My Teaching Portfolio

A.Y. 2016 - 2017

GAIL D. INUMERABLE
SMA Subdivison
Payapa Galicia III
Mendez, Cavite
gdinumerable@gmail.com
gail.innumerable@dlsozbel.edu.ph
(0917) 8312513
WORK HISTORY

June 2011 present De La Salle Santiago Zobel School

Muntinlupa City
English Language Teacher

June 2010 August 2010 Del Pilar Academy

Imus, Cavite
On-the-Job Training. 1st Shift

August 2010 October 2010 Dasmarias North National

High School
City of Dasmarias
On-the-Job Training, 2nd Shift
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

2013 present De La Salle University-Manila

With units in Master of Arts in Language
Education Major in Second Language Teaching
Graduate

2007-2011 De La Salle University Dasmarinas

Bachelor of Secondary Education
Major in English
Tertiary

2003 2007 St. Augustine School

Mendez, Cavite
Secondary
TRAINING/ SEMINARS ATTENDED

March 24, 2017 Forums on Essential Facts in a Democracy

Dr. Serena Diokno
De La Salle Santiago Zobel School

November 23,2016 Customer Service

Rafael Pacheco
De La Salle Santiago Zobel School

June 2, 2016 Detecting Students with Special Needs

Dr. Ron Resurrection
De La Salle Santiago Zobel School

May 27, 2016 Next Generation Blended Learning

Dr. Miguel Q. Rapatan
De La Salle Santiago Zobel School
TRAINING/ SEMINARS ATTENDED

June 1- 4, 2015 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

by Franklin Covey
De La Salle Zobel School

April 16-17, 2015 FIT: Pupil Power

Xavier School San Juan City

April 23-25, 2014 FIT: Learning at your Fingertips

Conference
Xavier School San Juan City
TRAINING/ SEMINARS ATTENDED

April 1 & 3, 2013 Unpacking Standards and Standards-Based

Assessment and Grading in the K-12 Curriculum
De La Salle Zobel School

December 8, 2012 Improving Literacy Skills

Institute of Social Ateneo De Manila University

May 29 & 31, 2012 Leading Professional Learning Communities

(PLC) in Working to Achieve Higher Levels of
Learning in the Grade School
De La Salle Zobel School
TRAINING/ SEMINARS ATTENDED

May 3-6, 2012 Lasallian Schools Press Conference 2012

De La Salle College of St. Benilde

June 2011 Education Laws

Debbie Decena Auditorium
De La Salle Zobel School

November 19-20, 2010 Understanding by Design: Perspectives

and Challenges
First Cavite Educators Congress 2010
Ugnayang La Salle, De La Salle
University Dasmarias
Learned the UBD framework and the
steps on applying the framework in a
learning plan
TRAINING/ SEMINARS ATTENDED

March 9, 2010 Extraction of Unfathomable Notions

College of Engineering and Architecture
Technology Student Center,
De La Salle University Dasmarias
Informed about the Projective Personality
Test in Psychology

September 30, 2009 Go with the Flow, Effective Questioning and

Responding Techniques for Teachers
College of Engineering and Architecture
Technology Student Center,
De La Salle University Dasmarias
Learned the proper questioning techniques
TRAINING/ SEMINARS ATTENDED

September 16, 2009 Developing you Learners Self-Esteem:

Foundation for Lifetime Success
POLCA Multi-purpose Hall,
De La Salle University Dasmarias
Discovered ways on developing ones self-
esteem

September 5, 2008 Mga Estratehiya Gamit ang Hypermedia sa

Pagkatuto at Pagtuturo ng Wika
Alumni Auditorium,
De La Salle University Dasmarias
Scholarly trained on how to use new media
in the classroom
AWARDS/HONORS

2007-2010 Consistent Deans Lister

College of Education,
De La Salle University Dasmarias

2007 - 2010 Academic Scholar

De La Salle University Dasmarias

2010 Best Practice Teacher

Practice Teaching Program 1st Shift,
1st Semester S.Y. 2010-2011
College of Education,
De La Salle University Dasmarias

2010 Best in Demonstration Teaching

Practice Teaching Program, 2nd Shift,
1st Semester S.Y. 2010-2011
College of Education,
De La Salle University Dasmarias
 My Philosophy of Teaching

I believe that learners have the highest potential

though they have different abilities. They are rational,
emotional, spiritual and social beings. They are all good
and unique. Their environment can be a good
motivating factor for their learning.

I believe that a good and educated person uses

both his reason and emotion. He takes responsibility
for all his words and actions. He acts with sincerity. He
accepts the reality that he is not perfect and can commit
mistakes. He respects and listens to others opinion. He
smiles for the success of others and is will never wish to
put them down just to place himself above them.
 I believe that values should be inculcated in each and
every learner. They must use it in their daily interaction
to other people for them to build good relationships.
Learners should manifest good values for their success
and development as an individual and as a citizen of
their country.

