This portfolio documents my journey through Field Study 1: Observing the Teaching-Learning Process and Field Study 2: Participation and Teaching Assistantship. It highlights the experiences, reflections, and lessons I've gained from these valuable opportunities to observe, analyze, and actively participate in actual classrooms.
Within these pages, I share the key insights I've discovered, the challenges I've overcome, and the contributions I've made during my time at the cooperating school. This experience has been instrumental in my development as a future educator, providing me with a firsthand understanding of the teaching-learning process that goes beyond theoretical knowledge.
Alliah Louise Bautista is a 22 years old student-intern in San Francisco High School. She is currently under the supervision with her Resource Teacher, Mrs. Elena Dayag. She is handling grade 9 and 10 students under Programming subject in TLE.
Ma'am Ali is also a 4th year student taking up Bachelor of Business Technology and Livelihood Education, Major in Information and Communication Technology (BTLEDICT) at the Polytechnic university of the Philippines, Sta. Mesa Campus. She can be seen as a passionate intern when it comes to teaching, since she is persuaded that teachers are the ones who shape little minds.
As passionate as she can be, Ma'am Ali also uses her free time in resting and playing mobile games like Mobile legends and Call of duty. She also loves reading books, writing journals, and watching her favorite movies. Ma'am Ali always believes in the concept of self-care despite the hardships and challenges she encounter, she would always look for the positive side.
Mrs. Elena Dayag, a very committed and dedicated Cooperating Teacher of Ma'am Ali. As a passionate educator with 27 years of experience, she holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Education, majoring in Home Management and Technology, from the College of Technology at Pangasinan State University in Lingayen, Pangasinan.
She started her lengthy career as a Teacher 1-3 at Lagro High School. At San Bartolome High School, she later rose to the rank of Master Teacher 1. At San Francisco High School, Mrs. Dayag is currently a distinguished Master Teacher 2. She has proven to be an expert in teaching programming in ICT. She also participated in a lot of seminars such as curriculum development, differentiated instruction, assessment strategies, classroom management, technology integration, and student mentorship throughout her career. Mrs. Dayag is currently handling grade 9 and 10 programming students in their TLE subjects.
A lot of students have benefited from her dedication to creating a supportive and gamified learning environment including Ma'am Ali. She is an outstanding contributor to the educational community and a respected faculty member at San Francisco High School.
As I reflect on this journey, I see this portfolio more than just a requirement but a tribute to the people who have helped, inspired, and supported me along the way. I sincerely appreciate everyone who has helped and motivated me along the way of the challenges and difficulties I went through. I will always remember the influence you all had on my life. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. This portfolio will always represents my development, struggles, and successes as a future teacher and not just a collection of my experiences.
I want to start by sincerely thanking my Field Study mentor, Ma'am Lhen, for your understanding, support, and insightful advice. To the school administrators and cooperating teachers who invited me into their classrooms and gave me practical learning opportunities, now I have a greater understanding of what it really means to be an educator thanks to their kind sharing of their knowledge and experience. Your commitment to developing the next generation of teachers has had a significant impact on my development and comprehension of the teaching profession.
To my impulsive friends, helpful classmates, and fellow pre-service teachers, I am forever grateful for the friendship, cooperation, and shared experiences that you guys contributed impact to this journey. I have been greatly inspired by the support and guidance you all provide.
I would also like to thank my family who have always supported, provided, and encouraged me. in every ways you can think of to help. To my bebu, your understanding, and support have motivated me to work hard and finish this portfolio. Thank you for constantly encouraging me to finish my duties, helping me check the activities, give ideas, and provide better outcome for everything I am passionate about.
Above all, I thank God for His guidance, wisdom, and strength that have sustained me throughout this journey. Without His blessings, none of this would have been possible. Lagi' lagi, mula Sayo para sa mga kabataan ng bayan.
To my grade 10 students,
As my journey continue to another chapter, I want to take a moment to express my deepest gratitude to each and every one of you. From the very first day, you welcomed me with open hearts and open minds, and for that, I am truly thankful and grateful. You guys treated me as if I have been part of your lives for a long time.
