17th Week: The Instructional Module, The Seminar, Classroom Management, Laboratory Method and The Art of Questioning

This week the report consists of five topics, The Instructional Module, The Seminar, Classroom Management, Laboratory Method and The Art of Questioning:

The Instructional Module

            This topic was reported by Ms. Cheene Rose Cayabo. The Instructional Module is one of the widely accepted instructional materials. According to Murray a module is a self-contained and independent unit of instructing with a primary focus on few-defined objectives. The learning module can develop a student’s optimum potential at his own pace. In other word, with the help of the module student can learn by its own capability to study, make a study material and review it until they can master it. A module can be helpful not only to a student or teacher but also to all.

The Seminar

            This topic was reported by Mr. Rico Recopuerto. The Seminar is deliberative body looking for the solution to the problem from the evidence based on reading, experiences and minds of its participants.

            In conducting a seminar, like being a teacher, it is necessary to the leader that he has the enough knowledge on giving a seminar. There are steps to follow in solving, first is Identifying the Problem they must know what the problem is; then Gathering Data they should collect all the information about the problem; then Analyzing the Data “looking over” they find what may the solution; then Formulating Hypothesis; then Testing Hypothesis if they find the solution they will take it to test the solution; and Formulating a conclusion or Solution. The seminar is efficient, if the step in solving the problem studied carefully.

The Classroom Management

            This topic was reported by Mr. Edsrail Khan Damada. The Classroom Management is ensures wise use of the teacher’s and the learner’s time, effort and energies. It is also includes operation and control of the activities involving seating arrangement, attendance, and utilization of instructional materials, the classroom itself, maintenance, discipline and planning.

The Classroom Management is the most important thing in teaching because it will vary also to the teacher’s ability to teach because you cannot teach well if you cannot manage your students. It is necessary to a classroom to have some regulation and rules to limit the students and to be the superior also so that they will follow you.

The Laboratory Method

            This topic was reported by Mr. Allan Bruces Jr. The Laboratory Method is a set of the firsthand learning activity such as: investigate problem, conduct experiments, observes processes, and applied theories in a simulated setting. Also this can be called a research method. The laboratory is referred to the place where the equipment’s, apparatus and any other materials needed in an experiment is here.

            The purpose of the laboratory method is to give an opportunity to the student to experience, observe and discover the things in actual. Also it may increase the interest of the students to learn and also it is much easy to learn and familiarize the type of learning that includes rote learning. It may help the student not only to learn but also to find out what is the possible solution to the problem they have encountered that will help them to learn as well by their own.

The Art of Questioning

            This topic was reported by Ms. Dhoriza Jean Loreto. The Art of Questioning is assumed that good teaching involves good questioning, especially when large groups of pupils/students are being taught. There are type of question such as; to thinking process involves it is from lowest (what, when, where) to highest (how and why) level; the answers required; the degree of person exploration or valuing.

            In questioning, there are categories and models of questions these are: Cognitive Memory Questions these require pupils to reproduce facts as rote memory or selective recall; Convergent Questions these require pupils to recall information that leads to correct answer; Divergent Questions these require pupil’s to generate their own data on a given topic; and Evaluation Questions these requires pupils to make value judgments about the quality, correctness or adequacy of information.

            In giving a question there things must remember it should be simple, clear and definitive, and it should be adapted to the age, abilities and interest to the learners. They must understand the question and relate it in your topic or else it would built-up curiosity.