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Sa bahay ng Pamilyang Losampiano, 11:06PM Disyembre 24, 2010, Iloilo City

Ate: Mommy! OL na c Daddy!

Lola: Talaga iha? Dali buksan mo nga yung webcam ng iMac natin.

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First Post for November: Pista Minatay

          Pista Minatay (Hiligaynon term for Feast of the Dead, Undas among Tagalogs, or All Saints Day/All Souls Day in the Church calendar) is an annual event held every November 1 or 2 in the Philippines. This serves various functions among Filipinos: from visiting their deceased loved ones in the cemetery and offering prayers to the dead, to various antics like costume/Haloween parties, trick or treats which of course, can be traced back from Western influence of Haloween celebration.
       Enough with the technicalities, hehehe.. I just would like to share what I did during Pista Minatay (just for the sake of posting for this month).
      Every Pista Minatay, my mother cooks traditional Filipino dishes with glutinous rice as the main ingredient(a traditonal practice common to Filipinos) like suman, kalamayhati(I don't know the Filipino translation), inday-inday, arroz de valenciana, etc. However this year, she wasn't able to do so because of her old age...(Actually she still can cook but she chose not to because she was lazy that day...hehehe...joke)

This is not a high school kid...This is a professional teacher...hehehe...

Mga kasama...

With my sistah and nephews...

      As expected, we went to the cemetery to visit my deceased older sister who died when she was still at the young age of five as well as my grandfather on my father's side. After giving a solemn prayer, we decided to take pictures and went home as fast as we can because of the rainy weather.

Teacher Wisdomedicine: Quotes on Education

          It has been a long time since I posted about Teacher Wisdomedicine. For the information of everybody (who's everybody? LOL), this series of posts is all about empowering our teachers (as well as other people) about the noble task of the teaching profession. We can't ignore the fact that teaching really is a stressful job, and we can't blame teachers if they feel burned out. I hope that through these "inspiring" words, they may feel vitalized(sounds like vitamins...of course wisdoMEDICINE right?LOL) and still be inspired  to guide and mold the minds of our generation. I thank you...bow...These quotes by the way were retrieved from  http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/eduquote.htm ( If you...yes YOU, are the owner if this site and you don't want your site's content be posted here, kindly inform me and I will remove it as fast as I can.) Anyway, my gratitude for the the above link. Thank you. Please visit it if you want to read different quotes aside from education.

Education is...

One of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.

William Lowe Bryan (1860–1955) 10th president of Indiana University (1902 to 1937).

Hanging around until you've caught on.

Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963) American poet.

Man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.

Kenneth G. Johnson (1922-2002) American educator, semanticist.

[A process] which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

Oscar Wilde (1856-1900) Irish poet and dramatist.

The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the ignorant by the incompetent.

Josiah Charles Stamp (1880-1941) British civil servant, industrialist, economist, statistician and banker.

[Education] consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer.

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

George Savile, Marquis of Halifax (1633-1695) English statesman and author.

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.

Will Durant (1885-1981) U.S. author and historian.

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British dramatist, critic, writer.

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas (1868-1952) British writer.

Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.

Prof. Irwin Edman (1896–1954) American philosopher and educator.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) American novelist and short story writer.

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

Henry Brooks Adams (1828-1918) U.S. historian and writer. The Education of Henry Adams.

Education seems to be in America the only commodity of which the customer tries to get as little he can for his money.

Max Leon Forman (1909-1990) Jewish-American writer.

Diversity of Learners

         

        Diversity of learners includes different areas that teachers must be aware of and be sensitive of if they wants to cater each learner's needs and interests. As teachers, it is important to consider how diverse learners are especially in planning for effective instruction.

Learning and Thinking Styles

• refer to the preferred way an individual processes information

I.                    Sensory Preferences- individuals tend to gravitate toward one or two types of sensory inputs and maintain a dominance in one of the following types:

1.       Visual Learners

·         may think in pictures and learn best from visual aids like diagrams, illustrated textbooks, overhead transparencies, videos, flip charts and hand-outs

a.       Visual Iconic- prefer visual imagery like film, graphic display or pictures

b.      Visual Symbolic- prefer abstract symbolisms like written words or mathematical formula

2.       Auditory Learners

·         learn best through verbal lectures, discussions, talking things through and listening to what others have to say

a.       Listeners- remember things said to them and make the information their own

b.      Talkers- prefer to talk and discuss

3.       Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners

·         prefer “learning by doing”, benefit much from hands-on approach, actively exploring the physical world around them

II.                  Global-Analytic Continuum

1.       Analytic Learners- tend toward the linear, step-by-step processes of learning and see finite elements of patterns rather than the whole

2.       Global Learners- lean towards non-linear and tend to see the whole pattern rather than particle elements

Multiple Intelligences (Howard Gardner)

1.       Visual/ Spatial (Picture Smart)

2.       Verbal/Linguistic (Word Smart)

3.       Mathematical/Logical (Number/Logic Smart)

4.       Bodily/Kinesthetic (Body Smart)

5.       Musical/Rhythmic (Music Smart)

6.       Intrapersonal (Self Smart)

7.       Interpersonal (People Smart)

8.       Naturalist (Nature Smart)

Exceptionalities

       These refer to learners who are different in some way from the normal or average. Most of these learners require a lot of understanding and patience as well as special education and related services if they are to reach their full potential and development.

1. Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
2. Learning Disabilities
3. Intellectual Differences (Gifted and Talented)
4. Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
5. Visual Impairment
6. Hearing Impairment
7. Oral Communication Problems
8. Orthopedic Impairments

Other Factors

1. Gender
2. Racial, ethnic or cultural background
3. Socioeconomic status

Applications in Teaching and Learning Process

1. Encourage learners to share their personal history and experiences.
2.  Integrate learning experiences and activities which promote students’ multicultural and cross-cultural awareness.
3. Aside from highlighting diversity, identify patterns of unity than transcend group differences.
4. Communicate high expectations to students from all sub-groups.
5. Use varied instructional methods to accommodate student diversity in learning styles and multiple intelligences.
6. Vary the examples you use to illustrate concepts in order to provide multiple contexts that are relevant to students from diverse backgrounds.
7. Adapt to the students’ diverse backgrounds and learning styles by allowing them personal choice and decision-making opportunities concerning what they learn and how will they learn from it.
8. Diversify your methods of assessing and evaluating student learning
9. Purposely, form small-discussion groups of students from diverse backgrounds: different learning styles, multiple intelligences, different cultural background, etc.

 (This was actually my report in one of my graduate school classes but I wasn't able to give it due to time constraints...hehehe)