I believe that my primary task as an educator is to give

maximum opportunity for the students to bring out
their highest potentials. I must teach not only the mind
but also the heart, the spirit and the body. I must be a
role model to them and make the classroom a secured
place where love, acceptance, justice, peace, trust and
honesty lives. I must make them realize that what they
learn inside the classroom can be used in the bigger
world outside them.
 I believe that to make my tasks, I must help the
learners master the fundamental skills that will serve as
their foundation to learn the complex skills. I must
provide real-life experiences to them in form of tasks and
explorations. I must relate my lesson in relation to the
present and future situations and also see how the
concepts worked in the past. I must integrate morals in
my lessons for them to be not only a person with great
mind but also with a big heart.
 Procedural Writing
United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA- Philippine DENR
Secretary Ramon Paje announced that the Philippines signed the
Paris Climate Agreement and that the Philippines would be adopting
the agreement. He said- The Philippines, a highly vulnerable
developing nation, with one of the most ambitious targets, has
already taken steps to pursue national actions to address climate
change through its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution or
INDC. To secure a sustainable future, the Philippines is pursuing
value- adding strategies to ensure the provision of ecosystem
services and green growth to address pollution and environmental
degradation.
 Procedural Writing
As such, DENR is tapping you and other young recycling advocates
from DLSZ to spearhead a campaign advertisement to lessen the
amount of waste that pollute the country and present effective
procedural steps to create useful products made from recyclable
materials to raise environmental awareness among the youth and fellow
school mates for them to carry out concrete actions in addressing
climate change. It also aims to continue the mission of the church
through a fundraising activity for charitable work.
During the Lasallian Earth Day celebration, the campaign advertisement
will be presented to the school community. Likewise, the useful products
from recyclable materials will be placed in booths for marketing.
Representatives from DENR and DLSZ will evaluate your useful
products from recyclable materials, effective and creative procedural
steps and campaign advertisement accordingly.
 Procedural Writing

Language Task - Write an effective and creative procedure of 5-7

steps on how to make the useful products made from recyclable
materials. The procedure will be evaluated based on the
following: appropriateness and clarity of steps, organization,
sentence structure and mechanics.
Descriptive Writing
 Descriptive Writing
Nowadays, people look for something unique when choosing a travel
destination. Travelers want to experience different cultures, interact with
nature and develop a sense of community as added features to their
itinerary. As a young Lasallian travel blogger who cares for the Earth,
you were assigned to come up with a Travel Blog about the community
that uses different alternative energy sources. Your blog should contain
descriptive paragraphs that accurately depict the uniqueness, creativity
and resourcefulness of the community, highlighting the beauty and
benefits of utilizing non-conventional sources of energy. Your piece will
be featured in different travel websites that are accessible to
conservationists of all ages. Your blog (composed of ample descriptive
paragraphs) will be evaluated based on Content/Creativity, Use of
Sensory Details/Adjectives, Organization/Unity, Use of Varied Sentence
Patterns, Sentence Construction/Grammar and Writing Mechanics.
 Letter Writing
As a response to the Lasallian Mission of promoting relevant and
progressive learning to transform the society, the School Counseling
Office introduced the Career Week program that enables the students
to be goal-directed towards their career paths. One of the activities
that has helped students be acquainted with different work fields was
the recently held Alternative Learning Experience in Kidzania. To
sustain motivation towards their ambition, a letter writing activity,
entitled, Dear Idol, I Want To Be You, has been launched. Your
counselor tasked you to write a personal letter to a person in your
chosen field of work whom you have always admired. Tell him/her the
experiences that you had in Kidzania that made you realize that you
want to pursue that field too. You may also include questions that
you have always wanted to ask. Before sending the letter, your
counselor and your Language teacher, will check on the following:
content/focus, grammar, organization, letter format and mechanics.
 Looking Back
And
Moving Forward
 They say that some people are born to be
teachers, and I believe, I am one. Since I was
young, I have already envisioned myself to
become a teacher. Before it used to be a role
play in the afternoon with my younger
cousins, but now, I have just finished my 6th
Academic Year in De La Salle Zobel and I will
continuously teach minds, touch hearts, and
transform lives as a Grade 5 Language
Teacher.
 Many would think that a new and
young part of the profession could
have easily adjusted in the educational
revolution that has changed not only
the Philippine Educational System, but
the entire teaching-learning process,
but, in reality, it is a continuous cycle
of successes, challenges and some
bumps along the journey.
 When I started in the field in 2011, I would
definitely admit that I was the typical new teacher
who has a lot of ideas in mind and would just want
to make things happen. Although I have shunned
the usual teacher talk by providing teacher-made
board games, using creatively designed
presentations, designing a variety of worksheet,
and by letting the class answer online exercises
once in a while, I had realized that there was a gap
between me and my students. There were moments
of frustration that even if I knew that I had
prepared something new for them using the
available resources back then, but I felt they were
expecting more from me and the subject.
 This could be accounted for what Prensky (2001) has
posited whether or not teachers who are digital
immigrants are ready to teach the generation in the
21st century who are digital natives who are more
comfortable with technology using it in their life with a
variety of purposes such as communicating with
friends, gaming, and listening to music. Moreover, it has
been and will always be a challenge for me to keep the
learners challenged since they have been using the
language not just only in school but also in their homes
and in daily transactions in their respective
communities. The tendency for them to be bored and
unmotivated is higher since they might perceive that
they know a lot about the language already
 Truly, students' attitudes and prejudices affect the
way they engage in class. This unfilled space did not
make me stop pushing myself to accept challenges that
would enable me to augment the changes that both

teachers and learners face.

