FIELD STUDY

The Learners Development and Environment

Episode 1

SCHOOL AS A LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

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Name of FS Student Noel Jabagat Parohinog___________________________________ Course _ BSED major in English__________________________ Year & Section I-C Mrs. Flerida L. Demegillo Signature _______________

Resource Teacher Cooperating School

Binalbagan Catholic College - High School Department

Your Target
At the end of this activity, you will be competent in determining a school environment that provides social, physiological, and physical environment supportive for learning.

Your Map
A general observation of the campus and the classroom is an exiting way to start your observation. Your mission is to do the following tasks:

4. Make a reflection on the characteristics of a school environment that promotes learning.

1. Visit a school. Look into facilities and suppoert learning areas in the campus, then in the classroom

5.Based your ideas pof a good school environment through any of these: a.)Descriptive paragrapg; b.)Photo essay; c.)Sketch or drawing; d.)Poem , song or rap

2. Accomplish the checklist as you move around the school premesis.

3. Based on your gathered data in the checklist describe the school environment.

Your Tools
As you move around the campus, activity forms are provided for you to document your observations. It is advised that you read the entire worksheet before proceeding to the school

site. A good understanding of the activities and task to be accomplished in the activity sheets will yield better learning results. SCHOOL FACILITIES CHECKLIST Familiarize yourself with the different areas and facilities of the school. Check the column to indicate their availability. Give a brief description of those that are available on the last column.

Facilities

Availabl e

Not Availabl e

Description

Office of the Principal

Library

The principals office is clean, and neat as the principal, free also from pollution and papers, documents were arranged and stored in proper places. The books are arranged according to system of classification. The tables and chairs are also present provided for the students conducive to learning. With proper ventilation and lighting fixture helping the guidance area to counsel to students concern. The school canteen is situated in the clean area but they sold innutritious foods and curls which are not good to health. The clinic is well-organized. The medicines are available, provided and ready for the students indispensably and incase of emergency. The audio visual room is not yet organized since it has an incomplete facilities and equipments that would be easy for the students to understand their teachers lessons or presentation. The reading center is clean, and situated in the ventilated area and free from any types of harmful insects that could destruct the students attention.

Counseling Room

Canteen/Cafeteria

Medical Clinic

Audio Visual/Media Center

Reading Center

Speech Laboratory Science Laboratory

The facilities are present. Helping the students to learn well. The gym is wide, clean, and no any pieces of garbage found in this area.

Gymnasium

Auditorium
Home Economics Room

The room is good and complete of necessary things that are needed in the students activity.

Industrial Workshop Area

The industrial room has complete materials and tools provided for each students to accomplish there task and could help the students also in training of a particular uses of tools. The room has proper ventilation, clean, wide space, and organized in terms of lighting and ventilation. The comfort rooms of the boys were dirty, unclean, slippery and unpleasant smells exist reaching outside the school building. The comfort room of the girls is dirty and the floor is slippery that might led to students accident.

PTA Office

Comfort Room for Boys

Comfort Room for Girls

Others (Specify)
Cashiers Office

The office of the cashier is too small, over crowded, and the documents are stack outside the shelves. It is the one reason that causes heat and crowd. The registrars office is clean. The documents and articles were kept in proper places. Each teacher has his/her own tables. The faculty room is clean, wide in space and that would be easy for the faculty member to communicate with each other. The room is fully equipped with air-conditioned. Furnish the students to accomplish there task and work. The units are in good model.

Registrars Office Faculty Room

Computer Laboratory

An Observation Guide to the CLASSROOM VISIT Read the following statements carefully. Then write your observation reported on the provided space. 1. Describe the community or neighborhood where the school is found. 2. Describe the school campus. What colors do you see? What is the condition of the building? 3. Pass by the offices. What impression do you have these offices? 4. Walk through the school halls, the library, and the cafeteria. Look around and find out the facilities that the school has.

