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Field Study 1 - Learning Episode 4 – Learner Diversity: The Community and Home
Environment

My Learning Episode Overview

Episode 4 provides opportunities for you to have a more in-depth look into the
factors that affect the development of a learner. Focus will be on the early experiences
and characteristics of the learner as described by the family and other significant others.
You will also focus how the teacher links with the community to maximize the learning
and development of students.

My Intended Learning Outcomes

At the end of this Episode, I must be able to:

 describe the influencing factors in the home environment that affect the student’s
learning;
 seek advice concerning strategies that build relationships with parents/guardians
and the wider community (6.2.1); and
 identify effective strategies on how teachers can work together with the family.

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:__________

OBSERVE

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.

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.)
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 social-interaction with teachers and classmates (loner, shy, sociable.

Friendly, gets into fights, liked by other, etc.)
 emotional moods, temperament, cries easily, loses temper, happy, shows
enthusiasm, excited, indifference, etc.
 cognitive (appears to understand lessons, copes with the lessons, excels,
lags behind, shows reasoning skills, turns in assignment and requirements,
etc.)

Interview the Teacher

1. What are the most noticeable characteristics of the learner? (emotional
disposition, behaviour and discipline, sense of responsibility, study habits,
academic performance, relationship with peers, relationship with adults, social
adjustments)
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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?
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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?
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Interview with Parents

1. Conduct a home visit. Once there, observe the home set-up. (Home is
orderly, family pictures in the living, etc.)
2. Use the Interview Questions on the next page. Just ask the questions
with which you feel comfortable.

SUGGESTED PARENT INTERVIEW GUIDE

Your teachers may ask you to use a more detailed interview guide. Be free to
translate the questions, if necessary.
Name of Learner:
Date of Birth __________________________________ Age: __________

Grade/Year Level: ____________________________ Gender: ___________ 4

Number of Siblings: ________________

Birth Order: ___________________________

Parents: ______________________________________________________________

Mother _________________________________________________

Age: __________________ Occupation: _______________ Educational Attainment:

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Father: _________________ Occupation: ______________ Educational Attainment:

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Learner’s Physical Aspect:

Health

1. Mother’s Health during pregnancy with the learner:

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2. Ailments or health problems of the learner as a child:
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3. Age of the learner when he started to walk/talk:
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4. Food preferences of the learner as a child and at present:
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5. Who took care of him/her as a child?
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Learner’s Social Aspect

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

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

1. What are your expectations of your child?

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2. How do you provide a nurturing environment for your child?
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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

The Learner’s Development Profile

Name of the Learner: _____________________________________________________

School: __________________________________________________

Date of Home Visit:

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Date of Birth: __________________________________ Age:

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Grade/Year Level: ______________________________ Gender:

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Family Profile

Number of Siblings: _____________

Birth Order: ____________________

Parent: ________________________

Mother: _______________________

Age: ___________________

Occupation: ______________________ Educational Attainment: _______________

Father: ______________________

Occupation: ____________________ Educational Attainment: _______________

Physical Development
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Physical Development

Social Development

Emotional-Moral Development

Cognitive Development

Findings

Conclusions

Recommendation

ANALYZE
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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 from child development, what family
factors do you think contribute to the development and over-all adjustment of the
learner in school?
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3. Does communication between the home-school have an effect 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 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 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
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II. Inhibited
III. Hostile
IV. Withdrawn

a. I and II
b. I, II and III
c. 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

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

feelings about the influence of the home and school and community to the learner.
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2. Make a reflection acrostic about the home, school and community link.

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