PSYCHO-EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION
I. Personal Data
Name: Jaeokob Rajan Josef P. Tecson
Nickname: Jaekob, Kong
Age: 7
Gender: Male
Birthdate: July 17, 2003
Address: 2156-A Von Granao St., San Andres Bukid, Manila
Language Spoken: Tagalog, English
On the otherhand, Jaekob’s favorite color is orange and sky blue. He enjoys playing computer games, board games and other toys. However, unlike those other kids, he does not want robot as his toy. Moreover, he loves to eat chicken and mongo, ice cream, chocolate and polvoron. He also loves to watch Tom and Jerry and Spongebob Squarepants when he was at home. His favorite movies are Toy Story 3 and Chicken Little. No wonder he loves watching cartoons at home. But someday, he wants to be a policeman.
II. Family Background and Medical History
Father: Philip S. Tecson
Age: 36 yrs.old
Occupation: Call center agent
Mother: Ivy P. Tecson
Age: 35 yrs. Old
Occupation: call center agent
No. of siblings: 2
Birth order: youngest
Type of birth delivery: normal
Previous ailments: allergy. Cough, cold, allergy
Jaekob as he is fondly called is the youngest among the three siblings. His parents are both call center agents. He lives with his parents and brothers together with his grandparents and other relative. In the past, he had cough, cold and allergy. However, he is always sick. But, this is not directly related to the kind of natal delivery of his mother because he was delivered normal.
III. Developmental Evaluation:
Gross/Fine Motor Skills
Jaekob’s height is slight normal to his age. However, he was skinny. Despite his condition, he manages to play actively with his classmates. During the observation, he plays actively. He participates well during their warm ups. He executes warm-up exercises containing head rotation, arm stretching and waist rotation .He even jokes with us to do pushups. Surprisingly, he can do it twice or thrice. He can also run fast. He can jump and climb benches. He can balance well on the bench. He can also ride bicycle. This only shows that he had a good balance. Despite his being active, he easily gets tired. When we were playing, he loses interest to win because he said he was becoming tired. Thus, he minimized his participation and end up losing the game. In the preceding games, he was just sitting and prefers watching his classmates play the remaining games.
However, he also enjoys arts. He prefers to draw and do art activities than playing tiresome games. He holds the dynamic tripod grip and observes left-to-right orientation when writing. He draws well. He crumples and tears when he doesn’t want his work. He traces, copies and draws shapes and figures but not perfect .The pictures and things he had drawn are perceivable. His enthusiasm in this craft is also seen. He had a wide imagination on the things he is going to draw. however, his work end up being messy because he drew Plants Vs Zombies where he tried to eliminate the zombies he had drawn by drawing bombs and erasing what he had recently drawn. However, he could not write legibly. His letters are not proportion to each other especially when the paper is not lined with red and blue. He is also slow in shooting the yarn into small holes.
Daily Living Skills
Jaekob performs activities for daily living skills. He eats neatly. He said he is not being spoon-fed by others. However, he cannot take a bath on his own. Maybe, due to the fact that he is the youngest sibling and he lives with his grandparents and other relative, there is a tendency that he will be dependent of them. But there are some things that he can do on his own such as brushing teeth. Whenever he feels to urinate, he can go to the comfort room to urinate and does not wet his pants. Other hygiene such as cutting his nails are also done by his auntie as he said.
Play and Social Interaction
Jaekob is approachable. His friends in school are Dylan, Ryen and Mark Angelo. When someone talks to him, he responds immediately. When he is being asked to play, he eagerly joins their game. He always plays with Aljon, Efraim and Ryen. He deals well with his classmates interacting with them. However, because he easily gets tired, sometimes, he prefers to be just sitting instead of joining the games. Sometimes, he felt isolated but if he is approached and encouraged to join, he responds positively. Among the other students observed he behaves well and listens to the instruction. When formed in line, he is always at the end of the line.
Community Management
When Jaekob encounters unknown people, he is not snobbish, he answers peoples’ question but somehow with impolite expression. But when he feels comfortable with them, he is approachable. When he is asked questions, he answers politely and uses “po” and “opo”. However, if he is asked questions that he could not answer, he says “ewan ko” impolitely. He also had no friends at his age at home but he also interact with other people aside from his family at home. He is somehow weak in socializing with others because as he had said, he most prefers watching TV at home rather than playing outside. He follows simple direction such as “fall in line”, and “keep quiet”.
