Practice 3: Educational project and AGP.

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The preliminary ideas that I have of this practice are the meanings of the Annual General Programme and the Educational Project.  The Educational project is a document that has to be approved by the director after hearing the school council, but if any changes have to be approved, that is up to the school management before the end of the third quarter of the academic year. This is a document that describes the organisation and functioning of the centre, it establishes the participation of the various members of the educational community and it defines the coordination of existing relations between public and private agents. I also now that the Annual General Programme is a document that governs the school's planning, management and performance. It allows the coordinated development of all educational activities, the proper exercise of the powers of the different governing bodies, the participation of all sectors of the school community on the basis of the principles of co-education, the updating of new actions of the Community-Building Plan that are proposed for the current school year based on the previous school year's community-building report...

This practice wants us to learn the parts that we find of an educational project and AGP of a school, what parts are not included, we also need to state what improvements we thing they should take into consideration and how these documents are drafted. When it comes to the project, we had to chose a public school in the Valencian Community and try to find on its webpage the parts of the Educational Project and the Annual General Programme, which part of the documents are not observed on the website, how they are drafted, what we think can be improved and finally an auto-evaluation. In our case, we chose CEIP Juan Manuel Montoya. Through this we learned what parts of an educational project it had. Some of these were the curriculum concretions, a tutorial action plan, linguistic programme of the centre... We also learned the parts of the annual general programme that it contained were we found school council, activities, class schedule... The it asked us which part of the documents are not included in the files obtained from the website. These were quite a few, something we didn't expect. The educational project has to be approved by the director after listening to the school council, any modifications need to be approved by the school management  before the end of the third quarter of the academic year, it doesn’t clearly mark which are the relations that the school has with private agents. For example: the relation that they have with the council of the town, or the suppliers, etc. And referring to the annul general programme we need clarifications referring to the Educational Project, the updating actions of the Community-Building Plan proposed for the current school year based on the previous school years community-building report, an administrative report that adds the organisation document of the centre, the statistics at the beginning of the academic year and the condition of the facilities and equipment, etc. The next question was to briefly outline how educational projects and annual general programmes are drafted and lastly, what aspects we think could be improved in the documents

The part I struggled with the most and therefore need more help, was how they are drafted as in the first school we weren't able to find this information but thanks to another school we now have an idea.

On the one hand, we have the Educational Project. This states that all schools have two years to develop its Educational Project, which is really the School Ideology. This project must be public and must be available to all parents once it’s been developed.

On the other hand, we have the Annual General Programme. This says that all activities of the school are reflected in the PGA. Unlike the Educational Project, the AGP doesn’t have to be public, and the people who have access to this are the representatives of the parents of the school, without being able to leave the centre, due to the personal data contained within. It is true that there are schools that publish an extract of the AGP (the AGP of a school can have more than a thousand pages, since because when it starts, it gets more dynamic every year). 

We now have a rough odea on how each one is drafted.

How they are drafted. (s.f.). Recuperado de http://www.ceice.gva.es/es/web/educacion


I was browsing something that isn't really information but I think that parents should be well informed about the educational project of the school. I found a school that has a beautiful structure where everything is explained in such an organised and detailed manner compared. I am going to leave both links below so that you guys can leave me comments as to if you agree with me or not. The first one is the school we completed this project on and the second one is the one which I consider to be perfect.
http://mestreacasa.gva.es/web/ceipjuanmanuelmontoya/42
https://saintnicholas.cat/educational-project/?lang=en

Something I would like to add so you guys are a little more informed, the aspects that my team and I came up with to improve these documents. Here are our solutions:

It was difficult to find a public  centre of the Valencian Community that included both documents, the Educational Project and the Annual General Project. 

Despite the fact that we have had some difficulties to find the information, we finally found it. From our point of view, an aspect that should be improved is the lack of important information, as we have said in the question 2. We think that some essential aspects like the information about the dining centre or the relation that the school has with the town council, needs to be included in the Educational Programme. As far as we are concerned, it is also very important that the updating actions based on the previous school year’s community-building report should be a part of the Annual General Programme.

To sum up, we think that all the centres need to have in their own webpages this information because it’s very important that families with children in the school are informed about the essential issues of the education of their children. Don’t you agree?

References:
How they are drafted. (s.f.). Recuperado de http://www.ceice.gva.es/es/web/educacion
http://mestreacasa.gva.es/web/ceipjuanmanuelmontoya/42 our school.
https://saintnicholas.cat/educational-project/?lang=en the best school.