We have
done an activity called “Group of experts”. Each group were experts of one
topic and, with some information that the teacher gave us, we had to prepare it
to explain it later to others groups.
Here are the topics and the word that he
had done:
1. SPAIN: GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING IN
EARLY CHILDHOOD.
- General approach
What is it about? Fundamental intervention in
order to improve education quality based on the principles of prevention,
development and global intervention.
Who is it for? It is for all students, families
and education professionals.
Who provides it? It is carried out by trained
and prestigious professionals, such as tutors, teachers, counselors and in
extreme situations social workers. It
depends on the specific needs of each student.
- Main guidance functions:
- Educative prevention and
intervention (inclusion of new students, adaption to the school…)
- Guidance and psycho-pedagogical
counseling
- Academic and professional guidance
- Support the tutorial action plan.
- Diagnose (evaluation for psycho
pedagogic purposes)
- Preparation and development of
institutional documents.
- Teaching (counselors basically in
ESO also teach)
- Organization in intervention levels:
- Classroom level (mainly carried out by teachers)
- Direct intervention at schools
(counselors are responsible for setting up prevention measures, diagnosis and
intervention with students apart from some administrative work).
- Specific intervention with schools
(external support to the direct intervention).
- Specific for early childhood:
- Classroom level: Developed by the teacher in order to ensure
the pupil´s satisfactory integration in the group of classmates.
- Direct intervention at
schools: predominance of guidance
structures that are external to schools but provided within the schools.
- Specific intervention with schools:
Professionals that cooperate with counselors providing an extra help if and
when need it. Social workers,
neuropediatrics, psychologists, speech trainers… could be examples of these
professionals.
2. SPAIN: GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING IN
HIGHER EDUCATION
In order to have a better conception
of what Spanish guidance and counseling in high education is referring to, we
are going to focus on the following issues:
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Who
receives school guidance and counseling.
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Specific measures provided.
Financial
aids for students.
Organizational options and
alternative structures.
Specific measures for disabled
students.
Specific programs for victims of
terrorism and victims of gender-based violence.
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Measures
promoted by the statute of the university student.
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Measures promoted by the Spanish Ministry of
education.
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Measures promoted by the Spanish Public
Employment Service.
School guidance and counseling is
directed to a specific target group which includes: Students with needs related
to disability, highly gifted students, and economically disadvantaged students.
Besides, special attention is paid to:
people with family responsibilities, victims of gender-based violence
and victims of terrorism.
In order to guarantee that nobody is
excluded from university because of economic reasons, some basics grants, aids
and credits are provided. It includes: general
grants and aids (Its awarding depending on the state and the Autonomous
Communities). Special grants and aids
(for specific academic achievement), graduation
project grants (expenditure on academic material), grants for students with specific needs (to pay the needed
activities in order to improve some kind of disability).
It is also proposed the existence of
other basic structures apart from the assistance way of learning such as: Distance
learning at university, UNED
(related with degrees), and the Center
for innovation and development of distance education, CIDEAD, (linked with
a training education).
For disabled students, apart from
financial aids, universities carry out adaptations to access their curriculum,
studies or installations and buildings. Its aim is to guarantee their access,
entry, stay and exercise of academic degrees. Furthermore, for students who are
victims of terrorism universities carry out personalized aid.
Besides of what it has been said,
the Statute of the university student takes into account some ways for
providing guidance and attention comprehensive activities for university
students. For instance: tutorial systems
(incorporating information, guidance and training support actions for
students), tutorship (guidance and
cross curricular monitoring on their degree) or units for attention to students (They provide psychological and
health guidance).
3. SPAIN: GUIDANCE
AND COUNSELLING IN A LIFELONG LEARNING APPROACH.
4. SPAIN: SUPPORT
MEASURES FOR LEARNERS IN ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING
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