Name of the School Observed: Binalbagan Catholic College- High School Department

School Address: San Gregorio Village, Binalbagan Negros Occidental Date of Visit: July 27, 2010 _

1. The area of the BCC High School Department is encompassed by many trees and is situated also near the certain houses that serve as the neighbours of the school. The remote area is clean and abundant with many trees. 2. The school campus is clean, attractive in color, and wide in space. The school is composed of two storeys which occupy the classrooms, offices, and laboratories. 3. Both offices were clean, and structurally organized. But only the principals office impressed my attention since it is clean, colorful, attractive, seats are also available provided for the visitors, with proper ventilation and lighting and everything were arranged accordingly. 4. As I was passing in the different area of the school, I witnessed that the school halls uses some facilities and some are not. In library, they have the computer, television, and audio speakers; in canteen, they have the faucets, refrigerator, and etc; and in the computer laboratory, the room is fully equipped with air conditioners and computers are available for the students and teachers for researching purposes.

An Observation Guide to the CLASSROOM VISIT Be guided by these tasks as you do your observation. Then accomplish the matrix to record your data. 1. Look at the walls of the classroom. What are posted on the walls? What heroes, religious figures, visual aids, announcements, do you see posted? 2. Examine how the furniture is arranged. Where is the teachers table located? How are the tables and chairs/ desks arranged? 3. What learning materials/equipment are present? 4. Observe the students. How many are occupying one room? 5. Is the room well-lighted and well-ventilated? CLASSROOM FACILITIES MATRIX
Classroom Facilities Description (location, number, arrangement, condition)

1. Wall displays

There are lots of wall displays posted everywhere it may be a club organizations, information and even the scientific trivia. They are arranged well and some of the displays were tearing off and dusty already. The teachers table is located at the center of the students facing them when the teacher is having a class.

2. Teachers table

3. Learners Desks

The learners desks are provided for each of the students. They are arranged in columns, rows depending on the number of the students and the desk are not properly cleaned and even vandalism can be observe. The blackboard is wide provided for teacher and for the students stability and value of focus to learning.

4. Blackboard

5. Learning Materials/Visual Aids

The materials or the visual aids which are used by the teacher is written legibly for the students to learn. They are mounted in the blackboard facing the learners together. The ceiling is good. Helping the teacher to interact with each other by covering the inner surface of the roof to maintain the ventilation.

6.Ceiling

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My Observation Report

Name of the School Observed

Binalbagan Catholic College- High School Department

Location of the School __San Gregorio Village, Binalbagan Negros Occidental___________ Date of Visit ____July 20, 2010_____________________________________________

It was July 20, 2010 when we are having our first actual school observation. This is in accordance to our course which will furnish us to become aware when we are exposed in the field of out-campus internship. Each one of us were advised to observed the BCCHigh School Department. Our teacher told us to fill in everything that corresponds to our target and goal. The target is to be competent in determining a school environment that provides social, psychological and physical environment supportive of learning. Our teacher, Mam Flerida Demegillo and at the same time she is the school principal of BCC High School Department, gives us a sort of overview of what we are going to do. I strolled around the campus together with my classmates. I recorded the data and jot down the observation in my paper. I was impressed by the different offices and rooms but it attracts me most when I passed and observed the office of the principal. Her room is different from the others since it is too clean and the room is properly arranged. I observed everything that the schools have. As I am walking, my eyes borrowed my attention inside the faculty room in which the teachers stay. My first impression to those teachers are stubborn, obstinate and that they might not be friendly, but I was wrong because I try talked to them and that time I expected the thoughts that might happen instead they approached me, answered my questions and with a smile showing that I am welcome. The trigger in my mind never stops me to think those negative thoughts until I came home. We went back on another day which is July 27, 2010 and continued our thesis. I accomplished the school facilities matrix and I was able to answer the questions which are asked in my data. After all, I accomplished everything.

Your Analysis How do the school campus and the classroom in particular impact on the learning of the students going to school? What are your conclusion?

I conclude that the school has a great impact of learning in the since that they have a lot of number of students population and that only shows how great is the impact of the school to particular learning process.

How does this relate your knowledge of child and adolescent development? How does this relate to your knowledge of facilitating learning?

According to my own observation, the knowledge of particular students that we have observed is moderate while in facilitating learning, I can say that the

Your Reflections

students do seems learn the lesson of their teachers even presenting it only in visual aids or in the blackboard, what is important is that they learn.

