Name: _______________________________ Date of Observation: ___________

Year & Section: _______________________

Episode 15: Learner’s Linguistics, Cultural, Socio-Economic, and Religious Backgrounds

Observation
A. Ask your Cooperating teacher for a copy of his or her School Form 1 (School Register). Paste
a copy of the School Form 1 in the box below and answer the following questions.

1. What is the grade and section that you have observed?

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2. How many boys and girls are there?
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3. What is the religion of the majority of the students?

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4. What is the common mother tongue of the students?
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5. Does the class have a student who belongs to ethnic group?
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B. List down 10 strategies your cooperating teacher can use to address the individual differences
(linguistic, cultural, socio-economic, and religious backgrounds) of the students.
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C. Ask the cooperating teacher about how he or she gives importance to differentiated instruction
in his or her classes.
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Other comments and observations:
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Processing
Read carefully and answer the following questions.
1. Does the number of boys and girls affect the classroom instruction? How?
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2. Does the religious background of the students affect the preparation of the lesson? How?
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3. Does the mother tongue of most of the students affect the medium of instruction?
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4. Do the socio-economic differences of the students affect their learning? How?
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5. Are contextualization, localization, and indigenization of the curricula being done to fit the
cultural background of the students?
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Reflection
Complete the following:
1. I realized that
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2. I believe that
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3. I feel that
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4. When I become a teacher, I will
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