Autonomic School Councils Meetings

1. AUTONOMICSCHOOL
COUNCILSMEETINGS
Andrea Martínez Díaz, Lola Ortega Coy
María Lizán Moreno and Paola García Alcolea

2. INTRODUCTION
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The document “twenty meet of school boards autonomous and the State” is
differentiated into two groups:
The first: conditions of school
autonomy which are essential for
it to be directed effectively
toward the objective of achieving
quality of education with equity.
The second:proposals for the
development of the autonomy
of schools, regarding the
pedagogic, organizational and
management areas.
CONSENSUS
PARTICIPATION

3. 1. The inevitable goal of school autonomy: quality with equity.
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The OECD and the European Commission are focusing strongly on the development of the
autonomy of the educational centres to improving the quality of education.
Whatever their socioeconomic or cultural
background.
School autonomy is recommended to advance towards that
inevitable goal of education systems, that consist in achieve
quality with equity.

4. 2. Proposals to advance in the necessary conditions for an effective autonomy.
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The delegation of responsibilities in schools is related to
a set of political, that influence the degree of efficiency
of autonomy and influence their effective orientation
toward improving educational quality.
CONDITIONS
Who are in head:
responsibility
initiative
projects
assignments
experience

5. In relation with the leadership
The Educational Administrations
Promote different formulas
of school leadership
orientated to the
improvement of the
learning outcomes
Support the educational
projects of the centres and the
formation of its teaching staff
and support the leadership of
managers in these tasks

6. In relation with the leadership
Procedures for
the selection of
Directors should
focus on search
of the best leader
Educational
authorities should
adopt initiatives
that make the
school address an
attractive feature
Enhance
management
teams, both in
their initial
training and
along
throughout
the term

7. In relation to evaluation and accountability
Promote the
evaluation
with the
advances
that occur
in each
student
Educational
administrations
report centres on
the indicators that
will be used in the
evaluation process
The results of
external
evaluations are
transferred to
their school
boards for their
knowledge and
analysis
For centres to
establish their
corresponding
improvement
plans

8. In relation to participation
Promote the
participation
of families
From educational
institutions will
boost and orient
the formation of
families
School councils make
annually the internal
evaluation of the actions
as a base to set
commitments for the next
course
The educational
administrations seek
formulas which facilitate
the participation of all
sectors of the educational
community in the centres

9. 3.Proposals for autonomous’
development of educational centres.
BALANCE BETWEEN:
- CENTRE’S : -GOVERNMENT:
◦ Regulate its pedagogical activity -Coordinationand control that
guarantees Ed.System accoplish their
goals.
◦ Regulate its organization

10. 3.1 Pedagogical Autonomy
◦ Essential tool to achieve quality and equity in education.
STUDENTS
FAVOUR CENTRE’s ADAPTATION
ENVIROMENT

11. It is proposed to:
TUTORIAL PLAN
ACTION
MUST BE OF STAGE TO :
WORK VALUES,HABITS AND RULES
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2 INCLUDE THE DEVELOPMENT OF BASIC COMPETENCES IN ALL
DIDACTICAL PROGRAMS

12. 3 Educational Administrations to enhance:
a. Experiences and practices of
PEDAGOGICAL
INNOVATION.

13. b. Creation of centre networks
to cooperate together
◦ - according with their
◦ Centre’s Educative
◦ Projects
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14. 3.2. Organizational Autonomy
 It is necessary a constant adaptation of centre’s organization
and resources due to :
*This adaptation can’t be fixed to rigid rules and equals for all of them.
Diversity in
social context
in which
schools are.
Different circumstances
that affect them.
Society’s
evolution.
Student’s necessities.

15. It is proposed:
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Organizational Autonomy to guarantee an
adecuate participation of all education
comunity.

16. 2 That Educational Administrations :
◦ Allow principals,in agreement with teachers and School Council,
to organice the groups of students for enhance their performance
and goal’s achievement .
◦ Delagate in principals the permission of the timetables to reach
the goals reflected in the Educative Project of the centre.

17. 3.3 Paperwork´s Autonomy.
◦ In Spain, the education rules reforced the principle of
the autonomy in the schools, in the economy
paperworks and in the organization.

18. To improve the school´s autonomy, we suggest:.
◦ The Public Administration have to include the conditions in which the
public centres can formulate the titulation and the specific
cualification neccesary to achieve the educational projects.
◦ The Public Administration have to contribute the economic, material
and human resources.
◦ The Private and Public Schools have to count with special attention
necessary to children who have problems (mental and physical).

19. 4. CONCLUTIONS.◦ The National and International Estudies say that the Autonomy is
essential in order to get educational sistems with quality.
◦ The increase of the autonomy have to do in a gradual form,
considering that it implicate a deep change about the
tradicional educational practices.

20. Our suggestions have some objectives like cuality and equity:
The autonomy is joined at the evaluation and the counts.
The Educational Administration have to inform to the centres, about the dials that
will use in the educational process.
The Educational Adminitration has to take on initiatives in order to do the School´s
Direction something that can be effective and atractive.
The cooperation between the family and the School in order to imprive the
activities that can forme reciprocal agreements
The Educational Administration have to develop the educational, organizational
and paperwork autonomy in the educational centres.

21. ◦ Finally we have to improve the development of the
children in order to resolve their problems. For all of that
the teacher have to be a role model for their children, in
this way the the work, effort and the ambient will be
succesfull and wonderfull.

22. TRUE/FALSE
1.The leader must ensure good communication from the Centre
with families,with students and between teachers.
2.The goal of schools consist in achieve quality with equity.
3. In Pegagogical Autonomy it is proposed to include Basic
Competences but resting mathematic and linguistic.
4.Organizationa Autonomy must be fixed to a rules to guarantee
the centre’s adaptation
5. The autonomy is joined at the evaluation and the counts.

23. OPTIONS:
1.Participation is the basis of our democratic State and law. For his reason, we propose the following
actions:
a) To promote the participation of the families.
b) School councils make annually th internal evaluation of the actions as a base to set commitments for
the next course.
c) Both are correct.
2.Leadership in school:
a) Musn’t be shared, is for one person.
b) Must be shared.
c) It depends on the centre.

24. 3.Educational administration must enhance:
a) Creation of centre networks
b) Experiences and pracitices of pedagogical innovation
c) Both are correct
4. In Spain, the education rules reforced:
a) The Educaional Administratio.
a) The Pulic Adminstration.
b) The principle of the atonomy in the schools, in the economy paperworks and in the organitaion.
5. The National an International Esudies say that:
a) The centres´ autonmy is essential in order to get educational sistems with quality.
b) The educational administration has to inform to the centres.
c) The cooperation between the family and he schools in order to impruve the acivities.