This is the Episode 2 of FS 1. In this episode, you will gain competence in differentiating the characteristics and needs of learner's from different development levels,

1. FIELD STUDY 1 The Learner’s Development and Environment
Episode 1
SCHOOL AS A LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
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Name of FS Student Noel Jabagat
Parohinog___________________________________
Course _ BSED major in English__________________________ Year & Section I-C
Resource Teacher Mrs. Flerida L. Demegillo Signature _______________
Cooperating School Binalbagan Catholic College - High School Department
Your Target
At the end of this activity, you will be competent in determining a school environment
that provides social, physiological, and physical environment supportive for learning.
Your Map
A general observation of the campus and the classroom is an exiting way to start your
observation.
Your mission is to do the following tasks:
1. Visit a school. Look into
4. Make a reflection on the
facilities and suppoert
characteristics of a school
learning areas in the
environment that promotes
campus, then in the
learning.
classroom
5.Based your ideas pof a good school
environment through any of these: 2. Accomplish the
checklist as you move
a.)Descriptive paragrapg; b.)Photo around the school
essay; c.)Sketch or drawing; d.)Poem premesis.
, song or rap
3. Based on your gathered data
in the checklist describe the
school environment.
Your Tools
As you move around the campus, activity forms are provided for you to document your
observations. It is advised that you read the entire worksheet before proceeding to the school

2. site. A good understanding of the activities and task to be accomplished in the activity sheets
will yield better learning results.
SCHOOL FACILITIES CHECKLIST
Familiarize yourself with the different areas and facilities of the school. Check the column to
indicate their availability. Give a brief description of those that are available on the last column.
Facilities Availabl Not Description
e Availabl
e
The principal’s office is clean, and neat as the
Office of the  principal, free also from pollution and papers,
Principal documents were arranged and stored in proper
places.
The books are arranged according to system of
Library  classification. The tables and chairs are also
present provided for the students conducive to
learning.
Counseling Room  With proper ventilation and lighting fixture
helping the guidance area to counsel to students
concern.
Canteen/Cafeteria  The school canteen is situated in the clean area but
they sold innutritious foods and curls which are not
good to health.
Medical Clinic  The clinic is well-organized. The medicines are
available, provided and ready for the students
indispensably and incase of emergency.
Audio Visual/Media  The audio visual room is not yet organized since it
Center
has an incomplete facilities and equipments that
would be easy for the students to understand their
teacher’s lessons or presentation.
Reading Center  The reading center is clean, and situated in the
ventilated area and free from any types of harmful
insects that could destruct the student’s attention.
Speech Laboratory 
Science Laboratory  The facilities are present. Helping the students to
learn well.
Gymnasium  The gym is wide, clean, and no any pieces of
garbage found in this area.
Auditorium 
Home Economics  The room is good and complete of necessary
Room things that are needed in the student’s activity.
Industrial Workshop Area  The industrial room has complete materials and
tools provided for each students to accomplish
there task and could help the students also in
training of a particular uses of tools.
PTA Office  The room has proper ventilation, clean, wide
space, and organized in terms of lighting and
ventilation.
Comfort Room for Boys  The comfort rooms of the boys were dirty,
unclean, slippery and unpleasant smells exist
reaching outside the school building.
Comfort Room for Girls  The comfort room of the girls is dirty and the floor

3. Others
(Specify) The office of the cashier is too small, over
 crowded, and the documents are stack outside the
Cashier’s Office shelves. It is the one reason that causes heat and
crowd.
Registrar’s  The registrar’s office is clean. The documents and
Office articles were kept in proper places.
Faculty Room  Each teacher has his/her own tables. The faculty
room is clean, wide in space and that would be
easy for the faculty member to communicate with
each other.
Computer  The room is fully equipped with air-conditioned.
Laboratory Furnish the students to accomplish there task and
work. The units are in good model.
An Observation Guide to the CLASSROOM VISIT
Read the following statements carefully. Then write your observation reported on the
provided space.
1. Describe the community or neighborhood where the school is found.
2. Describe the school campus. What colors do you see? What is the condition of the building?
3. Pass by the offices. What impression do you have these offices?
4. Walk through the school halls, the library, and the cafeteria. Look around and find out the
facilities that the school has.
Name of the School Observed: Binalbagan Catholic College- High School Department
School Address: San Gregorio Village, Binalbagan Negros Occidental
Date of Visit: July 27, 2010 _
1. The area of the BCC – High School Department is encompassed by many
trees and is situated also near the certain houses that serve as the neighbours
of the school. The remote area is clean and abundant with many trees.
2. The school campus is clean, attractive in color, and wide in space. The
school is composed of two storeys which occupy the classrooms, offices, and
laboratories.
3. Both offices were clean, and structurally organized. But only the principal’s
office impressed my attention since it is clean, colorful, attractive, seats are
also available provided for the visitors, with proper ventilation and lighting
and everything were arranged accordingly.
4. As I was passing in the different area of the school, I witnessed that the
school halls uses some facilities and some are not. In library, they have the
computer, television, and audio speakers; in canteen, they have the faucets,
refrigerator, and etc; and in the computer laboratory, the room is fully
equipped with air conditioners and computers are available for the students
and teachers for researching purposes.

