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Lesson Title:______________________________

Grade Level: ______________________________

UCSC Supervisor:______________________________________

Supervisor Signature:______________________________________

Mentor Teacher:

Matt Sinclair

Teacher Signature: Carolina Rojas

I.

CONTEXTUAL FACTORS

MDD Standard

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.

The institution is located in Concepcin, Chile and it is considered as a traditional

university. There are thousands of students from different socioeconomic realities and
most of them are Chilean. There can also be found students that belong to the national
minorities, such as students with Mapuche roots and also students from abroad, such
as Chinese, British and Australian.

Adapted to the MDD standards and tasks from based the document Level II
Teacher Work Sample. University of Northern Iowa, Level 2 of the UNI Teacher
Education Professional Sequence.
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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.

As there are many students that have different background, the impact that will occur
in my lessons is that I need to know a little bit the students who I am going to be
teaching. Observing them would help me to adapt the lessons much better in terms of
topics and techniques to catch their attention successfully and also to be aware of the
possible difficulties to improve.

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 First Characteristic of Student(s) in this Class:

Elementary Level of English: The student may have a more basic level of English than
his/her classmates. That can become a trouble when we have to give instructions and he
will not be able to understand.

2.1.1 How This Characteristic Will Impact my Lesson:

This characteristic will impact in a big way in our lesson because we will have to be
aware each class of that or those specific students. It is not a matter of discrimination
between teacher-student, but it can become discrimination between student-student. The
learner may become shyer and he/she will not participate. This in the future will not only
impact the rhythm of the lesson but on his/her future as an English learner. We as future
teachers will take this and use it for helping the student. It will be necessary to pay more
attention on that student so he will be able to improve and make his or her classmate to
help and support him/her.

2.2 Description of Second Characteristic of Students in this Class:

Lack of Motivation: The student may not have the necessary motivation in class and will
not feel interest in been there.

2.2.1 How This Characteristic Will Impact my Lesson:

It will impact our lesson in terms of participation. We will have no participation from that student
and he may not advance in what we are teaching. Also the lack of motivation can make the
student not going to class so he or she is going to miss important content and after he will feel
lost. That will affect his/her performance and the lesson itself because if many student do not
have motivation there will not be participation in class and the lesson will fail. We have to
manage this problem and motivate them explaining them the advantages of learning and
attending to class. Also, giving them interesting task, so that way they will be motivate in class.

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:

How the classroom is arranged: The way the teacher organizes the class.

3.1.1 How This Aspect Will Impact My Lesson:

Students are used to sit in rows and it is very difficult to make everybody participate and pay
attention in class. There are lots of different ways to arrange the way student sit inside the
classroom and one that we consider the best is sitting in a circle. We must find a way depending
on our students to arrange the classroom. This physical aspect may impact widely in students
performance and make a big difference in terms of participation and paying attention. For
example, if we arrange the classroom in rows students are going to sit at the back and when we
give instructions they will be doing a something different that we cannot monitor them. However,
if we arrange the class in circle, we may be able to monitor them and see if they listened to the
instruction.

3.2 Description of Second Physical Aspect:

A second physical aspect that may be useful in a lesson and we have observed is the use of visual
aids and the board, perhaps not as colorful as we were expecting in the beginning, but in a
reading class for example students need to use their imagination for certain situations exposed.
The teacher that we observed used visual aids in the beginning of the class to catch the students
attention and to discuss what the text is going to be about, and then to practice the skill working
on the text, the use of the board.

3.2.1How This Aspect Will Impact My Lesson:

The use of the board for example will impact my lesson in the sense that students will be able to
discuss about new vocabulary, concepts and the main characteristics of the text in cooperation
with the teacher and partners. Students will be also able to find their own strategies to understand
much better a text in English.

4. Reflects on the importance of knowing about students and the context to provide
quality teaching
The importance of knowing about students is that we will be able to notice their strengths
and weaknesses to work on them. Also to make us think about our own techniques to
generate the appropriated input, because it could happen that most of our students have a
level of English below the expectations and the time spent for the subject is not enough
for a week, so as teachers our goal is be able to solve these issues.