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Essay / Contextual Factors in the Classroom - 1161
Contextual factors within a classroom are shaped by external environmental factors. These factors have a noticeable effect on the students' learning process and the teacher's ability to teach effectively and fill learning gaps that may arise from time to time. The community in which the high school is located is an extremely rural community, with a small, stable population. The total population of the community is just over eighteen thousand people, which has increased by approximately fifteen hundred people in one year. The community prides itself on having an agri-food economy, based on poultry and livestock production. Much of the growth the community has experienced has occurred along two exits located off the area's main highway. This has led to a stable community that has not experienced any drastic changes in its economy, housing, or population. Native-born citizens make up ninety-seven percent of the population. Banks County is located approximately seventy-seven miles northeast of Atlanta's main airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, which is the primary determining factor in how agriculture-based the economy is and agricultural exploitation. The school district consists of four schools; an elementary, elementary, middle, and high school located within a mile of each other. The median family income is $40,455, with 18% of the population living below the federal poverty line (Census.gov, 2010). The community is made up of low to moderate income families. The educational level of the district's population is primarily centered on those who have graduated from high school or possess a high school diploma equivalent to forty-two percent. The next level of education attained by the population is attending ninth grade...... middle of article ......ctview.xhtml?pid=PEP_2009_DP1&prodType=tableAmerican FactFinder - Results. (nd). American FactFinder. Retrieved March 28, 2012, from http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_10_5YR_DP03&prodType=tableBanks County Georgia >> Community. (nd). Banks County Georgia >> Banks County Convention and Visitors Bureau. Retrieved March 28, 2012, from http://www.bankscountyga.org/community-v-15.htmlPublic School Search - Banks County High School School Details. (nd). Home page of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), part of the U.S. Department of Education. Retrieved March 28, 2012, from http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&InstName=banks+county+high+school&SchoolType=1&SchoolType=2&SchoolType=3&SchoolType=4&SpecificSchlTypes=all&IncGrade=-1&LoGrade= - 1&HiGrade=-1&ID=130024000169