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Why Is Field Trip A Learning Experience That Is Highly Recommendable For Children?

Field trips are an effective instructional material that help students learn through authentic experiences. They build self-confidence and foster teamwork while teaching soft skills. When selecting instructional materials, teachers should choose materials that achieve learning objectives, engage students, and consider individual differences. There are four steps to utilizing instructional materials: prepare yourself, prepare students, present the material effectively, and follow up to assess learning. Guidelines for selecting materials include aligning to standards, appropriateness for students, and promoting critical thinking.

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Why Is Field Trip A Learning Experience That Is Highly Recommendable For Children?

Field trips are an effective instructional material that help students learn through authentic experiences. They build self-confidence and foster teamwork while teaching soft skills. When selecting instructional materials, teachers should choose materials that achieve learning objectives, engage students, and consider individual differences. There are four steps to utilizing instructional materials: prepare yourself, prepare students, present the material effectively, and follow up to assess learning. Guidelines for selecting materials include aligning to standards, appropriateness for students, and promoting critical thinking.

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Aira Jane Bado BSED Math III-D Prof Ed 7(9:30-10:30am) September 28, 2020

Activity 8: Using & Evaluating Instructional Materials (IM's)

1. Why is Field Trip a learning experience that is highly recommendable for children?
One of the instructional materials used to attain
instructional objectives is field trip. Educational Field Trip plays a
vital role in the school curriculum, which serves a wide range of
benefits in several ways including learning and teaching. One of
them is that they help students to learn through authentic
experience and can be an interesting way to explore new things
for both the learners and teachers. Most importantly, field trips
contribute greatly to build self-confidence and foster a sense of
teamwork and community. It is highly recommended for you to add educational school trips part of
traveling, you definitely get abundantly memorable experience and deep knowledge of various aspects in
life. To be more precise, students will be encouraged to learn not only knowledge but also soft skills, life
skills, communication skills and more.

2. How do you select IM's?


 Materials should achieve impact.
 Materials should help learners to feel at ease.
 Materials should help learners to develop confidence.
 What is being taught should be perceived by learners as
relevant and useful.
 Materials should require and facilitate learner self-investment.
 Learners must be ready to acquire the points being taught.
 Materials should expose the learners to language in authentic
use.
 The learners’ attention should be drawn to linguistic features of the input.
 Materials should provide the learners with opportunities to use the target language to achieve
communicative competence.
 Materials should consider that the positive effects of instruction are usually delayed.
 Materials should consider that learners differ in learning styles.
 Materials should consider that learners differ in affective attitudes.
 Materials should permit a silent period at the beginning of instruction.
 Materials should maximize learning potential by encouraging intellectual, aesthetic and
emotional involvement which stimulates both right and left-brain activities.
 Materials should not rely too much on controlled practice.
 Materials should provide opportunities for outcome feedback.

3. What are the 4 P's in utilizing the IM's?


a. Prepare Yourself
You know your lesson objective and what you expect from the class
after the session and why you have selected such particular instructional
material. You have a plan on how you will proceed, what question to
ask, how you will evaluate learning and how you will the loose ends
before the bell rings.
b. Prepare your students
Set reasonably high-class expectations and learning goals. It is sound practice to give them guide
questions for them to be able to answer during the discussion. Motivate them and keep them
interested and engaged.
c. Present the material
Under the best possible conditions. Many teachers are guilty of the R.O.G Syndrome. This is
means “running out of gas” which usually results from the poor planning. (Smith, 1972) Using
media and materials, especially if they are mechanical in nature, often requires rehearsal and a
carefully planned performance.
d. Follow up
Remember that you use instructional materials to achieve objectives, not to kill time nor to give
yourself a break, neither to merely entertain the class. Your use of the instructional material is not
the end itself. It is a mean to an end, the attainment of a learning objectives. So, there is need to
follow up to find out if objective was attained to use.

4. Find out which guidelines in the selection of IM's can a teacher be observed? not observe?
To ensure that instructional materials serve their purpose in instruction, we need to
observe some guidelines in their selection and use. The materials that we select must.
 Give a true picture of the ideas they present
 Contribute to the attainment of the learning objective
 Be aligned to curriculum standards and competencies
 Be appropriate to the age, intelligence and experience of the learners.
 Be in good and satisfactory condition.
 Be culture sensitive and gender sensitive
 Provide for a teacher’s guide
 Help develop the critical and creative thinking powers of students.
 Promote collaborative learning?
 Be worth the time, expense and effort involved.
For optimum use of the instructional material, it is necessary that the teachers prepare:
 Herself

 Her student

 The instructional material and does follow up

 Promote independent study


5. What are 9 instructional events by Robert Gagne in the subject “Facilitating Learning”?
Robert Gagne’s nine (9) instructional material in the subject facilitating learning. These are:
1. Gain attention
2. Inform learner of objectives
3. Stimulate recall of prior learning
4. Present stimulus material
5. Provide learner guidance
6. Elicit performance
7. Provide feedback
8. Assess performance and
9. Enhance retention transfer

There is no such thing as best instructional material


 Any instructional material can be the best provided it helps the teacher accomplish his/her
intended learning objective.
 No instructional material, no matter how superior, can take the place of an effective teacher.
 Instructional materials may be perceived to the labor-saving devise for the teachers. On the
contrary, the teacher even works harder when she makes good use of instructional material
“You should have a good idea of your destination, both in the over-all purposes of education
and in the everyday work of your teaching. If you do not know where you are going, you
cannot properly choose a way to get there.”

Reflection:
Using Instructional Materials is the tool that a teacher has a background information on the
subject they are teaching. When using IM's, the teacher must also consider the age and grade
appropriate of the learners so that they will meet the diverse needs of the learners. The IM's is
very important and at the same time it is essential for all the activities that the teacher prepared.
And through IM's, we can evaluate or assess our student’s knowledge. It is convenient to use and
the students can able to picture out things by seeing it.

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