 With the situation I was facing, I took the opportunity
to teach with the use of the Mobile Learning Device, the
iPad, in 2013. Probably, the noticeable convenience the
gadget has brought was to make primary learning
materials such as books handy through their digital
versions (e-book). Worksheets were in PDF files, thus
there were less papers being printed. At first, the use of
the mobile learning was for substitution of traditional
class materials. However, as time passed by, the use of
the mobile learning device became more than just a tool
for convenience. It has been an integral and vital part of
language learning itself. Students became more excited
and involved in class activities. If board games were
provided though improvised paper before, now they can
play it through their iPads.
 I personally designed a more visually appealing
board game for the students to converse among
themselves using different kinds of sentences according
to purpose. In addition, the dice that I usually provide
was already replaced by Classroom Dice. This is an
evidence that with the use of technology, communicative
competence could also be developed. Learners
unconsciously apply sentence construction skills and
become more open and responsive while
communicating to others. Grammar concepts could
also be easily fortified with songs, video presentations,
Nearpod exercises, self-paced online exercises, and
authentic materials such as blogs, signages and other
texts that will show how language works in real life. With
the ease in the access of materials, students could
visualize the strong connection between the academe
and the world outside.
 Due to the fact that 21st learners should be able to
communicate their ideas effectively through different
mediums, the integration of technology could provide
students with a variety of choices where they can be
able to convey their thoughts. Padlet is one effective
application where students can be able to voice out
their opinion and since it is real time, the teacher can
also check on address misconceptions that students
have immediately. Moreover, learners can also express
grammar concepts through Popplet where they can
also see connections in a personally created mind
maps. To simulate oral language in its everyday use,
Comic Headlite is used.
 Learners, usually in groups, are asked to apply
grammatical concepts by creating comic strips.
Their works are presented and processed in such
a way that they could be able to distinguish the
difference between oral and written discourses to
also improve their academic writing skills. On the
other hand, oral presentation have also been
easier and less stressful for the learners since
they are aided by Keynote presentations. This
boosts their confidence and prepares them in
actual work environment.
 Performance Tasks which is the core of 21st
century learning have been scaffolded successfully
through process writing approach blended with face-to-
face and online activities. Let me share how writing
process approach is implemented in a way that both
writing and technical skills are developed. When the
students had Procedural Writing, specifically writing a
recipe of a traditional Filipino dessert or delicacy, the
pre-writing task involved watching of an instructional
video of their assigned food (with no audio). To ensure
the quality of the videos that they are going to watch, all
videos can only be accessed in a teacher-designed
website created through Weebly during school hours.
After which, papers for the first draft and the second
draft were given to students based on their pacing.
 Self, Peer, and Teacher editing also aided in the
process writing which is made easier through checklists
and editing guides. From their drafts written on paper,
they were able to create recipe cards that they soon
tried in their HELE class and at home. In the same
token, the skills in written and electronic
correspondence are both enhanced through the use of
technology. Just recently, many apps were utilized to
scaffold letter writing like Popcarte, a postcard
generator app, and Pocket Lite, a letter generator app.
This prepared the students to write their handwritten
letters which they have also presented through Pic
Collage, so they can have a chance to show their work
through e-mail to those recipients who are far from
them.
 Integrating technology to the teaching-learning
process also helps in classroom management. Students
can develop their skills in managing their time in
accomplishing activities through Classroom Timer.
Thus, students become more productive. Student
participation could also be increased through name
and group selector. As experienced, at first I thought
student would be afraid and they will be more shy to
answer if they would see their names and class
numbers on the screen, but otherwise happened. As a
matter of fact, they took it positively.
 They were always on their toes and got used to
the practice that they were the ones who were
suggesting to use it in class. Hence, they
unconsciously develop in themselves the ability to
express themselves more spontaneously.
 I could say that with the integration of
technology, the learners become more engaged into
language learning. I have truly ignited their spirit in
learning. I have kept my students and myself
challenged and motivated. But I admit, there are still
so much to improve on and the first step to
progress is to take challenges and risks. In taking
challenges and risks, we discover something new....
something better and with this discovery, we could
be able to offer a better experience to students
which they will remember even after school. As the
saying goes, they will forget facts, definitions, and
equations, but they will never forget the way you
make them feel.
 To end, I want to quote some lines from the
One La Salle Prayer, "Today I start the change
I want to see. Even if Im not the light, I can be
the spark." As educators, may we all start a
spark within us, so our students will be able to
ignite in them a fire that will light our future.