I. CONTEXTUAL FACTORS MDD Standard 1

∙ The teacher candidate collects data regarding the institutional and classroom contexts, the characteristics of the pupils as a group and its diversity, using this information to plan and deliver instruction.

1. Community in which the school is located and/or serves, municipality or owner and school factors: Below, describe the geographic location, community and school population, socioeconomic profile, and race/ethnicity. A: Cruz Del Sur E­485 school is located in Talcahuano city, which is a vulnerable port near Concepción city in the 8th region. This is a public Elementary school, which is subsidy by the DAEM of Talcahuano, and it is placed in J. Guillermo Sosa Severino 318 Street, in Los Condores Neighborhood. Around the school there is a populated village where the majority of the students live. The population of students achieve 495 having an average of 26 per every level. The prevalent socioeconomic profile is principally low­middle class; however, it is also possible to find some vulnerable students, who are part of governmental programs in order to improve the quality of their education. How it is a public school neither the parents nor the students pay any monthly fee. The enrollment, and other charges are cost by the national educational budget, which is managed by the DAEM. This schools also belongs to the preferential education program, which gives a higher financial support to the school with the idea of overcome limitations . In terms of race and ethnicity, the school has enrolled a Colombian family, who are two children. One of them attend to 6th grade and the other one to 8th grade; and a Panamanian teacher who carries out a basketball workshop at the school.These children and teacher are treated in the same condition of the chilean students and teachers, they have all the opportunities and materials given by the state.

1.1. How These Factors May Impact My Lessons: Explain specific ways that these factors may impact your lesson topics, teaching strategies, assessment techniques, etc. These factors can influence the way in which we teach, because at the moment of planning we need to consider our students' interests and preferences. The socioeconomic profile can give us an idea of the environment that surrounds them. Also, having the knowledge of the neighborhood in which the school is immersed helps us to comprehend social difficulties that our students can have. Thanks to the preferential budget the majority of the classroom used to possess a projector, which is useful for the students to listen , watch and share new authentic material in order to improve the acquisition of the

content. However, these aids were stolen last month, so we as trainer teachers have to take it into consideration when planning.

2. Student Characteristics and Their Instructional Implications: Below, describe how two student characteristics you observed in your student (e.g., gender, race/ethnicity, interests, student skill levels) might impact the way you instruct those students. For example, your planning, motivation, management, or assessment. For each example of the student characteristic, give a specific instructional implication that will influence how you plan and implement your instruction.

2.1 Description of the First Student:

In the classroom there is a student named Anais Tapia, who is very quite and shy during the class. She works very well on her own and her level of knowledge is higher than the rest of the students, but she is afraid of speaking in public. 2.1.1 How these characteristics will impact my lesson: In this case we will have to include activities where students can participate without being too exposed to their classmates, for example, writing answers on the board, or pair work activities, so she starts to increase her self­confidence.

2.2 Description of the Second Student: The student I will mention in this opportunity is Monserrat … . She is a very participative student; every time she does not understand something she looks for help and clarification so she understands the topic and activities and when she is clear about what to do, she also helps her classmates. She has improved her marks and always look for challenging activities. 2.1.2 How these characteristics will impact my lesson: Having these aspects into consideration will help our lesson planning in terms of doing more challenging activities in order to reach our students’ expectations. In addition, having these type of students in the classroom is useful because they can work as monitors in the classroom, and it also promote collaborative work.

3. Physical Aspects of the Classroom and Their Instructional Implications: Below, describe how two physical aspects of the classroom you observed (e.g., posters, room arrangement, technology) might impact the way you instruct students, for example, planning, motivation, management, or assessment. For each example, give a specific instructional implication that will influence how you plan and implement your instruction.

3.1 Description of First Physical Aspect: Students must be sitting in rows. They are always in the same seat,

which was appointed by their headteacher. The Teacher of English asks them to keep their own seat during the whole lesson without the possibility of changing them.

3.1.1 How This Aspect Will Impact My Lesson This aspect influence our lesson, because we need to consider that the

lesson must be designed thinking in this particular way of arrangement. According to the teacher of English the seats must not be moving, if not the students have to keep the same position the majority of the time.

3.2 Description of Second Physical Aspect: A second physical important aspect into the classroom is the fact they do

not have an operate projector, and a radio. So that, we need to consider to bring to the class another kind of material in order to engage our students during the lesson.

3.2.1 How This Aspect Will Impact My Lesson This aspect influences enormously the way in which we need to design our

lesson, because we need to create new interesting material for the pupils without using so much technology. Sometimes, it is difficult, because the students are familiar with these objects; however, we need to be creative and be able to present to them an attractive class with more traditional materials, I mean, printing material. 4. Reflects on the importance of knowing about students and the context to provide quality teaching First of all, knowing our students and their context is useful for us in order to plan our classes according to their necessities. Also, it promotes meaningful learning so they can feel identified when participating in the class. when we know our students it is noticeable, so they perceive that they are important for us. As a result, it leads the whole group to have a better relationship Students­Teacher with more reliance and engagement.