Higher Income City School:
- More resources
- 500 Students
- Stairs at this school (not the others)
- Teachers come from far away to teach
- Have a janitor
- Nicer Buildings
- No Jungle Gyms
- Very Colorful/Well Painted
- Have a lunchroom (only one of the three schools I visited)
- 4 lunch periods (40 minutes each)
- 30 minute recess
- Parents pay a small fee (10 Pesos)
- no lunch help programs because lunch is so cheap
- Nutritious meals they would typically eat at home
- Teachers eat with the students
- School has a chef and a trained nutritionist
- Students not monitored during recess/break times
- The school gets gated in
- More student responsibility
- No clocks in typical classrooms
- Typical to brush teeth after eating lunch
- Attendance consequences based on teacher (they set the tone)
- Special Education
- Principal fights for the rights of special needs students or nothing gets done
- USA 1974, Mexico 1994: Special education came to schools
- Before 1994, special education students had their own institution
- This school has a special needs classroom (RARE)
- Student inclusion
- Special education then classroom overall with a paraprofessional
- Therapy (have a social worker and therapist, etc. come to the school once a week)
- The classroom just has a computer and printer (technology wise)
- Paraprofessional
- Have one who works with 20 students
- Gifted and Special needs
- Unusual to have because usually if you have special needs in Mexico, "you are screwed" (quote from one of the teachers)
- School is successful because everyone is involved, community effort (parents, students, teachers, etc.)
- 2nd grade classroom
- Energetic
- Loud Classroom
- Students say, "Teacher, Teacher!"
- Have to take toilet paper to the bathroom
- Let's students go to the bathroom one at a time so they do not play outside
- Teamwork for experiment
- Instructions assignment
- Collaborating on a project
- Great Hands-on work
- Present when done then do the experiment
- Move desks a lot (in all classes)
- Erik (teacher) is a graphic designer but they needed English teachers so he took the opportunity
- He likes being a teacher
- Hard to find a good public school (1st school)
- Mexico is more advanced than other Latin American countries in education
- Mimic USA, USA Resources
- Proximity to USA
- Supposed to be district wide where you register your kids but doesn't have to be
- Open Enrollment
- 5th Grade
- Regular teacher didn't show up so they are sitting outside reading (Abnormal)
- English teacher not going to teach her lesson because she doesn't want to disturb them
- She says they are hard to work with
- 1st Grade Classroom
- Very energetic and loud
- Students like to stand up and move
- Door on both sides of classroom
- Partial explicit language instruction
- Teaches mainly in English but some Spanish
- More structure and classroom management here
- Hands raised
- Calls on students
- 1-2-3 Be Quiet
- Waits till they are quiet to start
- Students have cubbies
- Tells the students "very good"
- Students love to use markers but they bleed through the paper so they use crayons and colored pencils
- Workbook
- Classify animals as zoo, sea, or home
- Teacher Eric doesn't like the workbook
- Workbook is pretty but not super functional
- Zoo: What animals live in the zoo?
- Sea: What animals live in the sea?, etc.
- Have students draw animals that can swim, fly, etc.
- 25 students in class
- All Mexican/Spanish
- Hard to teacher English because they are learning Spanish basics at the same time
- Very consistent teacher (Erik)
- Students more responsive to English than other school
- This area/state is happier than other states in Mexico and Europeans
- One teacher per room (same class all year)
- Lesson
- Review
- Introduce Activity
- Hand out supplies
- Workbook page
- Notebook Activity
- Assist Students
- Clean-up and Discussion
- End
- No tenure, you can't get fired
- huge lawsuit with teachers union if you get fired
- Public School
- Work for the System
- Private School
- Work for them
- Teachers don't call in sick for a long period of time, the office sends a substitute, but if it is only for 2-3 days, you just manage
- A student didn't go to school from August to January, then came back and there was no problem
- More male than female teachers
- Some adults/teachers wear dress pants, etc. and some wear jeans, etc.
- School split into 1-3rd grade and 4-6th grade to help little kids not get hurt
- 2 breaks
- 1st - 1-3rd grade
- 2nd - 4-6th grade
- Workbooks are free to students
- Can send bad students to the principal but can suspend them, etc.
- They are trying to get kids to read more
- Currently read 2-3 books a year
- Compared to the USA trying to get kids to read 100 books per year
- Not enough administration
- Education reform passes recently
- Principals for salary not having background
- Trying to follow USA model
- Daycare not common in Mexico
- Teachers yelled a lot
- Books of student projects
- Contest, won 1st place at the national level
- Won materials for the school
- Now competing Internationally
- Won awards for making changes
- Pilot English Program
- New but going well
- Making it permanent
- Full day program (currently the only one)
- School done at 1 pm but activities till 4 pm (music, dance, homework, etc.)
- Teachers stay till 4 pm
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