Fourteen secondary school students receive specific training in gardening activities along this new school year in the Classroom Occupational sixth consecutive year opens its doors with the intention of preventing school dropout among students
Councillor for Education, Joseph Marotta, and the director of IES Polytechnic, Diego Victoria, this morning attended the opening of a new school in the Classroom Equipment Center Occupational and Educational Resources, located on the ground floor of the old school Carmen Conde.
For the sixth consecutive year, the City of Cartagena through the Department of Education, and Service to Diversity of the Ministry of Education, Universities and Jobs set in motion the Occupational Hall for the prevention and control of absenteeism and neglect school.
Students and families have been present in this welcome event in which fourteen students at risk of leaving school, receive training especiazada and differentiated in order to continue in the future with its formation, in the words of the mayor of Education.
Specialization is mainly attributable to yard work and in previous has been very well received by the kids.
So much so, that in 2012 reached a record level of training and that of the 15 students, 10 continued their studies, according Maroto.
Meanwhile, Diego Victoria has encouraged parents to collaborate also with this educational initiative and join the professional team responsible for delivering the classes, which also will feature a monitor that will perform monitoring tasks and guidance. E s another tool this effort and it is important for young people to integrate and adhere to initial vocational qualification programs, he added.
These fourteen secondary education students, selected from all Cartagena institutes, administrative and docentemente belong to IES Politecnico While in previous courses, the classroom has depended Occupational IES IES Mediterranean and St. Lucia, as the assignment is, each 2 years in rotation, one of these three centers.
Occupational Classroom is an educational and organizational as remedial education, aimed at students of Secondary disadvantage that besides accumulating a curricular gaps, negative opinion of the school setting and presents difficulties of adaptation, or followed a process late enrollment.
The City of Cartagena has enabled this classroom with the necessary spaces for teaching and practical classes. Regard to teaching, corresponds as Agrarian Professional Family Auxiliary Activities specialties in Nurseries and Garden Centers Gardens.
Thanks to this training, students will learn about gardening that will facilitate access to vocational training or Initial Vocational Training Program.
Given this specialty, the student must attend at their premises to a greenhouse, the structure was donated by the IES St. Lucia, while it has designated a Municipal Service Educator Truancy performing the functions of social mediation and coordination between teachers, students and their families.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena