Third Day: Impressions

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DR. MA. CORAZON DE UNGORIA, Head of the DNA Analysis Laboratory, NSRI, UP Diliman. It was the best lecture I attended in the conference. It left a big mark, an inspiration on the role of teachers in national development just as how Dr. Ungoria's mentors in Pisay sparked in her the beauty of scientific research within moral bounds. Dr. Ungoria is an Outstanding Young Scientist awardee having devoted much of her time juggling between social and scientific concerns in her work as a forensic scientist.

I have realized that teachers could also insinuate in their own little ways the students' interest in forensics by bringing social issues in the classroom. The textbook is the society and the method of resolving issues is the science process. DNA analysis was unfolded before me bigger than life and much larger than the way they are usually presented in textbooks. It was sure real. It is an essential part of the society especially the judiciary since almost all cases in the Philippines are tried and decided based on testimonies of witnesses underestimating what science can afford to do. And just when I think that analysis of DNA is far a towering task for any biology teacher (technophobics) because machines are doing it, the human mind could be more logical, practical and can do further. I think next to Dr. Josette T. Biyo, Dr. De Ungoria - her ideals, her philosophies, her passion-will make a big influence in my journey to be one. Her repititive litany on the role of scientists to be of service to the country made me admire her all the more.Thank God, you created this wonderful inspirational person!







MAX STEPHENS, Melbourne University in Australia. It was amazing to see children's abilities of connecting geometry with algebra and algebra with arithmetic.


DR. DECLAN KENNEDY, of the University College of Cork, Ireland. Learning outcomes were the common education language of European Union signed in the Bologna Agreement. Incidentally, it was resolved by the Filipino teachers who attended his lecture that the 'learning outcomes' he actually meant were the Bloom's behavioral objectives which teachers in the Philippines used in determining the lesson's specific objectives.

DR. MERLE TAN, NISMED Director offered the challenging roles of science and math teachers in this age. PCK (pedagogical content knowledge), lesson study, ASEI (activities-student centered-experiments-innovation), PSDI (plan, see, do, innovate), cascading model (top-down, down-top) are among the new jargons I met in this conference.



And to the rest of the speakers...thank you!

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Anonymous said…
De Ungoria or De Ungria? Indeed she is an excellent speaker with a good sense of humor.


lonelyplanet
April 14, 2009 at 11:44 PM
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