1. NARRATIVE REPORT
Demonstration is a teaching method used by both large and small groups. It involves
showing of clear examples by the use of experiments. Teaching is what the teacher does, or
something that’s learned. In overall, Teaching Demonstration occurs when the students have a
hard time connecting the theories to actual practice when the students are unable to understand
the application of theories. The teacher’s role in this practice is to act as a facilitator and formal
and ongoing, carried out at a school or other place of formal education. During teaching
demonstration it is also important to use visualization and verbalization for more effective
teaching.
Before creating our letters to be signed by our Department Chairperson Ms. Alfe M.
Solina and our Dean Ms. Lilibeth P. Novicio, we went to the school that we like to have our
macro demonstration, named, Queen of Angels Learning Center, to the complete information
needed in our letter. On the same day, we got our proposed letter and the school that we choose
gives us a schedule for our demonstration on October 9,2014, Thursday afternoon.
In preparation to our Macro Demonstration, we used discussion strategy to promote
discovery learning. The learning plan that we did use was in 4A’s and those are Activity,
Application, Abstraction and Analysis that falls under the learner centered approach. The
approach that we used focuses on the students wherein they are the ones to answer the questions
given by the teacher and there are times that it is hard for them to analyze whatever the question
is, it is the part where the teacher will be the facilitator of the classroom instead. It is more on
activities and paper works during class hours for the students to become active the teacher
prepares some motivational activity which is somehow related to the topic. The draft of our
lesson plan is checked by Sir. Paul Jorel Santos, he gives his comment and suggestions on it that
we followed to make it effective. He suggests that we need to do some changes in our objectives
that will belong to the HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills) and suggested some activity that
the students will enjoy. And we revised our learning plan, and then the final draft is approved.
On October 09, 2014, Thursday, we are about to conduct our teaching demonstration at
Queen of Angels Learning Center at exactly 1 o’clock in the afternoon, we need to be early in
the school even the demonstration will start at 2 o’clock in the afternoon for us to prepare the
materials we will use in teaching demonstration like the Digital Light Processing (DLP)
Projector, visual aids and as well as the foods for the students and evaluators. For the foods, we
prefer juices and cupcakes for the students and we bought brownies for the evaluators as a sign
of appreciation in accommodating our group to conduct teaching demonstration in their school.
At the moment we arrived in the school, we all rest first for a couple of minutes before
preparing for the materials to be use, our demo teacher review his lesson plan before proceeding
to the classroom. It is quiet important to review the lesson plan before proceeding to the actual
2. teaching-learning process because it guides the teacher in the whole flow of the lesson and in
making lesson plan you are also making an overview about the learning outcomes which the
students must possess at the end of the discussion. When it is exactly 2 o’clock, we proceeded to
the classroom where we about to conduct the teaching demonstration. In the classroom, there
were exactly 10 students in the classroom; the number of the students in a classroom is one of the
factors affecting the students’ ability to learn and the capability to absorb each lesson, if the class
is composed of more than 80 students, there is a possibility that teacher will be in trouble in
terms of delivering the lesson and making sure that each student will acquire knowledge at the
end of the session. At first, the demo teacher is quiet nervous but along the teaching-learning
process he worked well. Since the demo teacher is in the field of Mathematics and the topic
assigned to him is about Distance Formula in specific, he did not experience much hardship
about explaining each strand of the topic.
Along the teaching–learning process, we notice that the students do not participating, it is
maybe because of the process of adapting new teacher but later on they participated well. Active
participation allows the students to talk, listen and reflect as well to their learning’s through
problem-solving exercises, simulations and other activities that will be useful in boosting the
confidence of the students to discover their abilities. When it comes to the activities that the
demo teacher has provided, the students were actively participated. Activities are made to test the
prior and newly acquired knowledge of the students. During also the activities, the demo teacher
guides his students in doing the activities.
At the end of the teaching-learning, we distributed the foods to the students as a sign of
appreciation in their active participation in the said teaching demonstration.
In general, we had learned that when it comes to macro teaching demonstration,
cooperation of each group members is quite important to make the teaching demonstration
successful. The willingness to teach your students makes you feel like it is easy. This kind of
requirement allows an education student to be aware of the real situation, on how to handle such
kind of problems in teaching-learning process which later on will experience after learning all
the theories and philosophies underlying.