UNIVERSIDAD MAGISTER

“A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF THE NON SIGNIFICANT CURRICULAR

ACCOMMODATIONS IN ENGLISH TEACHING IN ELEVETH GRADE

SAN PABLO DE LEÓN CORTÉS”

Walter Calderon Alvarez 2015

General Objetive

• To analyze strategies used for teaching Reading skills in eleventh grade with Non-

significant curricular accommodation at CTP de San Pablo de Leon Cortes in order to

give suggestions how to apply efficient reading strategies skills to students with

special needs.

Specific Objectives

1. To describe the self-efficacy increasing and students’ self-esteem to apply Non-

significant curricular accommodation.

2. To describe the purpose of bilingual education in the Costa Rican system

3. To show the importance of using significant accommodation didactic strategies by the

instructor in the implementation of curricular accommodation teaching process.

4. To describe some aspects of bachelor exam to students with special needs.

5. To describe Costa Rican background on curricular accommodation.

6. To study the context of classroom in which English classes with students with significant

curricular accommodations are developed.

7. To describe the most common learning difficulties students with significant curricular

adjustments face in the curricular learning process.

8. To propose giving new strategies for learners with special needs in order to improve

reading skills with attractive activities for bachelor exam

Variables

1. Self- esteem in students

2. Motivation to students with low self-esteem in Bilingual Education

3. Didactic strategies in Non-significant accommodation in education system

4. Aspects of bachelor exam to students with Non-significant curricular accommodation

5. Costa Rica Background on Curricular accommodation

6. English Classroom for students with Non SCA

7. Learning difficulties of students with Non SCA for learners with special needs

QUALITATIVE APROACHE

According to Sandín (2003)

“Qualitative research is a systematic activity, aimed to the understanding in depth of

educational and social phenomena, to the transformation of practices and socio-

educative environments, decision making and also to the discovery and development

of an organized body of knowledge”.

INVESTIGATION INSTRUMENTS

The instruments provide tools using for getting information are :

OBSERVATION

Every investigation to apply have a scientific character in social sciences in general .

INTERVIEW

The interview is an act of communication or written way to establish between two or more

people.

QUESTIONNAIRE

The questioner is an instrument of investigation to have a serie of questions.

Population

The populations of students who are the subject of this research are 11th level class 11 -1 . 11-2 , 11-3 y 11-4 from CTP de San Pablo de Leon Cortes

GRAPH # 1 IMPORTANCE OF ENGLISH TEACHING

100%

CHART # 2 MAIN REASONS OF ENGLISH TEACHING

30%

30%

40%

GRAPH # 3 KNOWLODGE ABOUT LAW 7600

80%

20%

GRAPH # 4 PERSON ENCHARGE TO CURRICULAR

ACCOMODATION

20%

60%

20%

Parents

Support Committed

Teacher

GRAPH #5 PERSON RESPOSIBLE PER CURRICULAR

ACCOMODATIO APLICATION

40%

60%

Support Committed

Teacher

GRAPH # 6 KIND OF CURRICULAR ACCOMODATION APPLIED

40%

40%

20%

Access

No significant

Significant

CONCLUTIONS

SELF ESTEEM IN STUDENTS

Self-esteem, it will lead to effective teaching practices. It is important when reading to discuss about it so that

students know the material. Discussing, asking questions, or giving the students questions from a reading will create

expectations on the students. Also, if students know the questions and answer them before discussions they will feel

more confident about expressing opinions and or pointing the relevant information from the given source. Besides

many aspects in education and teachers, lesson planning goals must be very clear and focused. Those may improve

effectiveness and teachers’ responsibility. Each strategy in the class should be developed and analyzed.

