This Episode 1 provides an opportunity for students to examine and reflect on a

school environment that promotes leaning and development.

TARGET Your Intended Learning Outcome

At the end of this Episode, I must be able to determine the characteristics of a

school environment that is safe, secure, and is supportive of learning (PPST
2.1.1).

1. A physical environment conducive for learning is one that has consistent practices that:
 Keep the school safe, clean, orderly and free from distraction:
 Maintain facilities and provide challenging activities; and
 Address the physical, social and psychological needs of the student.

2. Display boards can be powerful in communicating information about the learning

environment. They help in building and establishing the school culture. These boards
become one way for everyone to learn about the vision-mission, goals, and values that the
school upholds.
3. As a basic part of the school's visual environment, display boards have four general
purposes:
 Decorative- They offer visual stimulation and appeal to aesthetics. They set the
social and psychological atmosphere of the school.
 Motivational- They encourage students to perform better and have greater
confidence. An example would be the display of students' outputs that show that each
output is recognized and valued. The bulletin boards help celebrate the learners'
growth and progress.
 Informational- They are used as a strategy to readily disseminate information.
 Instructional- They move students to respond and participate through interactive
displays. They get students to think about and communicate their learning
4. The set of criteria for evaluating bulletin boards displays includes effective
communication, attractiveness, balance, unity, interactivity, legibility, correctness, and
durability.
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Activity 1.1 Exploring the School Campus

Resource Teacher: Teacher’s Signature: School:
Grade/Year Level: Subject Area: Date:

To realize the Intended Learning Outcome,

work my way through these steps:

1. Visit a school, look into facilities and support learning in the campus, then in the
classroom
2. Observe and use the checklist as you move around the school premises.
3. Analyze your gathered data about the school environment.
4. Reflect on the characteristics of a school environment that promotes learning.
5. Present your idea of a good school environment through any of these:
a) Descriptive paragraph b) Photo essay
c) Sketch or drawing d) Poem, song or rap

As you move around the campus, observations forms are provided for you to
document your observations. It is advised that you read the entire worksheet before
proceeding to the school site. A good understanding of the activities and tasks to be
accomplished in the activity sheets will yield better learning results.
SCHOOL FACILITIES OBSERVATION CHECKLIST
Familiarize yourself with the different areas and facilities of the school. Check the
column to indicate their availability. Give a brief description of those that are available,
and say how each will contribute to the students' learning and development.

Will it contribute to the students’ learning

Facilities / Description and development? Why?

The Office of the Principal is clean and Yes, It will contribute to the students
free from the pollution. The papers because the office is clean so it means
Office of the Principal ✓
appear there were properly arranged. students can easily approach principal
And there are many board displays. and teachers if they need something.

Facilities Description Will it contribute to the students’ learning

and development? Why?
 The library is conducive for learning It will contribute to the student’s
Library with properly arranged books but the learning because here they can study
✓
numbers of seat are insufficient. without any disturbances. Also in here
they can search any book they wanted
that will be helpful to them
This Facility is not available to my
school tour video being watched.
Counseling Room X

This Facility is not available to my

Canteen/Cafeteria school tour video being watched.
X

This Facility is not available to my

Medical Clinic school tour video being watched.
X

This Facility is not available to my

Audio school tour video being watched.
Visual/Learning X
Resource Center

This Facility is not available to my

Science Laboratory school tour video being watched.
✓

The gymnasium is wide and big enough Gym classes provide students with
Gymnasium/Multi- to accommodate big number of students physical exercise on a consistent basis.
purpose gym ✓ and also the gymnasium is always It is particularly important for the
crowded with students. physical well-being of children who do
not engage in physical activities outside
of school.

Facilities Description Will it contribute to the students’ learning

and development? Why?

This Facility is not available to my

Auditorium X school tour video being watched.
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This Facility is not available to my

school tour video being watched.
Home Economics Room X

This Facility is not available to my

Industrial Workshop X school tour video being watched.
Area

PTA meetings happened in the The main role of the local PTA is to
PTA Office ✓ classroom of a specific student. build strong working relationships
among parents, teachers and schools, in
support of students.
This Facility is not available to my
Comfort Room for Boys school tour video being watched.
X

This Facility is not available to my

Comfort Room for Girls X school tour video being watched.

