To have a meaningful and successful accomplishment in this FS episode, be sure to

read through the whole episode before participating and assisting in your FS 2 Resource
Teacher’s class. Note all the information you will need and tasks you will need to do before
working on this episode.

Target Your Intended Learning Outcome

At the end of this Episode, I must be able to:

 analyze teaching learning problems prevailing in the classroom.
 list matching action as a probable solution to the teaching-learning problems.

Classify Your Task

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 Matching Problematic Learning Situations with Probable Actions as Solution

Identifying-a problem is a tricky task. Action research begins with identifying a problem.
Oftentimes, it is one of the difficult things to begin with. When a researcher was asked: “Have you
identified a problem for your action research? Common answer will be: “My problem is that; I do not
have a problem.” Ironical, isn’t it?

If you observe and notice closely the teaching-learning environment in the classroom, you will
discover of lot of problematic situations. You must have also observed these problematic situations
when you did your FS 1 course. But matching these problems with appropriate action is trickier.

Revisit the Infographic/s

A group of more than six hundred teachers was surveyed and asked what teaching learning
problems confront them. Here are their answers put together in a wordle.

Study the wordle below. Each word represents an issue or a problem which was reported by
teachers in the field. Which of the words do you recognize as a problem? Draw a CIRCLE around five
words that you have also identified as problems in teaching-learning.

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 Figure 2. Words that Represent Common Teaching-Learning Problems Identified by Filipino
Teachers (Felimon, Siason, Bilbao, 2021)

Each of the identified problem that you encircle has a corresponding action or solution.

Identified Action as
Problems Solution

Participate and Assist

What five problems have you identified from the words that you have encircled? Make a statement.
Write in the space below.

The problems I identified are:

1. ________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
2. ________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
3. ________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
4. ________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
5. ________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________

Excellent! Let us see how we can assist and learn at the same time.
Suppose, the problem you have spotted is: COMPREHENSION.
How can you assist your mentor, after knowing that the learners have difficulty in comprehension?

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Make a Choice for your ACTION.
A. Conduct a tutorial lesson.
B. Show video lessons to help enhance comprehension.
C. Make a learning task to develop comprehension.
Suppose you chose letter A. Conduct a Tutorial. So you have identified the SOLUTION that matches
the PROBLEM which is Difficulty in Comprehension.

The Problem is: The Action is:

Difficulty in Conduct a Tutorial

Comprehension of

Can you also choose letter B: Show video lesson as a SOLUTION for the same PROBLEM?
Explain ___________________________________________________________________________

The Problem is: The Action is:

Difficulty in Show video lessons

Comprehension of
_______________

What about letter C as a SOLUTION to the same PROBLEM? Why? __________________________

The Problem is: The Action is:

Difficulty in Make learning tasks to 4

Comprehension of improve
comprehension
Interesting, isn’t it? Now, you can assist your mentor by identifying observed problems in the class and suggest
actions to be done.

Notice
What have you noticed of the problem identified above? Can there be more than one solution to the
problem? Explain
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________

A creative and innovative teacher can find one or more than one solution or answer to the same
problem. Each solution matches with the problem. The more solutions identified to choose from, the better for
an action researcher.

Analyze

Let us try to look into the following scenarios in the daily life of a teacher. This scenario might
also be similar to the class you have observed and noticed.

Scenario A: Miss Fely is a grade four teacher in a typical elementary school. She has forty learners in
her class. One half of them cannot classify animals into vertebrates and invertebrates. She has been
repeating the same science lesson for two weeks, yet no progress was observed. This situation has
been bothering Miss Fely.

 Can you identify Miss Fely’s problem? ______________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
 Can you find a solution to solve her problem? ____ Give your two suggestions.
a. ___________________________________________________________________
b. ___________________________________________________________________
 What solution can solve Miss Fely’s problem?
______________________________________________________________________
How?
__________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________

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 __________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
Are they matched with the problem?
__________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________

Scenario B: Sir Ryan teaches in a disadvantaged urban community. Most of his learners come from
families that are disrupted, either with single parents or with their guardians who stand only as
parents. They are-deprived of the necessary food, clothing and shelter.
 Can you identify the most probable teaching-learning problem/s in the class of Sir Ryan?
a. ____________________________________________________________________
b. ____________________________________________________________________
 Can you propose a solution to solve her problem that you have identified?
__________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________

Reflect
After reading the two scenarios given above, how would identifying problematic situations and
finding solutions to these problems help you to become a better teacher?
Explain:
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________

Write Action Research Prompts

Using any of one example of problems in this activity, answer the AR prompts that follow:

OBSERVE
What problematic situation prevails in the classroom?
___________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________

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 _________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________

REFLECT
What changes do you want to achieve?
___________________________________________________________________________
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_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________

PLAN
What strategies will you use to improve the situation?
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

ACT
What be the title of your Action Research should you conduct the study?
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

Add: Solution/actions