This morning was held to open the program of work aimed at students aged between 14 and 15.
The town of Puerto Lumbreras has launched the Hall Occupational would work to prevent and control truancy during the course 2010.
The City Council of Puerto Lumbreras and the Ministry of Education, Training and Employment, signed an agreement for the implementation of this initiative attached to the Institute of Nogalte Rambla.
The presentation of the Occupational Classroom students have come accompanied by their families, Councillor for Social Policy, M ª Angeles Tunisia, the Councillor for Education and Culture, Isabel Garcia, and teachers who will teach the training programs.
According to the Councillor for Social Policy, M ª Angeles Tunisia, "Through this project, the council will work to prevent and control truancy, and implement educational alternatives for students who need it, since the Hall Occupational be constituted as an extraordinary measure of educational outreach that takes place in the stage of compulsory secondary education. "
The aim of Occupational Classroom is to train students of compulsory school age in pre-employment skills to facilitate their retention in Initial Vocational Training Program.
Specifically, the Occupational Classroom serves students who are disadvantaged for various reasons such as curricular gap, difficult to adapt the school environment, or students who have followed a process of schooling late or very irregular.
For his part, Councillor for Education and Culture, Isabel García, explained that "the students will complete practical training by a team of teachers consisting of a teacher and a technical teacher Training."
In addition, the Hall will have a monitor Occupational Physical Education, a family educator and social worker responsible for the Municipal Program Truancy Control, which shall exercise the functions of social mediation and coordination among teachers, students and their families.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Lumbreras