Others
(Please Specify)

The Computer Room was very quiet, air- A computer helps children focus on the
Computer Room/ ICT conditioned, with internet access and the project at hand and can be a vital tool
Room ✓ computers can cater one section for for maintaining a student’s interest in
every session. the topic learned.

An Observation Guide for the CLASSROOM VISIT

Read the following statement carefully. Then write your observation report on
the space provided.

Guide Question Classroom Observation Report

1. Describe the The school is located at Bangayan, Kitcharao
community or Agusan del Norte. Close to Kan Gen Gas Station.
neighborhood where
the school is found

2. Describe the school The school campus was radiant and pleasant to
campus. What colors look at; The school building is made of Concrete
do you see? What is walls.
the condition of the
buildings?

3. Pass by the offices. The campus is an open-area and the sunlight

What impression do directly strikes the school premises.
you have these
offices?

4. Walk through the When entering the campus, the condition of the
school halls, the building is fine, imbued with yellow paint and
library, and cafeteria. coated with artistic educational arts and it is
Look around and find completely excellent with the combination of the
out the other nature, mission/vision and objectives as well as
facilities that the their organizational diagram.
school has.

Resource Teacher: Teacher’s Signature: School:

Grade/Year Level: Subject Area: Date:
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1. Look at the walls of the classroom. What are posted “I entered the
on the walls? What heroes, religious figures, lessons, classroom with
visual aids, announcements, do you see posted? the conviction
2. Examine how the pieces of furniture are arranged. that it was
Where is the teacher’s table located? How are the crucial for me
tables and chairs/desks arranged? and every
3. What learning materials/equipment are present? other student
4. Observe the students. How many are occupying one to be an active
room? participant, not
5. Is the room well-it and well-ventilated? a passive
consumer ….
Learning is
place where
paradise can be
created.”

- Bell
Hooks,
Teachi
ng to
Transgr
ess,
NY:
Routled
ge,
1994.
 An Observation Guide for the CLASSROOM VISIT

Classroom Description
Facilities (location, number, arrangement, condition)

1. Wall Displays On every corner; Eleven; Well-arranged; Newly posted

Analysis
2. Teacher's Table Front and back; Two, Organized; Old and new
The breaking
3. Learner's Desks Center; Forty-eight; Complex; Rusty down of information
into their component
Center; One; Clean; New parts, examining (and
4. Blackboard trying to understand
the organizational
5. Learning Back; One; Proper; Formative structure of) such
Materials/Visual information to
Aids develop divergent
6. conclusions by
7. identifying motives or
causes, making
8. inferences, and/ or
9. finding evidence to
10.
support
generalizations. It
Be guided by these tasks as you do your observation. Then involves:
accomplish the matrix to record your data.
● seeing patterns
CLASSROOM FACILITIES MATRIX
● organization of
parts

● recognition of
Write your observation report here. hidden meanings

● identification of
components

● Question Ques:

analyze, separate,
order, explain, connect,
classify, arrange,
divide, compare, select,
explain, infer (Bloom’s
Taxonomy)
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Name of the School Observed: HV Dagani Elementary School

Location of the School: Bangayan, Kitcharao Agusan del Norte

Date of Visit:

How do the school campus and classroom in particular impact the

learning of the students going to school? What are your conclusion?

Answer: The facilities of the school campus and the classroom greatly affect the
students that go to school, because if the school and classroom is improper the students
will start to think not to go to school. Even though we are facing this pandemic I know
one day all of this we are facing will disappear and we will back to normal and in that
day school should be prepared.

How does this relate to your knowledge of child and adolescent development/how does
this relate to your knowledge of facilitating learning?

Answer: As future educator, by these instances I will know that there are many factors
that can affect the student to attend and not to attend school. And by knowing such
factors, I can adjust to what my students will need.
1. Would you like to teach in the school environment you just observed? Why? Why not?

Answer: Yes, It is because the school environment is very accessible, the surroundings is very
peaceful and covered by green pasture that brighten up the day and gives a cool and cozy
environment. Though I only just watching it on a Video still I wanted to teach children there with
my very best.

