The School for the Learners

Learning Experience 1 opens an interesting door for you to enter and gaze at the bigger
world for the learners, the school! As the teacher converts the classroom to become an
environment for active learning for his/her class, the school head, together with all the
other personnel, organizes the school to provide other program facilities and resources
that will support the development of the learners. This is what you will aim to do in this
episode i.e. discover these school program resources for supporting learners'
developmental needs.

Prepares FS 1 Students for PPST: Your Intended Learning Outcome:

Domain: Learning environment Advocate school programs for addressing

learner's developmental needs
Strand: Support for learner participation
promotion purposive learning

Your Experiential Task Your Reflection Trigger

1.1 Exposure
Sketching the map of a school showing
its structures

1.2 Participation
Getting acquainted with the facilities and
resources of the school

1.3 Identification
Determining the purpose of the school
facilities and resources for learner How can the school support the
development development of learners?

1.4 Internalization
Identifying the challenges of the school. in
providing more opportunities for
development
1.5 Dissemination
Preparing an ideal profile of a school that
can meet the physical, social, emotional,
and intellectual needs of learners
1.1 EXPOSURE
Sketching the map of a school showing its structure

An Initial activity for FS students is to become more or less familiar with the school they
are assigned to. With the school head's permission, go around the school with a partner,
and see for yourselves the different buildings or structures inside the school perimeter.
Try to approximate the shape of the school area in your writing pad. It may not be a
perfect rectangle but an irregular one. Situate each structure you locate inside the
school perimeter using shapes and number each one for identification in your aerial
map. Note that a building is single detached, i.e. not connected to another structure and
which may contain more than one room. Locate the entrance of the school in your map.
(See the sample map.)
1.4 INTERNALIZATION
Identifying the challenges of the school in providing more opportunities for development

 You have identified the facilities and resources of your school. What other
facilities and resources do you think are needed for other development programs

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 What aspects or development domains can you suggest as needing attention by

the school? What programs can be suggested?

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 The Classroom for Learning
Learning Experience 2 now brings you face-to-face with the actual world of learning for
the basic education of children. As you have experienced as a young learner, the
classroom serves as your home in the school. Here is where the learners are exposed
to strategies that can effectively nurture the developmental stage they are in. LE 2 then
focuses on the classroom structure and displays used by teachers. Observe how a
teacher structures a classroom in order to promote active learning for the
developmental level of his/her students.

Prepares FS 1 Students for PPST: Your Intended Learning Outcome:

Domain: Learning environment Recommend am appropriate classroom

structure and display for promoting
Strand: Management of classroom learning.
structure and activities
Support for learner participation
Promotion of purposive learning

Your Experiential Task Your Reflection Trigger

2.1 Exposure
Observing features of two classrooms of
different grade levels

2.2 Participation
Recognizing differences in the structure
and display of classrooms of two different How should a classroom be structured to
levels Identification enhance learning?

2.3 Identification
Identifying the purpose of the resources
found in the classroom.

2.4 Internalization
Matching the classroom resources with
the learner characteristics
2.5 Dissemination
Designing an ideal classroom structure
that can promote active learning for a
given developmental stage
2.1 EXPOSURE

Observing features of two classrooms of different grade levels

Arrange with your cooperating school to allow you to observe two classrooms of two
different levels (e.g. BEEd-Kinder or Grade One and Grade V or VI: for BSEd Grade 7
and Grade 10). Using the Classroom Resources Checklist below, note down the
features/displays found in each classroom. Separate your observation notes for the two
classrooms. Check the YES column if present or available in the classroom.

Classroom Resources Checklist

Classroom 1 Classroom 2
Grade: _______ Room: ____ Grade: _______ Room: ____
No. of Children: ____ Boys __ Girls __ No. of Children: ____ Boys __ Girls __

FURNITURE How Many? FURNITURE How Many?

