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FIELD STUDY
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Episode 4
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INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
AND LEARNERS
Environmen
INTERACTION
(focusing on differences in gender,
t racial, religious backgrounds)
Name of FS Student JOY R. CONSTANTINO
Course

BSED MATHEMATICS

Resource Teacher

Year & Section 2-1

ARNEL L. POJASignature

Cooperating School MALINTA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

My Target
At the end of this activity, you will gain competence in determining teaching
approaches and techniques considering the individual differences of the learners.

MyMap
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 2Describe the characteristics of

the learners in terms of age, gender,
and social and cultural diversity.

Step 3Describe the interaction that transpires inside

and outside the classroom.

Your
Tools the impact of individual differences
Step 5Analyse
on learners interaction.

Step 4Interview your resource

teacher about the principles and
practices that he/she uses in dealing
with diversity in the classroom.

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 on the next page.
1. Find out the number of students. Gather data as to their ages, gender, racial
groups, religious and ethnic backgrounds.
During Class
1. How much interaction is there in the classroom? Describe how the students
interact with one another and with the teacher. Are these groups that interact
more with the teacher than others?
2. Observe the learners seated at the back and the front part of the room. Do
they behave and interact differently?
3. Describe the relationship among the learners. Do the learners cooperate
with or compete against each other?
4. Which students participate actively? Which students ask for most help?
5. When a student is called and cannot answer the teachers question, do the
classmates try to help him? Or do they raise their hands so that the teacher
will call them instead?
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.

2. Describe how the learners interact with each other? What do they talk
about?

OBSERVATION REPORT
Name of the School Observed

MALINTA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

School AddressSt.Jude St., Malinta , Valenzuela City

Date of Visit Monday, January 25, 2016
1. They are 27 pupils. 14 to 16 years old. Male and Female. They believe to the
Word Of God (Catholic Group)
During Class
1. The students are free to interact with their classmates. Sometimes when teacher
ask for some quiet classroom, the students will respect. Many students had more
interactions than to the teachers especially when the teacher asks question.
2. Yes they have. They interact with their seatmate.
3. They built a friendship to each other. Some student couldnt communicate his
classmates that he felt alone and not belong to their class. Sometimes the friendship
they have was limited just like when they take quiz or exam.
4. I saw a student that participates actively to their discussion. She is a girl. Shes not
a top one for their class but shes top one in Math for she more likes it. For the
teacher could not help student to answer questions step by step but for questioning
with them.
5. Yes, some students will do that for the students called is their friends. But
sometimes, because of the praises they wanted to gain, they raise their hands and
answer questions.

Outside Class
1.Much more that students find group to their age level and according to their
gender. They always make laugh and take a picture. They have a same like and
dislikes for.

My Analysis
1. Identify the persons who play key roles in the relationships and interactions in the
classrooms. 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?
Some students have a joke but they do not did for being just a mascot and
joker. Some students play for being what they are inside the classroom. More
even the teacher must do that for motivational purpose.
2. Are students coming from the minority group accepted or rejected by the others?
How is this shown?
Some students come from a minority group but they are treated also as a
person for they have individual differences. They respect each other.
3. How does the teacher influence the class interaction considering the individual
differences of the students?
The teacher should treat students according to what they are but for being a
person. Of course, all students have a unique personality. They are the people
that respectful and for the human rights.
4. What factors influence the grouping of learners outside the classroom?
They may act what is on a reality. They cant move according to their will.
They are acting for what group they may part.

My Reflections
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?

I felt that this classroom has a unity for what they are. The students learned
from teacher as well as a teachers. This classroom that I observed is just a
familiar to what I did since Im in High School.
2. In the future, how would you want the learners in your classroom interact? How
will you make this happen?
For me as a future educator or teacher, I would like my students interact with
me a lot. I want to motivate my student to study hard. Just what Im in my
High School life.
3. How will you encourage all learners, regardless of religious, ethnic or race
background, to interact and participate?
I accept them on what they are but has a limitations. I want my student free
on what there likes and dislikes in there lives for all person has a choice what
they wanted to take.