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SÓCRATES. COMENIUS 1 COMPARISON OF QUALITY MODELS
IN VOCATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOLS Naestved, 13
October 2005
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Lacetània High School and Vocational Training of
Manresa

• 1200 students
• 47 groups
• 107 teachers
• 11 auxiliary staff

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Educational offer

• Obligatory Secondary Education (OSE) 1st 2nd
  cycle 13 groups 400 students (12-16 years)
• Post-obligatory Stage 3 modalities 6 groups
• 200 students (16-18 years)
• Vocational Training Middle Grade Superior 28
  groups 7 Professionals Branches 600 students
  (16-22 years)
• Business. MG SG.
• Vehicles. MG
• Construction design. SG
• Electricity Electronics MG SG
• Metal MG SG
• Computer science SG Electromechanic
  maintenance MG

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UNIVERSITY
JOB MARKET
Advanced Technician
Entry exam
20 years
18 years
PREPARATION
Technician
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Entry exam
PREPARATION
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Educational Process
Students and requirements
Graduate students
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Internal organisation of the school
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Pedagogical management
PEDAGOGICAL COMISSION (pedagogical coordination)
DEPARTMENTS (vertical coordination)
GROUP TEACHERS (horizontal coordination)
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Methodology of continuous improvement
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Planning of the educational process (P)

• Organisation
• Managing team planning of General Programation
• Educational departments programming of units
• Documents
• General Programation of the school (annually)
• Educational project of each department
• Other documents The centers educational
  curriculum and the internal rules

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The learning-teaching process
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The educational process (D)

• Management
• Pedagogic Comission oversees the whole process
• Departments vertical coordination
• Group teachers horizontal coordination

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Internal structure

• Every teacher belongs to a department.
• Every teacher carries out his/her tasks within a
  group of teachers in charge of the groups/classes
  of the same level.

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Departments

• Each department
• Manages the educational curriculum of the
  department
• Prepares and checks the programming
• Harmonizes contents and assessment
• Proposes distribution of credits among its
  members
• Chooses its head
• Manages its budget
• Meets every two weeks (aprox.)

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Group teachers

• All the teachers who work with certain groups.
• Analyse and diagnose individual and collective
  characteristics within the group.
• Whenever possible, is the same group for two
  years.

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Tasks of the group teachers

• Follow-up of the learning process of every
  student
• Exchange of programs and experiences
• Coordination of dealing with students within the
  class
• Coordination of activities inside and outside the
  school
• Proposals of sanctions
• Tutorial coordination.

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How the group teachers are formed?

• OSE all the groups of the same level (1st, 2nd,
  3rd, 4th)
• Post-obligatory all the groups of the same level
  (1st, 2nd)
• Vocational Training each branch.

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Development of the educational process (D)

• Documents
• Quality Plan of OSE/Post-obligatory stage/VT
• Programming of the credits (by departments)
• Procedure of welcoming new students
• Procedure of harmonizing assessment criteria
• Other procedures
• Registres all included in the Quality Plan
• Especially Follow-up of programming,
  assessment and counselling

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Assessment of the educational process (C)

• Organisation
• Teaching staff (classroom-related activities)
• Group teachers /Assessment commitee (follow-up)
• Pedagogical departments (design)
• Managing staff (Pedagogical Comission) (process)
• Auditors (system)

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Assessment of the educational process (C)

• Documents
• Manual of indicators (reference document)
• Indicators of the management process
• Indicators of results
• Indicators of satisfaction (opinion polls)
• Management registres (minutes of coordination
  meetings)
• Reports on results and management analysis
• Reports of internal and external audits

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Revision and improvement of the educational
process (A)

• Organisation
• Group teachers Quality plan, PCCs (Pedagogical
  Project of the Centre), RRI (Internal rules)
• Pedagogical departments Quality plan, PCDs
  (Pedagogical Project of the Department)
• Managing staff dinamizes and coordinates
• Teaching staff approves and carries out

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Revision and improvement of the educational
process (A)

• Documentation
• Revision procedures
• PCC (Pedagogical Project of the Centre)
• RRI (Internal rules)
• Quality manual (revised by managing staff and
  quality comission)
• Revised documents (contextualisation of the
  improvement)
• Strategic plans and objectives of the course
• Educational project of the centre
• Curricular projects (design)
• Internal rules

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Advantages of the management model

• Demanding continuous improvement.
• Systemized management of the educational process.
• Basic documents used as management tools.
• Constantly increasing demanding level of
  responsibility to carry out what has been
  approved.
• High level of interest and motivation, both
  individually and collectivelly as regards the
  management process.
• Self-abiding belief in team work (debates,
  agreements and decision making).
• Systemized follow-up of the students

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Problems faced by the management model

• Scepticism and reluctancy on behalf of the staff
  regarding the model.
• New teachers and their adapting to the model.
• The amount of time spent on adapting to the new
  model.
• Problems concerning quick and fluent
  communication among all parties involved
  (especially group teachers).

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LACETÀNIA . MANRESA