EDUCATIONAL EFFECTS FROM THE WORK WITH A PROJECT CURRICULUM WITH HEARING IMPAIRED CHILDREN

Abstract

The reform of the special education is directed to­wards creating preconditions for a more massive inclusion of children with developmental difficul­ties in the mainstream educational system (inclu­sive process), but also towards improvement and change of the concept of work of the special schools, especially the change in the internal or­ganization of the educational work through intro­ducing contemporary models and methods of learning. The modernization of the educational process asks for a modernization of the curriculum, but also of the modus which they are realized with, so therefore the goal of this research was to con­firm the educational effects of the innovative mod­els and methods of working in the educational process with the hearing impaired children. In this article we showed the experimental check up of the efficiency from the application of the project cur­riculum in relation to the traditional teaching, re­garding the level of the gained knowledge of the hearing impaired pupil. The sample is consisted of 49 hearing impaired pupils, from the fifth to eighth grade from primary schools for children with im­paired hearing. The results that we got show sta­tistically significant difference between the ac­complishments confirmed in the subjects with an applied traditional model of work and the applica­tion of the project curriculum.

Keywords

• project teaching
• traditional teaching
• hearing impaired children
• cooperative learning
• frontal work