FIELD STUDY 3

Episode 1
THE SCHOOLS LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER
Name of FS Student: Michelle M. Labradores
Course: Bachelor of Elementary Education
Resource Teacher: Mrs. Lilibeth L. Maoza
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Cooperating School: Matobato Elementary School

Year & Section: 4-A

Signature:

Target
At the end of this activity, you will be competent in identifying and
classifying resources that facilitate teaching and learning processes.
Map
It will be an interesting journey to the world of educational technology.
A chance to visit and observe a learning resource center of a school will start
you off.
For this process, explore the world through these steps:
Step 1. Visit a schools learning resource center. Look around and see
what
resources and facilities are available inside.
Step 2. Ask the learning resource center in-charge about how some
equipment
or facilities are used.
Step 3. Make an inventory of its available resources and classify them
according
to their characteristics and functions.
Step 4. Write down a brief reflection of your experience.
Tools
As you visit and observe the learning resource center, use activity
forms provided for you to document your observations. Ask the assistance of
the one manning the center courteously.

An Observation Guide for a

LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER
Read the following statements carefully before you observe.
1. Go around the Learning Resource Center.
2. See what learning resources are present.
3. Examine how the materials are arranged and how they are
classified. Are they free from dust and moisture? Are they
arranged for easy access?
4. Look for the guidelines/procedures posted or available for the
users to refer to?
5. Familiarize yourself with the guidelines and procedures. You may
choose to take photos of the center (if allowed).
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After you have observed, classify the resources available in the

learning resource center. Please use the activity form provided for you.
Name of Center Observed: Matobato Elementary School ( School Library )
Date of Observation: August 29, 2016
Name of Observer: Michelle M. Labradores
Course/Year/School: BEED-4A / NwSSU

List of Available Learning Resources

Available Learning Resources
(Enumerate in bullet form)

Characteristics and
Unique Capabilities

Teaching Approaches where

the Resource is Most Useful

1. Print Resources
Books
Magazines
Encyclopedia
Dictionaries

Facts and
meaning of words
can be found.
Some books are
not updated

Used in collecting
data and
information.
Use for research
words and
gathering factual
data.

2. Audio Resources

Speaker and
DVD player

Working
accordingly.

Use for school

programs

3. Non-electronic
Visual Resources
Pictures and
charts

Colorful and
informative that
catches the
interest of the
students.

Use to catch the

interest of the
students and
develop visual
skills.

4. ICT Resources
Computers

Only few units

are working
accordingly.

Impression:

The Matobato Elementary School library contains different informational

books and other learning resources but most of the students are not using
it, so it became useless. But the school teacher are doing their best to make
the room useful as possible as they can.
Name and Signature of Observer: Michelle M. Labradores

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My Analysis
1. Were the learning resources/materials arranged properly according to
their functions and characteristics?
Answer:
As what I have observed, the learning resource are arrange
properly according to their function and characteristics. Since the
library are newly built the tables and chair are not yet available.
2. Do the guidelines and procedures facilitate easy access to the
materials by the teachers? Why? Why not?
Answer:
Since the library is newly built the guidelines and procedures
are not yet facilitated for easy access to the materials by the teachers
but they provide procedures that makes the easy access for most
commonly used materials.

3. What are the strengths of this Learning Resource Center?

Answer:
I think the strength of this learning resource center are the
sufficient number of books they have which are very useful not only for
the teachers but also for the students. Even though, students are not
using it, still they have enough kind of different books such as
encyclopedia which contains different information and they also have
dictionaries and even newspapers and magazines.

4. What are its weaknesses?

Answer:
As what I have observed, the weaknesses of the school is that,
they have the computer facilities in the school but only few teachers
know on how to use this kind of technologies. It is very important that
as a teacher, we all know how to manipulate and use the learning
resource that we have in school.

5. What suggestions can you make?

Answer:
The only thing that I can suggest is, since we are now in 21st
century in which technology play an important part in teaching and
learning process. Technology helps not only teachers but also the
students to make their learning more interesting, the teachers should
also have the knowledge on how to use modern technologies such as
computers. They can must have or attend a seminar for teachers who
are not familiar in using this kind of technology.

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My
Reflection:
The materials in the learning resource that caught my attention as I
first entered the school library is the different kids of encyclopedia and lots of
story books which can be found in their respective bookshelves. The reason why
I am so interested is that, though their library is not yet formal but still they have
a lot of interesting books to read for the students. I see this books as useless
informational book because students do not avail the use of this books which are
really intended for them. Students do not have the opportunity to gather and
learned something from those books that stored in their library.
I can say that I can use computer and operate it, but not confidently,
but still I have the knowledge to operate it properly. I can able to perform different
programs in the computer. But still, I need to learn more on computer concept
most especially on how it can be integrated in the teaching and learning process.
My knowledge in using the computer is not enough for me to share it to my
students. I want to learn more on its application to the school concept and the
appropriate way of teaching the students with regards to the use of computers.

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