1. Would you like to teach in the school environment you just observed? Why? Why not? 2. What kind of school campus is conducive to learning? 3. What kind of classroom is conducive to learning? 4. In the future, how can you accomplish your answer in number 3? 5. Write your additional learnings and insights here.

Answer for Reflections:

1. Yes, I would like to teach in the school that I have observed in the sense that the environment of the school is good, also the building is situated in a many forest place which provides proper ventilation and better environment that free from any pollution. But, if I will be given the opportunity, I prefer to choose my Alma Mater in high school as my cooperating school.

2. In my own views and opinion, a certain school can be considered conducive to learning if it has complete facilities particularly in the classrooms, offices, and even in any kind of school laboratory, also if it is clean, well- organized and free from any pollutions.

3. The classroom can be considered conducive to learning if it is clean, well ventilated, with proper lighting that could maximized the learning process, and it should be also have the complete facilities and equipments necessary also for the learners needs and for them to listen attentively to the teacher and lastly it should not be too crowded that might affect the learning of the particular students.

4. If I am blessed by God and grant my aspirations in life that is to become a teacher someday. I will do the same and change everything that someday would sum up my classroom into better situation. I will be the one to facilitate in structuring my classroom and letting my students involve in a particular task, I will also organized my room Inorder for my students to learn well and I will put my classroom with complete facilities so that they may feel comfortable and can pay attention to the discussions.

5. Anyway, this subject as my Field Study helps me to learn everything that are necessary for the students as future educators to observe the classrooms conditions, this helps me to become aware that on how to achieve good and effective school environment and that later would give me an idea on how to have a good classroom conducive to learning.

My Personal Illustration of an Effective School Environment

Share, Inspire, And Contribute. What are these? How do they contribute in the learning process? How are these relevant in the learners and the teachers task? Are these three, helpful for the effective school environment? Anyway, these are just the three values that I want to possess soon and to implement to my future students. Each one of us is facing the difficulties and agonies over studies but why we are still conscious in choosing our school to study with even in our primary, secondary and the tertiary which is the college level. Even me, I do the same act. Thats true! Simply because, we want to achieve the quality education that we are seeking for. Quality education that someday will help us to produce a productive and economically free citizens. Wisely, students today are very lucky unlike of the past generations. They do not even have there proper education nor have the well ventilated classroom. I tried to ask myself on how lucky I am because today, everything is equipped with modern technology. Furnishing the learners mind and also even in one enter to the computer key, the informations will be immediately given to us. Thats how amazing the technology is. Anyway, go back to the three values. Firstly, I have mention there the SHARE, which means imparting any interesting stories and lessons inside and outside of the classroom which could be helpful for the interaction between the teacher and the students. Secondly, INSPIRE, which means inspiring the world with the joy and fulfillment as an advocate education someday, and thirdly CONTRIBUTE, which means working towards the betterment of the education in the country. These cannot only be consider as values but rather this could help shaping a new effective school environment. Environment that would provide each of the learners a copy of there implications. As an addition, it is really important that a certain institution must have its own effective environment. As a future educator, i could foresee the things that are highly needed in enhancing ones school environment. It is not just that we are going to depend on others effort but more likely, the preparation is in the teachers and the students too. Inorder to achieve that effective school environment, the teachers must be guided accordingly by restructuring his/her classroom, and let the students involved in the task. We cannot say that a school is neglecting the efficiency of the institution. We all recognized the value of the learning environment to our students ability to learn. Sadly, our teachers are not trained to become interior designers and as such the typical classroom is not the most of conducive of learning spaces. In the same manner, the school must be clean, well- organized, attractive, and it is necessarily that it should be fully air conditioned, much better so if the certain school can afford that but what I am trying to emphasize is that it must be well- ventilated, must have the facilities that will minimize the students murmuring that they are suffering from an extreme heat, crowded, and many other excuses that most likely happened to destruct the students focus on the discussions. These things exist in many schools and universities. I cannot deny the fact that I am one of them already. Lastly, as a future educator, I know and I am aware in myself that an effective learning lies on the how the particular school become effective in doing the better effective environment conducive to learning to gaining process. We will not wait the time; we should start it now by showing a model to ourselves, to others, and the environment. ***