Lesson 2: Organisational structure of primary Schools.

Lesson 2: Organisational  structure of primary Schools.

The preliminary ideas that I have from this unit are that there are different school governing positions and bodies, and that each of this have different functions.

In this topic I have learned the important regulations for our work which include Decree 233/1997, of 2 September, of the Valencia Government, which approves the Organic and Functional Regulations for Infant Schools and Primary Schools, Royal Decree 126/2014, of 28 of February establishing the basic curriculum for primary education and the Organic Law 8/2913, of 9 December for the improvement of the quality on education. I have also learned the school governing positions, which are the director, the  head of studies and the secretary and the governing bodies are the teacher board and the school council. I have also learned the director’s functions and the requirements to be a director, the secretary’s functions, the head of studies’ functions, the school council’s functions and composition, the teacher’s board functions. In this lesson I have also learned about the Primary and infant education cycles team’s functions and the Pedagogical Coordination Commission functions and who forms this.

I have also learned about the form teacher, what is and what functions does it have. From this lesson I have also learned the functions of the Coordination of Information and Communicating Technology (ICT), the Training coordinator of the center, the Equality and Community Building Coordinator and the Book Reuse Programm Coordinator.

What knowledge can I generate?

This is a summary with all the governing bodies and position and some functions. I did this summary.

After reading this topic, I wasn't quite sure about the functions of the director according to LOMCE. After reading an article of Omar Alexander, I have understand all the functions of the directors according to LOE and LOMCE in schools.

After reading the article of Canary Government, in special the Ministry of education I have a clear view of the organizational structure of educational system, in this case os Canary, but it forms part of Spain.

Vocabulary:

• Governing position: this means the different position at the governing levels in a school
• Governing bodies: this are the different governing bodies in a educational center.
• Teacher Board :  all the teachers in say a school or some defined group. The board of teachers means a group of teachers that are on a committee that makes some sort of decision.
• School council : this is a group of students selected by their friends and they issues with the governing bodies
• Annual General Program: this document governs the school planning, management and performance, and also clarifying aspects included in the Educational Project
• Educational Centre Project: this will be approved by the directors after hearing the school council, this describes the organisation and function of the center, it establishes the participation of various members of educational community and also defines the existing relation between public and. private agents


• Civil servant : in Spanish this means funcionario público, this works for the public sector for example in education or in health of the public sector.
• Provincial Director of education: this is. a director of education that forms part of the government of the province (for example la Comunidad Valencia has one)
• Centre’s Budget Plan: this is a plan were all the expenses of the. center are written.
• Ensuring students’ wellbeing during breaks and non-teaching activities: this means that center staff should be aware of students situation and ensure that they are okay.
• Form teacher action plan: a plan is a way of defining a goal, with strategies for meeting these goal and this plan also includes how you will access whether you have meet this goal, so a Form teacher action plan, is related in to education, so it is to plan a way to obtain a goal, for example a grade, with strategies for meeting these goal and how the form teacher will assess this goal. For example to obtain a grade and how you will obtain this, with. sessions with the form teacher.
• Form teacher: form teacher is the teacher in charge of a class, they may have many more teachers,but this one will be the one that helps you more, for example with learning techniques. This in Spanish is called tutora o tutor.

Bibliografic references:

- Plana Afonso, O. A. (2016, 25 diciembre). The role of the Principal in the Spanish Public High Schools: from LOE to LOMCE.. Recuperado de https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ce22/07ecd2e2daf22047cbc704f3b56bedd8dd7c.pdf
- Consejería de Educación y Universidades., C. C. (s.f.). LA DIRECCIÓN COMO REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA ADMINISTRACIÓN. TEMA 8.. Recuperado 28 diciembre, 2019, de http://www3.gobiernodecanarias.org/medusa/campus/doc/htmls/webfdirectiva/tema08/tema/seccion_06.html