SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, September 22 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Cabildo of Tenerife, through the Education area, will take its curricular support programs to 250 educational centers during the 2023-2024 school year.
The investment amounts to 1.3 million euros and the curricular support programs are grouped into four large areas of knowledge: Technology and Safe Use of the Internet; Sustainability and Mobility; Reading and Culture, Mathematics and Science; and Coexistence and pedagogical innovation.
The president of the Cabildo, Rosa Dávila and the Minister of Employment and Education, Efraín Medina, presented this Friday the educational offer in an event held at the Las Indias Integrated Vocational Training Center, in which the director of the center, Gregorio, was also present. Hernandez.
Rosa Dávila indicated that “this is a firm commitment from the Cabildo to support the work carried out by educational centers with a wide range of 37 programs.”
The objective, he said, “is to work in centers from Preschool to High School during the 2023-2024 school year through interventions that are developed with pedagogies that allow changing attitudes and behaviors.”
Likewise, the president of the Cabildo pointed out that along with this initiative that is aimed at centers, there are different types of scholarships that directly benefit citizens.
“Among them, we have mobility scholarships for Vocational Training that allow studies outside of Tenerife and whose application period is open and ends on October 30,” he commented.
For his part, Efraín Medina highlighted the wide variety of the 37 programs “with 12 different themes to adjust to the different needs of the educational centers on the island.”
In this sense, Medina highlighted initiatives such as ‘Internet without risks’, the Tenerife Island Reading Promotion Plan (Pialte), the Island Network of School Gardens or the ‘Stay’ program for the prevention of school absenteeism.
Among the curricular support programs in the area of technology and safe use of the Internet are the initiatives ‘Browse positively’ and ‘Internet without risks’ and ‘Think computationally’. For their part, the programs linked to sustainability and mobility are School Gardens, Ingenia and Road Education.
For its part, the curricular support programs in the area of reading and culture, mathematics and science are the Tenerife Island Reading Promotion Plan (Pialte), Museum Education, Math Projects and Big Science. Finally, in the area of coexistence and pedagogical innovation they can opt for the Service Learning and Quédate programs.
Since September 4, educational centers now have access to information on projects to select with classroom teachers.
The application period for the programs opened last Monday and will end on October 6. Once the applications have been received and analyzed, the programs to be developed in the different educational centers of Tenerife will be awarded.
