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THE LEARNER’S DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT

Learners’ Development Matrix

Record the data you gathered about the learners’ characteristics and needs in this matrix. This will allow you to
compare the characteristics and needs of learners at different levels. The items under each domain are by no
means of exhaustive. There are sample indicators. You may add other aspects which you may have observed.

Development Domain Preschooler Elementary High School

Age Range: 3-4 Age Range: 7-8 Age Range: 15-16

Physical
Gross-motor skills Still developing; a bit Energetic and Graceful and composed
clumsy but very sometimes hyper
hype

Fine-motor skills Writing skill yet to be Can write in cursive Can write legibly
developed but in a slow pace both in manuscript
and cursive
Self-skill help Able to use utensils Assertiveness is Main self-help skills
to eat and able to present; are fully developed:
wash hand by himself eating, dressing-up,
household
grooming and
skills are
household skills
developing

Less supervision More independent

Others Needs aids and
than preschool than preschoolers
supervision most of
the time and elementary

Social
Interaction with Teachers Does not pay more Very obedient and Well-disciplined;
attention but can believes their teachers participates well in class;
follow simple more than their parents respects their teachers
instruction

Interaction with Able to make friends Loves to tease classmates Most of them belong
classmates/friends and play with the and friends but still plays in group of cliques; talks
other children with them about the opposite sex
Interests Loves toys; likes to Playing games; coloring Latest fashion and
scribble books Gadgetry

A time when Concerned with

Others Can throw tantrums curiosity is high appearance
sometimes

Emotional
Moods and temperament, Very moody; expresses A bit moody; Narrow Hides their true feelings;
expression of feelings feelings with more use of attention span; Does not scared of rejection;
non-verbal language, hide feelings; expresses expresses feelings or
e.g. crying, puppy eyes, feelings with more use of problems by talking to
pouting lips words friends or peers

Emotional Independence Very dependents Sometimes a bit Depend more on friends

especially towards the dependents but than parents when it
mother likes to try things comes to emotional things
on his own

Others If he don't get what Loves the attention from A bit confused if she is
she want, he cries parents; if he gets upset already a girl or a woman;
and shout a lot it's only for a small period adolescent period
of time

Cognitive
Communication Skills Can communicate with Can communicate very Can communicate
little words and more on well in Filipino language well in English, Level
non-verbal but only a little bit in of communicative
English competence is average

Thinking skills More on creativity like Child can generalize with Can perform deductive
molding clay and more on guidance and apply the and inductive reasoning
physical activity like idea with other examples and analysis
dancing and exercises

Problem-solving Not available Performs well in problem Not available

solving but still doubts his
Answers

Others Not available Can solve simple real life Understands the less
situational problems better with integration of
Can solve simple real life real life situations
situational problems
 THE LEARNER’S DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT

My Analysis
Write the most salient developmental characteristics of the learners you observed. Based on these
characteristics, think of implications for the teacher.

Level Salient Characteristics Implications to the

Observed teaching-Learning Process

Preschool Preschoolers like to move  Therefore, the teacher must

Age range of Learners around a lot. remember the use of music and
observed 3-4 movement activities not only in
PE, but in all areas.
 Therefore, teachers should not
expect preschoolers to remain
seated for a long time.

Level Salient Characteristics Implications to the

Observed teaching-Learning Process

Process Preschoolers can sometimes  So the teacher should

Age range of learners throw tantrums and still developing remember to use the toy as a
Observed 3-4 motor skills form of reward and try to be
patient at all times.
Therefore, teachers should
not expect preschoolers to
stay seated for a long time.
 The Teacher should also
offer physical activities that
can help develop coarse and
fine motor skills in a child,
such as clay molding,
playing time and basic
scratches.
 The Teachers should not
expect preschoolers to be
capable of writing or
drawing immediately.

Elementary Elementary pupils like to play  The Teachers should

Age range of learners games a lot; they are also beginning remember to use the games
observed 7-8 to show a higher rate in motor as a class motivation to
skills than the preschoolers keep students interested.
 Teachers must expect fine-
motor skills to be more
 practiced in order to achieve
better results

High School High School Students like to be in  Even if the students are in
Age range of learners the latest trends and can understand the higher section, the
observed 15-16 lessons better when they are teacher should show no less
integrated with real life situations. enthusiasm in teaching.
 The Teachers must
communicate the
importance of the lesson to
the students' daily life.
 The Teachers should
integrate their teaching into
technology to keep the
students interested.
 The efforts of the students
must be recognized. Treat
everyone in class with
fairness and without
favoritism.

My Reflection

1. While you were observing the learners, did you recall your own experiences when you were their age? What
similarities or differences do you have with the learners you observed?
-Yes, because like them, we are also noisy during the lesson, but we are participating very well. Unlike them
and we pay all our attention to what the teacher is talking about.

2. Think of a teacher you cannot forget for positive or negative reasons?

-I think, she is Mrs. Maria Fe G. Latada to help us be treated in the classroom, the center point of learning;
advise us when we are in emotional tension and tell us to get out of our comfort zone. I can also see that she's a
good teacher and that this motivates me to be a good teacher one day.

3. Share your other insights here.

- Our experiences in high school really affect us about what to possess as a schoolteacher. We all have in our
section different institutions graduated during the life of high school, and this affects us if the kind of teaching
capacity that we should keep for our students one day.
Integrating Theory and Practice

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

1. A 14 year-old felt ignored by her crush whom she believes is her one true love. She is crying incessantly and
refuses to listen and accept sound advice that the teacher is offering. Her refusal to accept is because.
A. She thinks what she feels is too special and unique, that no one has felt like this before.
B. The teenager’s favourite word is “no”, and she will simply reject everything the teacher says.
C. 14 year olds are not yet capable of perspective taking and cannot take the teacher’s perspective.
D. Teenagers never listen to adult advice.
Answer: A

2. A preschool teacher is thinking about how best to develop the fine motor skills of the 4 year olds .Which of
the following should be best to consider?
A. Provide daily coloring book activities.
B. Ask the children to do repeated writing drills every day.
C. Encourage children to eat independently.
D. Conduct a variety of fun and challenging activities involving hand muscles daily.
Answer: D

3. A preschool teacher is thinking about how best to develop the fine motor skill of the 4 year olds. Which of
the following should be the best to consider?
A. Formal operational stage
B. Concrete operational stage
C. Pre operational stage
D. Between concrete and formal operational stage
Answer: A
My Portfolio

Which is your favorite theory of development? How can this guide you as a future teacher?

Paste some readings about this theory and paste tem here.

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