JAVIER SANTA-ISABEL HERNÁNDEZ.

Centro de Educación de Adultos. SAN ILDEFONSO – LA GRANJA

WHO?

My name is Javier Santa-Isabel Hernández and I´m Spanish.

I´m married and I´ve got two children, 12 and 20.

I studied Teacher Training and History at University. Right now I´m working on my Ph. D: Adult teaching and learning with ICT.

I´m the headmaster at an Adult School

WHAT?

C.E.A. San Ildefonso-La Granja is an adult education school.

It focuses on lifelong learning for adults. Its purpose is to provide adults the opportunity to gain skills that will enable them to enhance their social, work, and family life. They aim to provide flexible and personalized education.

The courses offered range from Adult Basic Education courses (Spanish for immigrants, English, ICT and Culture courses) to courses devised to obtain the basic qualification: the Compulsory Secondary Education (Educación Secundaria Obligatoria. ESO) and courses to access to the Professional Training public System.

There are also some volunteers helping with the immigrants classes.

WHERE?

Our institution is located in Real Sitio de San Ildefonso (Segovia. Spain), a small town in the province of Segovia, Autonomous Community of Castilla y León (Spain). It is located 11 km from Segovia capital, at the foot of the mountains of the Central System, which separates the province of Segovia and Madrid (76km from)

Outstanding among the monuments the Royal Palace and its gardens with fountains, and the Royal Glass Factory.

There are also many hiking trails through the Sierra de Guadarrama.

It was the summer residence of the kings.

WHO ELSE?

Not many, but really good teachers. We all participate in a Grundtvig partnership.

WHO ELSE?

We have had around 250 students last school year.

We are increasing the learning opportunities for our students using ICT

Meeting at class...

... and meeting online.

WHAT ELSE?

We want our students not just to be in a classroom, we try to provide as many opportunities as possible to participate doing hands-on activities, sharing experiencies and learning from other European partners, practicing English, using ICT...

Our institution does not only attend El Real Sitio, it also provides courses in some small villages. To increase the possibilities of such a small school with so many students, so few teachers…

…it is a help the use of ICT like our website (virtual classrooms, blogs, facebook, twitter…): http://cepasanildefonso.centros.educa.jcyl.es/sitio/