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OBSERVATION STAGE

Task 1: The School and Learning Environment

Name of student: Pamela Correa Gurtubay

Name of School: Liceo Pedro Montt

Number of students: 38 (but around 16 attend regularly)

Date: September 8th Class: 1 medio A

Briefly and objectively describe the following aspects:

1. The school:

Describe the general background of the school including the physicallocation, organisation, student population, philosophy and educationaland behavioural policies.

Liceo Pedro Montt is located in Avenida Alemania 5196 Cerro Crcel,Valparaso; in front of Bismarck square. It belongs to CMV CorporacinMunicipal de Valparaso and it is considered a Heritage School. There are2 coordinators one of them works with elementary and middle schoolteachers, and the other one works with high school teachers. Thenumber of the students is 542. Only 229 of them belong to high school,269 to elementary and middle school and 44 to kindergarten. The schoolphilosophy deals with arts (dance, theatre, and so on). There are notstated rules in terms of educational and most important behaviouralpolicies; in fact there are many problems concerning this two last

points, since there is a lack of behavioural policies students feel free todo things that are not suppose to do in a classroom or at school.

2. The classroom

Describe the atmosphere of the room and the levels of engagement inthe room. Make notes on seating, sight lines, space, air, light,whiteboard, equipment, etc
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The atmosphere of the room does not engage students at all, there is nohandle on the door, there is no basket to through the garbage, so theclassroom is pretty dirty; the classroom is an old room (the building isvery old) the windows are kind of narrow and long sometimes there are

not glasses on the windows. There is a kind of shelf but there is nothingin it. The board is white and dirty it is very hard to write and somestudents write with permanent markers on it. The walls are empty thereare no papers stick on the, and they are not painted with just one coloursomeone must used white colour to delete students writing. The tablesand chairs are all full of dirt, broken and scratched.

3. The activities & resources

a) Make notes on the kind of activities used, the nature of student

involvement, balance of student doing things and teacher doingthings

I observed only one kind of activity and it was about filling thegaps about sentences that the teacher wrote on the board,students did not copy on their copybooks, some of them did noteven bring a pencil. They were listen music loudly with their cellphones. The teacher focused on a book and copy exactly was hereads on the board and he does not adapt the material forstudents, he tried to explain the grammar rules but no oneseemed to understand him.

b) Describe the resources used and the materials available within theschool. How are the resources used in the classroom?

There is wireless internet connexion but most of the teachers donot know the password, there is a very nice and new library butunfortunately we cannot use it because the school is developing aproject during the periods of the English class. There is a radio, alaptop and 2 data projectors, and again they are all required forsome other classes so we could not use them. There is a computerlab, although there was no time available for our class, we are

looking for the chance to use it, in fact we will talk with the teacherthat uses at that time, in order to arrange some moments for theclass.

Task 2: Student s learning


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In this second observation task, you should focus on the things that helpto create conditions for effective learning and on the aspects that playa part in preventing learning.

1. The learners

How motivated are the learners? Why? To what extent are theytaking part in their own learning? To what extent are theyexpecting the teacher to do the work for them?

Not all of the students are motivated; however the majority isstarting to be interested. It seems the way classes have been donethis last few weeks are brand- new for them, in spite of that,students have a regular behaviour against working. They do notwant to speak English at all; it is very embarrassing for them. Theywant me to go to their seats, bringing them pencils, asked themseveral times to the activities assigned. However, I have the

feeling they are trying to change little by little.

2. Behaviour during classroom activitiesDescribe the ways students are encouraged to participate inactivities. Are there any particular strategies for managing issuesand motivating students? Are there any students with specialneeds?

I always asked them all to participate during the class, even if theanswer is not the correct one. The majority is willing to participate,although 3 or 4 students do not want to do anything. I encourage

them, and congratulate them any time, every class there is a pointfor their participation, and if a student likes or is good at English Itell him or her that he or she is good at it. Sometimes, I tell themthat I really trust in them in terms of behaviour. I still do not knowif there are any students with special needs because theattendance is too irregular.

3. Discuss the learning styles and levels of English in theclassroom.

Observation scale High Mediu

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Low Not

Observed

Observations clear & well informedX

Demonstrates understanding ofsocial and educational factors

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Objective & factual informationX


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Evidence of active search ofinformation

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Use of English expression clearX

IVV/RGS

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