjoyed by the learners who cannot make connection with the activities themselves. If budget on purchase of instructional materials is one of your worries, to use direct experiences as teaching material sets you free from worry.
Monday, January 7, 2013
Lesson: 6 Using and Evaluating Instructional Materials
"Using and Evaluating Instructional Materials"
Instructional
materials are highly important for teaching, especially for
inexperienced teachers. Teachers rely on instructional materials in
every aspect of teaching. They need materials for background information
on the subject they are teaching. Young teachers usually have not built
up their expertise whenever they enter into the field. Teachers often
use instructional materials for lesson planning. These materials are
also needed by teachers to assess the knowledge of their students.
Teachers often assess students by assigning tasks, creating projects, and administering exams. Instructional materials are essential for all of these activities.
Because
students spend a significant amount of their classroom time using
instructional materials and because of the large variety of available
materials, both print and nonprint, it is crucial that all materials be
thoroughly evaluated.
Instructional
materials shall be evaluated and selected according to specified
procedures by qualified certified staff to ensure that the materials in
the educational structure support the curriculum and meet the diverse
needs of students. The instructional materials selected must be age and
grade appropriate and must contribute to, and be aligned with, the
curriculum and competencies.
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