Reading Remediation Drill

Every year, we always encounter students who have difficulty in reading. We cannot blame their former teachers nor the kind of upbringing they have in their families but to do the necessary steps to remedy this problem. One way to combat this problem is to provide them with drills. Here, I got this from the internet. I hope this can help us all. Remedial Reading Drills - Margin

Interactive 3rd Grading Exam for 2nd Year students (Sample)

One part of my thesis " Computer Assisted Language Learning in Teaching Adjectives" was how to make interactive lesson and assessment on which students are free to choose his/her own desired lesson and be able to take the assessment and receives feedback right after taking it.  Here is my example on how interactive is that assessment should be.  If you have comments and suggestions, please feel free to post them here.  Check this link out.

3rd Grading Examination for Second Year Students (Sample only)

Fourth grading has just began.  For those who do not have the copy of  the UbD for 2nd year English, here is mine.  You can download it for your perusal.  Happy teaching!!

Eng Narrative Q4 Topic 1

What ifs......

Today, January 19, 2012 marks the third grading examination for the Erico T. Nograles NHS' students.

As I am watching my students making their own history, I have so many what "if's" flashing in my mind. What if in the coming year there will no longer be a paper pencil test for my students instead they will bluetooth their digital paper to the teachers and teachers in giving that to the students do the same; what if there will be no classroom because every student has its own laptop and that video camera is ready for online classroom conferencing; books will no longer be around and that makes the environmentalist in the future joyous because books are already in the tablets?.

Ahhhhh....I have lots of what if's. The last thing that I have in my mind is "What if there will be no teachers in the future because they are already replaced by robots?" By the way I am using my Ipad. What if in the future .....?

Quizzing our students requires us to think on two ways: Are we going to do it orally or let them read between the lines.  I found a new way wherein these two ways meet without giving much of our time and can be saved for future use.  Here, I constructed a 5-item test.  Try it (it requires you to type your email address so that you will receive your score and feedback if you pass or fail the test), and tell me if it is possible in your school (of course it is possible heheheheh). Here's the link>>>>>> (Sorry I cannot embed it here because Blogger does not host Swf files)

Many years ago, story telling was done by one teacher and repeated to one section twice or thrice. Imagine if you do this for the other five remaining sections of different intelligence....you will end up drained and exhausted after.With the latest trend now in narrating or downloading videos, teachers can say teaching is "hayahay!" Jack the Beanstalk is one of my favorites in teaching narrative story for the first year. I usually open the discussion using this video or convert the video into mp3 format and let my students listen. Doing so, I target two essential skills, develop their listening and narrating skills because I will be asking them to retell the story in the way they understood the story.

New year, new life and new resolution. Today let us all expect that teachers will be facing number of students compared last week. Once again we will be facing them and find questioning ourselves, "how am I going to teach them?". Again, we will hear words like "students now are no longer the same when we were at their age." , a one liner complaint of a teacher. But is it really that case? The truth is, the students now are no longer the students that our fore teachers' curriculum were made to embrace. Here is a short video I got from YouTube. Happy watching.

For the information of all the the teachers in Public Secondary English whose gusto is to enhance their theater skills, here is a national memo for you. For Your Information

100 Best Educational Websites for 2011 as Reviewed by Tech & Learning

I found a magazine that I think one of the best pubs for knowing what are the latest innovations for teaching using computer and how to maximize the use of internet connection in the classroom. I hope you like, try some of the sites and tell us the best of the site you use in your classroom.

Some of these sites are for elementary and secondary. The details will help you then. There are sites that offer classroom room extension and even video conferencing type of classroom.

The name of the magazine is Tech & Learning. Ideas and Tools for Ed Tech Leader. This volume includes the best 100 websites in the year 2011 that used to make teaching better. The best 100 educational websites was reviewed by David Kapuler.

For the complete viewing, see page 16. 

Tech Learning 2012-01 Sheva370 T

Computerization has become a blessing to people who love information. Information now is just one click and becomes interactive.  Ten years ago, this blessing was impossible and only in the movies like Star Trek, James Bond this technology existed.  Thanks to the men and women behind this invention.

When I was a high school student at Sta. Ana National High School, I had this great respect to all the teachers who withstood teaching the great number of students daily.  Mrs. Divina H. Solis was my first year adviser then.  I love her teaching style and the way she managed her students.  I never dreamed of becoming a teacher like she is (up to now).

Below is our section Sampaguita's memento with Maam Divine (the name we loved to call her) Solis.

When she taught Language Arts I could not imagine myself teaching the same number of students and I thought if I would do that I would suffer scarcity of words heheheheh.

Now that I am a teacher, the advent of computerization helps me teach the subject that teachers in the past would jealous.  I learn to integrate computer and save my energy for the remaining part of the day.

Then, teachers would write the same instruction and discuss the same words orally for eight hours.  Now, teachers at present can use PowerPoint presentation and have his/her words, pictures, narration and videos animate repeatedly done for six hours or more.  The discussion can also be downloaded and post it in a blog like this one or save it in the Facebook.

Lessons now can be opened anytime of the day.  Teachers can be asked at one's convenient time and there lots of experts in the internet that can be asked too for further understanding, written discussion can be converted now to mp3 and placed in a small player or mobile phone.

Blogsite making and MS Publisher Training Workshop

Gearing up to meet the demands of making the youth to think globally through the use of computers and helping teachers in reading extend their teachings in the internet, the Department of Education-Division of Davao City through the Secondary Education Supervisor in English Divina H. Solis conducted a training workshop on Blog site making and the use of Microsoft Publisher last December 13, 2011.

Melanio R. Florino Jr. of Erico T. Nograles National High School and Dexter Coraje of Davao City National High School made waves to share their expertise on how to make Blogs and posting/retrieving reports using Gmail account and MS Publisher. The two speakers are Intel Teach Master Trainers and M.A. holder of their respective fields.

75 secondary reading teachers in English from different schools in Davao City attended the event agreed that it is now time to bring lessons and use the internet connection as springboard in teaching and submitting reports. The attendees were divided into two sessions; first and second districts attended in the morning while the third district completed the day.