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I N T E R A C T I V E D E V E L O P M E NT FOR IMPROVING SCIENTIFICAL ATHLETS’ ABILITIES

Applied to Special Education Situations in Mathematics

Jordi Esteve,

JosepMaria.Fortuny@uab.cat

Lourdes Figueiras, (UAB)

Joaquim Giménez (UB)

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Special Educational Situations with

High Performance Athletes in secondary levels of education who cannot assist classes regularly due to sport competitions

INTERMAT

This project aims to design, test and validate a telecommunications framework to carry out tutorials at a distance.

The aim is to give opportunities for individual and collaborative mathematics high-performance athletes.

Tele-tutorial, aplications sharing,

in CAR’s high school classroom

Attention to the students when they

are away from “CAR”

Perspectives for Research and Action

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Teletutorial, Aplications Sharing

Specific website on Statistics, for the first course in post-secondary education, CAR’s high school.

Communication tools: tutorial aids by using multimodal possibilities: videoconference, current writing exchances, direct asinchronous communication

Students connect this web, via Internet, from their computers class-room

Periodically, the Tutor holds a videoconference with each one of the Students

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Specific website on Statistics

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Mathematic’s Tele-Tutorial

for medium term attention training periods or competitions

Students

need

Multimedia

Equipment

Welcome

Webb

link to

Mathematics

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When one of these students, young high performance athletes, or their supervisors at Car’s high school feel the need to create an open learning situation to maintain the pupil’s activities, they call us and we bring personal attention to him or her

Mathematic’s Tele-Tutorial

for medium term attention

training periods or competitions

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When the School indicated a need of attending one of the students, we contacted him to inform about our multimedia equipment and the proper way to use it.

Mathematic’s Tele-Tutorial

for medium term attention training periods or competitions

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Mathematic’s

Tele-Tutorial

for medium term attention

training periods or competitions

At the beginning of each tutorial session, student has a welcome page that is modified weekly, and also in special cases in order to convey additional information.