COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION

FIELD LEARNING Focus on Gender, Needs,

Strenghts,Interest, Experiences,
STUDY 1 EPISODE Language, Race, Culture, Religion,
Socio Economic status, Difficult
FS 1 3 Circumstances, and Indigenous
People

Target Your Learning Outcome

At the end of this episode, I must be able to:

 Describe the characteristics and needs of learners from diverse

backgrounds;
 Identify the needs of students with different levels of abilities in the
classroom;
 Identify best practices in differentiated teaching suit the varying
learner needs a diverse class 
 Demonstrate openness, understanding, and acceptance of the
learners’ diverse needs and  backgrounds 

OBSERVE, ANALYZE, REFLECT 

ACTIVITY 3.1

Observing differences among learners’ gender, needs, strengths,

interests, and experiences; and differences among learners’ linguistic,
cultural, socio-economic, religious backgrounds, and difficult
circumstances.
Resource Teacher: Nazareth De leon Teacher’s Signature:
School: Don Vicwnte Delgado Memorial Elementary School
Grade/Year Level: Grade 3 Subject Area: All subjects Date: Nov.
16,  2021 

The learners’ differences snd the type of interaction they

bring surely affect the quality of  teaching and learning. This
activity is about observing and gathering data to find out how 
student diversity affects learning. 
To realize the Intended Learning Outcomes, work your way through these
types: 
 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 principles and
practices that she uses in dealing  with diversity in the
classroom. 
 Step 5: analyze the impact of individual
differences on learners’ interactions. The
observation form provided for me to document
my observation. 
 OBSERVE
An Observation Guide for the Learners’
Characteristics
Read the following carefully before you begin to observe. Then
write your observation repost on the  space provided on the next
page. 
1. Find out the number of students. Gather data as their ages, gender,
racial groups, religious, and  ethnic backgrounds. 
 The grade 3 class has a total of 30. Their age was usually eight
and nine years old. The classroom consists 13 boys and 17
girls. Each of them  has different religions such as roman
catholic, Iglesia ni Cristo and born again. There are  also
Tagalog students and inherit students.
during class:
When it comes to the flow of discussion, there are many
distractions because at their age, they are not yet fully mature to focus
well in their teacher, and the flow of discussion was not perfect.
Inattentiveness is also the problem, their attention shifts quickly,
regardless with their gender or age. As they grow, eventually they can
focus longer on things. There is one student in the class whose
attention was very short, he would just move and talk around the whole
class. I think of him as a hyper-active child who maybe were having
excessive sugar intake so the teacher must set a plan or technique to get
their attention.
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 teacher than others?
As I observed, During the class there were much interaction
inside the classroom between the learners and the teacher as well as
the learner to another learner. The students interact by playing with
each other and talking to one another. The students interact with the
teacher by answering the questions asked by the teacher or other
responses of the learners to the teacher like body gestures.
2. Observe the learners seated at the back and front part of the
room. Do they behave and interact  differently? 
Based on my observation, there are differences between the
learners who seated at the back and front in terms of their behaviour and
 interaction like if the teacher is in front of the class, the learners at the
back kept talking to themselves and having their own conversations.
3. Describe the relationship among the learners. Do the learners
cooperate with or compare against each other.
Some of them listen more and do what the teacher says but most of
them doesn’t pay much attention. The learners cooperate well with each
other, I noticed some students try to assist their fellow classmates
if they have finished their own work, I think that there isn’t much
competition between them, or if there is any, it is in an absolute
minimum.

4. Who among the students participate actively? Who among them

ask for more help?
Students participate actively was the top students because they really
want to learn and they also interested in the discussion. Sometimes the
students who wants to learn asks for more help.
5. When a student is called and cannot answer the teacher’s question,
do the classmates try to help him? Or do their raised their hands, so
that the teacher will call them instead?
There are students who helped their clasmmates like for example
they are whispering the right answer or they simply write it in their
notebook, and paper then point it in the classmate who can’t answer the
teacher’s question while the other raised their hands for them to answer
the question.

Outside Class: 
1. How do the student’s groups themselves outside class?
Homogeneously, by age? By gender? By  racial or ethnic
groups? By their interests? Or are the students in mixed social
groupings? If so,  describe the groupings. 
There are children deliberately together or in a barricade, outside
the classroom they  come together to play or take recess usually
people of the same age are together  because they have the same
interest based on their age. 
2. Notice students who are alone and those who are not interacting.
Describe their behavior.
Students who are alone and those who are not interacting were
usually don’t have friends. They were quiet, didn’t want to meet
 the eye of their teacher, afraid to raise their hand and sometimes
they are shaking when answering the questions.

