Levie m. Discaya Learning Action Cell

LEARNING ACTION CELL
• 7 Facilitation Skills
• 4 A’s
• Session Guide & Presentation of
Examples
Levie M. Discaya
Baras Pinugay Elem. School

Learning Objectives:
• at the end of the session we are
able to know the definition and
examples of the 7 Facilitation
Skills and Guidelines of in
Critiquing 4A’s Instruction
• Discuss the Session Guide and
Presentation of Examples

7 Facilitation Skills
1. Observing Skills
2. Questioning Skills
3. Listening Skills
4. Attending Skills
5. Integrating Skills
6. Oral Communication Skills
7. Skills in using Training Aids

1. Observing Skills
• Observation is “the action or process
of observing something or someone
in order to get information”
• our observation skills inform us about
objects, events, attitudes and
phenomena using one or more
senses.

Observing Skills
Examples:
• Noted trainees’ level of involvement in
all activities
• Monitored the energy level of the
trainees during sessions
• Sensed the needs of the trainees that
may affect learning process

2. Questioning Skills
- are essential to good teaching
teachers often use questions to
ensure that students are attentive,
engaged, and to assess students’
understanding.
- such questions enable the teacher to
more accurately evaluate if the
students truly were attentive and if
they understand the material.

Questioning Skills
Examples:
• Formulated questions in a simple manner
• Asked questions that were clear and focused
• Formulates follow-up questions to trainees
responses appropriately
• Asked Higher Order Thinking Skills(HOTS)
• Acknowledged trainees’ responses
• Solicited, accepted and acted on feedback
from trainees
• Processed responses with probing to elicit
the desired training

3. Listening Skills
- are the ability to actively understand
information provided by the speaker,
and display interest in the topic
discussed.
- includes providing speaker with
feedback, such as the asking
pertinent questions; so the speaker
knows the message is being
understood.

Listening Skills
Ex:
• Listened and understood the meaning
of what have been said
• Responded positively to trainees
insights
• Clarifies and checked my
understanding of what was heard
• Reacted to ideas not to the person

4. Attending Skills
- a skills that covers
classroom speaking and
listening comprehension.
- evaluates a students
abilities to process language
at a level that integrates skills
and knowledge.

Attending Skills
Ex:
• Created the proper environment
based on adult learning principles
• Directed and redirected the trainees
to the learning tasks
• Managed the learning atmosphere
throughout the sessions
• Acknowledge greetings and
responses of trainees

5. Integrating Skills
- refers to interaction of the four main
language skills all together during
instruction. We have the listening,
writing, speaking and reading.
- Allows us to explore, gather, process,
refine and present information about
the topic.

Integrating Skills
Examples:
• Highlighted important results of the
activity that lead to the attainment of
the objectives of the session
• Deepened and broadened trainees
outlook on the significance of the
outputs

6. Oral Communicating Skills
-Implies communication through mouth.
- Includes individual conversing with each
other, be it direct conversation or
telephonic conversation.
- Speeches, presentations, discussions
are all forms of oral communication.

Oral Communicating Skills
- how you communicate your audience
or interpret what you want to deliver
- skills were you verbally transmit
information and ideas from individual
or group to another.

Oral Communicating Skills
Ex:
• Expressed ideas with clarity, logic
and grammatically correct sentences
• Spoke with well-modulated voice
• Delivered ideas with confidence and
sincerity

7. Skill in Using Training Aids
• Training Aids a device used to
increase the effectiveness of training
• skills were very useful tool to present
the whole topic such as power point
presentation, videos, templates,
Visual aids, hand outs, gadgets and
etc.

Skill in Using Training Aids
• Employed appropriate and updated
training aids ,
• Made training aids that were simple and
clear ,
• Used training aids that were attractive
and interesting ,
• Utilized training aids that were socially,
culturally, and gender fair .

GUIDELINES IN
CRITIQUING THE
4A’s INSRUCTION
• Activity
• Analysis
• Abstraction/Integration
• Application

Preparation
- the process of making ready or being made
for use or consideration.
Ex:
• Are all instructional materials ready?
• Were the materials prepared according to
guidelines set?
• Are the roles of learners clear?
• Did each learners have a fair share of air
time?

