More than A thousand educational counselors of the Valencian Community have joined to claim dignified attention in the schools and in institutes. The first measure they have claimed to the Department of Education, through a joint statement, is that there are A professional for every 300 students and not superior ratios such as those that are being taken in some centers in the province where there is an counselor For more than 500 students.
These specialists are in charge from identifying and accompanying schoolchildren with Special educational needs In schools, detect Mental health problemsuntil offering Psychological support To families, program activities emotional or coexistence. In institutes they also deal with addressing the absenteeism, Conflicts for equality gender coexistence, like him bullying. To this is added the High bureaucratic load They have to assume on many occasions.
The counselors demand that in the ratios of 300 students include professional training students (FP), of legal age, high school, or any other casuistry, because now the student computation is not taken into account.
A girl and a teacher in a class in Alicante / Pilar Cortés
They have also asked the Autonomous Administration to reflect for all the counselors that the working day is 37 hours and 30 minutes per week. Have also requested to eliminate Obligatory attendance at the center for at least two hours On the day from Monday to Friday, since, as reported, when the territorial orientation coordination is used, to the orientation groups of zone or coordination with any service or entity, a work established within the guidance functions is being done, it is work in itself and ORIENTER RESPONSIBILITY.
The patio
Among their claims, they want to specify that educational guidance specialists do not belong to the management team and, therefore, are not obliged to stay in the teaching center during the month of Julylike the rest of the cloister.
On the other hand, they have demanded that it be reflected in the instructions of the course expressly that they are out of the guidance functions of carrying out patio guards (it is a space for direct attention to teachers and students, or families, or external coordination) because they consider it “an essential space for the Student observation follow -up object, without having the mandatory permanence in a fixed place “).
Among others salary improvementsthey consider that, due to the fact of belonging to the secondary school body, the totality of specialized guidance personnel must have the same economic conditions and accessories, regardless of the center where your professional work is exercised.
Reinforcement commitment
The Autonomous administration has assured that the next course there will be reinforcement in the childhood education stage, In addition to the commitment to the autonomy of the educational centers (which can determine some positions of their workforce in order to adjust it to their educational project), the impulse to the Educational inclusion (so that the centers have the resources to serve students with Specific needs of educational attention), and the Offer of educational guidance hours in the general regime teachings. However, for now the announced increase has not been detailed.
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