Heads of the Provincial Directorate of the Ministry of Education and Professional Training (MEyFP) of Melilla, headed by its Director, Juan Ángel Berbel, have had the opportunity to attend the activities that, on the occasion of the 20th Week of Students with Blindness and Visual Disability, are being held in various educational centers.
Berbel, together with the head of the Educational Programs Unit (UPE) of Attention to Diversity and the Head of the Educational Orientation Coordination Unit (UCOE), has gone to the IES Leopoldo Queipo, where the two teachers hired through the MEyFP-ONCE Convention have shown, in a work of visibility, awareness and sensitization, how is the day to day of these students and the means to allow their full attention and inclusion in the classrooms.
“The students present have been very receptive, expressing their curiosity through questions and simulated activities carried out in the classroom,” explained the Provincial Director, who thanked the teachers and the head of the ONCE in Melilla, Carlos Gordillo, for the joint work carried out by both institutions for the benefit of students with this sensory disability.
As Berbel recalled, the objective of the agreement is to coordinate actions and measures in favor of students with blindness or severe visual impairment in school, in any general and special non-university education, and in centers supported with public funds, in order to guarantee the right to inclusive education, identifying and eliminating barriers, favoring participation and learning for students with blindness or severe visual impairment, so that they can achieve the maximum development of their potentialities and capacities.
To this end, it has made progress and will jointly establish educational inclusion measures and action protocols within the structures and resources that favor the existing educational inclusion in the Educational System and in the ONCE, taking into account that the MEyFP will provide educational response to all students with visual disabilities in the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.
Student support
Currently ONCE actively serves 22 people, of whom 2 belong to Early Care, 7 are enrolled in early childhood and primary education centres, while 11 are in secondary education institutes, at the CIFP Reina Victoria Eugenia and the CEE Reina Sofía. Finally, it also supports two students studying at the UGR on the Melilla campus.
The last day in centers takes place today at the CEIP Reyes Católica, with the level of 5th of Primary Education and the IES Enrique Nieto, with students of 2nd and 3rd ESO and CFGM of Guide in the Natural Environment and Free Time.
On Friday, the jury of the murals contest will meet to select the poster for the XXI Week, to celebrate next year, giving the starting signal to a new edition.
On Tuesday, March 14, at 5:00 p.m., it will be time for the awards ceremony and formal closing of this XX Week at the CIFP Reina Victoria Eugenia, where there will be a recognition to all participating students and their educational centers, accompanied by family members who wish to do so.
Berbel has shown, in turn, its gratitude and recognition to the students, guided by their teachers, of the Higher Degree Training Cycle of Lighting, Capture and Image Treatment of the CIFP Reina Victoria Eugenia for the video made on the occasion of the XX Week, ‘The eyes of Brahim’, expressive of various testimonies of people with visual disabilities from other countries, who have praised, upon knowing it, the commitment that the ONCE makes for inclusiveness in its multiple facets, including educational, for so many years.