TRANSLATOR OF THE WEEK: Changes in the Spanish Educational System Overview: "The Game"

Those are the 5 terms we used and learned this week:

Directive Board: serving or intended to guide, govern, or influence at schools.

Resources: A resource is a source or supply from which benefit is produced. Typically resources are materials, services, staff, or other assets that are transformed to produce benefit and in the process may be consumed or made unavailable. Benefits of resource utilization may include increased wealth, meeting needs or wants, proper functioning of a system, or enhanced well being. At schools we will find educational, human and material resources.

Educational Administration: it is a branch of university or college employees responsible for the maintenance and supervision of the institution and separate from the faculty or academics, although some personnel may have joint responsibilities. Some type of separate administrative structure exists at almost all academic institutions, as fewer and fewer schools are governed by employees who are also involved in academic or scholarly work. Many senior administrators are academics who have advanced degrees and no longer teach or conduct research actively.

Evaluation: it is a systematic determination of a subject's merit, worth and significance, using criteria governed by a set of standards. It can assist an organization, program, project or any other intervention or initiative to assess any aim, realisable concept/proposal, or any alternative, to help in decision-making; or to ascertain the degree of achievement or value in regard to the aim and objectives and results of any such action that has been completed. The primary purpose of evaluation, in addition to gaining insight into prior or existing initiatives, is to enable reflection and assist in the identification of future change.

School success: the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors; the accomplishment of one's goals. So probably at school a success for the students is to pass with good grades all the course.

The translator of the week: Ana de Lara Torrente