The territorial delegate of the Ministry of Education and Sports of the Junta de Andalucía in Almería, Antonio Jiménez, has visited the El Puche School of Early Childhood and Primary Education (CEIP), where, accompanied by the director of the center, Ramón Espinoza, has watched a video made by ten schoolchildren through the Impulsa Program and related to the Erasmus+ Project, which seeks to explain to the students of an educational center in Montpellier (France) what the province of Almería is like.
The video has been shown to the families of the educational community of the El Puche center and will be sent to the Montpellier school, as indicated by the Board in a note. The director thanked the teacher Israel Villaseñor and the journalist Inmaculada Acién for his “effort”, who “have been able to get the best out of our students as is evident in this video they have made”.
He also pointed out that part of the objective of both projects is “the investigation of different environments in our province, both for the work of knowledge and skills development in student communication, and for the internationalization work that has been carried out, mainly with the educational center of Montpelier”.
Espinoza has referred to the CEIP El Puche as a “pioneer” in Almería in international mobility, as it is the first compensatory education school to take part in Erasmus+ and has stated that next year they want more people to carry out mobility, including in the group to students with special educational needs “to achieve that equality that we seek”.
The director has stated that the center plans, with the help and commitment of Ángel Sánchez, teacher and Erasmus coordinator, “to involve families more and that some parents could also travel”.
Jiménez highlighted “the teaching vocation of the Puche faculty and the effort made by the entire educational community.” The delegate has valued “the good work of the teaching staff and the predisposition of the families, which have made the difficulties become opportunities and that the performance of the students is improving thanks to the efforts of all”.
In the province of Almería there are 100 educational centers that participate in the ‘Programa Impulsa’ that the Ministry of Education and Sports launched for the third consecutive year and whose purpose is to alleviate and prevent the failure and early dropout of Andalusian students, as well as promote educational success.
This course, as a novelty, they have been able to join the program in addition to public centers of vulnerable socioeconomic environments, those specific centers of Special Education or ordinary with specific authorized classrooms without being in areas of social transformation. It has also been extended to those centers that develop compensatory education plans.
Jiménez has detailed that there have been 59 centers in Almería that have joined the line of action of the program called ‘Impulsa Inclusion’, each receiving at least 7,929 euros and that 41 have taken advantage of the other line called ‘Impulsa Innovation’, counting each one with 6,753 euros.
According to the delegate, the program is conceived as “a set of actions aimed at promoting the inclusive culture of schools in the classroom and the realization of innovative, active and experimental experiences that promote the know-how of students”.
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