2. What kind of school campus is conducive to learning?

Answer: A school that is conductive to learning is a school that has complete facilities that will
surely help and benefited by the student learners to understand the subject matter they are
studying.

3. What kind of classroom is conducive to learning?

Answer: A classroom that is conducive to learning is a classroom with proper chairs, functioning
electric fans for the comfort of students, all other facilities that will greatly contribute for the
attainment of knowledge of the students and most especially an expert teacher by profession
and by heart.

4. In the future, how can you accomplish your answer in number 3?

Answer: For now, I will study hard so that I can be a good teacher in the future. If I have good
grades and right experiences I have no doubts that I can accomplish to become a compassionate
teacher by mind, heart and soul.

5. Write your additional learnings and insight here.

Answer: I learned that every student has their own reaction to the environment they are in, that’s
why the teacher’s should be complex and flexible to know that.
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Resource Teacher:Michael L. Tadulan Teacher’s Signature: School:

Grade/Year Level: Head Subject Area: Date:

The display board, or what we more commonly refer to as bulletin board, is one
of the most readily available and versatile learning resources.

To achieve the Intended Learning Outcome, work your way through the
steps: 1. Examine for bulletin board displays. Include sample of those found at the
entrance, lobby, hallways and classrooms. 2. Pick one and evaluate the display. 3.
Propose enhancements to make the display more effective.

As you look around and examine board displays, use the observation guide
and forms provide for you to document your observation.

An Observation Guide for BOARD DISPLAYS

Read the following carefully before you observed:
1. Go around the school and examine the board displays. How many board displays do
you see?
Answer: 9 bulletin boards observed

2. Where are the display boards found? Are they in places where target viewers can see
them?
Answer: The bulletin boards are at the principal’s office, computer laboratory room,
entrance of their gate and in their classrooms.

3. What are the displays about? What key messages do they convey? What images and
colors do you see? How are the pieces of information and images arranged?
Answer: Their bulletin boards have many purposes. At the office of principal, the
bulletin board contains the DTR of the teachers. It has also informations regarding
about the school.There are also bulletin boards in the classrooms which inform the
 month celebrations of the schools.

4. What materials were used in making the displays? Are borders used?
Answer: Mostly, the bulletins are made of cork. Bulletins at the classroom are colorful
and pleasing to the eye since the students are elementary. The bulletins have borders
and designs.

5. Do you notice some errors? (misspelled words, grammar inconsistencies and the like)
Asnwer: There are some words can't be read easily because it's so small.

6. Are the messages clear and easily understood?

Answer: The messages and information could be understood especially the elementary
pupils.

7. Think about what got your attention. Why did it get your attention?
Answer: The Bulletin that got my attention the most is the bulletin come from the
office because it was very clean and very nice to eyes there are also photos of the
teachers.

8. Take a photos of the display boards (if allowed).

Based on the questions and observation guide, write your observation report.
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Observation REPORT
(You may paste pictures of the Board displays here.)
 From among the board displays that you saw, pick the one that you got most
interested in. Evaluate it using the evaluation form below.
BOARD DISPLAYS EVALUATION FORM11
Topic of the Board Display
Location of the Board Display in School

Check the column that indicates your rating. Write comments to back up your ratings.

4-Outstanding 3-Very Satisfactory 2-Satisfactory 1-Needs Improvement

NI S VS O
Criteria 1 2 3 4 Comments

Effective The message was clear and it is

Communication ✓ understandable.
It conveys the message
quickly and clearly.
Attractiveness The arrangement was neat and very
Colors and arrangement ✓ attractive to eyes.
catch the hold interest.
Balance
Objects are arranged, so ✓
stability is perceived.
Unity There are repeated shapes and colors
Repeated shapes or ✓ so I rate 2 but the overall was
colors or use of borders amazing.
hold display together.
Interactivity The style was very informative.
The style and approach ✓
entice learners to be
involved and engaged.
Legibility The letters are not readable from
Letters and illustrations ✓ distance.
can be seen from a good
distance.
Correctness There are no misspelled words and
It is free from grammar ✓ the grammar was in correct used.
errors, misspelled words
and ambiguity.
Durability It was constracted well.
It is well-constructed, ✓
items are securely
attached.
Bulletin Board Evaluated by: Alejandro M. Pascua Jr.
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Location:
Brief Description of the Bulletin Board: Calendar of activities and Monthly supervision
chart
Evaluation:

Strengths Weaknesses
Description of   It provide the pupils Some information are
the Bulletin important information irrelevant and not that so
Board Layout and catches the attentions important.
of the readers most
importantly the students.

