This document provides contextual information about Cruz Del Sur E-485 school and how that context may impact lessons. Specifically: - The school is located in a populated, vulnerable neighborhood of Talcahuano city and serves 495 students from low socioeconomic backgrounds. - Lessons need to be planned for the computer lab environment where students spend English class, using listening activities and ICT tools. - Two student profiles - a shy student and participative student - require different lesson strategies like individual or pair work to engage both. - The small, divided computer lab space limits student interaction, requiring individual work and consideration of the seating arrangement in lessons.

1. 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 E-485 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 subsidized 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 achieves 495 having an average of 26 per every level.
The school; 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. As 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 school also belongs to
the preferential education program, which gives a higher financial support to the
school with the idea of overcome limitations. Thus, there is a computational
laboratory implemented for English classes, in which there is a Teacher who is
an English teacher too, and is always at the lab for assisting and supporting the
English teachers with the use of the soft wares and controlling the students’
behavior; he also teaches the class and give instructions and tasks to students.
In terms of race and ethnicity, the school has enrolled a Colombian family, who
are two children. One of them attends 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.

2. 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. Additionally, 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, students, nowadays, spend all the English classes at
the laboratory, so classes must be planned for that environment, using
computers, listening activities and ICT’s.
2. Student Characteristics and Their Instructional Implications: Below,
describe how two student characteristics you observed in your student (e.g.,
gender, race/ethnicity, interests, and 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 quiet 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, I will have to include activities where students can participate
without being too exposed to their classmates, but at the same time try to

3. incorporate her to the class group so she can start interacting with her
classmates and feeling more self-confident, for instance, writing answers on
the board, or pair work activities.
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 gets to understand 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 looked for challenging activities.
2.1.2 How these characteristics will impact my lesson:
Having these aspects into consideration will help my lesson planning in terms of
doing more challenging activities in order to reach our students’ expectations. In
addition, having these types of students in the classroom is useful because they
can work as monitors in the classroom, which at the same time, promotes
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 spend all their English classes at the laboratory. The lab has 36
computers which are divided in to groups with a small aisle in between. Every
student has his/her own computer assigned so he/she must always use the
same computer.
3.1.1 How This Aspect Will Impact My Lesson

4. This aspect influences my lesson, because we need to consider that the
lesson must be designed thinking in this particular way of arrangement.
Students cannot change their seat; as a consequence, they always interact with
the same classmates.
3.2 Description of Second Physical Aspect:
A second physical important aspect into the classroom is the fact the
classroom itself is quite small and the desks where the computers are placed are
like separated cabins.
3.2.1 How This Aspect Will Impact My Lesson
This aspect influences enormously the way in which we need to design my
lesson, because students cannot move around the classroom because there is no
enough space, and the design of the desk does not encourage interaction among
students, on the contrary, it divides them even more and makes their work more
individual.
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 Students-Teacher with more reliance and engagement.