our school guidance plan

LANSDOWNE BILINGUAL PUBLIC SCHOOL

Cardiff

SCHOOL GUIDANCE PLAN

(Approved by the Counseling Department in June of 2012)

Almudena Bellot

Maria hermosilla

Gemma O’hanlon

Athina Papadopoulou

Azahara Sanz

School guidance plan

Lansdowne Bilingual Public School

INDEX

INTRODUCTION

School’s context………………………………………………………………….4

School’s personal counseling action point of view……………………………...5

Technical vision of the orientation principles……………………………………5

AIMS

School’s general aims………………………………………………………….8

TARGET GROUPS

Family…………………………………………………………………………..10

Students………………………………………………………………………...10

Students with academic difficulties……………………………………10

Students with psychosocial problems………………………………..…10

Immigrants’ students…………………………………………………...11

OBJECTIVES FOR EACH TARGET GROUP

Family………………………………………………………………….………12

Students…………………………………………………………………..……12

Students with academic difficulties…………………………………….12

Students with psychosocial problems………………………………..…13

Immigrants’ students……………………………………………………13

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ACTIVITIES TO REACH THE TARGET GROUPS’S OBJECTIVES

Tutorial action…………………………………………………………………..15

Family ………………………………………………………………….16

Students…………………………………………………………………17

Students with academic difficulties …………………………….17

Students with psychosocial problems…………………………..18

Immigrants’ students……………………………………………20

-Wider approach to both languages learning (trilingualism) of immigrants…………………………………………21

RESOURCES ………………………………………………………………………….24

Human resources…………………………………………………………..……24

Material resources………………………………………………………………24

MONITORING AND EVALUATION……………………………………………...…26

Questionnaire…………………………………………………………………...27

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INTRODUCTION

OUR CONTEXT

Lansdowne bilingual public school is situated in the South of Cardiff, in “Norfolk Street”

People of this neighbourhood are middle ages. Their cultural level is middle studies and the most common job is qualified workers. There are not a lot of unemployed parents. Parents belong to middle-lower class.

Communications within the city are good. There is a bus connecting all the parts of the city.

Neighbourhood is provided with good services; specially stores and banks. Besides, there is a neighbours’ association which organizes travels, celebrations and works to overcome neighbourhood problems.

Families come from different districts of the city because school is considered as ‘a unique zone’ in order to allow people to have the same conditions of points.

The majority of the parents have an age between 28 and 45 years old. They are usually employed in the sector service, and others as qualify workers or autonomous.

They usually have a medium level of studies or an “FP”. Nevertheless, almost every family are stable population, and the arrival of immigrants, especially from South America and Maghreb countries, is increasing.

The cooperation with the school, in general, is very good. The PTA (Parent-Teacher Association) cooperates in general activities developed in the school such as the Christmas Festival, the Book´s Day or the Final Course Festival.

Moreover, the PTA organizes and sorts out after the agreement with the School Board the voluntary extracurricular activities developed out of the school´s timetable.

Almost every family, have her own home which fulfils all the accommodation´s requirements.

The involvement of the parents in school life is really important. Not son much for the choice of the School Board, but it is important in the organization of the activities planned by the school, the assistance to the formative talks, etc.

The familiar environment where almost every student comes from is characterized by the medium socioeconomic level, also by the parent´s interest in how the student´s performance of his/her child is going, so the parents maintain a relationship with the tutor through personal or guiding meetings.

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Almost all the students attend to class properly washed and well fed.

The scholar absenteeism is not significant. The students just do not go to class due to illness or parent´s travels.

The admission system is concrete respecting the normative without exceptions.

It is an inclusive school so we provide schooling for student´s with psychic disabilities.

SCHOOL’S PERSONAL COUNSELING ACTION POINT OF VIEW

School guidance and counselling is a science of psycho-pedagogical intervention whose aim is to promote students’ personal, social and professional development.

The school guidance and counselling model pretended is bearing on collaboration. All the members of school must work together in order to promote students’ development. Besides, we pretend to reinforce teacher’s skills. We try to achieve a model of reflexive teacher who is both educator and tutor but not instructor.

PRINCIPLES OF THE ORIENTATION

During the latest years, a change has been produced in the way of perceiving the counseling. The therapeutic nature has been lost and changed by a model in which the counseling action is orientated to social, cultural and economic changes and that is why the new characters of this situations have to take part of it.

Following this line, we are going to remember the Hervás Avilés explanation about the counseling principles.

Prevention principle

It is based in the necessity of getting ready the overcoming of their different developing crisis. Its objective is to promote wealthy behaviors and personal competences, like the ones related to the interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence and which aim is the disappearance of problems.

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The objective of the prevention would be developing the functional and social competence of the individual person, his capacity to face situations and his inner strengthening. Some characteristics of this action can be

-Proactive: it acts before the apparition of the problem

-For groups

-Approach having into account the context

-It’s objective is to reduce the risk factors and improving the elements that improves the defense and protection in a crisis.

-It assumes the multiculturalism

-It is directed to a personal strengthening

- It includes the conceptual and procedural collaboration in the intervention, in a mode that the receivers are active agents of the change.

- It mitigates the unfavorable conditions of the context.

Development principle

The intervention of this principle involves a process in which you go with the individual during his development with the purpose of achieve the maximum growth of his potentialities.

From the mature point of view the development is understood like a personal growth process that helps the individual to become a complex being. This complicity is been forming by diverse qualitative changes that favor an interpretation of the world that each time is more comprehensive and the experience integration each time wider and more complex.

From a wider perspective which has into account the “vita cycle” contributions, the development depend on biological and environment factors in interaction and of multiple relationships due to chronologic, historical and son on patterns. It is near to a development of the personality idea. It has a double objective: firstly it tries to give the needed competences to the person so that he can face the demand of the evolutionary stages (mature focus) and secondly, it has to provide learning situations that make easier the rebuilding and progress of the conceptual diagram (constructivist focus).

Social intervention principle

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It is focused since a perspective in which it must be included in all intervention the contextual and environmental conditions of the individual because these are the conditions which infer in his decision taking and personal development. The context is considerer like a reference element essential of the counseling action.

The assumption this principle involves that:

-the counseling intervention must lead to modify aspects related to the organization and working of the school like the social context of the student.

-the person who receives the counseling has to be aware of the necessity of act against the environmental factors that are blocking the achievement of his personal objectives. Been aware of is essential to get in this person an active attitude that helps to change these factors.

The empowerment like intervention principle

Empowerment is the process in which the people, the organization or the groups get the self-control about their own interest issues. The ones that have not fortitude, that do not believe them competent or that are marginalized get to know the dynamics of power that act in their vital context, develop the abilities and capacities to take the control of their own lives without infer in other’s rights and support and reinforce the personal strength of the others members of the group. We can consider five conditions to favor the personal strength:

-Collaboration to insulate the problems the problems and make an actuation plan.

-Context, the recognition of the context elements that stop the personal fortitude that make difficult the overcome of the problems.

-Critic knowledge that allows differ the problem, organize and classify the relevant information for the solution.

-Competence, the necessary for the resolution of the problems.

-Community, referring to the join of the people who share the same objectives and are participle of a common identity leaning on the personal strength of everyone and each community member.

Only the counseling for the personal strength will be successful when the counsellor makes a personal commitment to change the structures and systems that are stopping the development of the disadvantaged.

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AIMS

SCHOOL’S GENERAL AIMS

BUILT-IN STUDENT’S EDUCATION

We expect the harmonic formation of our students in every aspect of the person (affective, motor, social and cognitive) which allows the acquisition of the adequate autonomy of his age and are eligible for the next educative levels.

ACTIVE AND COLLABORATIVE PARTICIPATION OF ALL THE EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY

We understand that the educative process is based in the maximum collaboration between the children, the parents and the teachers. This triangle must maintain a permanent collaboration to reach the marked objectives.

VALUES EDUCATION

We consider very important the values education and we pretend to get that the child understands and acts in values like: acceptation of himself, tolerance, responsibility, respect for the differences, autonomy, justice, solidarity, wealth, consume, and critic view.

DEMOCRATIC MANAGEMENT AND COEXISTENCE

We have like our priority the formation in democratic values that is why the education and coexistence will be develop in a frame of tolerance and respect to the liberty of each one, his personality and his convictions. Our School is a democratic school, what implies the necessity of a real and effective participation of all the groups which compose it in its management by the chosen people by each of them.

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RESPECT TO THE DIFFERENCES: DIVERSITY, NO-RELIGION, COEDUCATION

We have into account the student’s diversity and we do not do differences because of reason of sex, religion, believes, nationality, social disparities, special educative needs, etc. We favor the attitudes development which gives us to a situation of solidarity, tolerant and respect to the rest.

