FIELD STUDY 1:
INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AND LEARNER’S INTERACTION
Episode 4:
Individual Differences and Learner’s Interaction
Name of FS Student: Jane A. Larida
Year & Section: 3rd year
Course: BSED- Biology
Resource Teacher: Ma. Eileen T. Darroca Signature___________ Date: Sept. 2013
Cooperating School: Labangal National High School
My Target
At the end of this activity, I will gain competence in determining, understanding and
accepting the learners’ diverse backgrounds.
My Performance (How I will be rated)
Field Study 1 Episode 4- Individual Differences and Learner’s interaction
Focused on: Differences in gender, racial, religious backgrounds
Tasks
Observation/
Documentation:
My Analysis
1
Exemplary
4
Superior
3
Satisfactory
2
Unsatisfactory
1
All tasks were
done with
outstanding
quality; work
exceeds
expectations
All or nearly all
tasks were done
with high quality
Nearly all tasks were
done with acceptable
quality
Fewer than half of tasks
were done; or most
objectives met but with
poor quality
4
Analysis questions
were answered
completely; in
depth answers;
thoroughly
grounded on
theories
-Exemplary
grammar and
spelling.
3
Analysis questions
were answered
completely
2
Analysis questions
were not answered
completely
1
Analysis questions were
not answered.
Clear connection
with theories
Vaguely related to
the theories
Grammar and
spelling are
superior.
Grammar and spelling
acceptable
4
3
2
Grammar and spelling
unsatisfactory
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My reflection
My portfolio
Submission
INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AND LEARNER’S INTERACTION
Reflection
statements are
profound and
clear, supported
by experiences
from the episode.
Reflection
statements are
clear but not
clearly supported
by experiences
from the episode.
Reflection statements
are shallow;
supported by
experiences from the
episode.
Reflection statements
are unclear and shallow
and are not supported
by experiences from the
episode.
4
Portfolio is
complete, clear,
well-organized
and all supporting
documentation
are located in
sections clearly
designated.
3
Portfolio is
complete, clear,
well-organized
and most
supporting
documentation
are available
and/or logical and
clearly marked
locations.
2
Portfolio is
incomplete;
supporting
documentation is
organized but is
lacking.
1
Portfolio has many
lacking components; is
unorganized and
unclear.
4
Before deadline.
3
On the deadline.
2
A day after the
deadline.
1
Two days or more after
the deadline.
4
3
2
1
Subtotals
Rating based on
transmutation:
Overall Score
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Signature of FS Teacher above printed name
Date
Transmutation of Scores to Grades/ Ratings
Score
Grade
Rating
Score
Grade
Rating
20
18-19
17
16
15
14
1.0
1.25
1.5
1.75
2.00
2.25
99
96
93
90
87
84
12-13
11
10
8-9
7- below
2.50
2.75
3.00
3.5
5.00
81
78
75
72 and
below
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My Map
The learners’ individual differences and the type of interaction they bring
surely affect the quality of teaching and learning. This episode is about observing
and gathering data to find out how student diversity affects learning.
To reach your target, do the following tasks:
Step 1. Observe a class in different parts of a school day (beginning of the day,
class time, recess, etc.)
Step 2. Describe the characteristics of the learners in terms of age, gender, and
social and cultural diversity.
Step 3. Describe the interaction that transpires inside and outside the classroom.
Step 4. Interview your Resource Teacher about the principles and practices that she
uses in dealing with diversity in the classroom.
Step 5. Analyze the impact of individual differences on learners’ interaction.
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My Tools
Use the activity form provided for you to document your observations.
An Observation Guide for the Learners’ Characteristics
Read the following carefully before you begin to observe. Then write
your observation report on the space provided.
1. Find out the number of students, Gather data as to their ages, gender, racial
groups, religious and ethnic backgrounds.
The total number of the student I was observing are 55, the youngest of them age 15
while the oldest in them is 17. There are 30 boys and 25 girls most of them are Roman
Catholic and some are Islam, Iglesia ni Cristo and some are Baptist.
