Structure of Lesson Plan in the Philippines

A Lesson Plan is the main thing or mandatory thing for a teacher who will teach. The lesson plan contains information about learning topics, starting from basic competency and ending with assessment. Each school has a different lesson plan structure. As I experienced, each school has a different template.

 

In today's topic, I will share information about the lesson plan structure used by the Philippines and my experience when making a lesson plan in the Philippines.

 

The lesson plan makers have the same outline. Education in the Philippines has three forms of lesson plans:

1. Brief Lesson Plan

It is just like an outline of the lesson for the day and it only contains keywords.

 

2. Semi-Detailed Lesson Plan

Commonly used in ranking public school teachers. It only contains questions from the teachers. But, when it comes to activities, you have to include the instructions, and the mere game or activity.

 

3. Detailed Lesson Plan

It has two parts: the teacher's activity and the student’s activity. It anticipates what will happen that day including the answers of the students. It contains not just the questions but also the answers of the students.

When we write a lesson plan, the most important thing we have to remember is we have to write it in such a way that when someone borrows it, it is comprehensive.

 

Next are the major parts of the lesson plan.

1. Objectives

In writing objectives, you should use the SMART guidelines and must cover the three domains.

SMART includes:

-S-pecific

-M-easurable

-A-ttainable

-R-realistic

-T-time bound

Then what about the three domains, what is included with the three domains?

in three domains there are:

•Cognitive

•psychomotor

•Affective

 

2. Subject Matter

In writing subject matter has several parts such:

> Topic, in writing topics, we are required to be specific to every topic that we need to discuss.

> Reference, in writing, references must use the format (title of the book, author, date published, name of the company, page number).

> Materials, these materials are items that we use to support learning and teaching activities.

> Value integration, in this value integration, we are advised to write what values are contained in the learning.

3. Teaching Procedure

Parts of the teaching procedure include:

•Routine class

Routine class usually contains

a) Classroom management

-Prayer

-Greeting

-Classroom Management

-Checking of Attendance

b) Review of the Past Lesson

-this section usually contains questions related to the previous lesson.

 •Motivation

Motivation could be in the form of a game, an activity, or a question-answer portion and not necessarily recorded or graded. The motivation should be related to your topic for the day. It helps to catch the attention of the learners before proceeding to the main discussion.

 •Lesson Proper

The lesson proper part contains only the questions for your students for them to get the topic for that day. If you are going to add information, you have to write it. You must present the questions in sequence.

Parts of lesson proper:

a) Presentation

b) Discussion

 •Generalization

The generalization part contains questions for summing up what you have discussed. It also contains questions about what the students have learned and realized. This is the part where your students will state the values gained from the discussion.

 •Application

Your application must be a short-term activity. It could be recorded or not depending on the teacher. Application is not your quiz. It is just a way to apply what the students have just learned but must still be related to your objective and your lesson. In this part, they can apply all the information that they gained from the discussion.

 

4. Evaluation

Your evaluation is your way of assessing if your students learn or not. It could be a paper-and-pencil test or a performance-based assessment. If it is performance-based, you must provide rubrics attached to your lesson plan. Be specific and clear in writing instructions like what paper to use.

 

5. Assignment

The purpose of the assignment is either for practice or pre-learning. Bear that in mind. Don’t give more than one assignment. It must not happen that your assignment is more difficult to do than the quiz. And in the Philippines has a regulation DepEd Memo 392 s.2010 (No assignment on Fridays).

 

Experience in Writing Lesson Plans

I think the level of difficulty in completing this lesson is fairly easy because when making a lesson plan, I was given a guidebook to make a lesson plan. At that time my mentor gave me a choice of topics to teach, the choices were volleyball, basketball, and badminton. At that time, I was hesitant to choose whether basketball or badminton. In the end, I decided to choose basketball with the topic of “Basic Movements in Passing Basketball”.

 

After that, I was helped by Ma’am Rosenell (critical teacher) on what things should be in making a lesson plan (like what I have explained above).

