LESSON 14- MAXIMIZING THE USE OF THE OVERHEAD PROJECTOR AND THE CHALKBOARD

                          The chalkboard is the old way of teaching the students during 1980s and early 90's.
Reality to a remote areas have no computer,radio,tv but what they have is only tje chalkboard. Teachers wrote clearly & legibly on the board. Other teachers have a hard copy of a chalkboard diagram or outline. Don't crowd notes on the board, overcrowding board work, students may fail to see the ideas. Make use of colored chalk to highlight key points. Do not turn your back to the class while writing on the chalkboard. For the sake of order and clarity, start to write from the left side of the board going right. In teaching grade pupils and if you think the lines on the chalkboard are needed for writing exercise, then provide the lines for your board. Look at board work from all corners of the room to test if pupils from all sides of the room can read your board work. A curtain in a window is used if there is glare on the chalkboard. Write "Please Save" if you need to have a board work in advance or that need to be saved for tommorow's use. Cover it with a curtain.

THE OVERHEAD PROJECTOR

There are other kinds of projectors like opaque projector and slide projector. OHP are available in schools. It has a lot of advantages. It is simple to operate. It is used in the front of the room by the instructor,who has complete control of the sequence,timing,and manipulation of his material.

INSIGHTS AND REACTION:

              Several school especially in the remote places esp.those who have not reached by electricity, do not have a computer. A few schools may be bountifully blessed with computers and computer-literate teachers. But most pr several schools are not as blessed. There may be at least one computer but teachers may have not been trained to use it. As a result, they resort to the chalkboard which is the most available classroom equipment and the OHP become quitwe popular in schools.
               Of all instructional equipment,the chalkboard is most available. The OHP is another versatile equipment that is most popular today. We need to learn how to use it properly so we can able to realize our instructional objectives. OHP proven to be effective by practitioners. We can save much time when we present our lecture on transparencies instead of writing/drawing naively on the chalkboard. By the use of a photocopier and hard copy, it is easy to prepare notes on transparencies. It is sometimes more accurate than the LCD.
               Having lectures in a certain seminars or orientation is more effective and realistic if the lecturer present it with visuals so that listener or audience will not get dismayed. It finds out boring,dull and sleepy.
                 Teachers of 80's were pitiuful,were not blessed,unfair compared to teachers on contemporary times. Old teachers don't have a computer skill,nor they are bound to be called "zero" computer skills. They only used books,notebooks,paper,ballpen/pencil as their teaching-learning tools. Unlike today,teachers wre so much blessed and bountiful. They were already a computer literate. Students today are more skillful  and accepted computers as everyday tool eapecially in daily assignments pertaining to schools compliances and requirements. Reporting or having a demonstration  can now be easily done by means of using an Overhead Projector device.Today,all things in ralation to teaching-learning process is quite easy,simple,manageable and comfty.