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Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Brenes is a small town near Sevilla, the population is about 12,000 inhabitants. The economy is mainly based on agriculture and high rate of migrate families. It is considered a disadvantaged area for these reasons, both from an economical and sociocultural point of view. IES Jacarandá is the only post secondary school education provider in town, so we have all the population older than 12, who attend to school and receive different kind of education levels: Secondary Education, Upper Secondary Education, Vocational Training Studies (medium and high) and Adult Education. The school also provides other kind of programmes to help students with especial needs such as: bilingualism, compensation, extracurricular activities, etc, so the school is open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.. We also organice short-term activities all through out the year like: Book Fair, Advicing professional week, Science Fair, Language Week, etc. We have been taking part in European Programmes (Comenius, Grundtvig, Leonardo) which have improved the lively atmosphere of the school at all levels: staff, parents and students. Our present participation in this Erasmus+ calling is the result of previous enriching experiences and we expect to go on enlighting future courses. The School Development Plan, which has been designed for a five-year period, explains our intentions and goals. The ultimate objective of the process is to improve student achievement levels, creating a positive environment for learning, create an integrating environment among the different levels,foster a lifelong learning aproach which favours the integration of adults into the workforce, instill an international/European spirit in the whole community and improve teacher’s skills and competences in different areas to adjust their performance to new challenges and situations. . In any case, the School Development Plan will be considered a working document that the will be used to monitoring the progress over time and to make revisions when necessary to ensure that the plan stays on course. It is both a source of challenges and enrichment the fact that IES Jacarandá provides many different educational levels:Secondary Education, Upper Secondary Education, Vocational Training (medium and superior level) and Adult Education. Although the students and learners have completely different goals and aspirations, we are a community. Our institution is not either physically nor mentally divided into different plots, since we all work and study together. What is more, we understand the “School Development Plan”as an integrating instrument for the different levels, which will be one of our final goals. We realize it is a very ambisious plan indeed, but it has been designed to be developed during a period of five years. Actually, the course 2014-15 will be a time for organizing and informing the whole school community about the plan and start working in the implementation. It is better to start with a small number of key priorities that are manageable , and to schedule priorities over the period of the plan in such a way that they require intense activity in sequence rather than simultaneously. We think that Adult Education and Lifelong Learning are a priority at present due to the socioeconomic situation and its relevance to integrate adults into the workforce, so this type of education is going to undergo a significant growth eventually. On the other hand, we realise the importance of testing new methodological approaches especific for this level of education as well as good practices, already experienced in other schools or countries. It is also very interesting for us task based learning and ICT's in a part-time attendance system, as it is the way we are working now. Our priorities for next course 2014-15 are the needs related to: - Basic competences for students and - Improving teachers' linguistic competences - Lifelong learning approach and its importance for the integration of adults into the workforce. - Inclusion of disfavoured groups such as: people with especial needs, inmigrants and women. - Involvement of more members of staff in learning/ self-improvement activities or in European partnerships.
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