 

Then in the evening I immediately decided to make this lesson plan. it took me a few days to make the lesson plan because after I finished making it, I had to send it to Ma’am Rosenell for review.

 

Finally, the Semi-Detailed lesson plan was completed but at that time it did not stop Ma’am Rosenell asked me to make a Detailed lesson plan which is longer than the semi-detailed lesson plan. I spent two to three (2 to 3) days to complete my detailed lesson plan. This detailed lesson plan made me know better what I was going to say when I was teaching because the detailed lesson plan contains the conversation between the teacher and students from the beginning to the end. So, during my time in the Philippines, I made two (2) lesson plans, the first one is a Semi-detailed lesson plan and the second one is a Detailed lesson plan.

 

That's all the experience that I can share with you about making lesson plans. I hope my friends who will read this blog, could get information and it may help them to make one if they need it in the future. Thank you!

 

 

FOOD of the PHILIPPINES

 Food is an important part of human life. Everyone has different tastes in food. This is why there are many kinds of food and processed food in the world.

So, in this section I will share my story about the food in the Philippines while staying here as Exchange Student.

The Philippines has a variety of foods from processed vegetables, chicken, meat, fruits, and so on. Most Filipino foods have sour and salty flavour. When compared to Indonesia, they have food that tends to be spicy, sweet, and savory.

I find it very difficult to adapt to Filipino food. But, I have a favourite food in the Philippines which is ''broccoli beef'' I love broccoli beef because it has a taste that is almost similar to Indonesian food which is sweet and savoury. During my time in the Philippines, I rarely found spicy and sweet food.

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The Philippines is a predominantly Catholic country, so for Muslims who want to come to the Philippines, you have to be careful about what you want to eat because Filipino food tends to use processed pork. Luckily, my teacher at NEUST always gave me food with non-pork preparations such as chicken, beef or mutton, vegetables and others.

The first food that was given to me while in the Philippines was Tinola, Tinola is a chicken-based soup usually served as a main dish with white rice. The ingredients of Tinola includes: chicken, young papaya, chilli leaves, siling labuyo in a broth flavoured with ginger, onions, and fish sauce. Tinola has a sour and salty flavour.

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Next up is Chiken Adobo or Beef Adobo. It is a favourite of Filipinos as many people have advised me to eat it because they think it is one of the most delicious foods. Upong researching, it stated that Adobo is a type of cooking method in Filipino cuisine produced by marinating meat, seafood or vegetables in a liquid made from a mixture of vinegar, soy sauce, and garlic, then sautéed in oil and cooked in the liquid sauce. It tends to have a salty flavour. Therefore, when the first time I ate this food I was a little shocked because I thought it was too salty hahaha but with time I got used eating this famous and delicious food.

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And, in terms of dessert the teachers gave us MAJA BLANCA. Maja is a dessert that originated in the Philippines. Maja has a pudding-like texture but it has a sweet and savoury taste. The main ingredient of maja is corn.

Besides Maja Blanca, I tried Halo-halo, it is a mixed ice from the Philippines. After shaving, the ice is served in a bowl or tall glass with a variety of fillings, including: kolang-kaling, banana, nata de coco, kopyor coconut, Chinese henna, and sweet cooked nuts and tubers. When already mixed the ingredients with ice in a bowl or tall grass, it is ready to serve, eat, and feel the cold of this dessert.

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To sum it up, the food experienced in the Philippines is good and I would recommend this not only for my fellow Indonesians, but to the whole citizen of the world. It is indeed true that when you love the country, you will be able to used on their taste, cuisines, and specifically with their foods. Philippines is not only rich with a breathe taking sceneries, aside from that Filipinos are also rich with their delicacies.

EDUCATION IN THE PHILIPPINES

In improving a country's human resources or to achieve a country's ideals are always related or related to the name EDUCATION. Education is one of the measuring points in the success of a country. When a country has a good education system and runs according to plan, it can be said that the country is stepping towards enormous progress.

Education is the biggest challenge for every country. Because every country wants its population to have high human resources and be able to compete with people in other countries.

