Bring home Exam in Literature:

1.       Discuss how modelling and scaffolding affect in the child’s learning process.

The number one concern in the teaching is always to the students itself. Teachers use different strategies and methods for the learning to become effective and productive, enough for them to say that there is learning happening inside the classroom. As future teachers we must be capable of learning different strategies and know the best way of teaching much more in the new generation that constantly changes as time goes by.

Scaffolding as well as modelling are two important ways in teaching that teachers must understand and able to use it effectively inside and outside the learning zone. When we say scaffolding it is not about doing the task for the students while they are watching, but it is all about the assistance given by the teacher to the child for the learning to occur effectively. It’s not about giving all the responsibility to the student, but it is all about guiding them and letting then learn by their own for a more creative and cooperative learning between the student and the teacher. It has a gigantic impact on the child’s learning process because the way teachers handle this strategy has something to do with learning. It must be that scaffolding should be used in a cooperative manner for the student to understand the lesson better. The concern of letting the student understand is our primary goal learning through a step by step procedure can affect the child’s learning capability.

Modelling in the other is different from scaffolding. However, using this strategy can also affect the learning process of the child. Learning occurs through dependence of the students to the information given by the teacher. All the things taught by the teacher are absorbed by the student affecting the learning of the child. The child’s learning process is dependent on the teacher’s instruction. On the other hand scaffolding gives the opportunity of letting the child learn by its own with the guidance of the teacher that constantly gives the students the opportunity of exercising their cognitive skills.

2.       Construct a concept map showing the advantages and disadvantages of the transmission approach in teaching literature. Limit each to 4 entries.

1.    Create your own motivational strategy showing the use of student-centered theory to introduce a topic in Literature.

Level of the Students: 4^th yr High School

Topic: Scarlet Letter

Motivational Strategy:  Group Continuous Silent Drama

Personnels: Teacher and the Students

Instruction:

    Fourth year students with population of 50 is grouped into 5 groups with 10 members. The teacher then gives the instruction by giving a situation and the students then are required to create a storyline by continuing the scenario given by the teacher. This is an impromptu presentation in short there is no time for your students to prepare. The twist is that it is a pantomime presentation and the students must able to connect it effectively. Each of the students is then given 2 minutes to dramatize their situation. The presentation must not be choppy and the act must be continuous. Students that would portray best are given point incentives. This is one way of making the class alive and to catch their attention for the next lesson.

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Vygotsky's Principle of Social Constructivism

The Zone of Proximal Development can serve as a guide for curricular and lesson planning.  
        Lev Vygotsky defined the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) as the difference between what a learner can do without help and what he or she can do with help and as mentioned  the distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance, or in collaboration with more capable peer. It serves as a guide in the sense that our main concern in making our lesson plan particularly in curricular guidance is our students. By guiding them through the process of scaffolding we can create a more effective classroom environment as well as were to start and are the primary concerns needed by the learners. Through ZPD learning will become easy and accessible to the students through knowing their levels in specific lesson or subject .
  Out-of-school experiences should be related to the child's school experience.
           Co-curricular as well as extra-curricular activities must be related in the teaching learning process. Social context as well as learning inside the classroom must coincide for the learner to acquire knowledge effectively.  Through the help of social experiences, the learner can directly determine the importance of learning and its contribution to one's life.
      

My Philosophy as an Educator

       

          Education is an unending process that provides connection and solution to every societal problem. From the day we are born till the last breath that we give out, learning is still present. Hence, it is a process because we learn through a step by step procedure acquiring knowledge to every mistake and success we take. Education is not only available in schools or inside the classroom, it is indeed present from the time we wake until the time we go back to sleep. We acquire things through first hand experiences, that life particularly the things that we usually do has great effect on the process.Life can never be called as life without education which involves a lifetime process.

       Moreover, education provides connection. Learning from one to another builds strong foundation that enables individual to create new ideas on specific context. The teaching-learning process is absent without connection. We try to connect things and learn new discoveries in linking one idea to another. Making education a smooth sailing vehicle of connecting past from present situations that creates better solution to problems much more to our society as a whole. That it is the nature of education to connect things for better understanding on how it is being executed.

       We continue to live and solve our problems through learning. The lifetime process that we continually take connects and creates better solution to our societies recent faced problem. It serves as the hope that motivates us to strive for the best. Therefore, its clear that education continually changes because of the endless process that it possesses.We study and go to school to graduate from our chosen career and eventually land a job. This is also one way of saying that we do this to solve the problem of poverty, hunger, ignorance and discrimination which are the often disease of our society today. Education stands for itself in breaking new grounds moving straight forward for the development of human endeavor.

                Let us therefore place education as the primary solution to our problem, whether you are rich or poor, well-known or ordinary, that we delve in to every situation that serves as our learning ground and forsee mistakes as the challenge in connecting recent from past experiences. That we can surely define education as the process of connecting, learning and yearning solution to every societal problem.