OPEN TO THE ENVIRONMENT AND SITUATIONS AND INNOVATIONS THAT HELPS THE IMPROVEMENT. AKWARDED SCHOOL WITH THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.

Our school has to be an open institution, being participle in the daily life of the neighborhood, opening the educative place of the school, and placing the child in the physic and social environment which is around him.

We have our interest focused in the permanent formation of our teachers and in the development of innovative programs for a constant improvement of our educative action.

METHODOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS: ACTIVE, PARTICIPATIVE, GLOBALIZING, SCIENTIFIC AND CRITIC.

We try to assure the constructions of significant learning, that is why the curricular activity will be develop in an active, participative, globalizing, scientific and critic way.

BILINGUAL EDUCATION

The school considers a Project which is about the knowledge and control of the Greek, which objective is that the students are able to express themselves at the end of their schooling process in two languages: English and Greek, in a natural mode. The will have acquired the basic ideas about the Greek culture to be able to access to the majority of cultural and universal wealth.

The bilingual education taught in the school is done in an integrated curriculum to the intention of having the knowledge of the Greek and also apply to the double qualification. The development of the curricular integrated projects that gets to the achievement of the academics certificates of both countries: United Kingdom and Greece.

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TARGET GROUPS

Family

The counseling program includes also the involvement of the parents or guardians of the students in order to be more effective regarding to its goals, which all lead to children’s development. By the term involvement we mean their participation in student’s academic course and planning, choices and decisions concerning the educational process and finally their participation in the whole learning and educational planning.

Particularly, the parents’ opinion is very important and this is the reason for which it is taken into account during the planning process of the support system. Parents most of the times, are aware of the problems, special needs or difficulties that may their children have, but also aware of their preferences and their potentials. So they can provide the counselors useful information in order to help at the preparation of the most suitable counseling and guide program for their children.

Students with academic difficulties

Our whole purpose is to provide intensive individualized instruction in order to get the best of every student and develop his or her maximum potential.

The problem, however, is that in classrooms can wind up with students who have a wide range of skill levels. How can teachers provide intensive instruction to all students when they are each trying to learn different things at the same time? Along with teaching basic skills such as study skills and organization tools, there are strategies to use to individualize and still not give up instruction time for any student. Students have different styles of learning and there are some aspects that are not homogeneous to every student and that should be taken into account as the capacity of learning and developmental level, schooling and previous learning, rhythms, expectances, interests and motivation.

Students with psychosocial problems

We can talk about different types of psychosocial problems in students as internalizing disorders which could be turned inward; emotional and cognitive symptoms and some examples of them are depression, anxiety and psychosomatic disorders or externalizing disorders as turned outward; behavioral problems or acting out. In this case we would be talking about delinquency, drug and alcohol abuse, truancy

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Immigrants’ students

Everybody have the right of receiving an education which respect their personal and cultural identity. For this reason and because of the great increase of foreigner students, school has needed to carry out some measures in order to adapt schools to cultural diversity.

All these measures are based upon the principle of intercultural. Understanding by intercultural the favorable disposition within members of one Society to interact, share experiences and cooperate with members of other cultures.

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OBJETIVES FOR EACH TARGET GROUP

FAMILY

Some situations that do not go well in school with the student can be duty of the families and we have to take them in account as school attendance.

The counseling and guidance is also intended to parents in order to detect any of the problems that may the family has, (they can be personal, financial…) which affect the academic achievement of the students. These problems for example may be:

-Financial problems like unemployment or low income.

-Problems regarding the relationships among the members of the family as could be family abuse, harassment issues, a new born baby, divorce or death of a family member.

-Health problems like depression, alcoholism and substance abuse, serious or incurable diseases.

STUDENTS WITH ACADEMIC DIFFICULTIES

The diversity plan is in charge of adapting the education system to the different characteristics, necessities and capacities of each student. It requires specific dedication of the department of guidance and counseling, in order to achieve these goals:

-To promote the inclusion of all the students in general (not all have the same necessities)

-To draw up an appropriate answer to the especial necessities.

-Make invidualized advice.

-Assessstudents´competences.

-Develop preventive programs of learning difficulties.

-Evaluate and develop programs to improve students ‘motivation.

