The Effectiveness of Tle Teachers' Weekly Photo Album as an Alternative Observation Strategy

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

A picture tells a thousand words. It is a great tool used to convey messages without the need of reading a full text to understand it. Filipinos love to take pictures. In fact, Oppo Philippines conducted an online survey last 2016 wherein they found out that 48 percent of over 6000 Filipinos take two to five selfies a day. Education also needs to cultivate and nourish this trait of taking photos to the next level, especially today where almost every teacher has smart phone and at least one social media account.

Technology and Livelihood Education (TLE) is an essential subject that has a direct impact on daily living. It covers the "ways-and-hows" about cooking, baking, sewing gardening, baby sitting and horticulture. For a student to effectively absorb the lessons about this subject, it requires hands-on application and experience. Taking pictures will help the teachers capture the learning moments of his/her students. It is better than explaining and writing every detail that most are unessential and can be explained by a single shot.

METHODS

This study is a descriptive research utilizing a quantitative approach to gather data. Teachers were requesting to submit 3 to 4 pictures "in action" every day showing the actual classroom situations by sending the pictures in our group chat with their corresponding captions containing the topic/lesson for the day and the section of the students involved in the photos. The respondents were the Grade 7,8 ,9 and 10 students.

RESULTS

Based on the results, seasoned teachers are submitting a very few output compared to the new generation of teachers. They can promote the new techniques in teaching using multimedia and so on. It was also observed that students interest in learning can have great impact to their scholastic performance.

DISCUSSIONS

The Effectiveness of TLE Weekly Photo Album as an Alternative Observation Strategies can be a useful strategy to help the learners in discovering new approach of teachers in teaching while monitoring of the teachers’ ways of using new methods of teaching needs to be an evidence to their daily activities and so on. However, teachers need to develop facilitative skills and uses of visual aids needs to enhance further. The students are more interested to learn if they see that their teachers are very eager to transfer learning on their own way. Actual observation would lessen if pictures are sent already.