Heather Corpuz

PPAT® Assessment
Task 1 Contextual Factors Chart
This chart is designed to help you understand the many factors that affect teaching and learning. Such
factors include the community, classroom procedures, student demographics, and the physical
environment in which teaching takes place. Understanding these factors as they relate to your
teaching will help you determine the instructional strategies and approaches that will support your
students’ learning. In this chart, address the factors listed as they pertain to your teaching
assignment.

The subcategories listed with each factor are just suggestions; there may be other
subcategories that you would like to address, or there may be a subcategory listed that
does not apply to your situation.

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Types of Factors: Community, District, Contextual Factors

School, Classroom Demographics, and
Knowledge of Students

General Context of Your Students School: Lehua Elementary School

(All subcategories listed in this box are Location: Pearl City
required.) Grade: 6
Class size: 35 students
Students’ grade and developmental levels; the Age-Range: 11-12 years’ old
age range of students; the content area being Content areas being taught: Language
taught; any other factors that are pertinent to Arts, Writing, Math, Science, Social Studies,
understanding your class assignment P.E., Health.

Community Community: Suburban/Urban

Median household income: $77,316
(e.g., whether the area is urban, suburban, or Persons employed: 20,519
rural; socioeconomic information; census data Median property value: $606,300
for the community) Homeowner ship rate: 71.4%
Population of poverty: 5.14%
Common job groups: Administrative, sales,
management, education & training,
construction.

* information based on datausa.io and 2010

Pearl City census

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Types of Factors: Community, District,
School, Classroom Demographics, and
Knowledge of Students
District
(e.g., enrollment; percent of students receiving
free or reduced-price lunches; graduation rates;
ethnicities; percent of students with IEPs;
percent of students who are ELLs; per-pupil
expenditures)
School
(e.g., enrollment; percent of students receiving
free or reduced-price lunches; AYP data;
ethnicities; percent of students with IEPs;
percent of students who are ELLs; teacher-to-
student ratio)
Classroom Demographics
(e.g., ethnicities; gender ratios; special needs,
including those of gifted students, those of
students with physical needs, and those due to
cultural characteristics)
Missouri Pre-Service Teacher Assessment (MoPTA) Daily Reflection Form
Contextual Factors
Total Population: 51,078
Persons under aged 5-19: 16.1%
Median age population: 38.2
Population of veterans: 4,717
Population of immigrants or foreign born
persons: 12.2%
Number of family households: 11,788
Persons per household: 3.17
Languages other than English spoken at
home: 20.1%
Educational Attainment Level:
High school graduate or higher: 31%
College graduate: 29.4%
Ethnicities: 51.6% Asian, 25.2% two or
more races, 13.7% White, 8.7% Hispanic or
Latino, 6% Native Hawaiian or Pacific
Islander, 2.2% Black or African American.
Persons with a disability: 6.6%
Persons without health insurance: 3.7%
* information based on datausa.io and 2010
Pearl City census
Enrollment: 234 students
Free/Reduced-price lunch: 61.1%
students
Special Education services: 10%
Students in military families: 38%
ELL students: 20%
Ethnicity: 25.6% White, 17.5% Filipino,
16.2% Native Hawaiian, 12.8% Micronesian
7.6% Black, 6.4% Samoan, 4.7% Hispanic,
2.2% Chinese, 1.7% Japanese
Student-to-teacher ratio: 13 to 1
Student population is known to be heavily
dominated by military families.
School has a transient nature due to military
families and low-income housing.
* Retrieved from School Status and
Improvement Report SY 2017-2018
Classroom: General Education
(departmentalized)
Ethnicities: Filipino, Asian, White, Samoan,
Micronesian, Chuukese, Hispanic, African-
American, Native Hawaiian.
Gender: Male (22), Females (13)
Special Needs: Hearing impaired, Autism
Spectrum Disorder, ADD, ADHD, low
performing, learning disabilities (weak
comprehension in reading, math, and writing
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Knowledge of Students
(in terms of the whole class and individual
students)
(e.g., language needs; approaches to learning;
prior learning and experiences; academic
proficiencies/behavioral differences; areas of
interest)
Missouri Pre-Service Teacher Assessment (MoPTA) Daily Reflection Form
skills), ESL/ELL; physical, emotional, and
behavioral challenges.
Learning styles: Kinesthetic, auditory,
visual, combination
Due to transient nature of the school, due to
military and low-income housing, students
are fairly new to school. Majority of the
students in grade 6 have either moved from
another school/state, and have only attended
Lehua El. not more than 1-2 years.
Grade 6 students are pulled out from Gen. Ed
classroom and goes to Resource Room only
during Math, Social Studies, and ELA blocks.
Grade 6 students who receive SpEd services
spends majority of their day in Resource
Room, mainly for Math and ELA, and Social
Studies. They go to Gen. Ed classroom for
Science, health, music, and P.E.
Behavioral differences: Talkative,
hyperactive, cooperative, disruptive,
collaborative.
Students range greatly in learning needs and
behavior. Educational plans and agenda will
change when students have their “good” or
“bad” days.
Areas of interests: Sports, socializing with
peers, video games, comics.
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