Needs Analysis

NEEDS ANALYSIS

This activity was really helpful to me because now that I have more time in my SS, I got to know better how the school works and what in my opinion has to be done to improve; because of the way the Montessori method is designed, the students in the same classroom have different ages and language levels, but they follow the same curriculum, and in my specific classroom there is a problem of lack of interest from the students

So I identify as my first purpose to measure students overall understanding of the program, and also to identify students feeling towards the English class to understand their needs. The target population of the study was first of all students, and secondly ¨guides¨ and school administrators. The teachers in the Montessori system are known as ¨guides¨

The needs analysis was conducted by the group guide, the principal of the school and me. The survey methods used was a test to measure students understanding of the course and an interview to measure students’ feelings of the course. At first it wasn´t easy to convince the administrators to let me apply a questionnaire to the students, because of the school method exams and test are not common in the school, there exist other ways of evaluation; once the administrator accepted to do the questionnaires’, the students were very reluctant and it was hard to make them take it seriously, but with the help of the classroom ¨guide¨ the students took the test.

After completing the questionaries’ and interviews we were able to verify that while some students were working according to the course, a lot of them were not in the same level, and were getting behind, we were also able to identify that some students have the need of one on one time with the professor to clarify doubts and students were concerned that they didn´t have enough practice time of what it´s learned in a lesson

	CURRICULUM		INSTRUCTION		ORGANIZATION
	Strength	Need	Strength	Need	Strength	Need
Student	Students work well with the course design	Make sure that all students are advancing along with the curriculum	Students pleased with the instruction of the course	It will be useful to have more one on one T-S time to clarify doubts	Students understand the organization of the course correctly	Students should have more time to practice
Staff	Teachers do follow the curriculum design	Constant reinsurance of students comprehension	Guides follow the correct way of instruction that most be given according to the school	There should be more instruction capacitation for the teachers that have no experience as guides	The ¨guides¨  are well organized	There should be more instruction to the teachers that are not ¨guides¨ of how the organization of the school most be
Parents/ Community		It might be helpful if parents are more aware of the curriulum	Constant teacher-parents communication		Parents are invited to field trips at least once a month.	All parents should be involved not just a few of them
Facilities/Materials	The school has enough teaching materials to work with	Students have to be more careful with the materials	There are plenty of teaching aids to support instruction	Tecgnology should be more available		There should be more time designed to use technology for learning purposes