One of the most fulfilling experiences of my journey as a future teacher has been teaching you, even for a brief period of time. Every day we've spent together has taught me something new, not just you. Your excitement, curiosity, and desire to learn served as a reminder to me of the reasons I chose this path: to mentor, encourage, and support your development. I am proud of every effort you have put forth, every challenge that you have overcome, and every action you have taken to improve yourself. More than the lessons I taught you in the classroom, I hope I was able to awaken in you a value that will last a lifetime, whether it be kindness, persistence, or just the conviction that you can accomplish incredible things.
I appreciate you guys helping to make my internship a memorable one. Even though I was your teacher at first, I'm leaving as an individual who is dedicated to supporting your success. I will always value the principles that we learned together, the laughs we had, and the memories we created. Never give up on your dreams, never stop believing in yourself, and never cease striving for excellence.
Best Regards,
Ma'am Ali
Daily Time Record
Medical Certificate
Memorandum of Agreement
Endorsement Letter
Certificate of Completion
Cooperating Teachers' Evaluation of FS Student
Certificate of Recognition
My first day at San Francisco Highschool was full of emotions I can’t explain. I am both excited and nervous upon entering the school for our endorsement. I saw a group of Student interns like me in the covered court where we all wait for the teacher who will endorse us. As we great each other with smiles, we also did complete our documents as requirements that is needed to pass for the school. After a while the meeting started, the principal Mrs. Rodriguez enlighten us about the school premises as well as its mission, vision, and history. After the meeting different majors got separated to be endorsed to each of the department heads of the school but since the TLE department head is on leave that day, we only got to meet the master teacher Mrs. Dayag. The atmosphere was quiet and awkward for a while probably since most of us don’t know one another and still grouping the situation. Mrs. Dayag provided the possible rotations, introductions of the subjects handled in TLE, and the basic Do’s and Don’t for our field study. At the same day we also got our scheduled classes and designation Resource teachers.
The first week of my teaching internship at SFHS have been a growing learning experience. I am personally chosen by Mrs. Elena Dayag in which I am handling Grade 9 and 10 Programming students. As I walked to the classroom on my first day feeling anxious yet excited for the new experience. I was excited to spend every moment involving myself in the exciting world of teaching, and this field study offers a chance to connect conceptual understanding with real-world application. Ma’am Lhen also helped me familiarized the student observer’s responsibilities in class. The whole week I have helped in keeping the room tidy like opening and closing the ports and laptops used in the computer lab as part of my daily routine, as well as observing and being acquainted with the students I am with.
These early weeks' most notable features were the variety of learning styles and the value of flexibility in instruction. Even though I had difficulties with classroom management, my mentor's advice enabled me to overcome these obstacles. I'm excited to advance in my career by assuming greater responsibility and practicing my teaching techniques. From week 1 I’ve now mastered the basic routines such as entering the classroom early to prepare the ICT tools the students need to use. Turning each computer on as well as neatly aligning the desks, chairs, chargers, and socket ports for extensions. Setting up the classroom is the first thing I have observed from Ma’am Lhen since most of the students came early too.
The San Francisco high school is huge, they have 15 buildings 16 if we included the Mall outside the premises since most of the students go there after class ends. I have observed how they give importance on each TLE subject course such as Agricultural space for planting and farming. They also have other rooms for other TLE subjects such as Drafting tables, ICT labs, Cookery rooms, and Industrial arts corner where they conduct electrical related activities. Since I have been assigned to Ma’am Lhen where she handles programming students, I get to observe the room and tools they use for their hands-on activities. Upon observing their classroom, I see that the room is divided into 2 halves where there are 2 long tables (1 in the left and 1 in the right), each long tables can occupy 20 students. Each student has their own laptops where they can use to finish their activities or keep up with the lesson being discussed on that day. Sadly, there are few of the laptops are not working or have problems with the internet or the battery. In terms of their materials and resources, they use online sources if there is no PowerPoint made for their specific lesson. I can also say that the physical classroom is clean, safe, and spacious as well. The students in each section I have handled came warm and friendly.
