Practice Teacher Work Sample
Community, district and school factors.
Community and school population
Socio-economic profile and race/ethnicity
Wichita Public Schools (WPS) have a student enrollment of 48,676 and is the largest urban school district in the state. The ethnic diversity of the district is 48.9% white, 23.6% Black, 18.3% Hispanic, 2.7% Am. Indian, and 5.5% Asian. 48.3% of the students are on free lunch and another 12.2% are on reduced lunch.
May include such information as stability of community, political climate, community support for education, and other environmental factors.
Availability of technology, resources and parental involvement
Classroom rules and routines
Scheduling and classroom arrangement
Student characteristics (in this classroom)
Ages of students
Studentsí skill levels
Include studentís skills and prior learning that may influence the development of your learning goals, instruction and assessment.
Address how contextual characteristics of the community, classroom and students have implications for instructional planning and assessment. (See the above three sections.) Include specific instructional implications for at least two of the above three sections and any other factors that will influence how you plan and implement your unit.