University of Missouri–St. Louis
Task 1 Contextual Factors Chart
This chart is designed to help you to understand that many factors affect teaching and learning. They include the community, classroom procedures, the students, and the physical environment in which you will be teaching. All this information will help you to determine teaching strategies and approaches that will support your students’ learning. In this chart, address each of the characteristics listed as they pertain to your teaching assignment. Your completed chart can be a maximum of two pages. Any information beyond the two pages will not be read. (You must submit this document as an artifact.)
|Source of Factor: Community, District, School, Classroom | |
|Demographics, and Knowledge of Students |Contextual and Environmental Factors |
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|Community | |
|Urban, suburban, or rural; socio-economic; census data on| |
|families | |
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|District | |
|Enrollment, percent free and reduced lunch; graduation | |
|rate; ethnic breakdown; percent with IEP; percent ELL; | |
|per pupil expenditure | |
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|School | |
|Enrollment, percent free and reduced lunch; MAP scores | |
|and AYP; ethnic breakdown; percent with IEP; percent ELL;| |
|recognitions; teacher/student ratio | |
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|Classroom Demographics | |
|Ethnicity, gender, special needs including gifted, | |
|physical needs, and cultural characteristics | |
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|Knowledge of Students | |
|Language needs, approaches to learning, prior | |
|learning/experiences, academic (MAP) proficiencies, | |
|behavioral differences, and areas of interest | |
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