West Visayas State University informally referred to as West or WVSU is a public normal research university (a university system) located in Western Visayas region of the Philippines with its main campus in La Paz, Iloilo City. It was established formally in 1924 as Iloilo Normal School under the Philippine normal school system during the American colonial period in the Philippines under the tutelage of the Thomasites, but it dates back its founding 22 years later when the university’s College of Education was founded in 1902. It later became West Visayas State College in 1965 and became a university and changed its name to West Visayas State University in 1986.
The university is one of the accredited Philippine Universities of the University Mobility in Asia and the Pacific and one of the most prominent institutions in the Visayas in the field of Teacher Education, Nursing and Medicine. The West Visayas State University (WVSU) is a university system composed of different separate campuses and the West Visayas State University Medical Center. The main campus is composed of nine schools and colleges and one institute. The Philippine Commission on Higher Education has also designated the university through its main campus as the Center of Excellence in Teacher Education and Center of Development in Nursing while the Lambunao Campus as Centers of Development in the programs of Agriculture and Forestry.
Academic Support System
West Visayas State University Integrated Lab School has School’s yard for flag ceremony and also for sport. The total of classrooms from grade 1 until grade 6 are seven classes. It’s also had free play room, familly corner, develompent corner, culture corner, science corner, library, computer room and cooking room for elemantary School. This facility also use together with Junior high school and Senior high school in West Visayas State University. Teaching system in West Visayas State University mostly use power point presentation and video as aperseption. grouping for the activities, and teacher also do explanation after the activities for confirmed the lesson. And give a task for the students to do for the evaluation
Materials and learning sources
For teaching and learning they have projector in some classes, speaker, and using green chalkboard. For physical school environment they have free play room, restroom for different gender, kitchen, playground, warehouse, cctv’s room for security, security room, healthy’s room and teacher center. teacher center include teacher’s room, headmaster room.
Measurment and evaluation system
Measurment and evaluation system in Integrated Lab SchoolWest Visayas State University, they have annual program, week activity unit, day activity unit, assesment form, individual report card, monthly report book, annual report book. And for the student they have student’s acceptance book, student’s presence book and student’s health card.
General Curriculum
The K to 12 Program covers Kindergarten and 12 years of basic education (six years of primary education, four years of Junior High School, and two years of Senior High School [SHS]) to provide sufficient time for mastery of concepts and skills, develop lifelong learners, and prepare graduates for tertiary education, middle-level skills development, employment, and entrepreneurship.
K to 12 (also K-12) is an education system under the Department of Education that aims to enhance learners’ basic skills, produce more competent citizens, and prepare graduates for lifelong learning and employment. “K” stands for Kindergarten and “12” refers to the succeeding 12 years of basic education (6 years of elementary education, 4 years of junior high school, and 2 years of senior high school).
Before teaching the teachers should make lesson plan before, the function of lesson plan is planning what you want to do when you teach later. Integrated Lab School West Visayas State University especially for elementay school use details lesson plan. I details lesson plan the teacher should guess what will happen in teaching and learning processing later.
Pedagogical Contents
Teachers usually use collaborative, collaboration or focus group discussion. Because of in elementary school there the members of the class in each more than 50. If the teacher only use conventional methode it would be bored, but if the teacher use group discussiun teach and learn process would be more fun and the students can understand clearly what the teacher teaches. Integrated Lab School West Visayas State University in general the teacher is creative to make learning materials they will reuse thing also innovative and sometimes use projector and shows power point or video for get interest the students. For the students they also learn computer in lab computer. And for the evaluation the teacher sometimes give them star for reward and record all the assessment in record book.
Observation on Teacher(s) in the Classroom
Before teachig the teacher make lesson plan, have discussion with other teacher about teach and learn process they will do and also trying the materials thet they will use before it will be simulate for the students. When they teaching sometimes the students are very noisy but teacher can handle and manage the class very well, with agreement reached that they made it between teacher and the students the teacher also use grouping methode when teaching. For the evaluation teachers use task to do, long or short term project and give the reward to the students who did the projet or task well. Overall the teacher is very well when teaching.
Teaching Plan
I teach science for elementary school, and in elementary school use K to 12 curriculum The K to 12 Program covers Kindergarten and 12 years of basic education (six years of primary education, four years of Junior High School, and two years of Senior High School [SHS]) to provide sufficient time for mastery of concepts and skills, develop lifelong learners, and prepare graduates for tertiary education, middle-level skills development, employment, and entrepreneurship.
K to 12 (also K-12) is an education system under the Department of Education that aims to enhance learners’ basic skills, produce more competent citizens, and prepare graduates for lifelong learning and employment. “K” stands for Kindergarten and “12” refers to the succeeding 12 years of basic education (6 years of elementary education, 4 years of junior high school, and 2 years of senior high school).
Before teaching the teachers should make lesson plan , the function of lesson plan is planning what you want to do when you teach later. Integrated Lab School West Visayas State University especially for elementay school especially in science major use details lesson plan. I details lesson plan the teacher should guess what will happen in teaching and learning processing later. The components of the lesson plan are:
- learning competency (objective and general objective)
- Concept (materials, reference, science process/skills, value integration)
- Learning task (engage, exploration, explanation, elaboration and evaluation.
- Engage is asking question to probe and ptior knowledge of the students about topic and ask the specific questions about the lesson to be answered during explore phase.
- Exploration is hansof action
- Explain is where teachers input the lesson and have to explain to the students about what they do in exploration before.
- Elaboration is apply learned concept in new situation
- Evaluation assessment what students know about the lesson
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