Evaluation of educational It enables the pupils to Some information are

content. And other aspects analyze the information irrelevant and not that so
and be informed of the important. I observed that
current news and events some of their bulletins are not
of their school. updated.

Recommendations or
Suggestions for improvement

Answer: My suggestion is that they should use more materials that can really make the
bulletin board wonderful enough in order that student will take a stop and read from it.
Also make it readable even in a distance.

Signature of Evaluator Over Printed Name: ALEJANDRO M. PASCUA JR.

 Based on your suggestions, make your board display layout. You may present
your output through any of these:
 A hand-made drawing or layout
 An electronic (computer) drawing/illustration or layout
 A collage

My Board Display Lay-out

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What do you think was the purpose of the board display?

Answer: The intention is to inform students about subjects and their different
activities in school.

Did the board display design reflect the likes/interests of its target audience?
Why? Why not?
Answer: They put interesting and knowledgeable topics in order that students will
really attracted and that can trigger their minds and curiosity like in the field of
sciences.

Was the language used clear and simple for the target audience to understand?
Why? Why not?
Answer: They uses English language, I think students can understand that because
they have also English subject.

Was the board display effective? Why? Why not?

Answer: I think it is effective because it was very informative and they can learn
from it.

What suggestions can you make?

Answer: My suggestion is that they should use more materials that can really
make the bulletin board wonderful enough in order that student will take a stop and
read from it.
 Based on your suggestions, propose an enhanced version of the display board. Use the
form below.

My Proposed Board Display

Theme:
Encouragement of students to learn Math

Board Title:
Leaning the numbers

Rationale:
(Purpose)
The purpose of bulletin board aside from being attractive to the eyes of the students, it should also
contain important data which are useful in the class as well as in the exam.

Objectives:
The students will be able to learn about math

Best features of my proposed bulletin enhancement:

It has creative images and colorful background which will catch the attentions of elementary students.
There are trivia also.

Content Resources (Name each needed resource and give each a brief description):
Internet
Books
Magazine
Student's output

Materials for aesthetic enhancement:

Cork board, Cartolina, Push Pins, Pictures, Cutting materials, Coloring materials and Decorative
papers
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1. Name at least five skills that a teacher should have to be able to come up
with effective board displays. Elaborate on why each skill is needed.

Answer: A teacher must be creative so that the concepts and content is

always interesting to the students, A teacher must be resourceful so that the
bulletin board will be informative and attractive to the students, A teacher
must have a visual skills so that they can visualize the presentation and
impact what they want to create, and then apply those to the board display,
A teacher must be good in communication so that the words combined in
board display or the content can be understood, Lastly, good teachers make
visual displays organize, the organization includes comparing and
contrasting, grouping and arranging content in a meaningful way.

2. Which of the skills you named in # I do you already have? Recall your past
experiences in making board displays. How do you practice these skills?
Answer: I think I am resourceful person. And what I put in my bulletin
board have relation to its theme. What I also put have reliable source.

3. Which skills do you still need to develop? What concrete steps will you
take on how you can improve on or acquire these skills?
Answer: The skills I still need to develop are visual skills because I don’t really
visualize things. The first thing I need to do is slowly illustrate what I want in a
bulletin board so I can decide what I will put in my bulletin board.
 My Personal Illustration of an Effective
School Environment

My Personal illustration of an effective school environment is

an environment that is structurally built in strong, clean external and in
internal, free from noise of the outside world so that the students will
feel peaceful and concentrated. On the classroom part, one that is
conducive in learning is a classroom that has many charts, posters,
sayings and inspirational quotes as motivation and additional
information to children. Professional leadership must also take place
because the learners always depend to what the teacher instructs. Focus
on teaching and learning are some point that should have to take into
consideration, too. There should have a purposeful teaching, shared
vision and goals, high expectations of all learners, accountability and
learning communities