LB#15 Project-based Learning and Multimedia: What it is?

     Project-based learning, or PBL, is the use of in-depth and rigorous classroom projects to facilitate learning and assess student competence. Students use technology and inquiry to respond to a complex issue, problem or challenge. PBL focuses on student-centered inquiry and group learning with the teacher acting as a facilitator. With this kind of approach the students would be able to develop lot of skills and knowledge that comes out as the project is going on. And with the used of multimedia as a tool for this what we called PBL, the students now can do not learn  simply by using multimedia produce by others, they learn by creating themselves. 

       

LB#14 Maximizing the Use of the Overhead Projector and the Chalkboard

      One of the most important instrument of a teacher in teaching is the chalkboard. It is the basic tool used in improving teaching effectiveness, classroom management and student academic success. There is non a room without a chalkboard. Even in the most remote areas in our country today have their own chalkboards, and because of this teachers can have a better chance of reaching their students. Much of a teacher's style is based on how she presents information to students. Teaching too fast or too slow loses students' attention. Writing on a chalkboard makes it easier to control the pace of a lecture because it encourages writing while talking---a task that requires instruction at a moderate speed. 

     Thanks to the advent of our new technology, the basic chalkboards were now transform to overhead projectors. With this projectors, instead of wasting time writing what the students should read on the board. The teacher just uses an acetate and projects it to the class. It's type written and can easily be read, but in our country today only those high status schools were able to provide adequate number of projectors. I hope that our government will  focus more on the advancement of our teaching equipment for the benefit of the students and to the country as a whole.

LB#13 Teaching with Visual Symbols

     What we see everything around us were visual symbols with certain different meanings. If you were ask to present a certain complicated process, then what method are you going to take? In this situation, visual symbols is the best solution. Making visual representation is a must skill to individuals especially to us as teachers someday. How could we give learning  to the students if we can't even make a simple presentation of our own experiences, ideas and knowledge. This symbols express more than a thousand words can give. 

     This teaching method also requires basic skills like drawing, sketching, and making diagrams. Through this we could enhance more our creativity and some analytic skills. As a teacher someday it would be one of my priority teaching strategies, the art of visual presentations.

LB#12 The Power of Film, Video and TV in the classroom

    Most of us can remember getting excited about videos in the classroom as they offered a break from regular ordinary routine schoolwork. This common approach of teaching might lead as to no teaching at all. But, times have changed and school videos have become an important part of school curriculum. It was proven viewing images during the lesson improves student retention. In other words, when the teacher uses the school video as a visual tool in the lesson, the learning process is enhanced. Also, if the video is especially interesting, students are much more apt to be engaged in the subject. If used effectively, it can show abstract ideas or far-away places not otherwise accessible to students, can be motivating and exciting for students, tapping into emotions and senses, can be engaging and provides enrichment for visual and auditory learners.

     Just like field trips it also excites and motivates me a lot. It serves as great medium for conveying information or concepts that are hard to grasp with mere words. It creates in me a sense that the I was actually there, inviting me to experience the story or information first-hand whether it is a travel through time or demonstrating specific skills or processes. They can also be used to demonstrate desired behavior, deliver a message and promote learning in those students with high visual orientation.

LB# 11Making the Most of Community Resources and Field Trips

     Field trips are a critical component of standards-based instruction in the classroom, not a separate activity, but a direct extension of classroom instruction. It is a bridge to the outside world. It is the connections to the students’ community and natural environment, developing an awareness, concern and commitment to their place. There are instructional opportunities and contents that are unavailable in the classroom,  including real artifacts that can be observed, touched and experienced that students must witness in person. It gives motivation for students, igniting a passion for learning by opening their eyes to the real world connections and uses of the content and skills they are developing in the classroom. Like for example, Museums and science centers offer rotating displays that present up-to-date information and experiences that were not known or available when textbooks were published that offers the latest information on biotechnology and ethics. 

    I think no one would disagree in the class for a plan to have a field trip. Even me as a student it gives me a lot of excitement every time a field trip will be announce. For me, it is one of the best gifts the school can give to the students.     

     

LB#10 Demonstration in Teaching

     Demonstration involves showing by reason or proof, explaining or making clear by use of examples or experiments. Put simply, demonstration means to clearly show. In teaching through demonstration, students are set up to potentially conceptualize class material more effectively. Based on my experiences discussing only a material without demonstration is quite very difficult to understand. As a student with limited knowledge on a certain matter, I strongly needs proper demonstration of it in order to fully apprehend the whole process. 

    As teacher someday, I'm not only demonstrating specific learning concepts within the classroom, I can also participate demonstration classrooms to help improve my teaching strategies, which may or may not be demonstrative in nature.

LB#9 Teaching With Dramatized Experience

     "The more active they are [students] in determining and absorbing their own learning, the more they learn."

One dimension of this active learning approach to teaching and learning is dramatization namely games, role-play, simulation and mime. Collectively these provide students with some form of imaginary or real world within which to act out a given situation. In this manner the students' knowledge on the character is increased in situation, issue or crisis. As what we know about learning as an interactive process, the students in this experience would have a full interaction to the subject or matter being delivered that is ought to be learned. We can't deny that all of us had undergone this experience even in our earlier life in school, and I'm very thankful enough that through this dramatized method of teaching i was able to enhanced my oral, written and even my visual language.