Essay On Community Contextual

The classroom environment which I am student teaching is in a general education fifth grade class. There are 26 students ranging in ages 10-11 years old. There are four students with Individualized Education Plans and six students who are English Language Learners. The school day begins at 8:15 AM and end at 2:45 PM, Monday thru Thursday and 8:15 AM to 1:30 PM on Friday. A community contextual factor that strongly impacts school the community support for education. The community around the school is a small urban community that is extremely involved in their children’s education. The school has hosted community events and depends on parent volunteers to help in the classroom and the Parent Teacher Organization. Since the community is smaller and more involved this means that there is more parent volunteers in the classrooms. This gives the teachers of the school extra help.
The district contextual factor the effects the school the strongest is we are a charter school, so it means we are our own district. Being our own district has advantages and disadvantages. The largest advantages is that we are more involved in the decisions made for our school. This isn’t someone disconnected from the school making the decisions for the school. We are the ones there day to day and can make the best decisions for the school. The largest
I use technology to take attendance, give a lesson, stay in contact with my parents and students, and plan my lessons. I access curriculum material and resources multiple times during the day. Without technology or resource access make teaching capability would take four steps back. On a few incidences my technology has malfunctioned and I was unable to teach the lesson planned. It felt like a huge part of the lesson and understanding was missing and the lesson needed re-teaching. Technology is a great resource that should be utilized to its fullest