The Governing Council gave the green light this Monday to works in 35 new Enclave classrooms and special education centers (CEE) in the Canary Islands through the approval of a budget modification of two million euros. The initiative will offer service to students with special educational needs.
These works had already been announced by the Minister of Education, Vocational Training, Physical Activity and Sports, Poli Suárez, during the institutional act of the II PROA+ Conference, held last April in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
The islands currently have more than 300 Enclave classrooms and twelve special education centers, five in Gran Canaria, four in Tenerife and one in Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and La Palma, to which new ones will be added soon. Enclave classrooms are schooling units in ordinary educational centers, in which educational response is provided to students with special educational needs (SEN), which requires adaptations that deviate significantly from the curriculum in most or all areas or subjects, and that require the use of extraordinary resources of difficult generalization.
Students with these conditions who can participate in activities carried out by the rest of the school's students are preferentially enrolled in these classrooms. In the Enclave classrooms of ordinary Infant and Primary centers, students between 3 and 14 years old can be enrolled, and in those of secondary education institutes (IES), those who are between 14 and 21 years old.
For their part, special education centers (CEE) enroll students with special educational needs (SEN), which require adaptations that deviate significantly from the curriculum, in most or all areas or subjects, and that require the use of very specific or exceptional resources, of difficult generalization, as well as a greater degree of supervision and help for the development of activities appropriate for their age.