-Evaluate and develop programs to improve abilities for the daily life.

-Diagnose cases, apply the relevant measures and evaluate the process

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-Make the psychopedagogic assessments and start if necessary the corresponding curricular adjustment.

STUDENTS WITH PSYCHOSOCIAL PROBLEMS

Due to the types of psychosocial problems the students would need different objectives depending on the specific case, some of them are:

-Become self-disciplined.

-Make decisions.

-Help them overcome personal, financial, family or other problems.

-Get life satisfaction.

-Improve their school attitudes and behavior.

-Improve their social skills and their interpersonal relationship.

-Develop their self-confidence.

-Control and manage their feelings.

-Set goals and find ways to achieve them.

-Improve their skills about resolving problems and finding solutions on their own.

-Develop their critical thinking.

-Improve their leadership skills.

-Learn to cooperate with others efficiently.

IMMIGRANT’S STUDENTS

Because of the great increase of foreigner students, school has needed to carry out some measures in order to adapt schools to cultural diversity.

The basic aims beyond our measures are the following ones:

- To make school community be aware of the cultural diversity positive value.

- To respect each student’s cultural identity and learn to cooperate with others students from different cultures efficiently.

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- To help foreigner students to have access to the receiving society. Develop a critical thinking in all our students since young about multiculturalism.

- To avoid immigrant exclusion by improving students social skills and their interpersonal relationships.

- Believe and make real a truly equal possibility of opportunities focusing in the bilingual education in Spain for foreign students.

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ACTIVITIES TO REACH OUR OBJECTIVES

TUTORIAL ACTION

Tutorial action is the joint of interventions which are developed with students, families and educative team of each group. It is aimed to:

-Favor and improve the coexistence within the group, the personal development and the integration and participation of all the students in the school’s life.

-Diminish scholar’s conflicts and to promote respect towards others.

-Carry out a personalized monitoring for the learning process of each student, putting special attention to scholar failure.

-Facilitate decisions taking regarding academic and professional future.

Objectives of tutorial action

Towards students:

-To facilitate students’ integration within the group/class and in the scholar dimension, favoring team work…

-To facilitate change from primary education to secondary education.

-To develop values and attitudes of democratic participation, where respect and peace and no violence are values to take into account in any aspect of life.

-To mediate those conflicts among students or other members of the educative community.

-To inform and release right and obligations of students and the school’s coexistence rules.

-To communicate students the decisions taken within reunions made by the docent team and to make students, as a group, assume their own commitments.

-To promote processes of vocational maturation and scholar and professional orientation in order to help students to make their own decisions.

-To collaborate with teachers in the detection of students’ learning difficulties and to communicate them to the orientation department, in order to solve it among everyone.

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-To achieve a good knowledge about students as people and as a group.

Towards families

-To establish fluid relations with parents.

-To release parents about coexistence rules.

-To involve parents in their children’s support activities, learning and orientation.

-To release parents about all the aspects related with their children’s education.

Towards teachers

-To facilitate to all the teachers who ask for it, all the information and available materials as in the tutorials as in the orientation department.

- To make possible to establish a cooperative action among teachers.

ACORDING TO OUR TARGET GROUPS

Family

In order to avoid as much as possible family problems, some activities which could be carried out for parents could be activities in order to inform parents about the school running and about its features, in order to make their election adequate and responsible. Information activities like general reunions with all the parents of the group, in order to make them know since the beginning of the course, the group features, school rules, pedagogic commitment and as well to promote a good relation between parents and teachers. Activities for making parents participate in their children’s studies and in the scholar centre’s organization. Activities of individual meetings with parents in order to keep the relation among teachers and families growing.

Parents and family involvement in education is essential to the intellectual growth and academic achievement of their children.

Reunions with parents where there are commented aspects about the scholar period, the collaboration of parents in the educative process and the most meaningful aspects about the running and organization of the course.

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Parents of new students should do an initial informative questionnaire before registering their children in the school.

Then an analysis of the dates obtained in the questionnaire should be done by educative teams in order to search for relevant information.

OBJECTIVES ACTIVITIES

To know if parents’ expectances coincide with schools’ features.

- To do an initial informative questionnaire before registering their children in the school.

- To do an analysis of the dates obtained in the questionnaire should be done by educative teams in order to search for relevant information.

-To avoid parents’ lack of knowledge about children’s performance.

