The Ministry of Education, Vocational Training, Physical Activity and Sports of the Government of the Canary Islands, through the General Directorate for Education, Inclusion and Innovation, has created a commission to design the protocol for action and accompaniment for students in the areas affected by the fire in Tenerife.
The Government of the Canary Islands commissions an “urgent” report to assess the damage from the fire in Tenerife
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With this initiative, called Mobilizing educational responses to the fire in Tenerifeaims to provide a “coordinated and organized” response to the affected educational communities, activating preventive strategies and measures focused on their needs.
To this end, in the first week of September, coordination and training sessions will be organized for the management teams of these centers in which guidelines for action and information will be offered on the aspects of the students that they must evaluate for “in cases where necessary, activate personalized protocols for students or groups ”, points out David Pablos, general director of Teaching Planning, Inclusion and Innovation.
The aforementioned commission is made up of, among other representatives of the Educational Inspectorate, the Territorial Directorate of Education in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, staff and coordinators in the affected areas of different areas and services (Specific Educational Support Needs, Teacher Centers, Guidance Teams Educational and Psychopedagogical) or the coordinator of the Health Promotion and Emotional Well-being area, Calixto Herrera, an expert in the treatment of grief in an educational context.
“To normalize situations like these, students need their teacher, their classmates, the classroom, their routines, the moment of play, the idea is that educators observe them in their context and act if necessary ”, is explained from the Ministry in a note.
Thus, given the traumatic and stressful moments experienced during the fire that began on August 15 and has affected 12 municipalities in Tenerife with nearly 13,000 people evacuated, the Ministry raises the need to configure educational centers as “privileged and strategies” for the healthy and resilient recovery of the child and adolescent population.
With this action protocol, support will not only be provided to the management teams, teachers and families of the affected centers, but efforts will be focused on consolidating a collaborative care network that offers the psycho-pedagogical keys that allow detecting needs and providing the responses necessary for the recovery, normalization and strengthening of these educational communities.
The fire is at level 1
He Forest fire of Tenerife It has passed to level 1, with which from now on the coordination of the emergency will fall on the Island Council.
During this weekend several outbreaks have been reactivated in different parts of the island, specifically in La Hornaca (Tacoronte) and in Santa Úrsula, where the six houses that were evicted this Sunday will continue to be evicted for 24 more hours as a precaution, he pointed out. the president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Rosa Dávila.
Despite the “de-escalation” of media since the fire was considered stabilized, seven aerial media and the ground operation of the Government of the Canary Islands and the Cabildo de Tenerife continue to work in the area. “Taking the fire under control could be brought forward with the arrival of the trade winds and the increase in humidity,” said the head of the forestry service of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Pedro Martínez.
For his part, Dávila has advanced that on Monday afternoon the safety conditions of the roads that give access to the Teide National Park will be evaluated, all closed except for the southern one, both for the means of extinction and for users, and the level of fire risk in the unaffected municipalities will be lowered.
On the other hand, in the municipalities affected by the fire, the current restrictions will be maintained, the main one, the prohibition to access the mountain.
