EPISODE 6 - Creating An Appropriate Learning Environment FS1
EPISODE 6 - Creating An Appropriate Learning Environment FS1
EPISODE 6 - Creating An Appropriate Learning Environment FS1
Environment
At the end of this Episode, the students must be able to identify the classroom routines set
by the teacher, and observe how they execute the various classroom routines.
Routines are the backbone of daily class life. They facilitate teaching and learning.
Routines do not just make the teacher’s life easier, they even save valuable classroom time.
Efficient routines make it easier for students to learn and achieve more.
Classroom rules are imperative and must be reinforced for learners’ safety and security.
Rules also teach discipline and self-control. Rules eliminate stress and will provide a more
pleasant, secured and non-threatening environment. Rules ensure the students’ engagement and
focus in their classroom activities.
1. Interview the teacher about classroom routines.
At the end of this Episode, the students must be able to identify two aspects of classroom
management and to determine the classroom management strategies that the Resource Teacher
employed in his/her class.
Classroom management refers to the wide variety of skills and techniques that teachers
use to keep students organized, orderly, focused attentive on tasks and academically productive
in class. – edglossary.org
1. Personal Classroom Management. It consists of managing your own self to ensure order and
discipline in your class. It includes voice, personal grooming, attendance, punctuality, and
personal graciousness
Managing yourself as a teacher contributes to the order and well-being of your class.
2. Physical Classroom Management. It consists of managing the learning environment.
Attending to these physical elements of the learning environment ensures the safety, security,
and order in the class. It includes ventilation, lighting, acoustics, seating arrangement,
structure or design of the classroom, and physical space or learning stations.
At the end of this Episode, the students must be able to identify the different curricula
that prevail in the school setting; to describe how the teacher manages the school curriculum by
planning, implementing lessons through different strategies and assessment of learning
outcomes, and to analyse if the teacher aligns the objectives to subject matter, to teaching
strategies and assessment.
From a broad perspective, curriculum is defined as the total learning process and
outcomes as in lifelong learning. However, school curriculum in this course limits such
definition of total learning outcomes to confine to a specific learning space called school.
Schools are formal institutions of learning where the two major stakeholders are the learners and
the teachers.
Basic education in the Philippines is under the Department of Education and the
recommended curriculum is the K to 12 or Enhanced Basic Education Curricula of 2013. All
basic education schools offering kindergarten, elementary, and secondary high school adhere to
this national curriculum as a guide in the implementation of the formal education for K to 12.
10.2. Standards and Principles. The DepEd shall adhere to the following standards and
principles, when appropriate, in developing the enhanced basic education curriculum:
(e) The curriculum shall use pedagogical approaches that are constructivist, inquiry-based,
reflective, collaborative and integrative;
(f) The curriculum shall adhere to the principles and framework of Mother Tongue-Based
Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) which starts from where the learners are and from what
they already know proceeding from the known to the unknown; instructional materials and
capable teachers to implement the MTB-MLE curriculum shall be available. For this purpose,
MTB-MLE refers to formal or non-formal education in which the learner’s mother tongue and
additional languages are used in the classroom;
(g) The curriculum shall use the spiral progression approach to ensure mastery of knowledge and
skills after each level; and
(h) The curriculum shall be flexible enough to enable and allow schools to localize, indigenize
and enhance the same based on their respective educational and social contexts.
2. Locate where I can find the different curricula in the school setting
3. Analyze the curriculum that is operating in the school setting and the teacher’s
disposition of the lesson being taught.