To have a meaningful and successful accomplishment in this FS episode, be sure to read

through the whole episode before participating and assisting in your FS 2 Resource Teacher’s class.
Note all the information you will need and tasks you will need to do before working on this episode.

Target Your Intended Learning Outcomes

At the end of this Learning Episode, I must be able to:
Analyze teaching problems prevailing in the
classroom.
List matching action as a probable solution to the
teaching-learning problems.

Clarify Your Tasks

Matching Problematic Learning Situations with Probable Actions as Solution
Identifying a problem is a tricky task. Action research begins with identifying a problem.
Oftentimes, it is one of the difficult things to begin with. When a researcher was asked: “Have you
identified a problem for your action research? “Common answer will be: “My problem is that, I do
not have a problem.” Ironical, isn’t it?
If you observe and notice closely the teaching-learning environment in the classroom, you
will discover of lot of problematic situations. You must have also observed these problematic
situations when you did your FS 1 course.
But matching these problems with appropriate action is trickier.

Revisit the Experience

What are the teaching-learning problems that you think are present in your assigned
classrooms? Write five words that represent each of the five issues/problems.

1. ________________________________________________________________________
2. ________________________________________________________________________
3. ________________________________________________________________________
4. ________________________________________________________________________
5. ________________________________________________________________________

Each of the identified problem that you wrote has a corresponding action or solution.

IDENTIFIED ACTION as
PROBLEMS SOLUTION
Participate and Assist
Write a statement elaborating each of the issues/problems you have presented above. Write
in the space below.

The problems I identified are:

_________________________________________________
________________________
_________________________________________________
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Excellent! Let us see how we can assist and learn at the same time.

Suppose, the problem you have spotted is: COMPREHENSION.

How can you assist your mentor, after knowing that the learners have difficulty in
comprehension?

Make a Choice for your ACTION.

A. Conduct a tutorial lesson.
B. Show video lessons to help enhance comprehension.
C. Make a learning task to develop comprehension.

Suppose you chose letter A. conduct a Tutorial. So, you have identified the SOLUTION that
matches the PROBLEM which is Difficulty in Comprehension.

The Problem is: The Action is:

Difficulty in
Conduct a Tutorial
Comprehension of

Can you also choose letter B: Show video lesson as a SOLUTION for the same PROBLEM?
Explain______________________

The Problem is: The Action is:

Difficulty in Comprehension Show video lessons

of____
 1. What about letter C as a SOLUTION to the same PROBLEM? Why?

________________________________________________________________________

The Problem is: The Action is:

Make learning tasks to

Difficulty in Comprehension
improve comprehension
of

Interesting isn’t it? Now, you can assist your mentor by identifying observed problems in the class
and suggest actions to be done.

Notice
What have you noticed of the problem identified above? Can there be more than one
solution to the problem? _____ Explain.
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________

A creative and innovative teacher can find one or more than one solution or answer to the
same problem. Each solution matches with the problem. The more solutions identified to choose
from, the better for an action researcher.

Analyze
Let us try to look into the following scenarios in the daily life of a teacher. This scenario
might also be similar to the class you have observed and noticed.
Scenario A: Miss Fely is a grade four teacher in a typical elementary school. She has forty
learners in her class. One half of them cannot classify animals into vertebrates
and invertebrates. She has been repeating the same science lesson for two weeks,
yet no progress was observed. This situation has been bothering Miss Fely.

Can you identify, Miss Fely’s problem?

___________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________
Can you find a solution to solve her problem? Give your two suggestios.
___________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________

What solution can solve Miss Fely’s problem?

___________________________________________________________________________________
How?
____________________________________________________________________________
Are they matched with the problem?
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
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Scenario B: Sir Ryan teaches in a disadvantaged urban community. Most of his learners come
from families that are disrupted, either with single parents or with their guardians
who stand only as parents. They are deprived of the necessary food, clothing and
shelter.

Can you identify the most probable teaching-learning problem/s in the class of Sir Ryan?
____________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________

Can you propose a solution to solve one of the problems that you have identified?
____________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________

Reflect
After reading the two scenarios given above, how would identifying problematic situations
and finding solutions to these problems help you to become a better teacher? Explain
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________

Write Action Research Prompts

Using any one example in this activity, answer the AR prompts that follow:

OBSERVE

What problematic situation prevails in the classroom?

__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________

REFLECT

What changes do you want to achieve?

__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
PLAN
What strategies will you use to improve the situation?
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________

ACT
What would be the title of your Action Research should you conduct they study?
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________

Add: Solutions / actions

Check for Mastery

Here are some problematic situations in the teaching-learning environment as observed and
experienced by the teachers. Match the problems listed in Column A with corresponding probable
solutions in Column B. You may use the letter once, more than once or not at all.

Problematic Situations Probable Solutions/Actions

_____1. Connectivity for On-line learning A. Rearrange classroom setting

_____2. Disruptive Classroom behavior B. Maximize use of varied instructional

materials

_____3. Poor interest and motivation C. regular parent-teachers circles

_____4. Parental non-involvement D. Use of rewards

_____5. At risk-students E. Group studies and Study Buddies

F. Use of Flexible Learning

G. Silent Reading Exercises

Work on my Artifacts
Your artifact will be an Abstract of a completed Action Research.

Title of Action Research

Author/s:

Abstract

Identify the Problem in the Study

Identify the Action Taken in the Study