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Name: ________________________________

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LEARNING EPISODE 2: THE LEARNER’S CHARACTERISTICS AND

NEEDS OVERVIEW
This learning episode presents the learner’s characteristics and needs. It aims to provide a
review of the important concepts regarding a learner’s characteristics and needs, allow the students
to conduct an observation of such characteristics and needs, and draw out the student’s reflection on
how these things affect learning.

The field study plan will guide the student in the steps that he or she shall go through as he or
she engages in the field study experience. In this learning episode, the student will encounter an
activity titled Activity 2.1 Learner’s Characteristics and Needs.

At the end of the activity, the student will be asked to answer processing questions in order to
examine what he or she has gleaned from it. The student will also be asked to provide his or her
insights and reflections, as well as five key learning points from the entire learning episode.
Afterward, the instructor shall evaluate the student’s performance during the learning episode and ask
the student to accomplish the documentation/portfolio requirement to further enhance the student’s
field study and observation.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of this learning episode, the student should be able to:

1. review the important concepts regarding learner characteristics and needs; 2. conduct an
observation in a school that focuses on their learner’s characteristics and needs; and
3. reflect on how learners’ characteristics and needs impact their learning experience.

CONCEPT DISCUSSION

1. Characteristics
∙ Learners are characterized in the school environment primarily based on their grade level-
as preschool, kinder, elementary, junior high school, and senior high school students.
From this initial characterization, learners are further characterized based on their
specific physiological, emotional/affective, intellectual, and social attributes.
∙ Learners are also characterized based on their stages of development through which their
learning developments are shaped and gauged.
a. Childhood (early, middle, and late) 3-12 years old
b. Adolescence (early, middle, and late) 12-21 years old

2. Needs
 ∙ A need is a motivating force usually rooted in necessity, deficiency, or imbalance that
leads one to find a way for its satisfaction. The needs of a learner are representative of

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what he or she is expected to learn in connection with his or her learning characteristics.
Such needs span across four domains: cognitive, social, affective, and psychomotor.

FIELD STUDY PLAN

The field study plan for this learning episode serves as one’s guide in the implementation of
this field study. Although the plan is set to contain the required steps, one may integrate other steps
seen to be necessary in the efficient conduct if this field study.

Send a letter requesting

for permission to the
school to be visited and
observed.
Wait for approval to
conduct
the study.
Conduct field study
once approve

the teacher observed

Present the observation result to Submit output to

instructor

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Name: FIELD STUDY ACTIVITY

_________________________________________ FS1: LEARNING EPISODE 2

Date: _____________
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ACTIVITY 2.1: LEARNERS’ CHARACTERISTICS AND NEEDS

Field Study Student:______________________ Subject:________________________________

Resource Teacher:_______________________ Teacher’s Signature:_____________________

School:_________________________________ Date of Observation:_____________________

Grade/Year Level:________________________ Section:________________________________

INSTRUCTIONS: Choose one grade level of students to focus on in the conduct of this activity.

Note: You are required to ask permission from the parents of your respondent. You may also need to
ask them regarding their child’s characteristics if necessary.
Name of Respondent (Optional): Section: Score:

Age:____

Stage of Development:
____early childhood
____middle childhood
____late childhood/puberty/early
adolescence ____middle adolescence
____late adolescence

PART I. Learner’s Characteristics

Describe the learner’s physiological, emotional/affective, intellectual, and social characteristics.

Physiological

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Emotional/Affective

Intellectual

Social

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PART II. Learner’s Needs

From the identified characteristics of the learner, state all the possible needs you deem necessary
for his or her learning development.

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PROCESSING QUESTIONS AND ANALYSIS
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1. Do you think your respondent matches the general characteristic of other learners in his or her
age group? Explain
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2. What specific interventions or support can you provide to the type of learner your respondent is
based on the needs you identified above?
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INSIGHTS AND REFLECTIONS

What insights and reflection can you derive from this specific field study experience?

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CLOSING DISUCUSSION
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State five (5) key learning points that you were able to capture in this field study experience.
 My Key Learning Points

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5.