Lesson 8:Contrived Experiences

Lesson 8

Contrived Experiences

          Contrived experiences are the edited copies or reality and are used as substitutes for real things when it is not practical or not possible to bring or do the real thing in the classroom.Contrived experiences has various types.These are the models,mock-ups,specimens,objects and simulations.Models are reproduction of real thing in a small scale,or large scale,or exact size but made of synthetic materials.Mock-ups are arrangements of real device or associated devises displayed in such a way that representation of reality is created.Specimens are any individual or item considered of a group, class or whole that represents the real thing.Objects include artifacts displayed in a museum or objects displayed in exhibits.Simulations,on the other hand,are representations of a manageable real event in which the learner is an active participant engaged in learning a behavior or in applying previous skills or knowledge.

          Contrived experiences are very useful in the learning process because they provide things that are not available in the environment or inside the classroom .These things are used as substitutes for us to study or examine.Because these things are not available in the environment,we need copies to be able to study them.

Lesson 7:Direct purposeful experience and Beyond

Lesson 7

Direct purposeful Experience and Beyond

Is a complex, integrated process involving people, procedures, ideas, devices, and organization for analyzing problems and devising, implementing, evaluating, and managing solution to those problems, involved in all aspects of human learning.Direct, purposeful experiences are the concrete experiences that make up the foundation of our learning. These are the rich experiences that our senses bring from which we construct ideas, concepts, and generalization give meaning and order to our lives.  It is the application of scientific findings in our method, process or procedure of working in the field trip of education in order to effect learning. It embraces curriculum and instructional design, learning environment, theories of teaching-learning.Very useful tool in teaching for it uses learnings that can be applied directly on a certain situation or problem.

Lesson 6:Using and Evaluating Instructional Materials

Lesson 6

Using and Evaluating Instructional Materials

               Instructional materials are very important tools used by teachers especially by those unexperienced and novice teachers during practice and actual teaching.It is very important to evaluate first these instructional materials to make sure that the lessons to be discussed will follow the proper process and so that the students as well as the teacher will not get confused during the discussion.The materials should be checked well to make sure that it follows what the government,for example the Dep.Ed requires.Proper usage of these instructional materials takes place after these materials are well evaluated.If that's the case then,efforts of sharing and expressing ideas through lessons during discussion with the use of well evaluated instructional materials won't be a waste for the reason that you can attain with higher percentage your outcomes from the students.