Monday, March 5, 2018

Professionals.... Our first real case!


Monday 5th

Today we have come across the first real case of a child that needs support. He has difficulties with oral and written expression,  we have had to make decisions about what measures we would take.

I like this activity, but it was a little bit difficult to decide which measures choose for helping the child, but as we have the material for deciding this, I think it was not so bad.

You can see here the case of Javier, the child with difficulties: https://cv4.ucm.es/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=3257485

After reading that document and studying the case, we make some decisions, answering the questions the teacher told us. Below you can see all this information. 

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MEASURES OF ATTENTION TO DIVERSITY CASE STUDY


Javier is a 6th grade of Primary student in a state-funded School in Madrid. It is a School with three classrooms per level. The approximate school population is 1100 students in a neighborhood of upper-middle class. Taking into account the report below, the tutor and the teaching team have to design and provide the most appropriate measures of attention to diversity at the beginning of the academic year. They have the support of the guidance department and the EOEP of the zone, if necessary. In order to establish the measures of attention suitable, the following work script is proposed:


  1. Read the report carefully.


  1. Describe what would be the main goal to attend this specific case.

Javier has difficulties on language acquisition and from a social point of view he has problems when it comes to interact with his partners; so, we think that the main goal for attending this case would be developing linguistic skills, including oral and written expression, in a fluently way, so that little by little he fills more confidence and comfortable, this will lead to an autonomous child with critical thinking that makes his own decisions.


  1. Decide what kind of measures of attention to diversity are indicated:

      a. Ordinaries

      b. Extraordinaries


We find two types of measures: ordinary and extraordinary. On the first hand, extraordinary measures are aimed for students with specific educational needs, it is needed a previous diagnose through a psycho-pedagogic evaluation, and a continuous monitoring for adapting the decisions taken. These measures are only applied in compulsory education. And, on the other hand; ordinary measures, have two main impacts: on the general organization of the school and on the prevention and detection of learning difficulties. From our point of view; in this case, Javier will need ordinary measures as he just needs more support than the rest of the students.


  1. Explain why you choose one type of measures or the others and describe them as accurately as possible:


We have chosen ordinary measures because we think that this type of measures will help the child to improve his weaknesses and get the best out of him.


a) Organizational measures

We believe that Javier needs help from supporting groups and insignificant curricular modification with methodological strategies, so, he needs measures on the general organization of the school; including the organization of the student’s groups, the use of spaces: strategies favoring universal accessibility and allowing him to take part of participation in learning.


      b) Curricular adaptations


We must adapt Javier’s curriculum because he has a slower rhythm of learning in linguistic expression than the rest of the classroom, we are going to choose a non-meaningful curricular adaptation because if not, he is going to feel different and as he finds difficult to establish relationships it is not good for his development. Non-meaningful curricular adaptations are modifications that we make in the program that does not affect the curriculum.

c) Supports and reinforcements.

We think that this child needs support by specialized teachers in the subjects he finds more difficulties, especially in developing linguistic skillsAmong the measures, he needs tutor guidance, developing his level of collaborative work. So, Javier would have an individualized attention thanks to reinforcement and support mechanisms.


It will also be important to have support in classroom with group splitting and flexible grouping, including the implementation of different resources and several methodological strategies.


d) Other necessary elements of the Attention to diversity Plan.

We think that Javier does not really need an Attention to diversity plan, he does not present the characteristics of child who needs this type of measures according to the actual Spanish Educational System. 


This last answer is incorrect, the teacher told us that we shoul think about our answer, so me and my group read a document about Attention to Diversity Plan and realized that this child needs more elements of the Plan. I attach here a link with a document about Attention to Diversity: https://cv4.ucm.es/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=3257485 

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