Lesson 8 Teaching with Contrived Experiences

                   We teach through a re-arrangement of the raw reality: a specimen, a manageable sample of a whole when the direct experience cannot be used properly in its natural setting. Contrived experiences are those which are designed and arranged closely resembling direct experiences. It is not always possible to let a student have a direct experience of all things; some contrivances such as laboratory experiments, working models, etc. are very useful. Contrary to belief, contrived experiences are usually better than direct experiences. This is because models are made less complex, see-through as also easier and safer to operate.
                     Contrived experience is use to overcome limitations of space and time,to edit reality to focus on parts or a process of a system that intent to study, to overcome difficulties of size, to understand the inaccessible and help the learners understand abstraction.


                           

                 The teacher use simulations and games to make their class interactive and to develop the decision-making skills and knowledge construction skills of their  students.

Lesson 7 Direct, Purposeful Experiences and Beyond

                        From the rich experiences that our senses bring, we construct the ideas, the concepts, the generalizations that give meaning and order to our lives.Whatever skills or concepts we have did not come out of the blue. We spent hours doing the activity by ourselves in order to acquire the skill.

Is a complex, integrated process involving people, procedures, ideas, devices, and organization for analyzing problems and devising, implementing, evaluating, and managing solution to those problems, involved in all aspects of human learning. Is a very board item. It is the application of scientific findings in our method, process or procedure of working in the field trip of education in order to effect learning. It embraces curriculum and instructional design, learning environment, theories of teaching-learning. It is also a filed study and a profession. It is the use of all human inventions for teachers to realize their mission to teach in order that students learn.

                               


 This are experiences we first encounter in our lives, we learn it by doing, and it became our foundation or based in our learning. In this experience, were we give meaning of what we see or hear and feel. It involves our senses that helps us to construct our own ideas or concept of the things or happenings we experienced.

Lesson 6 Using and Evaluating Instructional Materials

                                                      Using and Evaluating Instructional Materials

                                One of the instructional materials used to attain instructional objectives is field trip.It is enough to bring the class out for a field trip and make them observe anything or everything or use other instructional materials for no preparation and clear reason at all.
                               There have a three Selections of Materials such as Do the materials give a true picture of the ideas they present? Do the materials contribute meaningful content to the topic under study? Is the material appropriate for the age, intelligence, and, experiences of the learners.

                             Instructional materials shall be evaluated and selected according to specified procedures by qualified certified staff to ensure that the materials in the educational structure support the curriculum and meet the diverse needs of students. The instructional materials selected must be age and grade appropriate and must contribute to, and be aligned with, the curriculum and competencies.

                                   

Instructional staff shall consider the following factors in the selection evaluation and use of instructional materials:

• Directly support student achievement

• Impact on instructional time

• Authenticity

• Age/grade appropriateness