Gestión de los Centros Educativos de Educación Primaria, Tipo Dirección Uno, Circuito 06 Katira, Dirección Regional de Educación Zona Norte Norte
An management assessment was made of  3 Mode 1 public high schools belonging to the Northern Educational Region Circuit 6 in the Northern Region of Costa Rica in 2013. The general objectives were to assess and propose enhancements to management activities for the high schools participating in the study. The objectives specifically include: 1 – Acknowledging strengths and weaknesses in the schools´curriculum, teaching staff, financial limitations, educational resources and procedures.  2 – Determine the principal management strategies embraced by principals in teh aforementioned instittutions. The study is qualitative.  Findings include: principals overloaded with work, decontexualized content, general lack of motivation among teachers in the workplace and lack of adequate classrooms to provide a quality education
Análisis de la Gestión de la Oferta Educativa del Tercer Ciclo de la Educación General Básica Abierta en la Dirección Regional de Educación de Occidente
Los autores presentan en este articulo los resultados de una investigacion que tuvo como objetivo general analizar la gestion de la oferta educativa del III Ciclo de la Educacion General Basica Abierta para Jovenes y Adultos en la Direccion Regional de Educacion de Occidente. Es un estudio exploratorio y descriptivo, el cual utilizo tecnicas de investigacion cualitativas. Para la recoleccion de la informacion se emplearon instrumentos como cuestionarios y entrevistas que se aplicaron a los actores que intervienen directamente en esta modalidad de educacion abierta. El analisis de datos se presenta segun las categorias de analisis que fundamentaron el estudio: Sistema de coordinacion desde la gestion, planificacion de las acciones en las sedes y los proyectos, la organizacion de la modalidad en las sedes y proyectos, ejecucion de las acciones administrativas y la evaluacion. Entre los principales hallazgos se hacen notar: la deficiente comunicacion de los lineamientos a traves de los niveles macro, medio y micro dentro de las diferentes instancias, ausencia de espacios de involucramiento para la comunidad educativa, inadecuada prevision y distribucion de los recursos financieros, humanos y didacticos de la modalidad educativa, curriculo poco adaptado a las necesidades de la poblacion meta y una evaluacion que desde la gestion no produce insumos para mejorar la modalidad.
Science fairs as learning tool for teaching excellence
Science fairs are usually considered to be a pedagogical and cultural activity that involves the students actively. Gifted students need challenges to further develop their skills while maintaining the motivation level. Science fairs may provide the informal environment that will request and allow these students of excellence to challenge themselves by developing a scientific research project. Despite being well known in different countries, in Portugal first steps are being made on the use and implementation of science fairs as effective pedagogical tool. In this work, we will present a 4 years study that was developed on a Portuguese school with the main goal of evaluating the advantages of this informal way of teaching. The study includes an analysis of the evolution of the students’ knowledge that have participated, or visited, the different science fairs. Some advices for the implementation of these projects will be given. The motivation of the students was monitored as well as the knowledge and skills effectively improved by this activity.