Interview the teachers and ask about their experience about learners
in difficult circumstances. Request them to describe their
circumstances and how it was affected the learners. Ask about the
strategies they use to help these learners cope.
Acording to the teacher I interviewed, one of her most difficult
circumstances that she experienced was to get their attention easily
and be interested in the certain topics that she was discussing. It was
affected the learners by having the low grades and cant understand the
topic was all about. And because of that she use some strategies for her
students to pay attention in her lesson, first strategies is by giving them
a ribbon after the discussion and the second strategies is her visual aids,
which are more colorful and can hold the ineterst of the learner. ;astly
strategy is by giving some activities that student will learn and te same
time will be enjoy by that activity.

Ask the teachers about –strategies they apply to address the needs of
diverse students due to the following factors: ∙

 Gender, including LGBT- as a teacher you should be open minded

in all aspects including their gender. Respect their gender and treat
them equally.
 Language and cultural differences- As a teacher you should be
flexible in cope up the differences of the students in terms of their
language and culture. Be sensitive in your words and actions. Just
established strategies and activities which everyone can cooperate.
 Differences in religion-according to them they don’t posted any
posters or pictures about religion as respect because students have
different religion.
 Socio-economic status- as a teacher you should treat and teach the
teacher equally, don’t persuade into bribe.

OBSERVE REPORT
Name of the School Observed: DON VICENTE DELGADO
MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
School Address: PAGKAKAISA, NAUJAN, ORIENTAL
MINDORO 
Date of visit: NOVEMBER 16, 2021 
Grade 3 learners under Mrs. De Leon have 30 students, 13 boys
and 17 girls. All learners are Filipino (Tagalog). Their religion is
different. During the class there were much interaction inside the
classroom between the learners and the teacher as well as the learner to
another learner. The students interact by playing with each other and
talking to one another. The students interact with the teacher by
answering the questions asked by the teacher or other responses of the
learners to the teacher like body gestures. Based on my observation, there
are differences between the learners who seated at the back and front in
terms of their behaviour and interaction like if the teacher is in front of
the class, the learners at the back kept talking to themselves and having
their own conversations. Some of them listen more and do what the
teacher says but most of them doesn’t pay much attention. The learners
cooperate well with each other, I noticed some students try to assist
their fellow classmates if they have finished their own work, I think
that there isn’t much competition between them, or if there is any, it is in
an absolute minimum. Students participate actively was the top students
because they really want to learn and they also interested in the
discussion. Sometimes the students who wants to learn asks for more
help. There are students who helped their clasmmates like for example
they are whispering the right answer or they simply write it in their
notebook, and paper then point it in the classmate who can’t answer the
teacher’s question while the other raised their hands for them to answer
the question.
They are not allowed to go outside the classroom for safety
measures so they don’t get much interaction from there except when it’s
time for lunch where their respective guardians came to fetch them.
They talk much about their favorite cartoon shows during their free
time. In my observation at Don Vicente Delgado Elementary School
there are lot of groups during and outside of the class, there are groups
of students by their religion, age, gender or etc. but there are also
groupings that mixed by their social inclinations. The teacher there is
respectful and flexible because they can handle the differences of the
students well. The interaction is being affected with these kinds of
aspects as all of us has differences on every individual.
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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?
I observed, Matthew Del Rosario, he was like the little boy leader
of the class, he is good in jokes and he always have some of that during
class hours. He is quite noisy but the good thing about him is that he
learns fast than the others. When he is finished of his work he walks
around the class like a teacher, from there I noticed that he tries to
help some of his classmates who’s having difficulties. He is a good
role player in that class.

What makes the learners assumes these roles? What factors affect
their behavior? ∙
This role of children affects their behavior there are cases that they
can easily teach some of his/her classmates and also can think that they
can easily rule his classmate because he is a leader. It can affect their
mindset and behavior like being greedy, boastful and independent, it can
be worst or it can be good.

2. Is there anyone you observed who appear left out? Are students
who appear “different”? why do they appear different? Are they
accepted or rejected by the others? How is this shown? ∙
Yes, because there are students what we called them minority
group or indigenous student, they appear different by their language and
clothes as well as their culture and they were well-accepted and they have
friends in the classroom which become their best friends.
What does the teacher do to address issues like this?
∙ To address this kind of issues teachers tells everyone that they have
their equal rights and all are welcome to study. I will teach them how to
respect each other differences.
3. How does the teacher influence the class interaction considering
the individual differences of the students?
The teacher makes her influence in the class interaction by giving
good consideration in every individual difference of the learners. She
keeps in mind the behaviors of every student and uses it in a way that she
can utilize it for a good classroom atmosphere.
4. What strategies does the teacher use to maximize the benefits of
diversity in the classroom? How does teacher leverage diversity?
As a teacher, you must be flexible, sensitive and considerate. always
remind them that despite of differences, we should learn to accept and
respect each other’s differences and learn it from each other.
Reflections

1. How did you feel being in the classroom? Did you feel a sense
of oneness or unity among the learners and between the
teacher and the learners?

I saw the oneness of the individual; oneness when it comes in their

groupings. There is oneness if you can base it according to their
groupings, but you base it to the whole class, there is none.
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