One of them is the Philippines. The Philippines is one of the top 5 countries with quality education in South east Asia. The latest education system in the Philippines is to establish compulsory education for 13 years, with details of 1 year of pre-primary education, 6 years of primary school education, 4 years of junior high school education and 2 years of senior high school education. The Philippines has a literacy rate of 97%. That is a very good number.

In my observations in the country of the Philippines, the Philippines has shortcomings in the distribution of education. especially the areas that are far and difficult to reach. Then I asked my friend who lives in the Philippines what shortcomings there are in education in the Philippines and he was the state or ability of a person to pay for education. Poor Filipinos think "it's okay that they don't have an education, the most important thing is that they can eat". That's why when I was in a tourism centre in Gapan City, there were so many young children who were forced to work because of their economic condition.

In my journey to do Students Exchange, I was surprised by the condition of the Philippines where the average Filipino can speak English. in contrast to my home country Indonesia. every education or learning in the Philippines lecturers teachers or students always use English and indeed occasionally still use Tagalog (the national language of the Philippines).

THE NEUST SITUATION

 University is a place where you can continue your education after secondary school. University is very important for those who want to get a degree and when they graduate they can get the job they dream of.

Just like the university I stayed at for my exchange, Nueva Ecija University of Science and Technology, or NEUST for short. NEUST is a state or public university. And NEUST also has a junior and senior high school beside the campus. NEUST has several campuses, I don't know exactly how many campuses, but they have more than 4 campuses. NEUST has many faculties and it is easy for high school graduates to choose the faculties they want. The faculties of NEUST are as follows:

1. college of agriculture

2. college of architecture

3. college of arts and science

4. college of criminology

5. college of education

6. college of engineering

7. college of industrial technology

8. college of management business technologi

9. college of nursing 

10. college of public admistrasion disaster management.

Based on what I experienced, NEUST is similar to the Indonesian high school system. They have an annual event for all students and what I saw in one month they have many activities outside of learning. Another similarity with the high school system is that once a week they have a day where all students clean the campus. The most interesting fact in the Philippines whether on campus or off campus I found it difficult to find rubbish bins but it has a very clean condition. Unlike Indonesia, where it is very easy to find waste bins but there is still a lot of rubbish scattered around. Then in the association of students here there is no SENIORITY or bullying of students they are all good from junior to senior or senior to junior they are always united and they are friendly. This is inversely proportional to the situation in Indonesia. Until now in schools and outside schools in Indonesia there is still bullying against someone and the positive value is that people in Indonesia are aware of bullying so the level of bullying in Indonesia is already small.

In the Philippines, there are several curriculum that can be used, while the curriculum used by NEUST is the MAPEH and MATATAG curriculum. MAPEH is a curriculum that emphasises music, art, physical education and health. MAPEH is used in the 10th grade of NEUST. MATATAG is a new curriculum created by the Department of Education or DepEd. DepEd created this curriculum to :

1. MAke the curriculum relevant to produce competent and job-ready, active, and responsible citizens;

2. TAke steps to accelerate delivery of basic education facilities and services;

3.TAke good care of learners by promoting learner well-being, inclusive education, and a positive learning environment; and

4. Give support to teachers to teach better.

In short, the Department has specific directions that include curriculum improvement with a focus on basic skills and peace competencies, improvement of education infrastructure, strengthening inclusive education, additional support for teachers, and professional development. The MATATAG agenda aims to improve access, equity, resilience.

(https://www.deped.gov.ph/)

So that's a bit of the situation in NEUST and a bit of a comparison with Indonesia.

PROLOG

Prolog

Assalamu'alaikum wr. wb

before starting to write, Let me introduce myself to you,M

y name is Syahrizal Haryo Yudhanto. You can call me Rizal. I am from Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, and study at the University of Tunas Pembangunan Surakarta (UTP). Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Major in Physical Education.

I am one of the UTP students who participated in the SEA-Teacher student exchange programme sent to the Philippines, specifically at Nueva Ecija University of Science and Technology (NUEST) for 28 days.

On this occasion I will share my activities while in the Philippines precisely at NUEST.