Nicarowena B.

Cajimat Facilitating Learner-Centered Teaching BSED-SOCSTUD

(pg. 63) #3. Teachers complain about learners’ preoccupation with electronic gadgets. As a future
teacher, how would you treat this problem as an opportunity for learning?

- Nowadays, Technology is becoming very influential tool in this 21st Century. Because
majority of us, are using technology in our daily living. Especially for the younger
generations they are very in touch or active in using their gadgets most of the time.
That sometimes it become a destruction for them if they use it in the wrong way. But
technology provides great opportunities for making learning more effective for
everyone with their different needs. For us Future Teachers, Technology can also
become an opportunity that can help to improve our teaching skills where we can learn
from a lots of online resources. We can also use this technological tools to enhance the
traditional ways of teaching to be more enjoyable in order to encourage the students to
have an active participation. Thru technology we can also develop some essential skills
for our daily living because Modern Learning is about collaborating with others, to
enhance our critical thinking, to develop different forms of communications, can
develop strategical thinking on how to solve complex problem, to improve productivity
and to be more motivate and encourage.

(pg. 75) #1. Teacher Clariza is a neophyte teacher in a public elementary school. She always
complains about her noisy and unruly pupils. Telling them to keep quiet in a soft manner has not
been effective. Suggest some tips on how she can condition her class to keep still by applying the
Pavlovian and Watsonian Behaviorism theories.

- One of the very challenging part for being a teacher when in terms of discipline the
students. Especially Teacher Clariza is a neophyte Teacher or in other term a new
teacher that has not yet experience in teaching where she is on the process on adjusting
and also learning on applying her profession in reality. Here are some advices/tips that
can help her to condition her class. First, before she starts her class, she will instruct
her pupils that she will give rewards such as candies, chocolates or lollipops for those
pupils who are most behave in class and then she will demonstrate some gestures that
will become the signal for them to be quiet in class. For example, she will clap 1 to 3
times which the first clap means that the pupils will go on their designated seats, for
the second clap everybody should seat still and for the third clap everybody should be
quiet and listen carefully at the teacher. Teacher Clariza should make it as a routine for
the pupils will adapt it and trained to be more behave in classes.