QUALITY MANAGEMENT AUSTRIA
Austria is a
federal government with 9 provinces and about 8,3 million inhabitants. About
800.000 children attend school in compulsory education (grades 1 – 9) until the
age of 15.
School system Austria
National Quality Framework
Is based on
scientific criteria and contains
•
a definition and description of school quality
•
the obligation to provide periodic (types of school
one-to three-year) planning and reporting at all levels of the school
administration and the school (development plans, quality records, quality
programs),
•
the commitment to target agreements at all levels of the
school administration and the
schools about nationwide goals and their concretization,
•
the obligation to provide tools for control and (self-) evaluation based
on school quality factors, and support services to schools.
The development plans of the schools under
shall contain in particular priority topics, second objectives with regard to
the major issues, review and present state analysis on the major issues, measures
to implement the objectives, measures to verify the achievement of objectives, training
plans and information on the strategic and operational management of the school
quality.
Sonderpädagogisches
Zentrum Graz
EXPERTISE AND COMPETENCES
The
Sonderpädagogische Zentrum Graz Sprachheilschule (SPZ) is an
Advisory Centre for Inclusion and a special school for children with
language -difficulties.
Our services are
available to40 primary schools with23 integration classes, 19 secondary schools
with14 integration classes, 1 Polytechnische Schule (polytechnic school)with 3 integration classes.
As a special school we provide 3 multi-level Montessori classes and 22
Speech- therapy courses in primary schools in Graz in order to support
children
with language difficulties (1591 children in Graz/age 6-10) both in
their
neighbourhood schools and in our classes.
As an advisory centre
which is responsible to organize the Inclusion of children with specific needs
in Graz, we know that it is of uppermost importance that teachers and schools
learn to evaluate their work and to adapt to the needs of all learners in
school. In order to be able to cope with the challenges the pedagogical
personnel need best practice tools they can use and training about how to use
those tools.
It is our interest to
provide all pedagogical personnel with information about quality management,
with new tools they can use and to support them in their inclusive pedagogical
work.
QUALITY MANAGEMENT SPZ Graz
Sprachheilschule
School
development plan is based on the pedagogical school concept and national standards and
guidelines and contains areas
of development, short term and long term goals, a specific in-service training
plan and a plan for development of the personnel.
School
development tools used are INDEX OF INCLUSION (school level) and the Aide
Memoire (classroom level) www.irisproject.eu.