Work Behavior
Jaekob is very enthusiastic when he does some things. He works hard and finishes his work. When they are drawing, he and Aljon are the ones yet unfinished but he is still enjoying drawing. He does not care if he is the only one left. The same happened when they are doing an activity on shooting yarn on small holes. Because he is slow on shooting the yarn into the small holes, he is one of the pupils who were unfinished yet. Whenever he finds it difficult, he asks us for guidance on what to do. However, when he is bullied and taunted by his classmate, he answers back and does not cry.
Sensory Processing
Jaekob’s senses are well-developed. He can use his sense of sight. He knows how to distinguish and discriminate color of one thing to another such as blue green yellow red. It is visible when he is drawing. He also distinguishes odors such as fowl and sweet odors. He knows which things are rough and smooth. He can obviously hear sounds. All of his senses are working well. Through his senses, he is able to color things, distinguish the difference of one from the other, thus, he is able to acquire information but at the minimal possibility because he is not in focus always.
IV. Assessment Plan
During the phase of evaluation, the following are the means used and administered:
· Child interview
· Informal skills observation
· Survey/checklist answered by the parents
· Activities in the seven areas/skills
Based on the tools administered and the evident skills he excelled and on the areas he is fair, the following are some of the assessment activities appropriate for Jaekob:
· Practicing shoe-lacing (shooting shoelace in the hole, doing criss-cross pattern, tying)
· Writing letters and numbers following correct stroke
· Writing letters following the blue-red-blue lines
· Performing obstacle course activities involving walking running, jumping, skipping bending on one foot, galloping, skipping and balancing
· spelling by dictating
· drawing
· Identifying Philippine coins
· Coloring figures and shapes within borders without excess
· Pointing colors found in the environment
V. Recommendation/ Comments
He does fairly well in performing the skills in fine and gross motor skills. He does well in executing simple tasks by following demonstration. However, he more training and attention on self-help skills and play and interaction skills. Jaekob has some things to be developed but this does not mean that he had been left out and matures slowly. He is active and his social interaction is good but his physical condition hinders him from being an achiever. He is usually bullied by other such as Sean but he fights back. Maybe, the teacher should monitor him from such situation to prevent him to become low achiever.
I. Personal Data
Name: Shekinah de C. Arciaga
Nickname: Shekinah, Shek
Age: 7
Gender: female
Birthdate: June 9, 2003
Address: Viva Homes Subdivision Brgy. Salawag Dasmarinas Cavite
Language Spoken: Tagalog, English
Shek, as she is fondly called loves to wear her tiara-like headband. No wonder because she loves Disney Princessess such as Cinderella, Belle, Aurora, Snow White and Ariel. Her favorite colors are yellow green, pink and gold. For her, gold symbolizes wealth and royalty. According to her, she wants to be a princess and marry a handsome prince. He loves to watch Spongebob and Goin’Bulilit. She idolizes Charice Pempengco. Just like the others, she loves eating chicken. However, unlike others, she is fond of watching horror movies especially “Ang Darling kong Aswang”. She told us that watching horror movies makes her feel braver.
In school, she performs well. She has also many friends such as Brianna, Gemma, Miriam, Kim, Marielle, Jaekob, Ryen, Walbert, Anthony, Dave and Efraim. She wants to become a teacher someday.
II. Family Background/ Medical History
Father: Reynaldo Casco Arciaga
Age: 46 yrs.old
Occupation: government employee
Mother: Celerina de Chavez Arciaga
Age: 49 yrs.old
Occupation: government employee
No. of siblings: 0
Birth order: first
Type of birth delivery: normal
Previous ailments: none
Shekinah has parents both working in the government. She is lives with her parents. She is a strong and active grade one pupil. She was born on the day prescribed by the doctor and is delivered normal. She is evidently strong and healthy.
III. Developmental Evaluation
Gross/Fine Motor Skills
Shekinah is very active especially when playing games. Based on her body structure, she appears to be strong and tough. She is very energetic. She participates well during their warm ups. She executes warm-up exercises containing head rotation, arm stretching and waist rotation She loves to play games especially bring me. She won three times in this game. According to her, she loves boy games because she was strong. During the exercise, she leads her classmates. She can do what the instructors do. When the warm up of girls is done and the boys are not yet, she feels unsatisfied and wants to join the boys in their warm up. She had exhibit good body coordination and knows how to balance on the bench. She loves to run. During their games, she had the determination to not be the “taya”. She holds the dynamic tripod grip and observes left-to-right orientation when writing. He traces, copies and draws shapes and figures but not perfect. Her fine motors, such as writing legibly is good. But when the paper is not lined with red and blue, she could not maximize the space. In drawing, she could draw but she lacks on creativity. When she had no idea, she just imitates the drawing of her classmate. She has also good hand and eye coordination when she was asked to shoot the yarn into the holes.
