Monday, February 28, 2011

L.B.# 16

Project-based learning enables classrooms to emphasize this undervalued part of the "invisible curriculum"what author Daniel Goleman has called "emotional Intelligence.There are many steps presented  on using project-based multimedia learning.These are just strategies to enable the students to remember and understand better content as they perform real-world tasks such as researching for answers to problems,analyzing,assessing and making decisions,working with others.   

Sunday, February 27, 2011

L.B.# 15

If you and your students are not very familiar with the computer,you can still go project-based multimedia teaching by using other appropriate media.The only lament is you will miss the novel contribution of the computer to the teaching -learning process.Project-based multimedia learning does not only involve use of multimedia for learning.The students end up with a multimedia product to show what they learned.So they are not only learners of academic content, they are at the same time authors of multimedia product at the end of the learning process.  

L.B.# 14

Maximizing the use of the overhead projector and the chalkboard. By learning how to use them properly and in an inexpensive way we are able to realize our instructional objectives.There are techniques of using the chalkboard and OHP proven to be effective by practitioners.Adopting them in our teaching spells visual and lasting learning for our students.The OHP is indeed a very versatile equipment. With your prepared transparencies you can do so much in so short time.

L.B.#13

Teaching with visual symbols will keep your teaching crispy and fresh.Only that this requires more preparation and more learning on your part.You must learn how to draw,sketch,make diagrams,graphs and charts.If you use them skillfully,your classroom may turn into a beehive of busy students.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

L.B.# 12

The film,video and tv are powerful instructional tool.When they are used appropriately and moderately,they can make the teaching-learning process more concrete,lively,colorful and interactive.It contributes to a more lasting learning because of its visual,audio and motion effects.These effects make learning fun.However,misuse and abuse of thier use in the classroom and even at home has far reaching damaging effects in development of children's imaginative and thinking powers and sensitivity of human life. 

L.B.# 11

Field trips abolish the "walls" that devide the classroom and the outside world.Considering the intensity and the extent of concrete experiences that come through field trips,it is encourage to use them only if there is no other less expensive but equally effective instructional tool.Preparation and planning for the field trip includes discussions and decisions on what to do before the field trip,during the field trip and after the field trip.

L.B.# 10

Demonstration is a public showing and emphasizing of the salient merits,utility efficiency,etc,of an article or product.In teaching, it is showing how a thing is done and emphasizing of the salient merits,utility and efficiencyof a concept,a method or a process or an attitude.It is a visualized explanation of an important fact,idea or process by the use of photographs,drawings,films,displays,or guided motions.It is showing how things are done.

L.B.# 9

Dramatized experiences cater to students' multiple intelligences.Plays,pageants,pantomimes,tableaus,puppets and role playing are obviosly most fir for kinesthetically intelligent.By dramatization,we can participate in a reconstracted experience,even though the original event is far remove from us in time.We relive the outbreak of the Philippine revolution by acting out the role of characters in a drama.