ABSTRACT

The objective of the present Project is to determine, analyze, and look for solutions to the different factors causing poor or low academic performance in classroom practices, students of ninth grade, in Social Sciences Studies of The Institution Educative Nuestra Señora de Belén of Armenia municipality, Quindío department.

The impact, the transcendence of the state public policy in the school, the classroom, the parents, the students ,their representatives, and the incidence of TIC for improving ninth graders´ academic performance in social science studies of Institution Educative Nuestra Señora de Belén.

This project was implemented in the Institution Educative Nuestra Señora de Belén of Armenia municipality, Quindío department , following two stages.

The first one became the consulting, methodological, pedagogical start point for the students, teachers, and pupils´ representatives.

The second stage will be implemented in 2013 with a curricular adaptation and the area plan of Social Sciences for ninth graders, with the use 0f some web 2.0 tools to consolidate the teaching process and whichcan be useful to support teachers´ job for reaching the intended goals of the area.

By using these informatics resources, the students have the possibility to interact with several audiovisual aids like images, videos, texts, and links to documents in real time to have access to related contents with the area mentioned above.

Moreover, the teacher will be able to redevise continuously methodological strategies which permit them to enrich their personal and team performance with their tutees, getting better academic results with a major approaching to teenagers in order to practice such activities, and be encouraged by the contents acquired byusing the new tools and TIC implemented in the classroom programs.

Key Words: School Perfomance, Public Policy, Academic Perfomance, TIC, Technology, teaching Learning Process.