Education: Hope for newcomers in Europe
Diversity mechanisms
The main units that attend to diversity currently in ordinary education centres are as follows: • Educational and Counselling Orientation Teams (known by the Spanish acronym EOEP), Early Attention Teams, and General and Specific Orientation teams. Units responsible for orientation in pre-school and primary education are also active in nursery schools. They determine the specific support needs that the pupils may have owing to special educational needs, special learning difficulties and high capacities. • Support Service for Migrant Pupils (known by the Spanish acronym SAI). Counselling service for Education, Youth and Sport of the Community of Madrid geared to advice and support to facilitate the educational integration of migrant pupils in the system during the academic year, especially when they are not proficient in the vehicular language of instruction.10 • Translation and Interpreting Service (known by the Spanish acronym SETI).11 • Therapeutic pedagogy, listening and speech and other suchlike teachers (only in nursery and primary schools). • Compensatory education teachers linked to diversification programmes (PMAR) (only in secondary schools). • Technical teachers for services to the community, i.e. welfare workers (only in secondary schools).
10 For more information, see: http://www.educa2.madrid.org/web/sai-capital/ (consulted on 5 August 2017). 11 For more information, see: http://www.madrid.org/dat_oeste/seti.htm#quees (consulted on 5 August 2017).
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