FIELD STUDY 3
The School's LEARNING Resources
School planning, organization and management is directly related to human and physical resources. The basic behind it, is that school should be able to utilize all the resources in best possible way, so that they proove to be successful in performing their duties. For performing their duties, school employees and teachers require an effective leadership but at the same time they require a good and conducive environment in the school for their proper functioning.
It is essential to know what students learn and under what conditions, in order to assess whether schools are useful and effective. Quality learning can take place only when children and youth feel welcome in school and are in good health, allowing the learner space and time to interact within the learning and teaching process.
As a teacher, the library media specialists works with students and other members of the learning community to analyze learning and information needs, to locate and use resources that will meet those needs, and to understand and communicate the information the resource provides. The library media specialist is knowledgeable about current research on teaching and learning and skilled in applying its findings to a variety of situations - particularly those that call upon students to access, evaluate, and use information from multiple sources in order to learn, to think, and to create and to apply knowledge. In short, the library media specialist teaches students to use information for critical thinking and problem solving using the information Literacy Standards for Student Learning set.
A Learning resources center's success depends firstly on the range of its engagement in modern learning methods implementation, which gives more concentration to learner role in learning process, and evaluates work mechanism, in learning resources centers on the bases that learning resources center is not a place supported with learning resources accordingly, but educational action and substantial element of different elements of classroom lesson. The Work mechanism in learning resources centers requires following two methods and merging between them.
Learning resources centers are the correct way to activate school library and to amalgamate it into educational procedure as well as it is a part from it, but not among subsidiary utilities. One of the biggest problems that still face school libraries is that school libraries still playing general cultural role lead to isolate them away from educational process. So they became a place to cover waiting lessons and an escape for every lazy teacher, who does not desire to carry out lessons, whereas learning resources centers project has put the center among educational process through its support by necessary technical and librarian equipments needed for teachers educational tasks performance within modem method, and supported these centers with supporting for curriculum educational resources, suitable for age types existing there, so center became a necessary place where teachers run to, to help them to implement their tasks and achieve their educational aims.
Bulletin BOARD Displays
Every good teacher knows that the walls are prime real estate -- the place where you reinforce rules and routines, encourage students to do their best, and celebrate everyone's achievements.
The teaching profession is filled with countless opportunities to enrich the academic lives of students. While some concepts and educational objectives will be easy for students to grasp, others will require you to think creatively to ensure that important learning objectives are met. Using audio/visual aides in teaching is one way to enhance lesson plans and give students additional ways to process subject information.
Learning and teaching is the concern of the trained teacher. But learning is a complex process. It can however be defined as a change in disposition; a relatively permanent change in behavior overtime and this is brought about by experience. Learning can occur as a result of newly acquired skill, knowledge, perception, facts, principles, new information at hand etc. Learning aids are instructional materials and devices through which teaching and learning are done in schools.
Examples of learning aids include visual aids, audio-visual aids, real objects and many others. The visual aids are designed materials that may be locally made or commercially produced. They come in form of wall-charts illustrated pictures, pictorial materials and other two dimensional objects. There are also audio-visual aids. These are teaching machines like radio, television, and all sorts of projectors with sound attributes.
It is interesting to note that a large percentage of trained teachers and those undergoing professional training courses can teach with some of the learning aids. They do so consciously because they know that the use have positive effect on learning outcomes as their cognate experiences during teaching practice supervision reveals.
Examples of learning aids include visual aids, audio-visual aids, real objects and many others. The visual aids are designed materials that may be locally made or commercially produced. They come in form of wall-charts illustrated pictures, pictorial materials and other two dimensional objects. There are also audio-visual aids. These are teaching machines like radio, television, and all sorts of projectors with sound attributes.
It is interesting to note that a large percentage of trained teachers and those undergoing professional training courses can teach with some of the learning aids. They do so consciously because they know that the use have positive effect on learning outcomes as their cognate experiences during teaching practice supervision reveals.
