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UNIVERSIDAD DE PLAYA ANCHAFACULTAD DE HUMANIDADESEARLY ENGLISH TEACHING PRACTICE2009OBSERVATION STAGE
 Name of student teacher 
: Karla Calderón Yévenes
 Name of School
: Liceo Ovispo Antonio Castro
 Number of students
: 37 students
Date
: May, 10
th
, 2009
Class
: Fouth and third highschool grade
First Task: The School.
Refer to the general background of the school in a clear and brief way. Describe:Physical locationThe name of the school I am attending to is “Liceo Ovispo Antonio Castro” which islocated in Crucero Ajak Street N 18, Cerro Cárcel.O rganisationPrincipal: Mr. José Luis Villanueva,UTP Department: Mrs. Ximena EspinozaGeneral inspector: Mr. Juan Carlos AstorgaOrientation Department: Mrs. Karen Marín.Student populationThere are 178 students enrolled on the school.School rules.The students are not allowed to smoke, to drink alcohol, to consume drugs, to sell or to buy any kind of goods inside the school. They musn´t use mobile phones or any kind of device which implies using headphones.
Second Task: The classroom.
The atmosphere of the roomGeneral speaking, according to my experience in third highschool grade the atmosphereof the room is good. In spite of the fact that there are very noisy students, the majorityof the class behave in a respectful way when Mrs Carol is trying to explain the subjects.However the fourth highschool grade pay less attention than the third grade to theteacher.
 
The levels of engagement in the roomAlthough these two classes are not disrespectful, they don´t have high level of engagement in the room, there are just a few who show a real commitment to theenglish as a foreign language and the rest of the class devote their time to other assingments from other subjects or they use to talk between them while other arelistening to music.S tudents seating, space and whiteboard locationStudents seat in double desks, there are two lines of desks in every classroom which arelarge but not wide, I could say that are narrowed classrooms, though the thirdhighschool grade´s room is a bit larger than the room of the other class. The studentsseating is almost the same everywhere; the noisy ones are seating down into the last twodesks behind and the students who pay more attention are siting down in front of thewhiteboard which is at the front of the classroom. I think that dstribution is adesadvange to the teacher, since the room is very large and the most problematicstudents seat behind it is difficult to her to manage them.Classroom equipment.There is a laboratory room in the school, where students are able to use the computerson their breaks but any of the days I have attended to they had being there. Thereforethe only available equipment for the english class is a dictionary “english-spanish” thatit is found in the library.
Third Task: The teacher
Classroom routineThe teacher develop her classes in spanish all the time, she always give generalinstructions about the taks and the students make the exercises given afterwards. Sheasks the students to create a lot of dialogues which must being made in formal andinformal style.Motivation activities performed.According to my observation the students do not feel very motivated with this kind of activities because they usually talk between them about other things and they can hardlydevelop a sentence in present tense. There are not motivational activities performed inher classes. The only “kind of motivation” I have seen from her take place when she iscorrecting tests and she informs students whose grades are reasonably good.Learning activities conducted and stages of the lessonShe developes a unit and then she writes in the whiteboard all the vocabulary in it andexplains its tense forms, then she writes sentences and exesices like “Filling in the gaps”or “answering questions”. The rest of the class the students need to develop thisexersices. She is teaching them the passive voice now.Material resourced used.Since I start going to classes the material used is created by her. There was only onetime that she brought some sheets of paper with a list of exercises to the students (andthey have to pay for them).
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