1. Versión Abreviada Muestras de Desempeño Docente1
Lesson Title: General English
Grade Level: First year
UCSC Supervisor: Astrid Guerra
Supervisor Signature: Lilian Jansson
Mentor Teacher: Astrid Guerra
1 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.
2. 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:
We observed English classes at Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción.
This university is located in Alonso Rivera in Concepción, this campus has different
buildings in which are taught majors regarding to different areas. In the center of
the city is located another campus, where students can study law.
The community in this university belongs to different parts of the city and the
country. Here we can find students from this region and from others. A big group of
the students are from Talcahuano, Concepción, Coronel, Lota and Penco, and the
last three spend around 1 hour and 45 minutes travelling to the University. Also
UCSC has different buses that helps students to get to their homes quickly during
the day.
This institution has the benefit to be supported by Consejo de Rectores, and this
means that every student has the possibility to apply to scholarships to finance their
studies.
How These Factors May Impact My Lessons: Explain specific ways that these factors
may impact your lesson topics, teaching strategies, assessment techniques, etc.
For us, as future teachers and permanent students, we know that environment has
an impact in the process of learning. A positive aspect that we can highlight is the
fact that some students are really motivated and they spend a lot of time in the
university trying to get more opportunities to learn. In this way those students are
always waiting for special tutorials where we can reinforce their knowledge and
teach them strategies, in order to provide them tools to face problems that they
could have in the future, and taught them the importance of knowing another
language. A negative aspect that we can have is that in the program of this major
that we are teaching, students feel that they are bound, and they have to pass this
course in order to be allow to move to another year and complete the program. In
consequence of this, teaching is very hard, because motivation to learn is not the
power that this students have, so activities and different resources that we could
use when we are teaching are not going to be important at all, and in this
opportunity has a negative effect for us, in our desire to teach perfectly.
3. 2. Student Characteristics and Their Instructional Implications:
Description of First Characteristic of Student(s) in this Class:
It has been noticed that most of the students do not pay attention to what the
teacher says, and when she asks them to do an activity they get distracted with their
technological devices almost all the time.
In the classroom we can find two different groups of students, they belong to
different majors. One group is from biology and the other from humanistic area.
How This Characteristic Will Impact my Lesson:
Surely, these factors will impact the way how we will teach these contents to the
students, because we would have to plan a very dynamic lesson, where every group
can identify an aspect that would help them, besides implement attractive aids in
order to keep them focused on the task.
Taking into account the idea of they belong to different areas, they have different ideas
about why they are learning a new language. For one group this knowledge could
represent an opportunity, because they have an advantage in terms of finding jobs in
the future. For students that belong to the humanistic area learning Engl ish has a
different and a controversial aim, because they do not really know if they are going to
have a job, and the idea of studying something that they are not sure that is what they
really want, is confusing.
Description of Second Characteristic of Students in this Class:
Another fact to be considered is their level of English, which is not even elementary.
During our observations, we have noticed that students do not understand what they
were asked for, either using very basic words or preparing for them very elementary
activities. The fact is that most of the students do not understand what they have to
do during the class. Sometimes they wait until the teacher clarify again the activity or
just they get distracted.
How This Characteristic Will Impact my Lesson:
As the level of English that they have is more than basic, it might affect the effectiveness
of different lessons, or it could take longer than we expected. Consequently, it is very
important to consider my students’ characteristics all the time, and be conscious of the
language that I am using in order to be understood, as well as to try to engage them to
the activity. I would have problems, because students would not be allow to understand
the purpose of every class, and this will make everything more difficult.
4. 3. Physical Aspects of the Classroom and Their Instructional Implications:
The classroom has electronic devices (pc, audio, etc.) in order to make easier the
implementation of different ways to teach. In this way I can use technological
resources in order to teach different contents using internet or visual aids that could
help my students to understand according to their different ways to learn. There is
any poster or elements that could help my students get distracted.
3.1 Description of First Physical Aspect:
When students are working on their own, the teacher does not arranged the eats
of the classroom, they are always put in columns; however, when students have to
work in groups, they make little circles.
How This Aspect Will Impact My Lesson:
The idea of making semi circles is better when they have to work in groups. This
fact helps a lot when they have to interact to each other in speaking activities and
they have the chance to practice and learn. Here the affective filter is lesser than
when they have to perform an oral activity in front of the classroom and this help
them getting confidence.
Description of Second Physical Aspect:
Teacher uses frequently visual aids to keep more engaged the students and give
them facilities to do the activities.
How This Aspect Will Impact My Lesson:
At the moment of teaching, students will be ready to do activities supported by
different elements; however this will mean that in every class I should have flash
cards or something that could help them at the time of doing an exercise.
Reflects on the importance of knowing about students and the context to
provide quality teaching.
Taking everything in to account, it is essential to consider my students’ level of
proficiency, interests, and knowledge. At the moment of making decisions I will
decide to teach contents where they can get involve and feel enough confident. In
order to provide quality of teaching, I will pay attention to specific characteristics
that every group of students have. In this way I will provide classes that they are
going to feel comfortable and they will think the usefulness of the language in
different situations.
