Permanent lifelong Educational Centre Siete Villas

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Permanent life-long Educational Centre Siete
Villas
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Permanent Life-long Educational Centre Siete
Villas

• We have begin a new organisational estructure at
  our regional level.
• The 8 life-long educational centres have been
  grouped to function as a single Educational
  Centre with
• 600 students
• 12 teachers
• 5 workshop monitors
• 8 locations (towns)

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• All academic management, administration,
  organisation and pedagogical coordination is
  centralised in our town, Ubrique.
• The use of new technologies represents our only
  real alternative to overcome the geographical
  distances and be able to act as a single school.

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Main objective in the framework of the present
Grundtvig 2 projectA distance Learning
Approach

• Create a cohesive team of teachers, develop a
  common working strategy and, in essence,
  overcoming the inertia created for 20 years
  working separatedly at each of the 8 centres and
  be able to function as a single normal school,.

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Activities (1)

• Created (teacher) working groups, dividing tasks
  and holding numerous meetings throughout the
  academic year.
• This has allowed us to start thinking as a team
  and to work together as a normal group of
  teachers.

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Activities (2)

• I have received the online course Virtual
  mentoring to do online training. A 4-month
  course taught 100 online by the University of
  Sevilla.

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Activities (3) Reading Stimulation Workshop

• Pilot project to act within a learning network
• a Reading Stimulation Workshop
• 11 schools in our region, 15 teachers, 22 student
  groups, total of 450 learners.
• A common methodological planning.
• Used 2 books
• La Casa de Bernarda Alba (The house of B. Alba),
  by Federico García Lorca
• El lugar más bonito del mundo (The Most
  Beautiful Place in the World) by Anne Cameron
• Organised a final event with two thematic
  displays, debates, multimedia presentations and
  poetry recitals in Ubrique (Feb. 21, 2007)

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Accomplishments

• Learnt a lot from our errors,
• detected weaknesses, and
• the difficulty of working as a group at both the
  local and the virtual level.
• All these have taken us to a reflective process
  and self-evaluation which will no doubt be of
  great use for future.
• The final event was a complete organisational
  success. There was high participation of teachers
  and students, as well as general public.

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Conclusions (1)

• The work using these networks requires
• From teachers
• high motivation and involvement
• An intermediate level in the use of new
  technologies
• A substantial change in their working methods.
  This means
• gtmore work in teams
• gt more and better teaching materials in digital
  format.
• gt greater effort to pass on our learning
  experiences
• gt overcome old bad working habbits working in
  isolation, little planning and evaluation

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Conclusions (2)

• Free teaching staff from extensive lecture time,
  so that they can gain more training, create
  teaching materials, planning, coordination and
  evaluation.
• The teachers who have traditionally been working
  in isolation in villages and towns is now more
  motivated to feel part of a team and have the
  support of other teachers.