The Ministry of Education of Cantabria has highlighted the “normal“at the beginning of this school year in the region of reception by the centers of the ban on mobile phones in early childhood and primary educationand has reiterated the need for carry out monitoring in this regard, in order to measure its impact on school coexistence.
It is one of the main issues discussed in the first meeting of the 2024-2025 academic year of the Family Table, the main vehicle of the regional Administration to approach the demands of the parents of students and analyze the challenges faced by the educational community in the region. The meeting was chaired by the Minister of Education, Vocational Training and Universities, Sergio Silva, who conveyed to the representatives of parents the support of his department to educate on the proper use of these devices in the family environment and raise awareness about the need not to take them to class.
And this course, In addition to the prohibition in the first educational stages, its general non-use is also established in the rest of the centers, unless the educational project and the didactic programming establish it on a pedagogical basis.. “This is an issue that goes beyond the center and a concern that the Ministry has because it is becoming more and more common in educational centers,” stressed Silva, who has conveyed the support of his department to the representatives of parents of students. for educate in the proper use of these devices in the family environmentas well as raising awareness about the need for students, as far as possible, to go to school without a cell phone.
He has also transferred the “concern” of Early Childhood Education teachers regarding the increase in the care tasks they have to carry out with the students of this educational cycle“those who must be attended to in aspects that traditionally they already brought covered from their homes.” Likewise, the representatives of the families have referred to some of their main concerns at this start of the course, relating, among others, to issues, the management of resource banks or the participation of families in the activity of educational centers, such as extracurricular activities.
At the meeting, which the Ministry reported in a statement, Silva informed them of the new developments that will be implemented this year and conveyed the calendar of meetings and the calendar of conferences and events planned for the 2024-2025 academic year.
FAMILY TABLE
The Family Table constitutes, together with the Cantabria School Councilthe highest representative bodies for families to address issues that affect them, and has the participation of both FAPA and CONCAPA, as representatives, respectively, of the public network and the concerted network. It is an organization that allows for greater rapprochement between the Department of Education and the mothers, fathers or legal representatives of the students, encouraging their participation and promoting their training in aspects that allow them to contribute more effectively to the education of their children.
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