The Benefits of Technology

Sample Quiz in TLE-ICT

Sample Lesson in ICT Computer Output Devices

Makato and the Cowrie Shell

Grade 8 English Reading Material

Makato and the Cowrie Shell from John Jeremie

DepEd Grade 8 English Quarter 2 Lesson Guide for Teachers

Second Grading Lessons

ENGLISH Grade 8 Q1 L1 from Ignatius Joseph Estroga

My assessment in Grade 8 English on Finding the Word with Correct Stress Mark

Finding the Correct Stress mark.pdf by Melanio

Here is the link to digital version of the Philippine DepEd Grade 8 Learning Module

Philippines DepEd Grade 8 English Learning Module by Marco Meduranda

DO No. 31, s. 2012_Guide on K+12

Seminar Workshop on Preparing Assessment and Publication for the Web

The training has this introduction: Nowadays, we find many students discussing what they have read and found in their facebook accounts rather that talking our lessons inside the class. Tumblr, Facebooks and other social networks are evidence that students are becoming netizens rather citizens of our respective classroom. We cannot stop them from entering these social networks, but we can make them learn while entering these sites by putting our lessons and our assessments in any of these social networking sites. In Marcell (2008) Effectiveness of Regular Online Quizzing in Increasing Class Participation and Preparation, she stressed that frequent, regularly scheduled quizzing is associated with pedagogically desirable outcomes such as higher performance on exams. Marcell added that requiring students to complete brief scheduled online quizzes on assigned reading material before class would also result in increases in both the number of in-class questions and comments and the number of students who read the material prior to class. The purpose of this 1-day seminar workshop is to help teachers bring their classes in the net, that students can open teachers’ lesson anytime of the day and participate actively in the classroom discussions and social networks forum where the subject lesson extension is placed.

I'm back.  Sorry for the delay.  I was very busy and needed some time to think on what are the things to share on this page. So, if you have something in mind that you want me to bring it here, please email me.

The First Periodical Test in English 2 has just ended.  Teachers now surely are computing their students's grades and some perhaps have not finished checking their students' test papers.  For many of us teachers, checking test papers is a tedious job that we do not want happen especially if our family or friends are thinking for short vacation heheheheh.  Some of our students too do not like to check their classmates' papers and to subject to raising of hands for frequency of errors.

This is now my subject on this blog.  Why not us to go for interactive quiz maker? An assessment that can be used/reused for future lessons that have the same objectives, a test that no longer needs for manual checking and that tiring raising of hands, a test that can be opened or there for a limited time, a test that can be accessed on line and a test where there are lessons to reckon with.

Interesting? Here, I made a sample of that test.  Please comment.

Please click the link. http://ubdenglishphil.wikispaces.com/First+Periodical+Test+in+English+2
And here is the actual test made by our Division Office
English Year II (Ok)

Writing essay is one of the difficult lessons that we all need to share to our students. Students hardly find ways on how to start their essay.  Here is an animated tip that will help you teach essay easy. Just click the link

Tips oh how to write essay.

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