4. An Observation Guide to the CLASSROOM VISIT
Be guided by these tasks as you do your observation. Then accomplish the matrix to record your
data.
1. Look at the walls of the classroom. What are posted on the walls? What heroes, religious
figures, visual aids, announcements, do you see posted?
2. Examine how the furniture is arranged. Where is the teacher’s table located? How are the
tables and chairs/ desks arranged?
3. What learning materials/equipment are present?
4. Observe the students. How many are occupying one room?
5. Is the room well-lighted and well-ventilated?
CLASSROOM FACILITIES MATRIX
Classroom Facilities Description
(location, number, arrangement, condition)
There are lots of wall displays posted
1. Wall displays everywhere it may be a club organizations,
information and even the scientific trivia.
They are arranged well and some of the
displays were tearing off and dusty already.
The teachers table is located at the center of
2. Teacher’s table the students facing them when the teacher is
having a class.
The learner’s desks are provided for each of
3. Learner’s Desks the students. They are arranged in columns,
rows depending on the number of the
students and the desk are not properly
cleaned and even vandalism can be observe.
The blackboard is wide provided for
4. Blackboard teacher and for the student’s stability and
value of focus to learning.
The materials or the visual aids which are
5. Learning Materials/Visual Aids used by the teacher is written legibly for the
students to learn. They are mounted in the
blackboard facing the learner’s together.
The ceiling is good. Helping the teacher to
6.Ceiling interact with each other by covering the
inner surface of the roof to maintain the
ventilation.
7.
8.
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10.

5. My Observation Report
Name of the School Observed Binalbagan Catholic College- High School Department
Location of the School __San Gregorio Village, Binalbagan Negros Occidental___________
Date of Visit ____July 20, 2010_____________________________________________
It was July 20, 2010 when we are having our first actual school observation. This is
in accordance to our course which will furnish us to become aware when we are exposed
in the field of out-campus internship. Each one of us were advised to observed the BCC-
High School Department. Our teacher told us to fill in everything that corresponds to our
target and goal. The target is to be competent in determining a school environment that
provides social, psychological and physical environment supportive of learning. Our
teacher, Mam Flerida Demegillo and at the same time she is the school principal of BCC
High School Department, gives us a sort of overview of what we are going to do. I strolled
around the campus together with my classmates. I recorded the data and jot down the
observation in my paper. I was impressed by the different offices and rooms but it attracts
me most when I passed and observed the office of the principal. Her room is different
from the others since it is too clean and the room is properly arranged.
I observed everything that the schools have. As I am walking, my eyes borrowed
my attention inside the faculty room in which the teachers stay. My first impression to
those teachers are stubborn, obstinate and that they might not be friendly, but I was
wrong because I try talked to them and that time I expected the thoughts that might
happen instead they approached me, answered my questions and with a smile showing
that I am welcome. The trigger in my mind never stops me to think those negative
thoughts until I came home.
We went back on another day which is July 27, 2010 and continued our thesis. I
accomplished the school facilities matrix and I was able to answer the questions which are
asked in my data. After all, I accomplished everything.
Your Analysis
How do the school campus and the classroom in particular impact on the learning of the
students going to school? What are your conclusion?
I conclude that the school has a great impact of learning in the since that they
have a lot of number of students population and that only shows how great is the
impact of the school to particular learning process.
How does this relate your knowledge of child and adolescent development? How does this
relate to your knowledge of facilitating learning?
According to my own observation, the knowledge of particular students that we
have observed is moderate while in facilitating learning, I can say that the