People have different learning styles. Some students learn by best by listening, others by seeing and reading and others by hands-on activities. In the classroom, a combination of these techniques will make teaching more effective. By using audio visual aids like slides and movies, recorded music and speeches, and educational recordings, teachers are offering reinforcement of their other teaching methods and have a better chance of reaching more students with different learning capabilities, using demos allows students to see scientific equipment being used - some of which they may not have a chance to use themselves .
Demos show students exactly how certain concepts were discovered, students who are not native speakers may have a very difficult time understanding scientific words, but if they have something visual to see, they can understand the concept and understand the new vocabulary faster, students who are not academically inclined automatically tune out when a teacher is standing in the front and droning on and on about a topic. When there's something for them to watch, they end up paying attention and becoming engaged.
Classroom HANDOUTS
The posting of handouts utilizing course management systems has become, in many cases, a standard expectation by students. Perhaps this has been motivated by the intent to provide more information than can be written on a board or to make life “easier” for our students. I would suspect many of us have probably commented or heard from students how disappointing it was that “we did not get the handout for class” or asked “if the handout would be available after the class.”
While technology has certainly benefited all of us by allowing the easy dissemination and collection of information to and from others in a time when the amount of new information continues to increase exponentially, it is important to know whether providing handouts really facilitates students' learning. Perhaps, one key element necessary to facilitate learning, example, active learning, is diminished when students are provided all the information and not directly involved in the process of identifying, collecting, and organizing the information through the process of note taking. One could guess, given the existing use of presentation software and handouts, that we are not providing our students with an opportunity to further develop and enhance a critical skill that is necessary for being a successful, specifically their ability to take, revise, and review their own notes.
We have certainly all heard student's complaint why they did not do better on an examination since they really knew the material in the handouts. One possible explanation is that by providing all the notes, we encourage our students to become passive listeners and do not provide them with the opportunity to develop their own strategies for organizing information in their own cognitive perspective, an important element in facilitating learning. Aspects of note taking, note revising, note reviewing, and the use of handouts as it relates to student learning has been an active area of research in the education.
While technology has certainly benefited all of us by allowing the easy dissemination and collection of information to and from others in a time when the amount of new information continues to increase exponentially, it is important to know whether providing handouts really facilitates students' learning. Perhaps, one key element necessary to facilitate learning, example, active learning, is diminished when students are provided all the information and not directly involved in the process of identifying, collecting, and organizing the information through the process of note taking. One could guess, given the existing use of presentation software and handouts, that we are not providing our students with an opportunity to further develop and enhance a critical skill that is necessary for being a successful, specifically their ability to take, revise, and review their own notes.
We have certainly all heard student's complaint why they did not do better on an examination since they really knew the material in the handouts. One possible explanation is that by providing all the notes, we encourage our students to become passive listeners and do not provide them with the opportunity to develop their own strategies for organizing information in their own cognitive perspective, an important element in facilitating learning. Aspects of note taking, note revising, note reviewing, and the use of handouts as it relates to student learning has been an active area of research in the education.
Slide PRESENTATIONS
A presentation program is supposed to help both: the speaker with an easier access to his ideas and the participants with visual information which complements the talk. PowerPoint presentations consist of a number of individual pages or "slides", the ease of use of presentation software can save a lot of time for people who otherwise would have used other types of visual aid—hand-drawn or mechanically typeset slides, blackboards or whiteboards, or overhead projections. Ease of use also encourages those who otherwise would not have used visual aids, or would not have given a presentation at all, to make presentations.
ON-LINE Learning
Online learning also help make learning environment interesting and engaging, learners are being exposed to technology and digital devices so when they come to school, they have little to no patience for lecture-style teaching. Since not all learners learn in the same fashion, employing the use of online-learning in the classroom and at home help teachers reach all learning styles. Engaging all learners will facilitate the comprehension of content and allows for consistent progression in the teaching of material.