- Parents have access to preview guidance program and materials that may be used with their children

- Interviews with teachers.

- Activities for making parents participate in their children’s studies and in the scholar centre’s organization.

Academic

Among the children who can show academic problems, we can found those with deficient intelligence and those who are high gifted.

Curricular interventions and adaptations are necessary when a child with academic problems is detected. These changes are not for the particular child, but for all the class. Quarterly reunions in order to value the program done are also necessary.

In order to carry out the tutorial action, a great quantity of information should be collected from all students. This is going to be academic and professional information, necessary to orientate the teaching and learning process.

For achieving this, it could be created a personal record of each student.

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OBJETIVES ACTIVITIES

To promote organization and responsibilities within the group

- Work planning activities, to elaborate a study schedule, or group controls.

To be aware of problems and to establish the better way to face them

- Reunions between courses and cycles in order to transmit information to the future teachers of a group.

-An initial evaluation of students to detect difficulties or necessities.

- Quarterly reunions in order to value the program done are also necessary.

- To reserve within students schedule enough time for carrying out the tutorial activities.

- To do a personal record of each student.

To promote help between peers for diminishing intellectual differences

- The group of 4 approaches.

Psychosocial

This kind of people need motivation, so he or she could propose develop some educative games time to time and always congratulate these children when they do something well or do a progress, even though if the progress is not very significant.

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To avoid peer problems between students and promote integration

- Activities in order to facilitate student’s integration within their group or class and to improve their communication skills: course presentation, welcoming activities, elaboration together of the basic rules within the group…

- Group dynamics with activities like the round table, the ideas’ twister, role playing, Phillips 66…

To promote team work and social abilities.

- Theatre representations within a topic of a subject.

-To create quizzes in groups.

To avoid children’s academic anxiety because of academic competence between students.

-To elaborate an academic plan based on formative performance rather than in a summative one.

- To always congratulate these children when they do something well or do a progress, even though if the progress is not very significant.

To avoid conducts that can be dangerous for health

- Alcohol talks or adolescence talks.

To detect as soon as possible psychosocial problems in order to avoid extreme situations

- To start the course with a couple of games or works in group.

To get the more information as possible about familiar context of those children with psychosocial problems

-Regular talks with parents.

-Questionnaires for parents about their expectances on their children and familiar atmosphere.

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Immigrant’s students

In order to help the students and their families face all of the problems mentioned above, measures can be applied such as financial aid and psychological support, depending on the problem of each case.

But in order to detect and then make efforts to overcome these problems, as mentioned also above, the parental involvement is essential. For this reason, it is proposed to organize counseling meetings for parents and guardians. The meetings will take place at a time and in places convenient for the parents, even out of the school hours for example. The meetings could also be organized for all of the parents together or in separated groups with members that have to face similar problems or even individually, if it is necessary. Furthermore, the parents have the opportunity to discuss on their own about their concerns and worries as regard to their children, and also benefit themselves by participating in the counseling as regard to their personal problems.

Finally, the parents will be able to have access to previous counseling program in which their children participated and to the material used for their children’s developmental and comprehensive guidance.

OBJECTIVE ACTIVITIES

To make school community be aware of the cultural diversity positive value

- Search for information about other cultures.

- Make an exposition with photos of different cultural traditions.

- Promote meetings. Families and teachers should participate. They have to share experiences and know themselves.

We pretend to get the child respect for the differences, solidarity and justice.

- Talk in class about likeness and hobbies in order to know that all children have the same likeness.

To respect each student’s cultural identity - Not try to impose our culture but try to learn

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about other ones.

To help foreigner students to have access to the receiving society.

- Heterogenic disposition on class. All students must be sit together; foreigner children and national ones.

To avoid immigrant exclusion - Promote cooperative learning creating mixed working groups. (Foreigner and Spanish)

- Avoid prejudices and stereotypes by discussing language use in papers referring to immigrant people

WIDER APPROACH TO LAGUAGES LEARNING (TRILINGUILISM) OF IMMIGRANTS

In an increasingly global society, the ability to speak and write in several languages is becoming necessary to effectively compete in the job market. Apart from the basic effectiveness that bilingual fluency has, since it widens the communication between people, it also preserves children's sense of pride in the language of their parents and protects their sense of identity, which is also strongly linked to the language and culture of their family and heritage. There are also economic advantages in bilingual fluency and literacy, since many jobs pay higher salaries to their bilingual employees.

