OBSERVE, ANALYZE REFLECT

Activity 4.1 Observing the learner’s community and home environment

Resource Teacher: ______________ Teacher’s Signature___________ School: _____________

Grade/Year Level: ______________ Subject Area: ________________ Date: ______________

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

1. Select a learner from the class which you have previously observed.
2. Interview the teacher about the learner’s characteristics and the community.
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 and behavior while at home.
5. Write the Learner’s Profile.
6. Analyze your observation and interview data.
7. Reflect on your observation experience.
 OBSERVE

Use the activity form provided for you to document your documentations.

An Observation/Interview Guide for Home-School Link

Read the following carefully before you begin to observe/interview. Then write your
observation report on the space provided on the next page.

The Learner

1. Make a general observation of the learner. Describe him/her in each of the domains of development:
 physical-body built and height (thin, chubby, underweight, overweight), level of
physical activity (fast, slow, lethargic, active, etc.)
 social-interaction with teacher and classmates (loner, shy, sociable, friendly, get
into fights, liked by others, etc.)
 emotional moods (temperament, cries easily, lose temper, happy, shows
enthusiasm, excited, indifferent, etc.)
 cognitive (appears to understand lessons, copes with the lessons, excels, lags
behind, shows reasoning skills, turns 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)
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?
3. How does the teacher utilize resources in the community to support the teaching-learning
process? How does the teacher work with the community to meet the needs of the learners?

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 Interview Question on the next page. Just ask the question with which you feel
comfortable.

Suggested Parent Interview Guide

 Your teacher may ask you to use a more detailed interview guide. Be free to translate the questions,
if necessary.

Name of the Learner:

Date of Birth ________________________________________ Age: ___________
Grade/Year Level: ____________________________________ Gender: __________
Number of Siblings: ________________
Birth Order: _________________________________________

Parents:_______________________________________________________
Mother:____________________________________________________________________
Age:_______________ Occupation:____________________ Educational
Attainment:________________
Father:_________________ Occupation:_________________ Educational
Attainment:_______________

Learner’s Physical Aspect:

Health
1. Mother’s Health during pregnancy with the learner:
2. Ailments or health problems of the learner as a child:
3. Age of the learner when he started to walk/talk:
4. Food preferences of the learner as a child and at present:
5. Who took care of him/her as a child:

Learner’s Social Aspect:

1. Describe your child sociability (friendly, outgoing or shy, loner).

2. Who were the learner’s playmates?
3. As a child then, was he/she allowed to play outside?
4. Is he/she allowed to go out with friends?
5. Do you have rules for him/her to follow regarding going out?
6. What are these rules?

Emotional-Moral

1. What are your expectations of your child?

2. How do you provide a nurturing environment for your child?
3. Does your child go to you when she/he feels down or has a problem? What do you do to meet
his/her emotional needs?
4. What do you do when he/she is no successful in something?

How do you discipline your children?

1. Do you have rules in the house? What are they?

2. How do you impose the rules?
3. What are the consequences of breaking the rules?

Learner’s Cognitive Aspect:

1. What are the child’s interests?

2. What is he/she good at in school?
3. In what subject/s does he/she have difficulty?
4. How do you monitor his/her performance in school? How do you motivate him/her?
5. Do you have rules at home to help him/her develop good study habits?
6. What are these rules? How are they implemented?
 After you have gathered all the necessary data. Write the learner’s development profile using the
outline below. Type the profile on a separate sheet and attached it to this learning Episode.

THE LEARNER’S DEVELOPMENT PROFILE (Outline)

The Learners’ Development Profile

Name of the Learner: ___________________________________________________________

School: ______________________________________________________________________
Date of Home Visit:_____________________________________________________________
Date of Birth: ________________________________ Age: _______________
Grade/Year Level: ____________________________ Gender: ____________

Family Profile
Number of Siblings:
Birth Order:
Parent:
Mother:
Age:
Occupation: Educational Attainment:
Father:
Occupation: Educational Attainment:

Physical Development
In paragraph form, describe the physical development of the learner. Combine
the teacher’s, parent’s responses, and your own observation.

Social Development
In paragraph form, describe the social development of the learner. Combine the
teacher’s, parent’s responses, and your own observation.

Emotional-Moral Development
In paragraph form, describe the emotional-moral development of the learner.
Combine the teacher’s, parent’s responses, and your own observation.

