Third day of the TIP Seminar.

Rainy Day.
Early this morn the university canteen cooked tossino and fried dried fish for breakfast with 3-in-1 coffee for the participants of the TIP seminar. I love coffee, but I don’t think tossino and fried dried fish are good combination for breakfast today. I only eat tossino. I gave my fried dried fish to my friend. He loves eating it. I love to eat fried dried fish if I am at home. Dried fish is best to eat using bare hands.
The resource speaker is Mr. D. He is a Mathematics and Science teacher teaching high school in the said university. He talks on Development Improvised Instructional Material: A Multiple Intelligence Approach. He presented different improvised instructional materials to be used/applied by us as we go back to our respective schools. Since, some schools don’t have complete equipments (like our school) to be used in conducting experiments or simply doing the Science and Mathematics activities. The following listed below are the suggested improvised instructional materials (with patterns):
1. Prism pattern
2. Tangram
3. Air Convection Apparatus
4. Simple Leaf Electroscope
5. Electrolysis Apparatus
6. the Resonance Tube
7. Sun-Earth-Model
8. Joule’s Calorimeter
9. Human Skeletal System Model
10. Human Anatomical Model
11. Clinometers

Making of improvised instructional materials is the best way I can do because I can’t buy all the materials. Firstly, it is expensive. Secondly, the availability of the materials is limited or not available in my area.

LUNCBREAK: What’s wrong with him?

The table where I and my friends usually eat was occupied by other teachers who came in early in the canteen. So, we sat to other table next to it. After eating, I noticed a plate with a piece of adobong manok uneaten. I asked a female teacher seated before to the one left the uneaten piece of chicken. She replied,” I heard him saying to the woman seated in front of him that chicken makes our belly bigger”. I sighed. If he thinks chicken can make him fatter then why he ordered it and never dare to eat it? Is he trying to make “pogi” to the woman? Daaaaaahhh, I murmured. “Is the woman he ate with his girlfriend? I asked again. “No, I think he tries to impress the woman (nagpapacute lang),”the female teacher answered. Waaaaaaahhh! It’s a waste of food! Crisis pa naman!