Case Study Tomasito

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A. The main issue in the case study about Tomasito is that his work on mathematics is starting to become erratic according to his teacher Mrs. Brady, and that there are signs both at school and at home that he is struggling with it. However, it has been difficult in the past for Tomasito’s teacher to communicate these concerns to his parents. Mrs. Brady is not sure how to go about discussing these concerns because his parents do not communicate to her except through short notes and parent/teacher conferences, which may be because of communication barriers such as language, and having a new baby but no babysitter. The end of the year is starting to quickly approach and without any more parent-teacher conferences Mrs. Brady is worried that if …show more content…
B. Using Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs that I have referenced from the Families, Schools, and Communities: Building Partnerships for Educating Children textbook by Patricia A. Scully, Chandler Barbour, Hilary Roberts-King, and the case study about Tomasito, I am able to determine Tomasito’s relationship to each level. The first level I can focus on is the Physiological Needs level. According to the textbook previously mentioned, this level is the most basic level of needs where parents and families provide food, warmth, shelter and bare necessities for survival except in rare cases such as mental illness, physical dislocation, or physical distress. This level focuses on how these basic needs must be met in order to focus on anything else such as education. In Tomasito’s case study I can infer from what I read that both his …show more content…
According to the textbook, Families, Schools, and Communities: Building Partnerships for Educating Children, this level of needs is when parents and families give emotional support and provide love and nurturance. This usually occurs naturally in typical families, however it is possible for parents to overdo their support role and influence dependency and immaturity in their children (Scully, Barbour, Roberts-King 87). Based on the case study I can infer that Tomasito is getting the love and nurturance he needs at home. One comment Mrs. Brady, Tomasito’s teacher, made is that she senses “he has a loving, supportive family that takes wonderful care of him—getting him to school every day on time, clean, and well fed.” Since Tomasito’s teacher even notices that Tomasito is happy and well taken care of, I also can say that I feel like Tomasito’s needs of feeling loved and nurtured is being met. I can also conclude that Tomasito is given the love he needs at home as well by how his parents interact with him. Ria, his mother, even states that she and her husband call Tomasito and his brothers their little dolls. She also discussed how they are “the most precious things we have in life”. This defiantly shows to me that that Tomasito’s parents care deeply for him and his siblings. Also there is an emphasis that one parent is always around to watch the children instead of a random babysitter which gives the

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