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Published: Friday, 10 November 2017 00:00

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Pepito Tey Special School.

Sierra de Cubitas, 10 nov.- Sierra de Cubitas works to improve the conditions of students with special educational needs through the use of a coherently articulated system that favors their schooling and proper incorporation into social and working life.

In this sense, the new headquarters of the Special School Pepito Tey, located in the Cubitas Community, has a positive influence on the education of the children enrolled there.

According to the information offered by Osmel Gil González, director of that institution, the center has an enrollment of 47 students divided into five groups and a faculty staff prepared to teach the students.

Osmel Gil González.

This pedagogical group is also composed of five Masters in Educational Sciences, two support teachers and two that directly attend children in their homes in case of presenting any health or personal problems, three workshop professors besides Surami Fonseca García, integral teacher of the center.

Surami Fonseca García.

Among the advantages of the new premises are the conditions of the classrooms and the availability of Information Technology and Communications depending on the educational teaching process

Students of the Special School.

Un complemento importante para el aprendizaje de los menores lo constituye el fondo bibliográfico disponible en el centro, al cual también tienen acceso los profesores para su preparación, como explicó Neyi Figueroa Parra, bibliotecaria del plantel escolar, quien también destaca la prioridad que para la escuela tiene el estudio de la obra martiana y del Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro Ruz.

Neyi Figueroa Parra.

An important complement to the learning of the minors is the bibliographic fund available in the center, which teachers also have access to for their preparation, as explained by Neyi Figueroa Parra, school librarian, who also highlights the priority for the school has the study of the Marti work and of the Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz.

Idelmina Carrillo Núñez in the student residence.

The labor collective and the family express great satisfaction for the new location of the school in an urban area, which facilitates the insertion of pioneers in work practices, as well as receiving more systematic attention from local institutions, which are decisive for their well-being. and training.

The school also has basic health services for students and workers 24 hours a day, as reported by Daniusca Díaz Reyes, a nurse at the institution.

Daniusca Díaz Reyes.

On the other hand, the proximity of the Municipal Center of Diagnosis and Guidance (CDO) allows to give a better follow-up to the children while keeping together with the school adequately informed to the family on how to support the education of their children.

Interiors of the Special School.

Before the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, Special Education in the country was practically nonexistent, today dozens of institutions of this type spread throughout the Island with uniform theoretical and methodological criteria in relation to the educational needs of minors, what guarantees its adequate insertion to society and work activity. (Photos: Author)