This week we also got to meet the Head teacher of the TLE department, Ma’am Amie Cuasto. The meeting went smoothly and short, we have talked about the rotation and the shifts we may encounter. We are also tasked to make the 2-bulletin board eye pleasing. The 3-day shift came fast as we finish our tasks, each major has 1 bulletin board to fix. The HE and ICT teams agreed on one theme for the bulletin boards, it will also be put in the student’s lounge. The PUP students lounge is made for the student interns under PUP it was placed outside the TLE department so that we can also keep an eye for our RT’s classes, we can also rest there if we have vacant classes. The bulletin board we made is composed of the following: The first board is made up of the whiteboard material, so the background is plain white making a clean and eye-pleasing look. In this bulletin board, the 4 components of TLE are paste (ICT, HE, Agri-fishery, Industrial Arts). In the other bulletin board was about the common parts of a bulletin board which are the organizational chart, motivational quotes, and some TLE trivia helpful for the students to get to know the subject. The design for the second bulletin board was technology related to catch the attention of the students passing through the corridor.
Week 3 was the last week where we will stay for our 1st rotation, starting on Monday we will now have new schedules and Resource teacher to observe. For this week I get to observe the class according to the module tackled last time which is about the learner diversity: Developmental, Characteristics, Needs and Interest. With the help of this lesson, I get to understand and observe a diverse learner with different ages, characteristics, and interest. As a future teacher is it important to learn more about your student so that you would know how to behave, approach, and promote a smooth teaching-learning process. It will help us to plan and implement learning activities and assessment that are appropriate to their individual preferences.
Upon observing Ma’am Lhen’s class, I observed that different sections have different interest when it comes to learning. Some sections have slow pace in discussion ending up with unfinished outputs, activities, and lessons to finish for the whole quarter. Some have high quality learning; they get to finish 3 lessons a week along with the activities and quizzes they have. Furthermore, I get to see their other side other than the subject they are learning. Some students are good in arts, I get to see their poster and slogans bade in the ESP month. During that time some of the students are already finish in their lessons so get to have free time. In terms of social domain, students’ interaction with their teacher would have a high point. Students in Baltazar, Gomburza, and Alonzo is the closest to ma’am Lhen. They often get along with the jokes and the class discussion would go smoothly. While the other sections are very quiet and behaved in terms of only few of the students get to participate and focus on the lesson. Upon observing the class I also get to observe that the interactions with their classmates or friends. I can see that few of the students get along with their classmates, most of the students have groups in their class, each has squads with different type of people get along. For instances, there is a group of students who are more active in games, some love doing tiktoks, some are good in coding, I can see that their group get along because they have one thing they interest in. In terms of their emotional and cognitive domain, I get to observe that each of the students I get too talk to, to get to laugh with, and to have a chance to analyze and solve a problem with are different from one another. Each student has their own way to resolve and criticize things. Some are independent when it comes to their coding, some are asking for help, while some students just go with the flow when it comes to their activities. I can observe that the feelings of the students get to affect the way they think and analyze. One instance that I get to experience this is when this one student from Escoda is having a hard time in fixing her code due to a syntax error resulting that her activity won’t run. By this time, she was already pissed and not in the mood to try to find the error in her program, on the one side is her friend, trying who is trying to calm her down and offering a hand to fix the program. By then the student calms down and they got to finish and fix the code within the class hours. In this scenario I get to observe their emotional and cognitive development domain.
I spent this time getting acquainted with classroom procedures and duties, listening to the lesson and watching classes. The significance of adaptability in addressing the diverse learning styles of students was among the most profound insights. I initially struggled to control the classroom environment, but with the help of Ma’am Lhen, my mentor and helpful criticism, I was able to adjust and develop. There are really some students in different sections who are difficult to get to know since there have been avoiding me if I get to be close to ask questions, maybe they thought it will be related to the lessons. As I take on more responsibility and hone my teaching techniques, I hope to build on the foundation that these following few weeks.
