FS 4
Exploring the Curriculum
FIELD STUDY Episode 2
“COME, LET’S TALK” Name of FS Student Jolina V. Macaranas Course Bachelor of Secondary Education Major in Mathematics
Year & Section Math 4-1
Cooperating School Dalandanan National High School
Your Target At the end of this activity, the students should be able to describe the interaction pattern that occurs between the teachers and learners as provided in the curriculum.
Your Map For this process, go through the following steps: Step 1: Visit a school and observe how the teacher provides the opportunity to the learners to interact with one another in doing one’s roles. Step 2: Record how roles are performed by the teacher and the learners. Step 3: Make your own documentation of the dialogue or conversation based on the observed roles that each one performs which Step 4: Highlight the aspect of the dialogue that indicates the teacher as a role model in developing the values
Your Tools My Observation Report on Interaction Name: Jolina V. Macaranas Year/Course: Math 4-1 Name of the School Observed: Dalandanan National High School Grade Level: Grade 7 Section: 7-Reverence Date of Visit: August 23, 2016 Situation: Interaction between the teacher and the learners during discussion The Dialogue Student 1: Sir, the answer is 27/36? Teacher: Is 27/36 is in lowest term? Student 1: Yes sir. Teacher: Are you sure? Student 2: Sir, no. Teacher: Then what is the lowest term of 27/36? Student 2: ¾ sir. Teacher: Very good. How did you get the lowest term of 27/36? Explain on the board. (The students explain her answer.) (The teacher writes many examples and let the student answer on the board. The teacher guides them in answering.)
For this episode, please use the Activity Forms provided for you below. Personal Reflections on the Dialogue
The teacher provides higher order thinking question that enhance their critical thinking. The students are actively participating. They keep on trying even though they get an incorrect answer.
Your Analysis How important are dialogue and substantive conversation in the classroom in of students’ learning? It is very important for the teacher and students interaction. They can easily clarify misconceptions as well as misunderstandings. It leads to a knowledgeable setting where the students will learn and the teacher solves the difficulties encountered by his students.
What learning benefits could teachers and students draw from intentional classroom dialogue? Through intentional dialogue both of them can learn by understanding each other for the teacher to evaluate where or which part of the topic the students find difficulties and for the students to make things clear out with the topic to their teacher. After knowing the difficulties of his students, he finds a creative way wherein his students can understand the topic. Thus, formulating another method of teaching, strategies and techniques that will help him grow to become a more effective and efficient teacher for his students.