Suggested Parent Interview Guide

Your teacher may ask you to use a more detailed interview guide, be free to translate the questions, if
necessary.

Name of Learner: _____________________

Date of Birth: ________________ Age: ____
Grade/Year Level: _______ Gender: _______
Number of Siblings: ____
Birth Order: _____

Parents:
Mother: ________________
Age: ____
Occupation: _________ Educational Attainment: _________
Father: ______________
Occupation: ______ Educational Attainment: __________

Learner’s Physical Aspects:

Health
Mother’s Health during pregnancy with the learner:
There are times in her pregnancy that she has fever.

Ailments or health problems of the learner as a child:

Only fever and no serious health problem encounter.

Age of the learner when he started to walk/talk:

She was 8 months old when she started to walk and at 1 year old when she started to talk.

Food preferences of the learner as a child and at present:

When she was a child then she is bottle feed or supplement milk. At present she prefers to eat fish and
vegetables.

Who took care of him/her as a child?

It was only her family who took care of her, most of the time was her mother

Learner’s Social Aspect:

Describe your child’s sociability (friendly, outgoing or shy, loner)
She is very friendly and outgoing child at present.

Who were the learner’s playmates?

Her playmates were her neighbor with the same age as her and also his classmates.
As a child then was, he/she allowed to play outside?
Yes, she is allowed to play outside as long as she wants and she is not sick.

Is he/she allowed to go out with friends?

Do you have rules for him/her to follow regarding going out?
What are these rules?
Yes, she is allowed to go out with his friends. Rule: Do not go swimming without the guidance of any
adults. If playing the whole day, she should be home before 5 pm.

Emotional-Moral
What are your expectations of your child?
Expectation of him, she was able to be a consistent honor pupil until she graduated in elementary and
high school and was able to finish a course that he wants in college.

How do you provide a nurture environment for your child?

She is given only things that she wants and not too much to the point that it’s useless already.

Does your child go to you when she/he feels down or has a problem? What do you do to meet his/her
emotional needs?
Yes, the child will go to her mother whenever she encounters trouble with her friends while playing
outside.

What do you do when he /she is not successful in something?

So far, she has not been disappointed in aiming for something, maybe because of her young age.

How do you discipline your children?

She is being discipline through everyday reminders on things. When she commits mistakes, she is being
scolded.

Do you have rules in the house? What are they?

Yes. Rules do not make any troubles outside with your playmates.

How do you impose the rules?

These rules are imposed, whenever she commits troubles with her playmates, she let him also solve that,
and no one will help her on that.

What are the consequences of breaking the rules?

She will be scolded and punished from going outside and play with her friends.
Learner’s Cognitive Aspects:
What are the child’s interests?
She is interested in studying, she also loves to sing and drawing, but it needs to be enhanced.

What is he/she good at in school?

She is good in the subjects, Math and English.

In what subject/s does she have difficulty?

She has difficulty in the subject Filipino.

How do you monitor his/her performance in school? How do you motivate him/her?
She was being monitor by asking her teacher, how she is performing in school. She was being motivated
through always supporting her in everything that she needs in school.

Do you have rules at home to help him develop good study habits?
What are these rules? How are they implemented?

Yes, after school she should make all the assignments before going out to play with friends. This is
implemented, her mother will always check if she has any assignments.

After you have gathered all the necessary data. Write the Learner’s development profile using the
outline below. Type the profile in a separate sheet and attached it to this learning episode.

THE LEARNER'S DEVELOPMENT PROFILE (Outline)

The Learner’s Development Profile

Name of Learner: ___________________

School: ____________________________
Date of Home Visit: _________________
Date of Birth: _______________ Age: _____
Grade/Year Level: _______ Gender: ______

Family Profile
Number of Siblings: _____
Birth Order: _____
Mother: _________
Age: _____
Occupation: _________ Educational Attainment: ___________
Father: _____________
Occupation: _________ Educational Attainment: ___________

Physical Development

The physical development of the child normal as to her age. Since during pregnancy of the mother only
fever and no serious health problem encountered the child now is also healthy, no ailments or any serious health
problems.
Social Development

She socially develops, because she loves to go out with her friends, she is also sweet child so she is very
close to her family, to her sister and brother.

Emotional-Moral Development

She is emotionally okay, the environment that her parent has given to him help him to become a good
child. She also has sound behavior. She knows how to follow rules given by her parents.

