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Professional and Educational Guidance

Guidance Department

(March 2013)

Structure and organisation in the Galician Autonomous Community

Legislation

Decree 120/1998 of April 23, by which the professional and educational guidance is regulated.• Galician Official Gazette published on April 27.

Order of July 24, 1998 by which the organisation and functioning of the professional and educational guidance regulated by the Decree 120/1998 is established.• Galician Official Gazette published on July 31.

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Definition

Process that includes the entire educational community.

It spans the whole schooling period and covers all the students.

It is a global process that integrates aspects concerning:• Personal development.• Teaching and learning processes.• Decision making.

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General structure of guidance services

Central services

General Directorate of education, vocational training and learning innovation

General Subdirectorate of Organisation, Learning Innovation and Teachers Training

General Subdirectorate of Professional Guidance and Industry Outreach

Service of Organisation, Innovation and Educational Guidance

Service of Professional Guidance and Industry Outreach

External school services

Education Inspectorate Province Service

Specific Guidance Teams Special Education Resources Centres

Training and Resources Centres

Internal school services

Secondary Education Schools

Internal School Guidance Department

Tutoring

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Levels of intervention

The work to be developed in the field of Professional and Educational Guidance covers three levels of intervention:

• Tutoring, at the class-group level.

• Guidance Department, at the school level.

• Specific Guidance Team, at the province level.

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Guidance DepartamentAreas of work

The functions to be developed by the school’s Guidance Department covers four major areas of work:

• School organisation.

• Tutoring action.

• Attention to diversity.

• And professional and academic guidance.

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Guidance Departament Staff members

Head of Department (psychology and/or pedagogy specialist).

Therapeutic pedagogy teacher and, if applicable, audition and language specialist.

A tutor for each of the sociolinguistic and scientific-technological fields.

Other staff members, depending on school type.

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Guidance Departament Working tools

Use of: questionnaires, group techniques, interviews, observation, psycho-pedagogic assessment tests, etc.

Implementation and follow-up of programmes such as: cognitive work techniques, reading comprehension, professional and academic guidance, etc.

Carrying out of informative meetings with both students and their families.

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Guidance Departament Working tools

Carrying out of coordination meetings with teachers.

Establishment of contacts and coordination with external school services.

And customised guidance and intervention.

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