During Class:
1. How much interaction is there in the classroom? Describe how the
students interact with one another and with the teacher. Are there
groups that interact more with the teachers than others?
They interact with the teacher in relation to their lesson; they also interact with each
other when they have their own business aside from their discussion.
2. Observe the Learners seated at the back and the front part of the room.
Do they behave and interact differently?
Yes, they interact differently those who seated in the front row are more active to
participate because maybe the attention of the teacher is more focus on the students
seated in the front row; and those in the back does not really cooperate in their lesson
but when the teacher called their attention they also participate.
3. Describe the relationship among the learners. Do the learners
cooperate with or compete against each other?
The learners usually compete with each other and there is some instance that they
cooperate with each other especially during their laboratory activity.
4. Which students participate actively? Which students ask for most help?
Those students that seated in front are those groups of pupils who participate actively,
while those who are seating at the back but wants to participate in the discussion are the
pupils who ask help most.
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5. When a student is called and cannot answer the teacher question, do
the classmates try to help him? Or they do raise their hands so that the
teachers will call them instead?
When a student is called and cannot answer the question of the teacher, the teacher ask
somebody from the class to answer the question.
Outside class:
1. How do the students group themselves outside class? Homogenously,
by age? By gender? By racial or ethnic groups? Or are the students in
mixed social groupings? If so, describe the groupings.
They group themselves according to the students that they are most close with, and
some students like boys group themselves by the ability that they can do I mean the
skills they are able to do.
2. Describe how the learners interact with each other. What do they talk
about?
They interact with each other by bullying somebody especially the boys, while girls are
sitting with their friends and having some snacks and talk about their crushes.
Observation Report
Name of the School Observed: Labangal National High School
School Address: Labangal, General Santos City
Date of Visit: September 25, 2013
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My Analysis
1. Identify the persons who play key roles in the relationships and interactions in
the classroom. What roles do they play? Is there somebody who appears to
be the leader, a mascot/ joker, an attention seeker, a little teacher, a doubter/
pessimist?
The teacher acts as facilitator and the students as learner. There are pupils who
are attention seeker. The president of their room appeared to be the leader when the
teacher is not around. The teacher also makes jokes to break the monotony in the
room.
2. Are students from the minority group accepted or rejected by the others? How
is this shown?
The students from minority group are accepted by others, they don’t even care
whether their classmate belongs to minority group or not.
3. How does the teacher influence the class interaction considering the
individual differences of the students?
The teacher influence the class interaction considering the individual differences
of the pupils by manifesting a fairly values inside the classroom. The teacher doesn’t
discourage her students whenever they answer her wrong.
4. What factors influence the grouping of learners outside the classroom?
The factors that manipulated the groupings of learners outside the classroom are
there gender, and their closeness to their classmates.
My Reflection
1. How did you feel being in that classroom? Did you feel a sense of oneness or
unity among the learners and between the teacher and the learners?
The students that I was observed are the groups that interact more with their
teacher than others. They help each other by teaching some of their classmate
especially when they perform such activities. When the students are called by their
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teacher, and cannot answer the teachers’ question, their classmates try to help each
other. The teacher has an ability to make them disciplined. I feel a sense of oneness
or unity among them.
2. In the future, how would you want the learners in your classroom to interact?
How will you make this happen?
As a future teacher, I want the learners to interact in a good way. I will encourage
all the learners to interact and participate with my class by calling their attention and
making them as one. I will not make any favoritism among them and I will put a
boundary between us so that they will not treat me like just their classmate and also
so that they will have respect for me.
My portfolio
Post a collection of quotations advocating for celebrating diversity in the
classroom. Using these quotations, explain how you will encourage all learners,
regardless of religious, ethnic or racial background to interact and participate well.
"It’s time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity
there is beauty and there is strength."
As teacher you have to emphasize to your learners, that whatever your
culture there is an equality for them. Whenever it come to the teaching and learning
process or opportunity in life all are fair. As a teacher also you have to be flexible in
dealing learners which have different religion with you, should not discriminate ones
religion, and so that students will not be threaten. Diversity may be the hardest thing
for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be
without. Treat everyone as they are all the same and equally created by God.
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