FS 4

Exploring the Curriculum

FIELD STUDY
Episode 2

COME, LETS TALK

Name of FS Student Jolina V. Macaranas
Course Bachelor of Secondary Education Major in Mathematics

Year & Section Math 4-1

Cooperating School Dalandanan National High School

Your Target
At the end of this activity, the students should be able to describe the interaction
pattern that occurs between the teachers and learners as provided in the curriculum.

Your Map
For this process, go through the following steps:
Step 1: Visit a school and observe how the teacher
provides the opportunity to the learners to interact with
one another in doing ones roles.
Step 2: Record how roles are performed by the
teacher and the learners.
Step 3: Make your own documentation of the
dialogue or conversation based on the
observed roles that each one performs which
Step 4: Highlight the aspect of the
dialogue that indicates the teacher as
a role model in developing the values

Your Tools
My Observation Report on Interaction
Name: Jolina V. Macaranas
Year/Course: Math 4-1
Name of the School Observed: Dalandanan National High School
Grade Level: Grade 7
Section: 7-Reverence
Date of Visit: August 23, 2016
Situation: Interaction between the teacher and the learners during discussion
The Dialogue
Student 1: Sir, the answer is 27/36?
Teacher: Is 27/36 is in lowest term?
Student 1: Yes sir.
Teacher: Are you sure?
Student 2: Sir, no.
Teacher: Then what is the lowest term of 27/36?
Student 2: sir.
Teacher: Very good. How did you get the lowest term of 27/36? Explain on the
board.
(The students explain her answer.)
(The teacher writes many examples and let the student answer on the board. The
teacher guides them in answering.)

For this episode, please use the Activity Forms provided for you below.
Personal Reflections on the Dialogue

The teacher provides higher order thinking question that enhance their critical thinking. The
students are actively participating. They keep on trying even though they get an incorrect
answer.

Your Analysis
How important are dialogue and substantive conversation in the classroom in terms of
students learning?
It is very important for the teacher and students interaction. They can easily clarify
misconceptions as well as misunderstandings. It leads to a knowledgeable setting where the
students will learn and the teacher solves the difficulties encountered by his students.

What learning benefits could teachers and students draw from intentional classroom
dialogue?
Through intentional dialogue both of them can learn by understanding each other for
the teacher to evaluate where or which part of the topic the students find difficulties and for
the students to make things clear out with the topic to their teacher. After knowing the
difficulties of his students, he finds a creative way wherein his students can understand the
topic. Thus, formulating another method of teaching, strategies and techniques that will help
him grow to become a more effective and efficient teacher for his students.