MOTIVATION TO STUDENTS WITH LOW SELF ESTEEM IN BILLINGUALEDUCATION

• As well as patience and persistence, must depend on teacher’s attitude and challenge. Most

students respond positively to a well-organized course taught by an enthusiastic teacher who has

a genuine interest and care about student’s progress and focuses on students interest, their

needs to succeeds and feels involved in the class. These will make classes successful. One of the

most important facts of his research has shown that a teacher’s expectation have a powerful

effect on a student performance. Help students set achievable goals themselves. Being

enthusiastic about the subject, breaking the routine, and incorporating a variety of teaching

activities and method in the class such us: role playing, debates, brainstorming, discussions,

demonstrations case studies, audiovisual presentations, guest speakers, or small group work will

make interesting classes

DIDACTIC STRATEGIES IN NON SIGNIFICANT ACCOMODATION IN EDUCATION SYSTEM

All language learners use language learning strategies either consciously or

unconsciously when processing new information and performing task in the language

classroom. In this sense, all students have the possibility and the access to aquire a

second language according to this study in the CTP English teachers use good strategies

like reading comprehensions evaluations of every single topics of Bachillerato exam

where the role of English teachers is very important since students are in seventh grade

example the promotions in English Bachelor exam was of 97 % in this year.

ASPECTS OF BACHELOR EXAM

• It's incredibly thorough, and covers every possible subject you could be

asked on your bachelor exam, students with special needs have practice

exam with kind of questions that bachelor exam have, which are super

helpful for knowing All of the professors have told to students that it's not the

level of difficulty of the exam that makes people not do well, but rather the

layout of the questions. It's learning how to train your brain to answer the

questions in the way the test is looking for.

COSTA RICAN BACKGROUND ON CURRICULAR ACCOMODATIONS

• Since 1996 when Law 7600 law was signed it opened the opportunity with

any disability to have the same opportunity in educations and many others

aspects everything started when Costa Rica government attended to

Salamanca meeting in Spain after that law 7 600 began its work to involved

all the people with any disability to have the same opportunity.

ENGLISH CLASSROOM FOR STUDENTS WITH NON SCA

• Arranging the physical environment of the classroom is one way to improve the

learning environment and to prevent problematic behaviors before they occur. if a

classroom is not properly organized to support the type of schedule and activities a

teacher has planned , it can impede the functioning of the day as well as limit what

how students learn . However, a well arranged classroom environment is one way to

more effectively manage instruction because it produces fewer behavior problems

and establishes a conductive learning. But not only is the physical climate important

in the class also motivation places an important role in the teaching / learning

interactions , tutors are the most important factor in education pupils recive.

Government should pay attention to a number factors affect teachers performance

instructor compensation is determined in teachers motivations. It has a combination

of monetary and social recognition of their work.

LEARNING DIFFICULTIES AND NEW STRATEGIES WITH NON SCA STUDENTS

• It is important to remember that in CTP de San Pablo de León Cortés, many of the

students with Non-significant curricular accommodations suffer or are considered in this

group due deficit antinational Symptoms like the lack of attention, excessive motor

behavior, and impulsiveness definitely affect a student directly, from paying attention,

obeying rules, keeping working, and actively participating to give serious opinions.

Regarding test, strategies should be advice and controlled to expect high grades and

results. Furthermore but not less important, is Thomas Armstrong’s theory on analyzing the

student’s environment at home or other possibilities like being anxious or depressed, or

having a different kind of mind and not being challenged, or the consequence of television

video games. to conclude, teachers face different difficulties in classroom but they cannot

forget that regardless of their races, religions, colors, national origins, talents, personalities,

learning styles and skills.

• RECOMENDATIONS

SELF STEEM IN STUDENTS

• After these processes, they will become better and adjusted to the students’ needs.

Having a clearer purpose is the main objective. In essence, it might be concluded

that, data are required in order to monitor the progress of students, review the

effectiveness of the processes, plan new initiatives and strategies, and so on. In a

reading class, students with some kind of learning disability will possibly have some

MOTIVATION TO STUDENTS WITH LOW SELF ESTEEM IN BILLINGUAL

EDUCATION

• Teacher should not forget that motivation influences behaviors and the ability to learn.

Motivating students is a synonym of reward and success .assessors and principals at

high schools must also motivate teachers. In this sense, professionals will give better

results in the class, the teacher that transmit happiness, hope, and care will greatly

influence students work, studying habits, and test results. Teacher show students the

importance and future advantages of becoming bilingual definitely go with

motivations. Showings the students the benefits the benefits of speaking two

languages give better job possibility regarding job and university opportunity.