6. students do seems learn the lesson of their teachers even presenting it only in
visual aids or in the blackboard, what is important is that they learn.
Your Reflections
1. Would you like to teach in the school environment you just observed? Why? Why not?
2. What kind of school campus is conducive to learning?
3. What kind of classroom is conducive to learning?
4. In the future, how can you accomplish your answer in number 3?
5. Write your additional learnings and insights here.
Answer for Reflections:
1. Yes, I would like to teach in the school that I have observed in the sense that the
environment of the school is good, also the building is situated in a many forest place
which provides proper ventilation and better environment that free from any pollution.
But, if I will be given the opportunity, I prefer to choose my Alma Mater in high school
as my cooperating school.
2. In my own views and opinion, a certain school can be considered conducive to
learning if it has complete facilities particularly in the classrooms, offices, and even in
any kind of school laboratory, also if it is clean, well- organized and free from any
pollutions.
3. The classroom can be considered conducive to learning if it is clean, well ventilated,
with proper lighting that could maximized the learning process, and it should be also
have the complete facilities and equipments necessary also for the learner’s needs and for
them to listen attentively to the teacher and lastly it should not be too crowded that might
affect the learning of the particular students.
4. If I am blessed by God and grant my aspirations in life that is to become a teacher
someday. I will do the same and change everything that someday would sum up my
classroom into better situation. I will be the one to facilitate in structuring my classroom
and letting my students involve in a particular task, I will also organized my room Inorder
for my students to learn well and I will put my classroom with complete facilities so that
they may feel comfortable and can pay attention to the discussions.
5. Anyway, this subject as my Field Study helps me to learn everything that are necessary
for the students as future educators to observe the classrooms conditions, this helps me to
become aware that on how to achieve good and effective school environment and that
later would give me an idea on how to have a good classroom conducive to learning.

7. My Personal Illustration of an Effective School Environment
Share, Inspire, And Contribute. What are these? How do they contribute in the
learning process? How are these relevant in the learners and the teacher’s task? Are
these three, helpful for the effective school environment? Anyway, these are just the
three values that I want to possess soon and to implement to my future students. Each
one of us is facing the difficulties and agonies over studies but why we are still
conscious in choosing our school to study with even in our primary, secondary and the
tertiary which is the college level. Even me, I do the same act. That’s true! Simply
because, we want to achieve the quality education that we are seeking for. Quality
education that someday will help us to produce a productive and economically free
citizens.
Wisely, students today are very lucky unlike of the past generations. They do
not even have there proper education nor have the well ventilated classroom. I tried to
ask myself on how lucky I am because today, everything is equipped with modern
technology. Furnishing the learner’s mind and also even in one enter to the computer
key, the informations will be immediately given to us. That’s how amazing the
technology is.
Anyway, go back to the three values. Firstly, I have mention there the “SHARE”,
which means imparting any interesting stories and lessons inside and outside of the
classroom which could be helpful for the interaction between the teacher and the
students. Secondly, “INSPIRE”, which means inspiring the world with the joy and
fulfillment as an advocate education someday, and thirdly “CONTRIBUTE”, which
means working towards the betterment of the education in the country. These cannot
only be consider as values but rather this could help shaping a new effective school
environment. Environment that would provide each of the learners a copy of there
implications.
As an addition, it is really important that a certain institution must have its own
effective environment. As a future educator, i could foresee the things that are highly
needed in enhancing one’s school environment. It is not just that we are going to
depend on others effort but more likely, the preparation is in the teachers and the
students too. Inorder to achieve that effective school environment, the teachers must
be guided accordingly by restructuring his/her classroom, and let the students involved
in the task. We cannot say that a school is neglecting the efficiency of the institution.
We all recognized the value of the learning environment to our students’ ability to
learn. Sadly, our teachers are not trained to become interior designers and as such the
typical classroom is not the most of conducive of learning spaces. In the same manner,
the school must be clean, well- organized, attractive, and it is necessarily that it should
be fully air conditioned, much better so if the certain school can afford that but what I
am trying to emphasize is that it must be well- ventilated, must have the facilities that
will minimize the students murmuring that they are suffering from an extreme heat,
crowded, and many other excuses that most likely happened to destruct the student’s
focus on the discussions. These things exist in many schools and universities. I cannot
deny the fact that I am one of them already.
Lastly, as a future educator, I know and I am aware in myself that an effective
learning lies on the how the particular school become effective in doing the better
effective environment conducive to learning to gaining process. We will not wait the
time; we should start it now by showing a model to ourselves, to others, and the
environment. ***