• Learners' desks Yes __ • Learners' desks Yes __
• Teacher's table Yes __ • Teacher's table Yes __
• Book cabinets Yes __ • Book cabinets Yes __
• Bookshelves Yes __ • Bookshelves Yes __
• Learners' lockers Yes __ • Learners' lockers Yes __
• Teacher's locker Yes __ • Teacher's locker Yes __
• Others • Others
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Location Location
DISPLAYS (Left, Right, DISPLAYS (Left, Right,
Front, Back) Front, Back)
• Visuals for new Yes __ • Visuals for new Yes __
or current lesson Yes __ or current lesson Yes __
• Learners' artworks Yes __ • Learners' artworks Yes __
• Honor Roll Yes __ • Honor Roll Yes __
• Group tasks/ Yes __ • Group tasks/ Yes __
Responsibilities Yes __ Responsibilities Yes __
• Attendance Yes __ • Attendance Yes __
• Experiments Yes __ • Experiments Yes __
• Projects • Projects
• Rules & Standards • Rules & Standards
• Others • Others
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2.2 PARTICIPATION

Recognizing differences in the structure and display of classrooms used by two different
levels

Study well your notes for the two classrooms and answer the questions that follow.

1. What resources are available in both classrooms? Write those common resources in
the matrix.

Common Resources

• FURNITURE

• DISPLAYS

• TEACHING AIDS

2. What resources are exclusively found only in one classroom?

RESOURCES Classroom 1 (Lower Grade) Classroom 2 (Upper Grade)

• FURNITURE

• DISPLAYS

• TEACHING AIDS
3. How will you differentiate the resources found in the two classrooms in terms of type,
size, arrangement, color, number, or location?

Classroom 1 (Lower Grade) Classroom 2 (Upper Grade)

• FURNITURE

• DISPLAYS

• TEACHING AIDS

4. What could have significantly made the type of resources in the two classrooms
different?

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2.3 IDENTIFICATION
Identifying the purpose of the resources found in the classroom

You have identified the resources found in the two classrooms, particularly the
classroom displays. Based on what you have learned before in your professional
education course, give a possible reason for putting on the various displays in a
classroom for a beginning grade and for an upper grade. Do the two classrooms share
the same purpose or reason for the displays? You may consult the teacher in the room
to specify the purpose.

Classroom Display Classroom 1 (Beginning Grade) Classroom 2 (Upper Grade)

1. Materials for new
lesson

2. Model artworks

3. Honor Roll

4. Group Tasks/
Assignment/
Responsibilities

5. Student projects/
experiments

6. Exemplary learners'
written output

7. Supplementary books
and other materials

8. Rules and standards

for class to follow

• Do the two classrooms always share the same purposes or reasons for having those
displays? What could be the reason why they vary?

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2.5 DISSEMINATION

Designing an ideal classroom structure that can promote active learning for a given
developmental stage

Based on the observations you have made of classrooms in your school, reflect
on what can be an ideal classroom that can promote active learning for a given grade.

• Write a narrative of your idea of a classroom for a grade level of your choice. Given
the characteristics of your learners, describe what the classroom should have and what
activities you can make them do inside this classroom.

Growth Portfolio Entry No.2-A

My Idea of a Classroom for Grade _____

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• Sketch the interior of your dream classroom that will show the pieces of furniture,
various displays, and teaching aids. Consider a floor plan that will allow for collaborative
work and other group activities.

Growth Portfolio Entry No.2-8

My Ideal Classroom for Grade ______

2.4 INTERNALIZATION
Matching the classroom resources with the learner characteristics
• Given the physical, social, and intellectual characteristics you have learned of lower-
grade learners, how do you describe or characterize the resources that must be found
in their classroom?

Basic Resources of Suggested Characteristics/Descriptions/Contents

Classrooms
1. Learners' desks

2. Bulletin boards

3. Books

4. Learning kits

5. Learning stations

6. Play materials

7. Musical devices

8. Others

• Given the physical, social, emotional, and cognitive/intellectual characteristics of

upper-grade learners, what activities will interest them to carry out inside or outside their
classroom? What classroom resources should be available to carry these out?
Interesting Activities for Upper-Grade Learners Useful Resources
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