ADEJE (TENERIFE), March 29. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, visited the IES El Galeón, in Adeje (Tenerife), on Tuesday, where he praised the educational advances that this public center has achieved with a wide range of new information and communication technologies ( ICT) as well as a firm commitment to attention to students with special needs.
Torres, who was accompanied on the visit by the director of the IES El Galeón, Salvador González, and members of the center’s management team, together with a representation of the local municipal government, considers that what has been achieved by that IES is “exemplary”, especially in these times, “when new technologies have become central in education and in our lives, especially after the pandemic”.
The head of the regional Executive recalled that there are other institutes on the islands with a similar commitment to new technologies and highlighted other unique characteristics of this center in Adeje, such as having students of up to 52 different nationalities, collects a note from the Executive .
The president gave great value to the sensitivity of IES El Galeón towards students with special educational needs.
“This has been increasing and requires exemplary and extraordinary actions, something that the Government of the Canary Islands is facing,” he stressed.
In this regard, he acknowledged that he is leaving the center “amazed by the involvement of the entire management team, the faculty, the teachers and how the boys and girls are using internet access and the fact that they have a tablet or a laptop to learn and grow intellectually.
This IES has a total of 837 students: 106 from Baccalaureate, 16 from Basic Vocational Training, 49 from the middle grade training cycle, and 666 from Compulsory Secondary Education.
The center teaches the baccalaureates of Sciences, and of Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as a course of Basic Vocational Training and the indicated intermediate degree of Vocational Training in Computer Science and Communication.
Among the contributions of this IES stands out that of being a pilot institute of the ‘Brújula20’ project, consisting of the development of digital educational materials that favor the use of innovative methodologies, curricular integration, the effective management of ICT and the transition from print to digital resources.
To this end, didactic programs are used for all levels, areas and subjects of compulsory education and the development of their respective programming units through learning situations, with contextualized resources and materials in the Canary Islands and within the framework of the pedagogical model and technology of the CEU.