According to psychological and educational research children learn more effectively the foreign language, if they learn it through the use of their native language, which provides a contextual basis for learning and allows them to keep pace with their peer group. But this is a problem for the immigrant students, since the native language is also foreign for them. In addition, immigrant students have the same rights regarding to the educational opportunities and this is the reason for which the bilingual schools have to apply measures to help not only these disadvantaged students, but also their parents, whose role is significant at the learning process.

Such measures could be:

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- Teaching using also visual material, gestures, imitating methods of learning etc in order to help all students to perceive the new concepts.

- Give the opportunity to children to learn and work in collaborative groups in order to help each other, ensuring that the immigrant students are members of different groups.

- Provide extra help to immigrant children by giving them the chance to attend more specific lessons by special educated teachers, in order to acquire the native language more efficiently and more quickly. Such lessons can also be provided to the parents of these students in order to help them get involved in the learning process.

- Give the chance to the immigrant students to get involved with extra-curricular activities depending on their personal interests such as music lessons, dancing class, sports, painting courses etc. By this way it is easier for them to pick up the native language, without actually realizing it.

ORGANIZATION IN COOPERATIVE LEARNING

1. Create a sense of group. The students should feel that they belong to a group

2. Observe the different styles of learning, levels of knowledge and autonomy.We consider that teach does not mean to apply exceptional measures with the problematic students not all the students have the same style of learning and our objective is to favor everyone’s´ learning.

3. Get a cooperative view about teaching and learning.Once we know this diversity, the teacher can organize the work in groups according to this diversity. By this way, the students will have the chance to develop their competences learning from each other. The sense of group will help here to the wish of helping the one who knows less.

A PARTNER-TUTOR

This consists in assigning a partner-tutor to the new student. The partner will help him/her during the first period with all the possible difficulties and avoiding his/her exclusion. We consider that this practice can is beneficial for both. While we avoid the new students sense of isolation, the partner- tutor will increase his/her sense of competence and self-esteem. We consider that it could be especially useful in our program, for those students who do not know the language.

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WELCOME PROGRAM

It pretends to facilitate the introduction of the new student in the school.

- We first do an initial evaluation to decide in which course should be incorporate and see if he/she will need special support or any curricular adaptations.

- It is also convenient to have a conference with the family. First of all, to introduce them in the school context and how it is organized but also to find out information about the family and the students that could affect his/her school performance (causes of migration, socio-economic situation, previous schooling, difficulties in learning, behavior problems…).

- Announce the arrival of the new student to the school community. To promote positive attitudes towards the students and avoid uncomfortable situations with the surprise if it arrives for example a child with a physical disability.

- Preparing welcoming activities to make the student feel accepted.

A factor to take into account is that nowadays the arrival of new students, specially immigrants, can occur at any moment of the course, so the school is always ready for this welcoming.

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RESOURCES

HUMAN RESOURCES

The staff of the educational centre is forms by 30 teachers, most of them permanent

- 7 teachers of Infants Education, 6 tutors and a Learning Support Teacher- 4 specialists in Primary Education - 9 English teachers.- 2 gym’s teachers- 1 music teacher- “Guidance Counselor”- 1 “PT”- 1 “AL”- 4 English teachers coming from the agreement “MEC – British Council”- 1 religion teacher and another one shared with other school for to 3-4 year old students.

Staff not teaching

The educational center has a canteen service which a company from this sector is in charge of making a menu in the schools kitchen.

The company employs the kitchen staff as well as the career in charge of the student’s vigilance during the meals.

We also have a custodian who is in charge of activity such as the opening of the educational centre.

The cleaning staff depends on the company employed by the city council.

MATERIAL RESOURCES

School installations:

Lansdowne Bilingual Public School has two buildings:

-One placed in Norfolk Street. It is focussed on infant education (5 years old children) and Primary.

-Another one ‘Games’ placed in Layna Street. It is directed to infant education (3-4 years old). This building has four classes with its services: tutorials, wide places

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where corners activities are developed, and a park.

Norfolk building has two floors:

Ground floor:

- 7 classes for pre-school ( 5 years old) and Primary (1º,2º,3º).- Music class.- Library.- Staff room.- Audition and Language class. - Therapeutic Pedagogy class - Parents of the students Association Office Counseling Department Office- Canteen.- Toilets.- 2 sport courts.- Gym.- A porch in the courtyard downstairs with bathrooms

- First floor:- 7 classrooms: ( 4º, 5º, 6º) - English class.- Class for different things.- Informatics class.- Laboratory.- Toilets.- Secretary’s office and headmaster’s office.- Tutorial classrooms.

