Report from bukidnon
Media
Part of The Philippine Educator
- Title
- Report from bukidnon
- Language
- English
- Year
- 1947
- Rights
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- Fulltext
- REPORT .. .EROM BUKIDNON As I stepped into Mrs. Deiparine's classroom one bright morning, I saw her sand-table attractively done or made up to represent a cemetry: rows upon rows· of graves with a cross of cardboard planted at the head of each grave. There were plants and flower.:; too in tlie cemetery. Then I noticed that every child who came to class that day had some pnetty flowers with him or her. Came the language period, and the teacher introduced and motivated her Jesson by making referenre to the All Saints' Day that had just passed. To arouse a more lively interest on the part of her children, the teacher opened a package containing some ten or twelve small candle-.:;. Giving the candles to certain members of the class while talking in her most appealing and persuasive manner, the teacher Jed the pupils to the sand-table in front of the room, and once they were all gathered around the makebelieve graveyard no little amount of effective teaching and learning took place _ under the inspiration provided by the teacher's ingenuity. Decorating the graves with flowers evoked not only tender sentiments and emotions but also suitable words and phrases. Lighting the candles and placing them by the graves with appropriate expressions, was a touching ceremony, and those turning candles helped magnifiby JOSE FELICIANO Division Superintendent of Sclwols for Bulcidnon r~ , cently to make the· sand-table representation .1.ot only lifelike but enchant• ingly beautiful. Language, reading, ari~hmetic, and social studies were woven together into that lesson, not too exper:t;Jy perhaps, but undoubtedly with much pupil participation, and therein lay the value of this little classroom drama. Today I never tir~:~ of recounting this lesson to other teachers and to future teachers as an example of what can be done by a resourceful individual qriven by dire necessity to use his or her wit.<!. X X X Mr. Madjus may not be conscioua of his accomplishments, but he has sue· ceeded among other things in: (1) helping his boys and girls live their present lives in the barrio more hap· pily and usefully, (2) introducing real· life projects and activities into th~ work or program of the school, (3) teaching children how to live and work cooperatively, and ( 4) raising the level of rural Jiving in his particular communit.y. I sincerely believe that Mr. Esteban Sanchez, supervising principal of the Maramag district, because of his able leadership, should share with Mr. Madjus the credit for the outstanding success attained by the Dangcagan Settlement Farm School. .............................. .., _ ._ .................... . FRISCO BAKERY ' 1746 AZCARRAGA 1828 AZCARRAGA TEL. 2-63-01 FREE HOME DELIVERY Elite Ice Cream ........................... TEL. 8-61-15 23