•

DIDACTIC STRATEGIES IN NON SIGNIFICANT ACCOMODATION IN EDUCATIONAL

SYSTEM

• Teachers must be clear with the students that each student is different, they have

focused on each student personality and academic situation, and strategies cannot

be in general, planning must be more flexible.

•

ASPECTS OF BACHELOR EXAM

• Bachelor exam for students that need curricular accommodations are present in

every high school in the country. In fact, is mandatory students have the

accommodations depending each necessity, the exam is applying in a peaceful

classroom but, the point is that students with Non curricular accommodation are not

informed about the procedure to apply the exam. Most students with this conditions

do not know why they receive certain accommodations.

COSTA RICA BACKGROUND ON CURRICULAR ACCOMODATIONS

• Since 1996 when Law 7600 was signed it opened the opportunity with any disability

to have the same opportunity in educations and many others aspects but at the end

of 2015 7600 law is not applied completely in all areas government has to be sure

that is necessary to cover it in all factors for giving the people with any disability the same opportunity that 7600 law was created

CLASSROOM EVIRONMENT WITH ENGLISH CLASSES FOR STUDENTS WITH NON

SCA

• Arranging the physical environment of the classroom is one way to improve the learning

environment and to prevent problematic behaviors before they occur. if a classroom is not

properly organized to support the type of schedule and activities a teacher has planned , it

can impede the functioning of the day as well as limit what how students learn . However, a

well arranged classroom environment is one way to more effectively manage instruction

because it produces fewer behavior problems and establishes a conductive learning. But

not only is the physical climate important in the class also motivation places an important

role in the teaching / learning interactions , tutors are the most important factor in education

pupils receive. Government should pay attention to a number factors affect teachers

performance instructor compensation is determined in teachers motivations. It has a

combination of monetary and social recognition of their work.

LEARNING DIFFICULTIES AND NEW STRATEGIES WITH NON SCA STUDENTS.

• It is important to be analyzing and evaluating the difficulties of the students with Non-significant

curricular accommodations that suffer or are considered in this group due deficit antinational Symptoms

like the lack of attention, excessive motor behavior, and impulsiveness definitely affect a student directly ,

from paying attention, obeying rules , keeping working, and actively participating to give serious opinions.

Regarding test, strategies should be advice and controlled to expect high grades and results in order to

have information how to set up new strategies with activities like video games. Videos chat , or reading

comprehension To conclude , teachers face different difficulties in classroom but they cannot forget that

regardless of their races, religions, colors , national origins , talents , personalities , learning styles.

•

• As it was mentioned on the methodological framework, 11th grade students from CTP de San Pablo de

Leon Cortes were interviewed about different and important issues regarding the application of curricular

adaptations in the reading class. This group is compounded by twenty-seven students. Non-significant

adaptations are applied to all of them. Also teachers from the same High School completed an instrument

to collect information regarding this investigation and finally class observation in which different

techniques take place will help this research help others face the application of curricular adaptations in

Costa Rican classrooms

PROPOSAL

• The proposal presents a workshop develop for English teachers in

order to give some new strategies for increasing Students Reading

Skills and providing method and approaches to motivate the

students with Non-Significant curricular accommodations.

General Objective. To develop new strategies for learners with special needs in order to improve reading skills with attractive activities for bachelor

exam.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

1. To describe how to increase the attractions for reading to apply in Non-significant

curricular accommodation.

2. To show the importance of using vocabulary through the reading understanding.

3. To name some factors to have better reading comprehension in bachelor exam.

4. To describe new methodologies to understand better the vocabulary exam.

CHART # 1 PROPOSAL COST

ACTIVIDAD CANTIDAD

COSTO UNITARIO

(Colones)

COSTO TOTAL

(Colones)

COSTO TOTAL

(Dólares)

Workshop for exposition and validation of the propose 1 160.000 160.000 301,88

workshop for elaborate a diagnosis 1 160.000 160.000 301,88

Workshop “ How to improve reading skills by attractive

ativities. 1 160.000 160.000 301.88

Elaboration of the computer system 1 500000 250000 4.716.98

Papers , provision 1 100.000 100.000 188,87

Proposal total cost

1240000 5808,65

Source: Calderón Walter, December, 2015.

Note: Exchange rate $530.CR Central Bank, December (2015)