FS 1 EPISODE 4

Learner Diversity: The Community and Home Environment

OBSERVE, ANALYZE, REFLECT

Activity 4.1

Observing the learner’s community and home environment

To realize my Intended Learning Outcomes, I will work my way through

these steps:
1. Select a learner from the class whom you have observed.
2. Interview the teacher about the learner’s characteristics.
3. Conduct a home visit to your selected learner’s residence.
4. Interview the parents about:
a. The rules they implement at home concerning their child’s
schooling.
b. The learner’s activities while at home.
5. Describe the family in terms of:
a. Number of siblings.
b. Number of siblings in school.
6. Identify the factors in the home environment that might affect the learner’s
school performance.
7. Reflect on how a teacher can communicate effectively with the home.
Observation Guide for Individual Differences
Read the following statements carefully before you begin to observe.
Then write your observation report on the space provided.
The Learner:
1. Make a general observation of the learner. Describe him/her in each of the
domain of development:
 Physical-body built and height.(thin, chubby, underweight,
overweight), level of physical activity (fast, slow, lethargic, active
etc.)
 Social-interaction with teachers and classmates (loner, shy,
sociable, friendly, gets into fights, liked by others, etc.)
 Emotional-moods, temperament, cries easily, loses temper, happy,
shows enthusiasm, excited, indifferent, etc.)
 Cognitive (appears to understand lessons, copes with lessons,
excels, lags behind, shows reasoning skills, turn in assignments
and requirements, etc.)

Interview the Teacher:

1. What are the most noticeable characteristics of the learner? (emotional

disposition, behavior and discipline, sense of responsibility, study habits,
academic performance, relationship with peers, relationship with adults,
social adjustment)
 My student Simon is very active in my class. He is cheerful, friendly
and cooperative in group activities. The way he interact to us his
teacher and other elders, he is so respectful. He’s also a
responsible student, he can control discipline and he can manage
his own behavior.
 2. How does the teacher communicate with the parents? How often? What
do they discuss? How do they decide of the best course of action to
resolve issues or problems?
 I do not have any issues about the behavior of my student Simon
because he is very behave in my class so I do not have any
conversation to his parent about any disciplinary actions. The only
times that I will have a conversation with his parent is when I am
going to submit their child’s report cards.
3. How does the teacher utilize resources in the community to support the
teaching-learning process? Hoes does the teacher work with the
community to meet the needs of the learners?
 By working together with the community to support learning for
everyone’s benefits because Partnerships can serve to strengthen,
support, and even transform individual partners, resulting in
improved program quality, more efficient use of resources, and
better alignment of goals and curricula.
Interview the Parents:
1. Conduct a home visit. Once there, observe the home set-up. (Home is
orderly, family pictures in the living room, etc.)
2. Use the following interview questions. Just ask the questions with which
you feel comfortable.
Suggested Parent Interview Guide
Name of the Learner: Simon M. Marbella
Date of Birth: August 21, 2008 Age: 13
Grade/Year level: Grade 7 Gender: Male
Number of Siblings: 4
Birth Order: 2
Parents:
Mother: Teresita M. Marbella
Age: 35 Occupation: Beauty Salon Worker
Education Attainment: College Level
Father: Samuel L. Marbella
Age: 42 Occupation: Farmer
Education Attainment: High School Level
Learners’ Physical Aspect
HEALTH:
1. Mother’s health during pregnancy with the learner
 The mother during the pregnancy is in good health, physically and
mentally fit able.
2. Ailments or health problems of the learner as a child
 The learner suffered chicken fox at the age of 8, the usual cold and
fever.
3. Age of learner when he/she started to walk
 He was able to walk at 10 months old.
4. Food preference of the learner as a child and at the present
 He likes street foods, orange and mango in fruits, soda and orange
 juice for drinks; he likes all kinds and chicken menus, and halo-halo
and leche flan for desserts.
5. Who took care of him/her as a child?
 Since he was a child, her mother and father took good care of him
but since his father has work so the his mother has a lot of time in
taking care of him.
Learners’ Social Aspect
1. Describe your child’s sociability
 He’s cheerful, active, friendly and easy to deal with.
2. Who were the learner’s playmates?
 He usually play with his neighbors’ friends and classmates with the
same age as him.
3. As a child then, was he/she allowed playing outside?
 Yes, He is allowed to play outside with mu supervision.
4. Is he/she allowed to go out with friends?
 Yes
5. Do you have rules for him/her to follow regarding going out?
 Yes
6. What are these rules?
 Got permission to me or his father
 Go home at the right time
 No girlfriends allowed
 No parties, drinking or smoking because he is too young for
such activities.
Emotional-Moral
1. What are your expectations of your child?
 To put study first. To always respect us parent and elderly and
always put god first in all of his decisions in life.
2. How do you provide a nurturing environment for your child?
 By providing all of the support he needs for his ambitions/dreams in
life. By filling our home with aspiration and love.
3. Does your child go to you when he/she feels down or has problems? What
do you to do meet his/he emotional needs?
 Yes, he probably go to me when he has problems and as her
mother I give him advises, encouraging him not to give up, and just
pray with God for the better.
How do you discipline your children?
1. Do you have rules in the house? What are they?
 Do all of school works/assignment before playing
 Help mother with work like washing dishes and cleaning.
 There is a time limit in watching TV or using gadgets
2. How do you impose the rules?
 By constant reminder and daily routine.
3. What are the consequences of breaking the rules?
 The consequences in breaking the rule are to be given a long
lecture or be whipped by a piece of stick.
Learners’ Cognitive Aspect
1. What are the child’s interests?
 He shows interest in sports like basketball and in mobile games.
2. What is he/she good at in school?
 He is good in his sport. He is also good in Math and Science
subjects.
3. In what subject/s he/she have difficulty?
 He has difficulty in English subject.
4. How do you monitor his/her performance in school? How do you motivate
him/her?
  I monitor his performance in school by asking the teacher about his
progress. I motivate him by giving rewards when he has
achievements in school.
5. Do have the rules at home to help him develop good study habits?
 Yes
6. What are these rules? How are they implemented?
 Do all of school works/assignment before playing
 When there is nothing to do, study or help in house chores

