MULTITUDE OF FACTORS

It is important for classroom teachers to realize how contextual factors affect planning, instruction, and assessment. Characteristics of the teaching environment (e.g., geographic, socioeconomic, political, ethnic/racial) as well as individual student characteristics can influence the effectiveness of instruction and impact student learning.

If you need help with starting this task, please use instructional video recording below with a detailed explanation of the task requirements. The attached documents provide even more detailed and helpful examples.

The first things to consider are the contextual factors that make your classroom unique (e.g., What environmental factors influence the teaching and learning of your unit?). These include, but are not limited to, community, district, school, classroom, and student factors.

You will also need to provide demographic data for your school.

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