New institutions introduce Escalae services

There are currently six organisations preparing a Strategic Teaching for Education Plan (STEP). Five of these are in Mexico and one is in Spain. Support is offered at all educational levels.
The Colegio Madrid in Mexico City will carry out four Education Self-diagnoses during the 2009-2010 academic year, one for each educational level: preschool, primary, secondary and baccalaureate (preparatory).
The Escola Sagrat Cor in Barcelona chose to prepare two Education Self-diagnoses for primary and secondary levels.
The other four schools chose to introduce the Strategic Teaching for Education Plan at primary level.

  • Colegio Madrid (Ciudad de México): is carrying out the Education Self-diagnosis to prepare a STEP at preschool, primary, secondary and baccalaureate levels.
  • Colegio Viktor Frankl (Querétaro, México): is carrying out the Education Self-diagnosis to prepare a STEP at primary level.
  • Instituto Alegría (Querétaro, México): is carrying out the Education Self-diagnosis to prepare a STEP at primary level.
  • Colegio Fray Luis de León (Querétaro, México): is carrying out the Education Self-diagnosis to prepare a STEP at primary level.
  • Escuela Berta Von Glümer, SC (Ciudad de México):is carrying out the Education Self-diagnosis to prepare a STEP at primary level.
  • Escola Sagrat Cor (Barcelona, España): Realizan el Autodiagnóstico pedagógico para la elaboración de un PEP en los niveles educativos de primaria y secundaria.

During this year, two schools, Escola Infant Jesús in Barcelona and the Colegio de Mexico (COLMEX) in Mexico City, are carrying out projects for improvement in Communities for Institutionalising Educational Practice (CIPE). These two projects are personalised to meet the needs of each school, in accordance with their Strategic Teaching for Education Plan prepared and agreed with teachers. 

 

  • Colegio de México, COLMEX (Ciudad de México): is involved with two projects for improvement and preparing the “Programme admission and learning outcomes profile” and the “Initial student assessment”..

The “Programme admission and learning outcomes profile” project aims to create profiles based on these programmes.

The second project at this school aims to prepare procedures and instruments for selecting candidates. 
 
  • Escola Infant Jesús (Barcelona, España): is carrying out an improvement project to prepare “Sequencing and timetabling contents” and another project related to “Criteria for preparing teaching sequences”. 
This first project aims to sequence, timetable and prioritise learning contents in the curriculum for each educational level (preschool, secondary and baccalaureate).
The “Criteria for preparing teaching sequences” project aims to determine the characteristics and criteria for preparing teaching sequences for each educational level (preschool, secondary and baccalaureate) 

In addition, the Joan Guinjoan i Gispert secondary school was the first organisation to obtain “Certification of Continual Improvement in Teaching-Learning” in accordance with the Escalae Education Quality System..
  • IES Joan Guinjoan i Gisper (Riudoms, España): carried out an improvement project during the 2008-2009 academic year to develop “Criteria for preparing teaching sequences”.

The project aimed to determine the characteristics for defining and creating the most suitable teaching sequences for the organisation, bearing in mind the teaching objectives to be achieved. Implementation started with programmes in first-year secondary classes.


The result obtained in all previous projects is designing, implementing and institutionalising an agreed methodology at the school for teaching-learning processes.