After you have gathered all the necessary data, write the learner’s
development profile using the outline below.

THE LEARNER’S DEVELOPMENT PROFILE

Name of the Learner: Simon M. Marbella
Date of Birth: August 21, 2008 Age: 13
Grade/Year level: Grade 7 Gender: Male
Number of Siblings: 4
Birth Order: 2
Parents:
Mother: Teresita M. Marbella
Age: 35 Occupation: Beauty Salon Worker
Education Attainment: College Level
Father: Samuel L. Marbella
Age: 42 Occupation: Farmer
Education Attainment: High School Level
Physical Development
 The learner is physically and mentally healthy. He can work
independently and very active in every activity.

Social Development
 The learner is very friendly and sociable. He knows how to interact
well with his teacher, friends, and classmates. He communicates
well, concerning his own welfare and those who surround him.
Emotional-Moral Development
 The learner grows with self confidents and with assurance that his
parents are always there for him at all times. From his parents and
siblings he receive, love, warmth, and respect.
Cognitive Development
 His cognitive aspect continuously improves as he goes to school
and study. He is a fast learner and active in class unlike other
learners.
Findings
 The learner is cheerful, very active in class, has a good
performance in academic, and e socializes to his peers, teachers,
friends, and classmates. He likes to play basketball that is where
most of his friends are at. He is also active in school by joining the
school’s activities, contests and programs. The environment of the
school helps the learner to willingly learn and be part of a group or
community that is present.
Conclusions
 I concluded that the home and the school contributes a great
impact in developing the physical, social emotional-moral, and
cognitive aspects of the learner as the total of his personality.
School plays a vital role in molding the learner’s development as
well as the teacher which is the very important person in school like
 the parents in the house who bears knowledge and values to share
with their learner/child.
Recommendations
 For the parents, they are responsible in disciplining and guiding
their child. They should always monitor their child’s performance in
school. Always be open to their child and give their full support and
encourage and motivate them to focus and study hard to become
successful in the near future.
 For the teachers, they can use technology to enhance their
teachings which they impart to the students to have a good quality
of teaching.

