Howthe training improved their teaching skills
Music plays a huge part in how Eliza Mangabat Roque teaches English to the Grade 10 students of Angeles City National High School in Pampanga. Through this teaching strategy, Roque was able to engage the students in class through an activity that they all love doing.
Teaching the new generation of students these days is all about engaging them in various classroom activities, according to Roque.
“The strategies given to us were patterned after the youth of today so the students liked them a lot. For example, apart from music, I make use of dialogues from famous movies that students watch so they can all relate to the subject. So far, using all these strategies has been effective as I’ve noticed that students’ participation and engagement improved significantly.”
For the have Daisy school’s shorter Budomo, current attention the crop spans and are more attuned to mobile technology and social media. teacher of students, who are considered digital natives (Generation Z) and
Budomo teaches English to Grade 7 students in Fernando Airbase National High School in Lipa City, Batangas.
“At first, I thought I did not need any training anymore because I’ve been teaching for so many years already. But when we were there, I was proven wrong. I realized that I still need to learn more, especially now that we are dealing with a different generation of students. The tra-ditional
teaching methods need to be upgraded to new ones.” Budomo said her students now prepare PowerPoint presentations and make simple docu-mentaries
related to the subject that they present to the class using television.
Marian Maliwat is a Master Teacher 1 at Biñan Elementary School, teaching Science and English to grade six students. She has been teaching public school for 21 years.
“I was able to incorporate what I’ve learned from the training to the teaching strategies we use here in school. For example, the collaborative learning method is the most used, particularly the different modes it fea-tures.
As a training coordinator, I was also able to echo what I’ve learned other schools.”
In teaching Science, a collaborative method engages the students to share their ideas to their own groups before each group collaborates with the other groups—thus sharing of ideas is amplified.