Nursery and preschool rooms with reinforcement of educators

This is great news for thousands of families who have their sons and daughters in the kindergartens and preschool halls, as well as for many educators and educators. The Regional Secretariat for Education (SRE) has decided that early in the next school year, day care and preschool rooms with an educator aged 60 or older will have a second educator.

The solution of placing a second educator in a room where is placed an educator of 60 years or more is explained by Jorge Carvalho, the Minister of Education File: "It is about optimize the available resources because the truth is that we have "

According to the Regional Secretary for Education," the demographic decline, which leads to an increasingly smaller number of children in the Schools and the postponement of the retirement age of teachers in general and especially educators, a question of responsibility of the Government of the Republic, are the causes of the situation that with this measure we have the right. intention to reduce.

Without stopping, Jorge Carvalho adds that the placement of a second educator in the halls, in the aforementioned cases, "constitutes, in addition to the justice due to those who, at the beginning of their careers, had another condition of access to retirement, a decisive support for families, since all conditions so that the rooms can ensure that children will always have at least two adults involved in their follow-up. "

This situation contributes to a better quality of education provided in these institutions

219 rooms next year During the next school year, according to official figures of the SRE, 219 nurseries and kindergartens will be installed in the Region, including 56 in nurseries and 163 in nurseries.

The table accompanying this article shows the distribution of these kindergartens and preschool education in the 11 counties.

Aliya s, these rooms, all integrated in the basic schools of the 1st cycle and hierarchically dependent on the municipal school delegations, must join a room of maternal valence, integrated in the Curral das Freiras EB123PE (passing to 56 in total), and eight of the Pre valencia (to 163 in total), integrated in the following schools: EB123PE Bartolomeu Perestrelo, EB123PE Curral das Freiras, Prof. EB123PE Francisco S. Barreto (Fajã da Ovelha) and EB123PE Porto da Cruz

In addition, the operation of the nursery and preschool rooms is provided by a team of three elements. childhood and two socio-educational support workers; by two early childhood educators and a socio-educational support worker.