Cebu Normal UniversityOsmeña Blvd., Cebu City

Name: Cañada, Shara S. Yr. & Sec.: BSEd-TLE IIISubject: Field Study 1 Class Schedule: MW (1:30-3:00 P.M.)

Learning Act. # 4: Learners’ Characteristics and Needs

ObservationChild’s Development

COMPARISON MATRIXLEVEL PHYSICAL EMOTIONAL MORAL

Pre-School Hopping, running, jumping, throwing.

Learning how to write.

Playful, Smiling, but easily cry

Less polite, compliant, & respectful

Elementary

interested in competitive sports

Their fine motor skills improve and they are able to hold pencils and tools more delicately, giving them finer control.

They are very eager in terms of academic exellence.

They compete with their classmates and friends.

Obedient to authority

High School

development is less about skill building and more about puberty

Playing computers and chatting with friends

they learned conscious strategies to use in response to emotions in theirselves, others, and the group

Good Interpersonal Relationships

Special Child

Eating, talking to acquiantances and playing in the playground.

Easily shifts their mode when somebody triggers it.

They always want

Less patience Individualistic

to get want they want quickly.

Easily gets bored

Analysis

CHARACTERISTICS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE TEACHERS

Competitive Make teaching more rewardingEasily gets bored Make classroom more interesting by

doing variety of activities thus catering multiple needs of students.

Always want to play Teacher should not focus only in academic matters but he must also give time for playing.

Talkative and wants to mingle with peers

Teacher should have some activities that help in developing students’ social relationship with each other.

Reflections

1. Reflect on your experiences when you were of their age. Discuss any similarities or differences of such experience with those of what you observed.

While recalling many memories in my childhood and puberty stage, there’s a lot of similarities and differences I remembered. The similarities are playing with my classmates, obedient to authority and competitive. The difference is, when I was a child I patiently wait for the time to get my wants unlike now, children wants to get what they wants quickly.

2. Which theory of development can help you explain your observation?

The Erik Erikson's theory of psychosocial development helps me explain the observation because the development shows the values attained and the crisis experienced in each level. As a child develops, he will acquire and construct knowledge that fit on his level.