Educational Context

“Colegio Bicentenario Padre Manuel D`Alzon” is a semi-subsidized school located in

Concepcion, Lota (VIII region of Chile). The school has 6 teachers in the Language

department, 6 teachers in the Math department, 4 teachers in the History department, 5

teachers in the Science department, 3 teachers in the Philosophy department, 2 teachers

in the Art department, 4 teachers in the English department and 3 teachers in the Physical

Education department. The school has approximately 700 students. The school has just

one level which is high school. Every class has approximately 30 to 33 students. The

school has special classrooms according to all the different subjects. There are three

English classrooms all of them are fully adequate with proper material according to the

subject. All classrooms provide a safe environment that promotes effective learning among

the students.

Description of the classroom and the course

- 7th grade:

The class consists of 30 students, 14 boys and 16 girls. They are between 12 y 13 years

old. 90% of the students are Catholic while the rest 10% are Protestant. There are twenty

seven students who live in Lota, two students live in Coronel and just one of them lives in

Colcura. None of the students have fail the course before.

The total of the students have good health according to their age and weight. Just three of

them have problems related to myopia but they use the proper glasses that fix that

problem; also, the three of them are always sitting in first desks in order to see what the

teacher is writing on the board and the data presentations.

The classroom has an appropriate size in which the students have enough space to move

around. The students have individual desks. The class is fully decorated with posters

related to the subject. The classroom has a white board, an smart board, forty five

dictionaries for the use of the students and enough hangers for the students to hang their

bags.