The Provincial Director of Education, Elena Fernández Treviño, has announced the celebration of the first edition of the Days of Good Practices in Public Centers, which will take place on May 21 and 22 at the CIFP Reina Victoria Eugenia, with the aim of “highlighting, visualizing and making visible all the good practices that are already developed in the educational centers of our city, so that they can serve as inspiration and be exportable to other centers.”
The initiative responds to a proposal made by the General Director of Educational Planning and Management of the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports (MEFPyD), Susana Tejadillos, during her visit to the city in January. Since then, the Educational Programs Unit (UPE) of the Provincial Directorate has worked on the organization of these days, designed to offer a broad and practical overview of the transformative potential of public education in the city.
As explained by the Provincial Director, during the conference significant experiences will be presented and more than 30 speakers will participate, among professors, management teams, associations and specialists of the Ministry.
First day of the days
The event will open on Wednesday, May 21 with a day dedicated to equality, inclusion and educational participation. It will have presentations on the work of those responsible for equality in the centers, the experience of literary dialogic tertulias in Primary, and the use of theater as a pedagogical tool to deal with topics such as bullying. Professionals such as Paqui Estrada, Manuel García Alonso and Ángeles Aledo, recognized for their theatrical work in educational contexts, will participate.
During the coffee break a video will be screened on the Bakery and Pastry Vocational Training module of the CIFP Reina Victoria Eugenia, a reference project of vocational training and inclusion, in which young people develop job skills through active methodologies. In the afternoon, the director of the center, Pedro Cortés de Benito, will give a presentation on the inclusive model of this cycle.
In the afternoon, the block “Walking towards inclusion” will have the presence of entities such as Asperger Granada and Autism Melilla, who will share their experience in the work with TEA students. Also participating will be María José González, head of the Ministry’s Strategic Plan for Inclusive Education, who will explain the road map towards total inclusion in regular classrooms.
“We want teachers and families to know first-hand where the Ministry is going in terms of inclusion, with human and material resources that make it possible,” he said.
Second day of the days
The second day will focus on experiences linked to the PROA+ program, which seeks to support students at risk of school exclusion through motivating methodologies. The coexistence classrooms, the inclusive recreations of the Recréate program, and projects such as Classrooms are pure theater, which uses dramatic art as an educational tool will be presented.
Co-teaching initiatives will also be addressed, an emerging methodology where two teachers teach simultaneously to improve the individualized attention of students. The final block, entitled “A new educational perspective: the school we want”, will conclude with a musical performance by the Conservatory of Melilla and the Camerata Melillense, followed by the projection of a summary video.
Open participation to the educational community
The conferences are aimed at management teams, equality managers, counselors, teachers, AMPAs and educational associations, such as the NEES Association, with the intention of generating a space for exchange, training and projection.
“We want teachers, educational teams and families to know first-hand the work that is being done in Melilla. Education is a joint task and it is essential that these practices also reach families,” said Fernández Treviño, who stressed that these days represent an “exclusive dedication to the educational improvement of our city.”
“They will be the first of many”, he said, assuring that the interest shown by schools and associations augurs the success of this first edition.