mapa evidencia 7

CONTEXT AND THE CURRICULUM

The Sociocultural Environment

The Learners

The Teachers

The Institution

Means of Delievery

Adoptions Factors

Profiling the Factors Identified in the Situation Analysis

Society

All of those contexts in which are situated the institutions in which language teaching takes place

Analyzing this, the aim is to

Determine the impact of different groups or stakeholders in the community or society at large

Context also influences

Student's attitudes toward learning English

Some of the factors are

•Socio-economic factors

•Attitudes toward English in the community

•Views

•Societal expectations about language

•Language-teaching traditions

•Status of Teachers

•Role of English in daily experiences.

Bring to learning certain assumptions based on

Cultural and educational background

Previous language learning experiencies

They enter a course with

Established ideas about teaching and learning

Ractors that may influence learners' engagement

•Age of learners

•Typical learner profile

•Learning-style preferences

•Motivation and interest to learn

•Beliefs about teaching and learning

•Language learning history

•Preferences for specific content

•Attitudes toward English

•Needs

•Capacity for independent learning

•Access to resources and technology

Language schools are recruting

Better trained language teachers

Better-qualified language teachers

Poor-quality resources and materials

Exceptional teachers can compensate

Teachers also bring

Assumptions

Beliefs

Values

Curriculum innovation makes teachers

Make changes in the way they teach

Take new and unfamiliar roles

Creates their own

Culture

Settings where people interact

Patterns emerge for communication

Decision making

Role Relations

Conduct

Mechanistic model

Organic model

There are two types of organizational structure

Bureaucratic approach

Need of authority, hierarchies of control, and an explicit chain of command

Flexibility and adaptability

It stresses

Complete confidence and trust between superior and subordinates

Encourages

Modes of instruction

Teacher directed

Learner directed

Learning sites

Classroom

Media lab

Library

Campus

Home

Learning resources

Books, worksheets, mobile devices, internet.

Any attempt to introduce a new curriculum, syllabus or set of materials must take into account

The ease or difficulty of introducing change into the system

• Its percieved advantages

•Its alignment with current practices

•Its links to existent beliefs

•Its level of complexity

•Its track record in other contexts

•The level of interest it attracts

•Its champions and advocates

•The levels of teacher support

The following issues need to be considered

Teaching contexts can be described in terms of

Favoring conditions

Constitute the positive potentials of affordances that support teaching and learning

Disfavoring conditions

Constitute the negative influences or inhibiting factors that constrain teaching and learning