Cognitive Development
In paragraph form, describe the cognitive development of the learner. Combine
the teacher’s, parent’s responses, and your own observation.

Findings
Write here your salient findings about the learner.

Conclusion
Write your conclusion after you have analyzed the impact of the school and the
home on the learner’s development. The questions in the Your Analysis portion of this
learning Episode can help you.

Recommendations
Write you recommendations.

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.
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2. Relating your data with what you learned child development, what family factors do you thing
contribute to the development and over-all adjustment of the learner in school?
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3. Does the communication between the home-school have an affect on the learner? If yes, what are
these effects?
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4. How can the teacher partner with the community to contribute to development and learning of the
students? Who are the people or which institution can the teacher tap to seek advice regarding the
development and learning students.?
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REFLECT
1. Reflect on your own development as a child. What type of parenting did you experience? How did it
affect you?
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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?
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LINK Theory to Practice

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

1. Which are most likely the kind of children raised by authoritarian parents?

I. Fearful
II. Inhibited
III. Hostile
IV. Withdrawn

A. I and II C. II and III

B. I, II and III 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 of others
C. Quarrels often with classmates
D. Has low level of independence

3. Which parenting style/s contribute/s to the development of children who have low level of
responsibility?

A. Authoritarian
B. Authoritative
C. Permissive
D. Neglecting and permissive

SHOW Your Learning Artifacts

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EVALUATE Performances Task

Evaluate Your Work Task Field Study 1, Episode 4 - Learner Diversity: The Community and Home Environment.
Learning Outcomes: Describe the influencing factors in the home environment that affect the students’ learning; seek advice concerning
strategies that build relationship with parents/guardians and the wider community (6.2.1); and identify effective strategies on how teachers can
work together with the family.

Name of FS Student __________________________________________________ Date Submitted: ______________________

Year & Section: ________________________________ Course: __________________________________________________

Learning Episode Excellent Very Satisfactory Satisfactory Needs Improvement

4 3 2 1
Accomplished All observation One (1) to two (2) Three (3) Four (4) or more
Observation Sheet questions/task observation observation observation
completely answered/ questions/ task not questions/task not questions/ task not
accomplished. answered/ answered/ answered/
accomplished. accomplished. accomplished.
Analysis All questions were All questions were Questions were not Four (4) or more
answered completely; answered completely; answered observation questions
answers are with answers are clearly completely; answers were not answered;
depth and are connected to are not clearly answers not
thoroughly grounded theories; grammar connected to connected to
on theories; grammar and spelling are free theories; one (1) to theories; more than
and spelling are free from error. three (3) four (4) grammatical//
from error. grammatical/spelling spelling errors.
errors.
Reflection Profound and clear; Clear but lacks depth Not so clear and Unclear and shallow;
supported by what supported by what shallow; somewhat rarely supported by
were observed and were observed and supported by what what were observed
analyze. analyzed. were observed and and analyzed.
analyzed.
Learning Artifacts Portfolio is reflected Portfolio is reflected Portfolio is not Portfolio is not
on in the context of on in the context of reflected on in the reflected on in the
the learning the learning context learning context of the
outcomes; Complete, outcomes. Complete; outcomes. learning outcomes;
well-organized, highly well organized, very Complete; not not complete; not
relevant to the relevant to the organized. Relevant organized, not
learning outcome. learning outcome. to the learning relevant.
outcome.
Submission Submitted before the Submitted on the Submitted a day Submitted two (2)
deadline. deadline. after the deadline. days or more after
the deadline.
COMMENT/S Rating:
(Based on
Over-all Score Transmutation)

TRANSMUTATION OF SCORE TO GRADE/RATING

Score 20 19-18 17 16 15 14 13-12 11 10 9-8 7-below
Grade 1.0 1.25 1.5 1.75 2.00 2.25 2.50 2.75 3.00 3.5 5.00
99 96 93 90 87 84 81 78 75 72 71-below

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Signature of FS Teacher above Printed Name Date

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.
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2. Relating your data with what you learned child development, what family factors do you thing
contribute to the development and over-all adjustment of the learner in school?
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
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________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
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3. Does the communication between the home-school have an affect on the learner? If yes, what ere
these effects?
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REFLECT

1. Reflect on your own development as a child. What type of parenting did you experience? How did it
affect you?
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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?
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