Policies on educational innovation in autonomous key. Comunidad de Madrid

Abstract

The importance of the educational innovation has been enforced by the decision taken by the European Parliament in order to declare that 2009 is the “European Year for Creativity and Innovation”. The “Consejería de Educación de la CAM” (Madrid Autonomous Community Education Committee) has introduced the innovation in the teachers’ day-to-day life. Bilingual schools, linguistic sections, the promotion of the educational use of information and communication technologies and initiatives such as the General Plan for the improvement of the skills, the plan for the promotion of the reading, the school championships, the teachers’ education and training and the publications which have meant and mean a great step forward in the Educational Innovation in the CAM.