Homework

1. Give a general description of the students in your school, I need information about the type of school, social status of children, family structure, the relation between parents and the school, etc... anything else you can add is ok.

Colegio Forjadores de Casablanca is a semi-private school located in the country side of Casablanca. Forjadores de Casablanca is a new school with a great infrastructure, big classrooms, football and basketball fields, a tennis court, a gym, a computer lab, a library, all this surrounded by hills and trees. There are only six grades in the school, from first level till sixth level primary, and a kindergarten. The number of students per class is small, from 6 to 17 students. The total number of students in the school is about 90. The school counts on eight teachers, only one teacher of English.

The students have got four hours of English exposure per week. Despite the number of students per class is small, some students present difficulties when acquiring the second language; this is because some of them are new students in the school and their English background is at a minimum level and they have not been able to catch up with their classmates.

All of the students belong to a middle class family. Most of the children belong to a family consisting of two-parents; however, there are a great number of students belonging to a single-parent family. The school community is very committed with the school, that is, parents always take part in the school activities, yet, many parents from the older grades, 5th and 6th grades, are reluctant to participate.


2. Describe a successful English learner and a bad English learner.

The sample students are from a 3rd grade primary. The successful learner is always committed with the class, does his homework, studies for every single quiz or test, sometimes misbehave but obeys the class rules. This learner makes questions every time he is not sure about content, is willing to participate and help his classmates.

On the contrary, the bad learner is always misbehaving during the lessons, he has never done his homework, he does not care about getting bad marks, he does not obey the class rules, and he never studies, although he understands the contents, he is just lazy and he knows it. The bad part of it, it is that his mother knows the situation but does not take any action in order to change this situation; according to my findings, I believe that he cannot motivate with anything, I have tried different approaches with him in order to capture his attention and motivate him, but it seems that nothing works.

Professor: Roberto Espinoza


Analysis

Here we see that the school has many material resources, besides it does not have a great amount of students, so we can say that the education is more personalized, it gives the teacher the opportunity to get to know each student better .

I think the successful learner mentioned here is highly motivated, he wants to learn more. I do not know but maybe he has more support of his family or has higher expectations for his future.
On the other hand, we see that the "bad" learner is unmotivated, he does not care about making his homework or following the rules, maybe what happens with that boy is that he does not feel the support of his family, I mean his mother knows but does not do anything so the boy feels nobody cares.
I think one of the bad things of the society we are living in is that every day families have less time to share togheter, sometimes parents work hard to give their children the best and do not realized that material things are not enough, sometimes all children need is a minute to talk, so they get all that they want but they feel lonely, and then when they realized life is not that easy they can feel frustrated, because they are growing up alone.
I think techers job is a beautiful but hard one, as teachers you have to know your students so that you can find different ways to teach them, however sometimes there are students very hard to deal with, and no matter what the teacher does they do not motivate, so teachers have to be constantly searching for different metodologies.