Knowing our students

Carlos Pacheco Diaz
(Elementary English teacher in Chile)

1)Description of the class background
The students belong to a low social class, most of them do not have economic resourses enough to pay for a private school, they do not have any special expectation in terms of professional training, some of them do not have interest about continuing higher level of education though (college) and work hard to do so, but they do not represent the majority.

2)Student characterization
Javier Gozalez, is one of the best students in the class,he is a very shy boy, and very respectful about the rules of the school. Nevertheless, he can not cope with those students that practice "Bullying" though, this is why some classmates take advantage of this situation and I always have to deal with problems in the classroom, at the moment I am talking to these people who behave badly, and this is going to stop soon.

Analysis
Javier is a chilean student of a semi-particular school in Quillota, in the fifth region in Chile. San Pedro Nolasco is a catholic school where there are no foreign students like in the most schools in contrast to the USA reality.Here we can find the most common environment in this kind of institution, there are few troublemaking students that bully shy pupils but they are not the most. Javier wants to have a good performance in the school geting good grades, because of that he is seen as a boring and silly person due to he spends a lot of time studying.This situation can be explained because of the envy of his classmates or the perception of being a good student. Javier will need to develop his social skills because he not only needs goods grades but also company.On the other hand, the rest of the students need to change their behavior step by step because the family plays an important role in their education.