Workshop:
Education evaluation within the education planning framework a school

Field: Education Assessment

Former: Elvira Gené Pau

Summary:

In order to transform the education into driving force leading to change, it has to be conceived as a resource to the service of the education project. The teaching training has to be an advantage of the centre improvement and it has to become into a collective and management knowledge.

School's Educational Centre's Plan is a document which depicts the mid term planning of the educational needs, and the diagnosis and educational actions which allow improving people competences in order to reach the aims which are established by the centre. Therefore, it is a tool which will allow designing improvement strategies (methodological, organisational, management…)

The assessment of the Educational Schools' Plan favours in taking decisions which are based on the analysis of the impact of the different education fields of the centre, learning or teaching staff acquired competences and their transference.

Workshop aims:

•  To motivate the reflection about the role of the Educational Centre's Plan within the improvement processes.
• To analyse and reflect about the different assessment strategies and tools.

Contents:

•  Educational School's Plan as a tool for improvement.
•  The different assessment stages.
• Assessment strategies and means.

Methodology:

* Presentation and information contribution
* Analysis and reflection of the assistants (individual and small group) about different strategies and instruments.
* Debate in big group and elaboration of the conclusions.

Brief curriculum of the former:

Teacher and pedagogue specialised on school management field and experience on education school's consultancy for the elaboration, monitoring and assessment of Educational School's Plan.
Technician and ex-head of the Pedagogical Resources Centre of Sant Andreu, Barcelona.