1. Activity
- state of being active; behavior or actions of
particular kind;
- something that is done as work or for a
particular purpose;
- done for pleasure and usually involves
group of people.

Activity
Examples:
• Was the opening inviting enough for the learners
to be involved ?
• If the session started with an energizer, was the
energizer relevant, related to or leading to the
topic?
• Did the teacher establish rapport with learners?
• Is the activity or the activities appropriate with the
given specific objectives?
• Did the activity provide data for the teacher to
gather that would lead to the desired content
learning?

• Were the instructions clear to all the
learners? Where they clearly given?
• Were the learners informed of the
time frame for activity?
• If the teacher used visuals, where the
visuals clear from the last row of the
group of learners?
• Did the teacher monitor the
accomplishment or performance of
the activity?

2. Analysis
• Detailed examination of the elements
or instruction of something.
Example:
• Did the teacher ask questions about
or from the activity ?
• Did the teacher consider process
questions?

Analysis
• Did the questions elicit responses that
led to the process or desired content
learning?
• Did the teacher acknowledge, accept
and/or publish learners’ responses?
• If the teacher published the responses ,
where these written clearly, legibly and
logically?

3. Abstraction or Integration
- the quality of dealing with ideas
rather than events.
Examples:
Did the teacher relate the abstraction
points with (published) responses of
the learners?

Abstraction or Integration
Ex:
• Did the teacher give credit to correct
responses of learners?
• Was the sequencing of inputs done in
the logical manner ?
• Was the sequencing of inputs done in
the logical manner ?

Abstraction or Integration
• Did the teacher give time for
learners to discover and process
their own learning?
• If the teacher used visuals, were
they appropriate with the content?
• Made according the guidelines set?
presented with proper timing?

Application
-A formal request to an authority for
something
Examples:
• Did the teacher assist learners to
apply their learning from the session-
either within the session or after ?
• Was the closure appropriate for the
topic and process of the session ?

The Rights and Privileges of
Teachers in the Philippines
• Learning Outcome:
Discuss the rights and privileges of
Teachers in the Philippines
• Introduction:
After having learned the demands that
learners, parents, school officials, the academic
community, the larger community and the state
put on teachers, let us discuss their rights and
privileges

The Rights and Privileges of
Teachers in the Philippines:
Sample exercises
for A’s Instruction

“ To deny people their human
rights is to deny their very
humanity”
- Nelson Mandela

Activity: Let’s Read These
Pretest
Write YES if you agree and NO if you disagree.
Refer to the Philippine Constitution,
Commonwealth Act No. 578 and RA 4670, the
Magna Carta for Public School Teachers found in
appendices C, D, and respectively.
• The 1987 Phil. Constitution states that the
State shall:
_____1. enhance the right of Teachers to
professional advancement.

Activity
____2. Assign the second highest budgetary
priority to education next to medicine.
_____3. Ensure that teaching will attract and retain
its rightful share of the available talents through
adequate remuneration and other means of job
satisfaction and fulfillment.
• Commonwealth Act No. 578 protects
teachers by providing a provision on:
______4. punishment against any person guilty of
assault against teaching personnel.

Activity
_______5. According due respect and protection for
teachers who are considered persons in authority.
• Republic Act No. 4770 or Magna Carta for Public
School Teachers states the following rights and
privileges of teacher:
_______6. academic freedom particularly with regard
to teaching methods.
_______7. the right to be free from compulsory
assignment not related to their duties defined in their
appointment or employment contracts unless given
additional compensation.

Activity
______8. freedom from involuntary contributions.
______9. Compensation for employment injuries in
accordance with existing laws
______10. establishing, joining, maintaining labor
organization of their own choice to promote their
welfare and defend their interest.
______11. transfer even without their consent from
one station to another where there is urgent
need.
______12. employment in the same locality for
those who are married whenever possible.

Activity
______13. a maximum of 4 hours actual teaching
hours per day.
______14. more than 6 hours of teaching but not
exceeding 9 hours.
______15. an additional compensation of at least
twenty percent of his regular remuneration after
teaching has completed at least six hours of
actual classroom teaching a day.
______16. additional compensation from Deped
when they serve during elections.

Activity
______17. equal remuneration, regardless of
disqualifications.
______18. Salary scales of teachers that provide for a
gradual progression from minimum to a maximum
salary by means of regular increments, granted
automatically after three years, even if the efficiency
rating of the teacher concerned is below satisfactory.
______19. the salary scales appropriated by a city,
municipal, municipal district, or provincial
government that are not lower than those provided
teachers of the National Government.

Activity
_____20. without exception Special Hardship
Allowances.
_____21. special hardship allowances equivalent to
at least 25% of their monthly salary for those who
qualify.
_____22. free medical examination even after
retirement.
_____23. a study leave for not more than 2 school
year study leave without any condition.
_____24. enjoy a compensation allowed for one
year provided permitted by the Secretary of
education but without compensation.

Activity
____26. an indefinite sick leave of absence
when the nature of the illness demands a
long treatment that will exceed one year
at the least
____27. one range salary raise upon
retirement for those who have fulfilled the
age and service requirement laws which
shall be the basis of the computation of
the lump sum of the retirement pay and
the monthly benefits thereafter.

Activity
______28. hardship allowance for those who teach
in multi-grade classes, mobile teachers and
Non-formal Education or Alternative Learning
System(ALS) Coordinators are entitled to
hardship allowance.
______29.stability of employment and security of
tenure under existing laws.
______30. safeguards in disciplinary procedure.

Analysis:
Let’s Analyze
Refer to the 1987 Phil. Constitution,
Commonwealth Act No.578 and RA
4670, the Magna Carta for Public
School Teachers found in Appendices
C,D, and E, respectively. Read each
part of these legal documents as you
check your answers

Analysis:
• Refer to the 1987 Phil. Constitution,
Commonwealth Act No.578 and RA
4670, the Magna Carta for Public
School Teachers found in Appendices
C,D, and E, respectively. Read each
part of these legal documents as you
check your answers

Abstraction:
- the quality of dealing with ideas
rather than events.
- freedom from representation
qualities in art

Abstraction:
• Let’s add to What you know
- Filipino teachers ought to be aware and
knowledgeable of these well-deserved benefits.
There is no other Constitution in the history of the
country that has given importance to teachers more
than the 1987 Phil. Constitution.
- states that “ the state shall enhance the right of
teachers to professional advancement(paragraph 4,)
-It shall “assign the highest budgetary priority to
education to “ensure that teaching will attract and
retain it’s rightful share of the best talents through
adequate remuneration and other means of Job
satisfaction and fulfillment”

Abstraction:
• RA 4670, otherwise known as Magna Carta of
Public School Teachers,
1. consent for transfer;
2. safeguards in disciplinary procedure;
3. no discrimination;
4. married couples to be employed in the same
locality;
5. Academic freedom;
6. Not more than 6 hours of actual classroom
teaching;
7. Additional compensation for activities outside
normal duties;

RA 4670
8. Salaries comparable to other occupations to
insure teachers a reasonable standards of life
for themselves and their families;
9. Salaries appropriated by local governments
not to be less than those paid to teachers of
the National government;
10. cost of living;
11. special hardship allowances;
12. Medical examination free of charge once a
year during the teacher’s professional life;

RA 4670
13. Prohibition of unauthorized deduction
from teachers’ salary;
14. study leave;
15. indefinite leave;
16. salary increase upon retirement;
17. freedom to establish or join organization
of their choice;

Application:
- the action of putting something into
operation
- Examples:
• Let’s apply What You have learned
• Cite all the teachers privileges and
benefits by using power point presentation.

Session Guide
• Is a training plan provides a useful
format for thinking about the
activities and resources you’ll use
to guide a group towards learning
objectives.
• To create an effective training
session plan,
• Steps: 1. define your objectives
2. clarifies key topics and
related concepts

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