As Ma’am Lhen discuss throughout the days in this week, I have observed the strategies in developing the classroom climate for different sections. She always starts her class with greetings, guidelines/reminders, and the house rules. Then she follows with the recap of the previous lesson, lesson proper, and ends with a recap of the lesson discussed. In between the lesson proper, Ma’am Lhen always takes time to make jokes to keep the mood light. In addition to that I have also observed that it is important to read the room, in which as educators always assess the learning environment making sure to address the questions from your students. Addressing the learning environment help the students feels safe and belong in the discussing, talking with your students also helps us to assess the attentiveness of the learner from the class discussion. Ma’am Lhen’s strategies include keeping an eye contact with your students. She also taught me to call out tardiness from the students, make use of interactive materials/gamification in the lesson to promote interaction and competitiveness in class. She also uses chips; it is a type of reward for the students who recites in class. This pointing system shows who are the students that are active, listening, and attentive when it comes to programming lessons. She also taught me a few things when it comes to teaching, such as using English as your language in teaching. As much as possible she would like to discuss in tagalog so that the students would easily understand, but there are languages in ICT specially programming that don’t have direct translation in tagalog. She also reminds me to clarify the lesson again and again to the students making sure they completely understood. Make sure to clarify if your students can still follow whether you are discussing too fast for the time limit. I also observed that there are readily materials and output activities side by side while discussing which shows that Ma’am Lhen uses output based discussion so that the students can also see both the syntax and the outcome of the programming lesson being discussed.
Other than the strategies, I have observed that the time limit per class is too short for 1 lesson to be finished. Each section only has 40 minutes to attend, some of the students came from a far building so they must walk to get to the computer lab. So, I believe that time is one of the struggles students had experience assign from the lack of ICT tools they have. In addition, internet is also a major problem, since sometimes Ma’am Lhen uses online resource material for their discussion, lack of internet connectivity for the laptops that both educators and learners uses is a problem. They can’t keep up with the material being shown in the projector which result in taking too much time to refresh and reconnect to the internet.
This week marks the schedule of our first rotation of RTs, I get to observe now a new subject in ICT which is the CSS. Since the observation in Module 4 centers on the diversity present in classrooms and the critical role of teachers in addressing these differences to foster effective learning, I get to see different kind of need of the students. During this module, I noted that learners bring varied characteristics, such as gender, cultural and religious backgrounds, and socio-economic statuses, to their school environment. These differences shape their behavior, interactions, and performance. I get to see some learners, particularly those from indigenous groups, carry distinct beliefs and cultural practices that influence their engagement in educational activities. There is this one time where they must attend a catholic mass in the covered court. Since there are students who Iglesia Ni Cristo, some are born again, they get to sit in the room waiting for the mass to finish. Others face challenges such as disabilities, or economic hardships are observed, there are instances that students couldn’t focus due to the problems they face, Sir Angelo adjust and think of other ways to cater their needs. It is important to nurture different students and not to have biases in the classroom. I have learned that we should always think about each of the students we have to feel that they belong to your class as a family.
In my observation this highlighted how teachers leverage differentiated instruction to meet the diverse needs of their students. This approach tailors’ content, activities, and assessments to suit varying abilities, interests, and needs, ensuring inclusivity. As a Student Teacher it is important demonstrate openness and respect when working with students. We should encourage these learners by creating a facilitative and non-imposing environment, fostering both respect for diversity and inclusion.
For week 6, based on the Module 5: The Community and Home Environment, it has emphasized the profound influence of a learner’s surroundings on their growth and development. Upon learning this module, I explored how early experiences and family characteristics shape the behaviors, attitudes, and academic performance of students. In staying with Sir Angelo, I have observed that they tend to be close with Him. These observations shows that maybe the learners' home environments, including parenting styles, socio-economic factors, and relationships within the family, significantly affect their capacity to thrive in school. There is this one time that students during their free time, they share experiences at home during this time Sir Gelo tries to give advice and show concerns for their problems. I have realized that it is important to identify effective strategies on how to work with the learners’ parents or guardians to ensure a better education for them.
Lastly, the module underscored the importance of collaboration between schools and the wider community to maximize students' learning experiences. I have learned that observing teachers' strategies to involve parents and community stakeholders, I noted effective practices like regular communication, parent-teacher meetings, and community-based projects that enhance family-school partnerships. It is important to get to know your students more to know how to approach and have an in-depth look to their learning. These practices not only strengthen the learning environment but also encourage holistic development in students.
Overall, this observation reinforced the critical connection between a learner’s home and community environment and their success in school. It also demonstrated the necessity for teachers to actively engage with these external influences to foster a supportive, nurturing, and inclusive educational atmosphere.