Lansdowne Bilingual Public school also has some installations out of school place.

- A community centre where cultural activities and recreational activities are developed.

- Municipal Park ‘Friendship’, with skate rolling court and Sports facilities, meeting places for children and their families.

- Private school.

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MONITORING AND EVALUATION

These are the areas that we should evaluate:

· Measures the progress of a guidance project/action plan.· Examines the impact of a guidance project or action plan.· Identifies areas of success or areas that require further attention.· Keeps the focus on ongoing guidance planning.· Prevents a guidance plan from sitting untouched on a shelf.· Helps to keep guidance planning to the forefront of planning in a school.

In order to get it, evaluation is carried out as follows:

- Assess the preventive and supportive measures that the tutors carried out (interchange session)

- Fill a questionnaire after the observation of teachers ‘practices.- Collect students´ opinion about this measures (interchange session between

students and tutors) and also about the information given through tutorial action.- Collectparents´opinion.

We provide here and example of a questionnaire that we use for collecting students´ and parents opinion as well as their suggestions. They are asked for their views, so the data collated and analyzed, and the findings communicated are used to inform future planning.

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QUESTIONNAIRE TO EVALUATE OUR GUIDANCE PLAN

Respond to the next items with Yes/ No /Not sure according to your opinion.

1. Students in my school need help in the following areas

- Interpersonal and social skills (getting along with peers, parents and authority figures)

- Self-awareness (understanding and appreciating the self)- Conflictresolution- Understanding the emotional and physical dangers of abuses e.g. substance,

sexual, physical- Coping with peer pressure and managing life’s events- Overcoming trauma- HIV/AIDS/Sex education/ Sexual issues- Time management- Studyskillstechniques- Careerexploration and planning- Relationship between personal qualities and work- Relationshipbetweeneducation and work- Investigating the world of work in relation to the knowledge of self- Subjectchoice- Dating/relationshipissues- School adjustment (making friends, getting along with teachers)- Copingwith stress- Handling crisis situations- Copingwithemotion- Peer counseling/helping- Test takingskills- Problemsolvingskills- Multicultural/diversityawareness- Acquiring skill, attitudes and knowledge to learn effectively- Academicpersistence- Job seeking and job keeping skills- Academic/Educationalplanningskills- Decisionmakingskills

2. List any areas not included in the list above you feel students in your school would need help in.__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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3.Below is a list of the major service areas of a guidance and counseling program. After reading the list, circle the number that shows what priority that service area should receive in your school guidance and counseling program.

Top Priority (1) Moderate Priority (2) Fairly Low Priority (3)Very Low Priority (4)

- Counseling Services (Designed to offer individuals an opportunity for self-knowledge and self-development through individual & group counseling, support services, referral services) 4 3 2 1

- Appraisal Services (Provides essential facts about the learner through career interests inventories, achievement tests, personality inventories, special needs assessment)4 3 2 1

- Information Services (student records, post secondary catalogs, handbooks) 4 3 2 1

- Placement Services (Designed to enhance student development by assisting them to select and use opportunities inside and out side the school through career advising, attachment, referral to agencies, course selection, college/university admission) 4 3 2 1

- Consultation Services (Getting the opinion of people who can contribute and have an interest in the student’s welfare e.g. other teachers, parents, administrators) 4 3 2 1

- Curricular Services (Organization of materials for classroom teacher adoption, group and classroom presentation of guidance topics) 4 3 2 1

4. School guidance counselors/teachers in my school need assistance/training in the following areas and answer. Answer according to your opinion: Yes/ No/Not Sure.

- Ways in which the school guidance and counseling is delivered (e.g. classroom activities, group activities, parent education).

- Guidance and counseling resource identification.- Developing a school guidance and counseling calendar.- Responsive services to students’ needs (counseling, referral, consultation,

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- Identifying and understanding students’ abilities, problem solving abilities, aptitudes and goal setting strategies.

- Program administration (planning, designing, implementing and evaluating school guidance and counseling program.

- Specific guidance and counseling skills (relationship building, asking questions, listening, information provision, confrontation).

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