ANALYZE

Your findings and recommendations in the Learner Development Profile will help
you answer the questions here.
1. From your home visit and interview, what do you think is the style of
parenting experienced by the learner? Explain your answer.
 Authoritative parenting is present. The parents are strict yet loving.
They have clear and reasonable limits for their children.
2. Relating your data with what you learned from child development, what
family factors do you think contribute to the development and over-all
adjustment of the learner in school?
 The way the parents discipline their children and the actions such
as rewards and talking to them greatly influence the child
development.
3. Does the communication between the home-school have an effect on the
learner? If yes, what are these effects?
 Communication between homes to school has an effect to the
learner where the parents can easily communicate with the school
asking for their concerns about the learner’s performance. In that
way the parents can be able to guide their child if there’s needs an
improvement.
4. How can the teacher partner with the community to contribute to the
development and learning of the students? Who are the people or which
institutions can the teacher tap to seek advice regarding the development
and learning of the students?
 When schools and community organizations work together to
support learning for everyone’s benefits. Partnerships can serve to
strengthen, support, and even transform individual partners,
resulting in improved program quality, more efficient use of
resources, and better alignment of goals and curricula. The people
or which institutions that the teacher can tap to seek advice
regarding the development and learning of the students are the
parents of the students, the principal or even his/her co-teachers.

REFLECT

1. Reflect on your own development as a child. What type of parenting did

you experience? How did it affect you?
In my childhood days, I experienced also the authoritative parenting wherein
my parents are very strict but yet loving. They are very protective in terms of the
place where I want to go. I always needs permission and accompany with
person who is older than me. It doesn’t affect me too much because I
understand their rules and I know that it is for my own sake. And we have an
agreement also, every time that I have an achievement they gave me a reward.
In that way, I feel motivated to my study and pursue to have an achievement.

2. As a future teacher, how would you establish good home-school

collaboration? How can you work well with the parents? How can you help
them? How can they help you?
As a future teacher, I will establish good home-school collaboration through
encouraging the parents to participate to every meeting conducted in the school.
I will allow the parents to check the performance of their children. They can also
allow participating in the different activities in the school. In that way, the
relationship between the home and school become strengthen and it will also
lead to develop new activities.

LINK Theory to Practice

Direction: Read the items given below and encircle the correct answer.

1. Which are most likely the kinds of children raised by the authoritarian
parents?
I. Fearful
II. Inhibited
III. Hostile
IV. Withdrawn
A. I and II
B. I, II, and III
C. II and III
D.
D. I, II, III, and IV
2. If a child was raised by authoritative parents, how will most likely will
he/she behave in class?
A. Relates well to classmates
B. Is suspicious to others
C. Quarrels often to classmates
D.
D. Has low level of independence
3. Which parenting style/s contributes to the development of the children who
have low level of responsibility?
A. Authoritarian
B. Authoritative
C. Permissive
D.
D. Neglecting and permissive

SHOW Your Learning Artifacts

1. Make an artistic, colorful and creative visual expression of your insights or

feelings about the influence of the home and school to the learner. Then
write a few statements on the space below your creative output about it.
 It shows the relationship between the school and home which involves
teachers and parents that has the same goal and that is to make students learn
and develop their skill/ abilities that will help them to become successful and
make their ambitions come true in the near future.

2. Make a reflection acrostic about the home and school community link.
 H- ard times
 O- r easy times,
 M- y home is
 E- xactly where family is supposed to be.

 S- tudying academics,
 C- haracter building,
 H- elping each other, seek God
 O- beying God’s unique, personal call to us,
 O- ffering ourselves, our home, our family to Him
 L- earning continuously alongside with Him

 C- ommon interests
 O- f the students is what
 M- ost of the group consist of.
 M- utual understanding of the parents and their child helps to
 U- ndo the possibility of the child being deviate from the path.
 N- icely
 I- nvites the student
 T- o strive and study harder to become a role model to other
 Y- ouths.

 L- earning together
 I- nteractively with
 N- othing to regret at all
 K- nowlegde are gained.