Cultural Diversity Setting - Rural Public School

During my trip in the state of Baja California Sur, Mexico, I had the opportunity to observe schools, students, and teachers in three different schools in Mexico: a lower income city school, a higher income city school, and a rural school.  Below is my description of the Rural School.

Rural Public School:

• Colorful classrooms
• No uniforms here
• 11 classrooms, about 2 per grade 
• 250 students in the whole school
• Recently got a small bus
• Most students live in small ranches outside of or near town
• Some live in town
• If the bus doesn't work, students cannot come to school
• English teacher teaches in both English and Spanish and she switches very well between the two
• Workbooks and notebooks
• Not all of the students had the workbooks, not sure if they don't have them or if they just forgot them
• The workbooks seem a bit better workbook than the other schools
• Lots of repetition used
• Students clean up their own classrooms
• Students do not have an address because they live in the country and everyone knows where everyone else lives
• English teacher brings supplies with her from classroom to classroom
• Have a paraprofessional
• Two special needs students in class
• Full inclusion
• One break from 10:30-11 am
• Have a place where students can buy snacks but no lunchroom
• 5th Grade Classroom

• Teaching full lessons
• Review
• Reteach as needed
• Vocabulary (Prepositions)
• Instructions and Activity 
• Open for Creativity
• Creating a house on paper in groups
• Common to move tables and desks around
• In their second year of English program
• Have a lot of technology
• Have pretty much everything they need
• Teacher fights for supplies for her students
• Sunshine workbooks
• Teacher provides colored pencils and markers
• One of the students' notebook said "perfectly imperfect" on the front
• I really liked that :) 
• 6th Grade Classroom

• Working on greetings and invitations
• Used large poster paper
• One Group's
• To the right