Curriculum

Contextualized learning activities

Learning Experiences

Recommended Learning Activities

Student Achievement

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“ Student preferentially take in and process information in different ways: by seeing and

hearing, reflecting and acting, reasoning logically and intuitively, analyzing and

visualizing, steadily and in fits and starts.”

By Richard Felder www4.ncsu.edu

As a Teacher ? •What criteria do I use when designing learning experiences for my students? •How do I use those criteria when evaluating students learning experiences? •To what extent are students aware of, and use, those criteria themselves?

Every student should be entitled to “air-time” in the classroom.

•Ex. Math class. ( 5th grade math )

• As a teacher we can incorporate game while teaching the subject with of course the same content of what we are teaching. •The 5th grade math games focus on several important topics such as adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals and fractions, investigating algebraic expressions, computing area and volume of simple geometric figures, understanding the meaning of congruent geometric shapes and the relationship of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, and using percentages and circle graphs to interpret statistical data. It depends whether your teaching online or in the classroom setting. •Ex. Of Math Games from • http://www.math-play.com •Adding Decimals Basketball Game •Making 24 - The Game of Numbers •We can also use technology such as computers, tablets, and other gadgets with supervision to get learners attention and let them engage in the subject.

Student got very little interest in Math subject.

Introduce learning by exploring and playing.

Students or learners who are too shy or timid in collaborative learning.

Do an activity that promotes cooperation and fair judging.

•In a Biology class, we can group the students randomly and work on a project. Example give them a topic like “The life cycle of a plant.”

Group the students and ask each student in a group to participate and each student should explain in the class what they do and what they have learned from it. Have a question and answer portion where each individual student can participate. After the group presentation, we can reward the student fairly like giving each student a small token for participating. We can give sandwich or anything depending on the teacher’s motivation.

•By giving each student the opportunity to speak and interact with their classmates and teacher, it will help them gain confidence that they can do something and they are important in the overall group project. •The reward and recognition would boost their morale that their effort is not in vain. But it should always be done fairly so that students would not feel less than their classmates.

Students who have different religious and cultural orientation and practices.

Have an activity which promotes unity in diversity context like UN Day, Festivals and etc.

•By doing activities in the school like the celebration of United Nations Day or week, promotes unity among nations with different cultural and religious backgrounds. This will enable students to be culturally aware that we are living in a diverse global community and we need to respect all races regardless of our differences in cultures and religions. Examples.

We can have a parade with students wearing their national costumes and promoting and showcasing their heritage. We can also have bazaars and set-up a stalls representing cultures of different countries. Students can display and sell products from their native lands. Examples are native cuisines and native products from their country. One way also is to conduct an exhibit of various arts from different countries. Another is a knowledge campaigns and awareness talks facilitated by both teachers and students with various religions and backgrounds.

•These activities and the like can provide students and learners an opportunity to embrace their cultural heritage and will give them a sense of belonging and a niche in the global community. •This will provide an airtime for various cultural groups to showcase their abilities, talents and skills which are very important in empowering them not just as a student but as an individual as well. •These activities does not only provide an outlet for learning but also awareness of the challenges of other cultures are facing and what can we do to be involve and help them. •Having this activities in school can increase the students perspective of the world around him and how they can interact with respect with other students from different cultural backgrounds.

Providing proper airtime for each student and learner would give

them freedom to express themselves and therefore would let them attain learning as it’s best. No man is an island and GOD created

us with different skills and capabilities that should be honed so

that we can achieve our highest potential as a person and as part of

a community.

Credits: Google cliparts, stockphotos, canstock, google search, www4.ncsu.edu (Richard Felder) and http://www.math-play.com Presented by: Jasmin Rael Sibayan