2. What are they?
• They are training and educational innovation services
and advice centres for teachers and schools.
• They have been set up in response to the educational
system’s needs, especially social demands.
• They exclusively serve non-university levels of teaching.
• They are made up of 307 people.
3. Types of Berritzegune
• 18 local Berritzegunes spread throughout the territory of
the Autonomous Community. They meet the needs of
the teachers and schools from each area.
• 1 Central Berritzegune. It supports the Department of
Education and the local Berritzegunes.
4. Functions of the Area
Berritzegunes
The local Berritzegunes perform their functions in three
fields:
– Giving advice
– Training
– Innovation, Experimentation and Research
5. Giving advice
• To the schools and teaching staff from their area.
Especially in programmes driven by the Basque
Government’s Department of Education, Universities and
Research.
• On the curriculum and its development, and on its
application by teachers.
• On schools’ requests for teaching materials and
pedagogical resources.
6. Training
• According to the Priority Lines driven by the Department
of Education.
• In response to requests from teaching staff and the
training needs brought up by schools.
7. Innovation,
Experimentation and Research
• Participating in disseminating the Department’s
innovation and experimentation plans in schools.
• Creating, procuring, analyzing and disseminating
materials suitable for these functions.
• Channelling the exchange of experiences amongst
teaching staff members.
8. Functions of the Central
Berritzegune
• Taking charge of developing the Department’s
curriculum areas and Priority Lines.
• Supporting the local Berritzegunes.
• Preparing guidelines, sets of examples and
materials for teacher training.
• Collaborating with the Department’s management
by putting forward proposals, carrying out surveys,
etc.
• Participating in training activities related to the
Department’s curriculum areas and Priority Lines.
9. Whom the Area
Berritzegunes report to
• The Area Berritzegunes are, organically, part of the corresponding
Territorial Delegation and, functionally, they come under the Department
of Education’s Directorate of Pedagogic Renewal.
Basque Ministry of Education,
Universities and Research
Other Basque Deputy Ministers’ Offices:
ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICES
VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND LIFELONG
LEARNING
UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH
BASQUE DEPUTY MINISTER
OF EDUCATION’S OFFICE
CABINET DIRECTOR’S OFFICE
DIRECTORATE OF SCHOOLS
DIRECTORATE Of
EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION
OFFICE OF THE HEAD OF
TERRITORIAL INNOVATION
BERRITZEGUNES
11. Staff and organization of the
Local Berritzegunes
• Managerial staff
• Advisors for stages (Infants’, Primary and Secondary)
• Advisors for SEN, Language Normalization and ICT
• Secretarial staff and Documentalists
The number of advisors varies with the area
12. Functions
MANAGERIAL
STAFF
Coordinating all the functioning of the Berritzegune and
giving advice direct to school heads.
ADVISORS FOR STAGES General pedagogic and didactic aspects, meeting
schools’ needs and responding to their requests.
Participating in developing, monitoring and evaluating
programmes, offering the necessary advice for their
functioning.
ADVISORS FOR ICT
AND LANGUAGE
NORMALIZATION
ADVISORS FOR
SPECIAL
EDUCATIONAL
NEEDS
Assessing pupils with special educational
needs, making psycho-pedagogical
evaluations and proposing schooling for
them, as well as advising their families.
SECRETARIES – DOCUMENTALISTS
Reception and administration. Responsible for documentation and for
lending it.
13. Staff and organization of the
Central Berritzegune
• Managerial staff
• Area advisors
• Staff in charge of Priority Lines
• Secretarial Staff/Documentalist
14. Functions
MANAGERIAL
STAFF
Managing the whole functioning of the Central
Berritzegune and liaising with Territorial Heads of
Pedagogic Renewal and with the Government’s
central services.
AREA ADVISORS Promoting the necessary pedagogic activities to
respond to the demands of the Department and of the
Area Berritzegunes.
Designing the programme, taking charge of
implementing it, and co-ordinating the people who give
advice on it in the Area Berritzegunes.
SECRETARIAL STAFF - DOCUMENTALIST
Reception and administration.
STAFF IN CHARGE OF
PRIORITY LINES
15. Organization of the Local
Berritzegunes’ work (1)
• Training activities
• Awareness-raising and dissemination sessions
• Courses
• Seminars
• Training modules
16. Organization of the local
Berritzegunes’ work (2)
• Advisory tasks
• Giving referential advice in schools
• Giving advice on processes
• Giving advice in the sphere of special educational
needs
• Giving technical advice
• Supporting innovation,
experimentation and research projects
• Managing resources in the sphere of
the areas
17. Internal organization of the
Area Berritzegunes (1)
• The teachers’ assembly
• Pedagogical committee
• Special educational needs committee
• Specific committees (Integrated Treatment of
Languages, stages, programmes...)
18. Internal organization of the
Local Berritzegunes (2)
BASIC WORKING TOOLS
• From the Directorate of Innovation:
• The Department’s Priority Lines
• Annual guidelines on functioning
• Academic year functioning instructions
• Annual action plan
• Annual report
19. Priority Lines of Educational
Innovation 2007-2010
Principles which uphold them
1. A school for all
2. A better school.
3. A school for the 21st century.
20. Priority Lines 2007-2010
1. A school for all
1.1. Special Educational Needs
1.2. Social and cultural diversity
INTER-CULTURAL EDUCATION PROGRAMME
1.3. Equality and gender
21. Priority Lines 2007-2010
2. A better school
2.1. Leadership and management processes
“QUALITY IN EDUCATION” PROGRAMME
2.2. Getting on well together, and the
educational community
“EDUCATING FOR GETTING ON WELL
TOGETHER, FOR PEACE AND FOR HUMAN
RIGHTS” PROGRAMME
2.3. Quality of learning: success at school for
all
LEARNING COMMUNITIES PROGRAMME
22. Priority Lines 2007-2010
3. A school in the 21st century
3.1. New curriculum and core skills
3.2. New technologies
ICT PROGRAMME
3.3. European and Basque social framework
3.4. Languages
INTEGRATED TREATMENT OF LANGUAGES
PROGRAMME
3.5. Scientific education
