Friday, June 24, 2016

Lesson Plan: Senior High School. TVL, Home Economics, (Week 1, Session 2)

Theme: Who am I as a Senior High School learner?

I. OBJECTIVES

A. Content Standards
B. Performance Standards:
C. Learning Competencies/Objectives
(Write the LC code for each)

Objectives:
At the end of the session, the learners are expected to:
1. respond to questions about themselves and their expectations for Senior High School
2. work with a group by sharing one's responses to given questions
3. collaborate with a group to present a group output

II. CONTENT:
I am a Senior High School Learner

III. LEARNING RESOURCES

A. References
1. Teacher's Guide pages
2. Learner's Material pages
3. Textbook pages
4. Additional Materials from Learning Resource (LR) portal

B. Other Learning Resources

IV. PROCEDURES
a. Reviewing previous lesson or presenting the new lesson

(2 mins)
Teacher welcomes the class and introduces herself .
" Good morning everyone! Welcome to San Miguel National High School, Senior High School! I will be your adviser and subject teacher for Beauty Care Nail Care. My name is Rica Brosa. (Write your name on the board to make sure they spell your name correctly) I am a Senior High School Teacher teaching in Technical Vocational Track (TVL) major in Home Economics. I have National Certificates for Nail Care, Hair Dressing, Housekeeping and Bread and Pastry. I have been teaching Nail Care for 5 years now and I am happy to be assigned as your Nail Care teacher. I am also your teacher in "English for Academic and Professional Purposes" and I am also confident to teach you that because I have 2 years experience in teaching Japanese, Chinese and Korean students. I also took up Masters of Art in teaching English and now ready to teach you.

Since I am done introducing myself may I also hear you introduce yourselves?

b. Establishing the purpose of the lesson:

1. From list below, teacher chooses one or two questions for the class to answer. Subject teachers coordinate with each other so that there will be no duplication of questions used in class.

a. What object best represents you?( I chose this question)
b. What excites you about SHS?
c. What makes you nervous about SHS?
d. What age will you be 10 years from now?
i. How would you look like?
ii. What would you be doing?
iii. Where would you like to be working?
e. What do you know about Senior High School?
i. How is it different from junior High School?
ii. How do you think Senior High School can help you achieve your goals and ambition?
f. What are your three positive personal qualities or traits?
g. What are two not-so-positive characteristics that you have?
h. What are the three correct, good or wise choices that you have made in JHS? What were the effect of those actions?

2. Teacher asks learners to bring out a piece of paper and be ready with a pen.
3. Teacher says: "Let's get to know a little bit about each other today." You are going to think of an object that best represent you."

C. Presenting examples/ instances of the new lesson

"Hello, my name is ______________. The object that best represents me is a/an ____________________ because.

Example: Hello, my name is Ana. The object that best represents me is a candle. Just like a candle I can light up other peoples' life with my positive attitude. I am a very friendly and helpful person and I am looking forward to meeting new friends here in Senior High School.

D. Discussing new concepts and practicing new skills
(30 mins)
1. Learners are asked to think of their responses and write them down.
2. After they have written their responses, the teacher will ask them to group themselves into at most five members. Groups assign a leader and someone to document the activity.
3. Group members share their responses

Learners may also be asked to present their work in front of the class!

Happy Day one!!!!! Teacher Rica

Note: Picture was taken before pandemic. :)

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Saturday, June 18, 2016

Study Habits of Highly Effective Students

10 Habits of Highly Effective Students

The key to becoming an effective student is learning how to study smarter, not harder. This becomes more and more true as you advance in your education. An hour or two of studying a day is usually sufficient to make it through high school with satisfactory grades, but when college arrives, there aren't enough hours in the day to get all your studying in if you don't know how to study smarter.

While some students are able to breeze through school with minimal effort, this is the exception. The vast majority of successful students achieve their success by developing and applying effective study habits. The following are the top 10 study habits employed by highly successful students. So if you want to become a succesful student, don't get discouraged, don't give up, just work to develop each of the study habits below and you'll see your grades go up, your knowledge increase, and your ability to learn and assimilate information improve.

1. Don't attempt to cram all your studying into one session.

Ever find yourself up late at night expending more energy trying to keep your eyelids open than you are studying? If so, it's time for a change. Successful students typically space their work out over shorter periods of time and rarely try to cram all of their studying into just one or two sessions. If you want to become a successful student then you need to learn to be consistent in your studies and to have regular, yet shorter, study periods.

