Learning Episode 4 Learner Diversity: The Community and Home

Environment
Worksheet # 4
Activity 4.1
Observing the Learner’s Community and Home Environment
1. Select a learner.
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 schooling.
b. the learner’s activities and behavior while at home.
5. Analyze your observation and interview data.
6. Reflect on your observation experience.

OBSERVATION
Use the activity form provided for you to document your observations.
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.
The Learner
1. Make a general observation of the learner. Describe him/her in each of the
domains of the development:
 physical-body built and height (thin, chubby, underweight,
overweight), level of physical activity (fast, slow, lethargic, active,
etc.)

- Mr. Amiote is chubby and his very active when it comes to sports.

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

friendly, gets into fights, liked by others, etc.)

- Mr. Amiote is very- friendly, he hadn’t enemies in his barangay.


emotional moods, temperament, cries easily, loses temper, happy,
shows enthusiasm, excited, indifferent, etc.)
- Mrs. Amiote told me that his son is very easy to lose his temper when it
comes to his siblings, but his kind when it comes to others, he’s very happy
teenage boy.
 cognitive (appears to understand lessons, copes with the lessons,
excels, lags behind, shows reasoning skills, turn in assignments and
requirements, etc.)
- Mr. Amiote is an average student since he is my student in my tutorial class,
he definitely understands what I taught for just a single moment of time, he
excels in Science and MAPEH. But he is not much responsible for his
 modules.

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)
- As the Modular distance learning have been imposed in CNHS apparently, I
can’t say what is their behavior and discipline but for the records of each
students since all of your tutees were under to my class they have are all
active when it come submitting their modules.

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?
- When their parents have some problems regarding to their modules I
immediately contact their parents since I have all of their contact number via
Fb or phone.
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?
- When the pandemic devastated our school routines I immediately planned
out some learning materials like books, or references for learning. Their
parents were been told to become their teachers, and if there is some
problems encountered just have to tell us immediately.

Interview with 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 Questions on the next page. Just ask the questions with
which you feel comfortable.

Suggested Parent Interview Guide

Name of Learner: Mark Cesar T. Amiote

Date of Birth: March 13, 2008 Age: 13
Grade/Year Level: Grade 8
Number of Siblings: 4
Birth Order: 3

Parents:
Mother: Maricel Amiote
Age: 40 years old Occupation: Crew Educational Attainment: Elementary Graduate
Father: Cesar Amiote
Age: 47 years old Occupation: Motor cab Driver Educational Attainment: Elementary

Learner’s Physical Aspect:

Health
1. Mother’s Health during pregnancy with the learner.
- “Okay manla, dre man ak masakit”
2. Ailments or health problems of the learner as a child.
- “Wara, healthy siya ura ura”
3. Age of the learner when he started to walk/talk.
- 1-year old siya nag start mahibaro mag bagaw, 2 years old man siya nahibaro na mag
bagaw sin “mama dkan papa”
4. Food preferences of the learner as a child and at present.
- “Mahilig sa Chicken Joy”
5. Who took care of him/her as a child?
- “Mother”
Learner’s Social Aspect
1. Describe your child’s sociability (friendly, outgoing or shy, loner).
- Friendly
2. Who were the learner’s playmates?
- “Didi gadla saam mga hipid”
3. As a child then, was he/she allowed to play outside?
- “Oo, basta didi la sira dre magpaherayo la”
4. Is he/she allowed to go out with friends?
- “Oo, basta mag sarit la saak”
5. Do you have rules for him/her to follow regarding going out?
- “Oo, magsarit dkan man hugas la siya sa knya hugasan”
6. What are these rules?
- “Panhugas dkan Magsarit
Emotional-Moral
1. What are your expectations of your child?
- “Makatangpos, mao manla amo gusto”
 2. How do you provide a nurturing environment for your child?
- “Maupay nga balay, matagan ko sira sa kanra karuyag sa kanra kinaadlaw”
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?
- “Kakaistorya, dikan gin aadvice ko kun nano an maupay”
4. What do you do when he/she is not successful in something?
- “Syempre masuporta ak gehap, nadire ak maimod nga kukurian siya”

How do you discipline your children?

1. Do you have rules in the house? What are they?
- “Oo, Kailangan pagaka alas sais sa gab- e adi na sira sa balay, kailangan nakaparigo
bago mag inuyag sa kalye, dkan mauli atab para sa pangaon sa balay”
2. How do you impose the rules?
- “Gin susumatan ko iton sira kada adlaw na sugad sine an kanra dapat hemoon”
3. What are the consequences of breaking the rules?
- “Ako kay dire man gud ak maisog, bagaw la ako dkan gihay man tala”
Learner’s Cognitive Aspect
1. What are the child’s interests?
- “Basketball kanya hilig”
2. What is he/she good at in school?
- “Tala kay danay nag hinubya, mao pa na nag pandemic mas dumuroy sge adto sa
gawas”
3. In what subject/s does he/she have difficulty
- “Math”
4. How do you monitor his/her performance in school? How do you motivate him/her?
- “Gin bubukad ko sun kanra mga modules, dikan gn iimdan ko kanra mg answers kun
tama”
5. Do you have rules at home to help him develop good study habits?
- “Oo”
6. What are these rules? How are they implemented?
- “Papabasa ko iton sira, dikan nag dre ko iton sira papagawas pag dire mag hemo
modules”
Photo Documentation:

ANALYSIS
1. From your home visit and interview, what do you think is the style of parenting
experienced by the learner? Explain your answer.
- I think permissive parenting, because they don’t use violence or any strict
ways of teaching their child, of what I observed the child is quite spoiled but
he has his manners towards his parents and slight active in schooling.

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?
- Parental attitudes toward education, since his parents are just elementary
level the level of attention for their child education is not quite strict and they
just letting them what the child will do.
3. Does the communication between the home-school have an effect on the
learner? If yes, what are these effects?
- Yes, since the parents are only Elementary level the knowledge of the parents
aren’t enough to teach the child needs in school, since its pandemic it’s
difficult, furthermore the child experiencing difficulties towards answering his
 modules, they only dependent to his classmates’ answer, they lose
independent learning and commit cheating.

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?

- Impose tutorial class in every student, the teacher can lend help for the
barangay officials to conduct a certain tutorial activity in each barangay to give
the students a special tutorial class for them to learn and develop self-learning
to avoid cheating, dependent to others , plagiarism, and always focusing to
nonsense things.

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

- Authoritative Parenting, my parents always have rules in the house if I don’t

follow those rules for me to develop my self they will give me a warning.
However, it helped me to develop myself to have self- responsibility in
learning and how to faced it one by one by not breaking the rules that I made
to myself.

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, visitation is good for each student, it will monitor their
physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioral aspect of how their life is during
pandemic or not it also develops good relationship between the student and
parent. Eventually the parents will be glad that their child have a supportive
and responsible teacher.
LEARNING ARTIFACTS
1. Make a reflection acrostic about the home, school and community link.

H –armonious
O –pportunity
M –oral
E –ndeavor

S – tandard
C –apacity
H –onesty
O –rderliness
O –nhand
 L –earning

C –ollaborating
O –pen hand
M –agnify
M –odel
U – nified
N –irvana
I –ndependent
T –eam work
Y –ogic lifestyle

L –ife changing
I –conic
N –ew Era
K –nowledge

Reference
Lucas, Maria Rita D.,et al. Field Study 1 (Observation of Teaching-Learning in Actual School
Environment. (2020).