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.
School Consultation (Part I)
This article is the first in a two-part series on school consultation, from an interdisciplinary perspective. The authors examine school consultation as it has been studied and applied in learning disabilities and in special education as well as in the related professions of school and community psychology, counseling, and organizational development. Part I is a review and analysis of various theories, models, and related research on school consultation, with emphasis on a planned progression from theory formulation to model building to implementation of basic and applied research. The authors question whether or not consultation has a theoretical base. They conclude that a distinction must be made between underlying knowledge bases used to solve problems in the consultation process and underlying theories about the consultation process itself which direct the communicative/interactive nature of the relationship between consultants and consultees. Also included are (a) an examination of 10 different models of consultation and how they relate or fail to relate to theory, and (b) a review of studies which pertain to facilitating mainstreamed education of learning disabled and other exceptional and low achieving students, organized by input, process, and outcome variables. We project a set of future directions for interdisciplinary research on school consultation which are applicable both in special education and across the related professions, and which call for coordinated research efforts among all of these professions.