2. Plan when you're going to study.

Successful students schedule specific times throughout the week when they are going to study -- and then they stick with their schedule. Students who study sporadically and whimsically typically do not perform as well as students who have a set study schedule. Even if you're all caught up with your studies, creating a weekly routine, where you set aside a period of time a few days a week, to review your courses will ensure you develop habits that will enable you to succeed in your education long term.

3. Study at the same time.

Not only is it important that you plan when you're going to study, it's important you create a consistent, daily study routine. When you study at the same time each day and each week, you're studying will become a regular part of your life. You'll be mentally and emotionally more prepared for each study session and each study session will become more productive. If you have to change your schedule from time to time due to unexpected events, that's okay, but get back on your routine as soon as the event has passed.

4. Each study time should have a specific goal.

Simply studying without direction is not effective. You need to know exactly what you need to accomplish during each study session. Before you start studying, set a study session goal that supports your overall academic goal (i.e. memorize 30 vocabulary words in order to ace the vocabulary section on an upcoming Spanish test.)

5. Never procrasitinate your planned study session.

It's very easy, and common, to put off your study session because of lack of interest in the subject, because you have other things you need to get done, or just because the assignment is hard. Successful students DO NOT procrastinate studying. If you procrastinate your study session, your studying will become much less effective and you may not get everything accomplished that you need to. Procrastination also leads to rushing, and rushing is the number one cause of errors.

6. Start with the most difficult subject first.

As your most diffult assignment or subject will require the most effort and mental energy, you should start with it first. Once you've completed the most difficult work, it will be much easier to complete the rest of your work. Believe it or not, starting with the most difficult subject will greatly improve the effectiveness of your study sessions, and your academic performance.

7. Always review your notes before starting an assigment.

Obviously, before you can review your notes you must first have notes to review. Always make sure to take good notes in class. Before you start each study session, and before you start a particular assignment, review your notes thoroughly to make sure you know how to complete the assignment correctly. Reviewing your notes before each study session will help you remember important subject matter learned during the day, and make sure studying targeted and effective.

8. Make sure you're not distracted while you're studying.

Everyone gets distracted by something. Maybe it's the TV. Or your family. Or maybe it's too quite. Some people actually study better with a little background noise. When you're distracted while you're studying you (1) loose your train of thought and (2) you're unable to focus -- both of which will lead to very ineffective studying. Before you start studying find a place where you won't be disturbed or distracted. Some people this is a quite cubical in the recesses of the library.

9. Use study groups effectively.

Ever heard the phrase "two heads are better than one"? Well this can be especially true when it comes to studying. Working in groups enables you to (1) get help from others when you're struggling to understand a concept, (2) complete assignments more quickly, and (3) teach others whereby helping both the other students and yourselve to internalize the subject matter. However, study groups can become very ineffective if they're not structured and if groups members come unprepared. Effective students use study groups effectively.

10. Review your notes, schoolwork and other class materials over the weekend.

Successful students review what they've learned during the week over the weekend. This way they're well prepared to continue learning new concepts that build upon previous coursework and knowledge acquired the previous week.

We're confident that if you'll develop the habits outlined above that you'll see a major improvement in your academic success.

Reference:

http://www.educationcorner.com/habits-of-successful-students.html

Lesson Plan: Senior High School Daily Lesson Log in H.E. Beauty Care (Session 1)

Theme: Who am I as a Senior High School learner?

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

First day of school headaches!

I always get migraine when I experience failed expectation... On the very first day of school I experienced one of the worst migraine ever...Senior High School is a failure...Every now and then I watch and hear news about how successful the implementation of Senior High School is. Yet have they gone to some baranggay high school or in some island high school where it is a perfect failure??? Do they know that some SHS has no teachers? Do they know that some SHS has no building to accommodate the students yet?There are no available equipment for students taking Tech-Voc... There are no chairs,tables or black board in the temporary teaching SHS location. Very few teachers are available and they don't have curriculum guide for the assigned teaching load,no modules and no teaching guide! Is Deped really Senior High School ready???

Friday, June 10, 2016

Education by Pragmateacher

Hi everyone! I created this blog page so I could write everything about education. Blogs here shall include tutorials on different task of a teacher and also different thoughts on education issues. I hope that my blogs would benefit our future teachers! Be proud to be an effective teacher!