As the late bell rings, the class prepares to settle down while Ms. Merioles connects her laptop to the transparency, turns it on and lights up the screen with a video of a virus attacking the immune system.
Rather than getting in front of the class and teaching in a traditional oral way, Ms. Merioles likes to take out a transparency and show the lesson to her students on the Internet in a vivid, picturesque manner. With the help of transparencies, students are more attentive because they can actually see tissues, organs and cells working together in an immune system rather than listening and reading about it.
With ten years of teaching experience, Ms. Merioles has been teaching science here in Jamaica H.S. for five years now. She started teaching in the Philippines in 1998, then started teaching at Jamaica High School in 2003. “I love kids” said Ms. Merioles “Teaching is a job of love and devotion.”
Ms. Merioles believes basic learning starts with concrete and increases into abstract. In order to understand abstract, you need experience. She allows her students to see the experience of how white blood cells release pathogens against harmful organisms.
Freshman Jayme Gooberdhan appreciates Ms. Merioles‘ methodology “She explains her work very well” said Jayme “ Power point is very vivid”
The problem for Ms. Merioles is the time; 45 minutes are not enough. Sometimes starting the transparencies and the Internet take time. With more time, she would be able to show the material and explain it well to all the students rather than working quickly with alacrity.
“I try to make a substitute for the real experience”, said Ms. Merioles. Rather than handing out work sheets or drawing a response from T cells and B cells on the board, She shows actual lymphocytes that allow the body to remember previous harmful organisms to destroy them in the future.
“Ms. Merioles is very helpful and caring” said Junior, Philip Thuyamany. “When it comes to doubts, she explains the material in a way every student understands the problem”.
According to Ms. Merioles, her methods compared to teachers who teach verbally most of the time, are more vivid, intense and accurate. While other teachers rely on the traditional way and talk about the lesson in front of their class. Ms. Merioles provides a fun, interesting vivid image for her students to learn the lesson.
As the video is ending with B cells producing antibodies to finish foreign bacteria, Ms. Merioles turns off the transparency and explains further what the class just saw. The class scribbles down notes and Ms. Merioles answers curious questions about the human body’s defense system, the immune system.
Rather than getting in front of the class and teaching in a traditional oral way, Ms. Merioles likes to take out a transparency and show the lesson to her students on the Internet in a vivid, picturesque manner. With the help of transparencies, students are more attentive because they can actually see tissues, organs and cells working together in an immune system rather than listening and reading about it.
With ten years of teaching experience, Ms. Merioles has been teaching science here in Jamaica H.S. for five years now. She started teaching in the Philippines in 1998, then started teaching at Jamaica High School in 2003. “I love kids” said Ms. Merioles “Teaching is a job of love and devotion.”
Ms. Merioles believes basic learning starts with concrete and increases into abstract. In order to understand abstract, you need experience. She allows her students to see the experience of how white blood cells release pathogens against harmful organisms.
Freshman Jayme Gooberdhan appreciates Ms. Merioles‘ methodology “She explains her work very well” said Jayme “ Power point is very vivid”
The problem for Ms. Merioles is the time; 45 minutes are not enough. Sometimes starting the transparencies and the Internet take time. With more time, she would be able to show the material and explain it well to all the students rather than working quickly with alacrity.
“I try to make a substitute for the real experience”, said Ms. Merioles. Rather than handing out work sheets or drawing a response from T cells and B cells on the board, She shows actual lymphocytes that allow the body to remember previous harmful organisms to destroy them in the future.
“Ms. Merioles is very helpful and caring” said Junior, Philip Thuyamany. “When it comes to doubts, she explains the material in a way every student understands the problem”.
According to Ms. Merioles, her methods compared to teachers who teach verbally most of the time, are more vivid, intense and accurate. While other teachers rely on the traditional way and talk about the lesson in front of their class. Ms. Merioles provides a fun, interesting vivid image for her students to learn the lesson.
As the video is ending with B cells producing antibodies to finish foreign bacteria, Ms. Merioles turns off the transparency and explains further what the class just saw. The class scribbles down notes and Ms. Merioles answers curious questions about the human body’s defense system, the immune system.
