Asia-Pacific International University

Identify the Behavior or Learning Abilities that a Student Performs in School

Saw Moo Eh Tar Taw (202100129)

EDUC361 Professional Experience I

Instructor: Dr. Kham Khan Khai

December 10, 2023

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The student I observed in Adventist International Mission School (AIMS) is the only

international student in the class. She is about 10 years old and is Vietnamese. I have

observed her behaviours and learning styles. As grade 4 student, she mostly answers to the

teacher’s questions and rises hand before answering the question. She mostly works or

studies alone as other students less cooperate with her. She was left out alone as she was quiet

struggle in Mathematics. In Library Skill class, she worked alone on her project, and

sometime, she worked with her only male friend. I could observe that she works only alone or

work with him. Moreover, mostly in my observation, I have seen that she was delay and slow

to do something such as, return the materials, be ready to go somewhere, and doing

assignments. For doing the assignment, she was leftover most of the time because she was

quiet often absent because she frequently was ill, said her assistant teacher. Furthermore, I

have seen that she drew the picture and talkative while she was doing classwork or project.

She is supportive friends. For example, in Thai class, one of her classmates needs assistant,

she went and helped him even though she didn’t finish working on her own.

She is delay submitting assignment

During the lesson and class discussion, she pays fully attention to the teaching, but

was quite talkative during the class discussion. She was active in the class most of the time.

She could respond to the teacher because she heeds to the teacher instruction and was clever

students. However, because of her hobby which is drawing, she always left behind most of

the students to do her assignment or classwork. According to Santelli, B., Robertson, S.N.,

Larson, E.K., & Humphrey, S. (2020) Late assignments submissions are sometimes
generalized as procrastination. The procrastination can be defined as the intentional delay of a

task… While procrastination might be seen as a harmless trait, one of its main results are late

assignments. Because the teacher doesn’t punish or gives penalties for any late submission,

she didn’t fully concentrate on her assignments and talks to her friends or draws on the paper

within a period of given time. As Gonzalez, J. has explained about slow submitter,

“It’s easy enough to say we want all our students to work at their own pace, and in

most classrooms, some flexibility is built in to allow for this. Still, when a student

completes work at a significantly slower pace than his peers, sometimes taking three

or four times longer than everyone else, it can create problems for the student and his

teachers: Group work gets more complicated, whole-class instruction is limited, and

the student is too often put in an uncomfortable position as the one everyone else is

waiting for. Furthermore, working at this slow pace means the student is simply

putting too many hours in on schoolwork, time that could be spent playing, reading,

socializing, relaxing, or exploring other interests.”

Referring to per statement of the Gonalez, students are dealing with heave load of work in

their day at school and it is even harder for a teacher to manage it if they have a slow student

inside their class. From my perspective, the statement suggest that we must have a proper

procedure for intervention.

In this section, I am going to describe the strategies that teacher uses to deal with talkative

and slow learners from my observations. Usually, the teacher applies uniformity idea inside

the classroom. Given example, teacher will instruct steps by step at a normal pace regardless

of the students learning pace. Teacher will move to another instruction after majority of the

students able to catch up with teacher. If there are any students especially slow students, they

have to ask their friends. Refer to this particular student, she is not a slow learner but a
student who could not follow up with teacher instruction due to her talkative behavior

including putting other needs first, and sickness which is another issue. In addition, her

friends do not really want to cooperate with her so it is challenging for her to be on track with

teacher as the teacher only providing instruction instead of encouragement.

Per the sources (iccomipe, 2023) said that communication is a tool teacher can use in creative

learning environment for slow learners as a teacher to express their patience and empathy

toward them in learning. In communication, there are servals strategies that a teacher can

communicate to meet the students need. Individualized communication plan would be an

effective way to know the students learning needs, said the source (Effective Communication

Strategies – Classroom Management, 2019). As for the teacher, she will create a plan for a

particular student especially intended for the slow learning and talkative students to

communicate with. As such, teacher and students can learn what is the best way to

communicate for the learning to happen. This method will enable the both teacher and

students to know their preferred communication method.

Based on a sources (Nella, n.d.), encouraging the students to verbally expressing their needs

will be a great assistance to the teacher while creating a instruction. For example, teacher will

learn how to construct an effective lesson plan and a reinforcement for the learning to occur

in the classroom. Frequently, teacher will students are reluctant to mingle with other students

they don’t like. In fact, this is a useful platform for the teacher to the students, students to

student to communicate how they are experience or feeling in terms of learning, and

socializing. According to the report I have observed, this student does not have an

opportunity or channel to reach out or communicate with her other classmate although she

tries hard to be cooperative with her classmate. In reference, teacher applying this method

would be a platform in developing a communication channel with students and create an

effective learning environment in the meantime.

This student needs a proper channel to communicate her need to the teacher and friends

related to academic or social sector. The evidence from the observation has suggested that

isolation can delay learning performance as well as social well-being. Encouraging the

students to be expressive in terms of socializing and academic, as well as a teacher

developing a various and effective communication tool will be a useful platform while

creating a learning environment. Therefore, the suggestion provided above will be greatly

helpful to the student learning performance.

Santelli, B., Robertson, S.N., Larson, E.K., & Humphrey, S. (2020). Procrastination and delayed

assignment submissions: Student and faculty perceptions of late point policy and grace

within an online learning environment. Online Learning, 24(3), 35-49.

10.24059/olj.v24i3.2302Effective Communication Strategies – Classroom Management.

(2019, March 5). https://www.palomar.edu/pages/tjohnston2/effective-communication-

strategies/

iccomipe, iccomipe. (2023, September 25). How to Communicate with Slow Learners—6 Helpful

Tips—Iccomipe. https://iccomipe.org/how-to-communicate-with-slow-learners-6-helpful-tips/

Nella, M. (n.d.). How To Encourage Self Expression in Children. Miss Nella. Retrieved December 19,

2023, from https://www.missnella.com/blogs/news/how-to-encourage-self-expression-in-

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