Pedagogical Contents

(Class 11 STEM of Estefania Montemayor National High School)

 1. 1         Teaching methods of the teacher that you observed

In English class for Grade 11 STEM, there are several methods that the teacher uses to teach in the class. The teacher divides the class into several sessions, there are a session to practice students' English skills, then a main material session. In the motivational or the introduction, the teacher urged the students to come up with words that connected to the material. Then for the main material session, the teacher uses the lectures learning method.

1.2          Their learning material and innovation

The material was "Oral Communcation", especially about "Intercultural Communication". In one of the learning activities presenting the idea of intercultural communication, the teacher urges the students to write down a word that relates to the material using a website. The students were writing every word that came up to their minds related to the material and those words then were shown by the television.

1.3          Source of learning technology used by the teachers

The sources of learning materials used in the classroom are books and modules created directly by DepEd. The book has been designed for weekly activities (day 1 to day 5), where each day has different objectives and activities. There are two type of book, Teacher's Guide Book and English Book for Students.

For the tools used by teachers when teaching in class, teachers present material using PowerPoint presentation and use the already available TV on the class to show it to the students. For video material, the teacher uses the TV in the classroom to play video material.

1.4          Authentic Assessment used by the teachers

The assessment used by teachers for students is in the form of practice questions regarding material that has been previously taught by the teacher or continuation of material that will be studied the next day. Then, the assessment given by the teacher is checked together at the next meeting as a form of student understanding or as student preparation before moving on to the next material.