Daily Living Skills
Shekinah performs activities for daily living skills. She eats neatly. She said she is not anymore being spoon-fed by others. She could brush her teeth, and take a bath all by herself. Therefore, she is very independent when it comes on doing her personal hygiene. She could comb her but often, she had messed up her hair because of too much playing. According to her, she is independent when it comes on her personal hygiene but sometimes, she needs help on the things that her hands cannot reach such as when the button of dress is at the back. According to her, she is the one who chooses what she wants to wear. She could also manage money because she knows the value of money such as piso, tres, sampu and others. Whenever she feels like urinating, she goes to the comfort room all by herself. She does not wet her pants.
Play and Social Interaction
Shekinah is a very energetic and child. She loves to play games, and run. Whenever the games is over, she asked for another game. She is not fond of just sitting around and watch. She loves playing very much. We also observed that she is aggressive and bossy although, she leads other kids when playing. She had a tough determination to win and not to be the taya. She enjoys playing with other kids most of the time. However, because of she is taller and bigger than the others, there is a tendency that she would bully her other classmates even the boys.
Community Management
Shekinah is very aloof with people whom she does not know. When a person unknown to her approached her, it seemed that she does not want to talk Sometimes, she answers impolitely. She forgets to use “po” and “opo” but when she is comfortable with that person, she uses “po” and “opo”. When she is already comfortable with that person, she responds to questions. According to the checklist, she also interacts with other people aside from her family.
Work Behavior
Based on her movements and gestures, she exhibits determination on doing anything. Determination keeps her on doing something. In playing games, when someone won, she does not complain that they are being unfair or “madaya” unlike the others. However, because of her aggressiveness, sometimes, she does not notice that she hurt somebody, but she says sorry immediately. But, there are times that if she hate doing something, she doesn’t do it. This only exhibits that if she wants to learn, she can learn on her own because of her determination.
Sensory Processing
Shekinah’s senses are well-developed. She can use her sense of sight. She knows how to distinguish and discriminate color of one thing to another. She also distinguishes odors such as fowl and sweet odors. She knows which things are rough and smooth. She can obviously hear sounds. That is why in the game bring me, she always won because she has fast senses that made her pick up the things asked by us. In totality, All of her senses are working well. This would be signs that she is fast picking up information and processes it immediately which would help her on her learning.
Ocular Motor Skills
Shekinah’s eye and body coordination is good. She could easily find things just like finding the smallest toy in the bow in the game bring me. Always, she does what she sees. She easily follows what the instructor does during their warm up. Oftentimes, she predicts what would be the next step. In drawing, because she had no idea, she chooses to copy ones work. But, in copying the drawing, her drawing much resembles the original work. Thus, she may have photographic memory where what her eyes see is what she can do.
IV. Assessment Plan
During the phase of evaluation, the following are the means used and administered:
· Child interview
· Informal skills observation
· Survey/checklist answered by the parents
· Activities in the seven areas/skills
Based on the tools administered and the evident skills he excelled and on the areas he is fair, the following are some of the assessment activities appropriate for shekinah:
· Performing obstacle course activities that involves jumping, running, walking, skipping, balancing
· Copying a picture by drawing and coloring it
· Spelling by dictation
· Giving puzzles
· Writing letters and numbers following the correct stroke
· Coloring figures and shapes within borders without excess
· Pointing colors found in the environment
· Enumerating steps in doing a certain household chores
· Performing addition and subtraction
· Telling/retelling stories or movies watched
· Naming and computing Philippine coins and bills
V. Recommendation/Comments
Shekinah has an aura of being a leader. However, she sometimes forgot to be sensitive to others. There was a time that due to her aggressiveness, she pushed one of her classmates. So, the teacher should watch her behavior and attitude because she may involve into troubles especially with the boys. But, the teacher should continue to make her a leader so that she could be more dependable and responsible.
On the other hand, she performs ably well in almost all of the areas.