Cognitive Development

As to her cognitive development, at the present she is good the subject’s math and English. But when it
comes to Filipino subject, she finds it difficult. She is also interested to singing and drawing.

Findings

My findings about my interview with the mother of the child, I can say that the child was being care by
her family to the point that she was able to build a good physical, social, emotional and cognitive development.

Conclusions

I therefore conclude that the learning of the child begins at home. At home the child learns values, works
and his cognition slowly developed. However, school plays a vital role in molding the child. Sine school is made
for the purpose of developing cognitive aspects of the learner. As the child goes to study from pre-school until
senior high, she spends much time in school rather than at home. So, the total development of a child depends in
school as well as the teachers and instructors or instructresses, which are the most important agents in school that
bears and impart knowledge and values with the learners.

Recommendations

I do recommend that each teacher must be diligent, resourceful and patience in handling the learners.
He/she must use varied strategies in order to catch the interest and attention of the students to focus on the lesson.
He/she must bear in mind the knowledge that the learners get rather than the salary receive. For the parents, they
must be responsible in guiding and disciplining their children, they must be open with them. They should always
ask them about their studies and give encouragement to focus and study hard sp as to become successful in their
lives. The most important is the role of the learner, they me be always compliant and dutiful. They must ensure
to themselves that they are motivated to learn and participate since they are responsible of their own learning.

ANALYSIS

When I conducted an interview to the parents of the learner, I was able to know that the style of parenting they
have on their child is authoritative type in which this type of parenting the learner is self-governing but there are
still rules present that limit him in his play, actions, and joining with friends.

As what I have learned in Child and Adolescent Development the factors that I am going to contribute to
the development and over – all adjustment of the learner in school are: first, it contributes how the learners are
nurtured by his parents, their financial setting, and cultural background of the family unit.
 “Education begins at home” This quote helped me in finding and understanding the behavior of the learner.
What he did in school reflects how she is nurtured and reared by his parents at home. One of these effects for
instance, if the learner act and possessed misconduct in the classroom, then what he did especially when it is a
serious type then surely his parents are expected to visit the school and consult for the performance of his child
to his adviser or teacher.

REFLECTIONS

When I was still a boy until this present, I observed that the style of parenting I have is authoritative type
of parenting. Wherein my parents are always in authority and rules are given, yet they are so gentle and loving.
They demand and respond to us equally. I am not restricted to all the things that I want to be involved in, especially
in choosing my peers. Even though sometimes they are strict, they have clear reasons behind it. And they make
us to understand the consequences of their behavior. And this type of their parenting style affects us positively.
As a child, a buddy, and a student, I’m so sociable and so friendly; I have a lot of friends. I do not lack involvement
with other people. And I do not feel any deprivation of social life.

A way I can establish home-school collaboration with parents is by being acquaintance to build rapport
and gain information from them. Simple small talk, about weather, traffic, a local event, any of those hundreds of
things that adults use to make contact with one another, can be appropriate at the beginning of our relationship.
But eventually it is necessary for me to talk about the child. An inviting question could be, “What has my student
said about his school activities?” It would be necessary to ask open-ended questions in order to get the parents
talking about their child and to share information that may help me with the student in school.

In order to have a good working relationship with the parents, I need to think like one, to genuinely send-
off caring and concerned messages when speaking about their child and to create a welcoming environment to
their guardians. Positive, honest and clear communication is suggested as the foundation to building personalized
relationships with parent where each of us understands and respects each other’s perspective. Working together
toward shared goals with shared power, this collaboration can require ongoing planning, development and even
evaluation. This can mean soliciting support from the school for needs like release time to meet up with
parents/families in the community or development of a family support area in the school.

Together, the parents and I can discuss expectations for their child’s achievement and our respective roles
in helping the child meet these expectations. As part of an educational institution in the future, I can develop
programs to promote effective home-school- partnerships that support positive academic, behavioral and social
competencies for all students in my school. I’ll look to be engaged in efforts to increase mutual respect,
understanding, caring and flexibility among families and the school community.

Parents’ role on the other hand will involve regular communication with me about their child’s progress,
encouragement of leisure reading with their children, participation in school functions, athletics, and other
extra-curricular activities, monitoring homework completion, frequent communication with their children about
academic and behavioral expectations and progress. They can also participate in school as committee member
or volunteers.