International Teacher Education Conference 2014 1

International Teacher Education Conference 2014
bracket of these learners is from 12- 14 years of age. They are a mixed of girls and boys in terms of sex. These
learners are deemed to be undergoing major changes in their body which is believed to be part of puberty.
Objectives
The primary objectives of the proposed teaching strategy include:
1) To be able to make the learners familiar and know the importance of basic hygiene tools in terms of
dental/oral, facial and over all bodily hygiene.
2) To exhibit interaction within the large class.
3) To invite active participation from the learners.
Target Thinking Skills
The proposed teaching strategy targets the following thinking skills from the 16 habits of mind summarized
by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (2000):
1.)Persisting- there were three main activities in the workshop, each is crafted to make the learners want to
win.
2.)Taking Responsible Risks- the students were exposed to activities that will test their risk taking behaviours
and immediate decision making skills.
3.)Thinking Interdependently- Since the proposed teaching strategy is designed for a large class, decisions
are expected to be done in collaboration, this thinking skill will enhance the interpersonal skills of the learners
too.
4.) Applying past Knowledge to new situations- this skill was targeted on the pre-requisite of the workshop to
somehow test the prior knowledge that the learners have.
5.) Responding with wonderment and awe- since the objective of the instructional plan is to invite active
participation, activities were created in such a way that all students will participate and will engage themselves.
Procedure of implementation/Methods
The instructional plan was designed for a two hour workshop on hygiene and puberty. It is divided into three
activities which addressed the objectives of the instructional plan.
The activities designed are interactive, promotes group dynamics and team work and are reward based. The
instructional plan is designed in a workshop type of learning. The pedagogical approach is more democratic and
invites active participation from the learners. It was also designed to heighten then attention span of the learners.
For the prerequisite, the teacher assessed prior knowledge of the students through question and answer. This
is done to recall information on hygiene and puberty. The teacher facilitated brainstorming among the learners
to explain why hygiene in puberty is important. The teacher asked the learners to identify the changes that they
encounter in their body in the stage of puberty. The teacher provided several hygiene practices among different
cultures too. She presented some ancient hygiene practices and compared it to the recent and the conventional
for our society. The teacher explained how to deal with the changes that takes place in an adolescent’s body. She
also explained why these changes happen to them. The next paragraphs are the three main activities of the
workshop conducted.
I SHALL REMEMBER
The first part was head started by an introduction; basically the teacher asked how the learners define the
concepts hygiene and puberty. It was then followed by a memory game. In this part of the try out, the learners
were divided into five groups, consisting of twelve members each. The memory game had two parts the first part
required six members only. For the first part of the memory game the six learners per group were asked to pick a
paper in a box. Each paper signifies one dental hygiene tool. They will tell the next learner what they have
picked by whispering and the second learner will pick a paper too, bearing another dental hygiene tool and will
now relay two dental tools until the sixth learner picks a paper. The sixth learner should relay the six dental tools
to the first learner in any order, to complete the basic dental kit that an adolescent should have. The first team
who gets the complete kit first to enumerate with the facilitator wins. The dental tools marked in the kit are
tooth brush, tooth paste, mouthwash, floss, breath spray and breath mints.
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