Institució Escolar Túrbula, S.L. (E10150953 – Spain)

Túrbula is a privately-owned educational school with more than 60 years of experience in training in non-university studies. A staff of 115 people (85 of them being teachers) offer educational services to 1,450 students from 2 to 99 years old.

OUR MISSION
Guide our students in their process of personal growth to become autonomous and competent in a world of continuous change.

OUR VISION
Be a reference in our environment, with a high educational commitment, in a constant process of innovation and reflection, in a good social and emotional environment.

OUR VALUES
The organization adopts from its mission and vision a commitment that is reflected in the following values:
• Individual and teamwork and unification of performance criteria.
• Commitment to innovation and constant improvement
• Innovation in pedagogical action
• Work to move the concerns of our students
• Attention to diversity and commitment to families
We accompany our students in their emotional, intellectual and social development by offering a rational and free education that develops a balanced person, with cultural sensitivity and a high level of knowledge.

Educational project
Our educational model is solid and rigorous, based on the accompaniment and constant formation of the student in a continuous process of maturation, and developing their personal capacities in order to become people with:
• high expectations
• good habits
• own criterion
• responsible
• respectful
• able to make decisions, and express their own personality

There are five fundamental aspects that, summarized, embody the ideology of the Center:
1.- Integral education
We consider that the student should receive an integral, rational and free schooling. This schooling should include, in addition to its instruction, certain attitudes to life. These attitudes are manifested by behaviors governed by a scale of values that distinguish them as members of our educational community, both in terms of their social and professional projection as well as their human quality. Thus, we value positively the responsibility, the solidarity, the industriousness, the artistic sensitivity, the satisfaction of the work well done … It is a duty of the whole community to promote these values among our students.
2.- Progressive Pedagogy
We want the student to be accompanied during the entire educational process. This entails an active and personalized quality teaching, with frequent review of ideas and methods and where the student always has the possibility to improve on their individuality.
3.- Family participation
Our students’ families must share the values that move us in our task at school. In order to achieve education success and school improvement, it is vital that the main stakeholders – the family and school – pull together in the same direction. Educational work done together with parental involvement is very important to the student’s formation process, and that is what we promote.
4.- Coexistence
The School, like any social organization, needs the application of rules that allow the guarantee of a peaceful coexistence and facilitate the creation of an ideal environment to develop our Educational Project. These principles of coexistence apply both in the School and all the activities organized within it. In this sense, we believe that preventive discipline is preferable to the corrective one, and this is reflected in the corrective measures proposed by our Internal Regime Regulation.
5.- Teaching Staff
The teachers of our school must have the following qualities:
• Professional competence.
• Humanity that allows them to establish a relationship of trust with students and families.
Awareness of the individuality of each student and ability to guide their learning in a personalized way.

Our school enjoys an educational budget agreement with the Education Department of the regional government “Generalitat de Catalunya” at all mandatory stages, as well as in some of the higher degree training cycles (Health & Sports).

Our school provides professional training in its different grades and cycles since the 70s. This experience helps us to design training plans with great impact on the occupational opportunities of our students once they finish their formal training stage. On the other hand, our Strategic Plan for the present period 2018-2023 includes the development of international projects at different levels, including those of Vocational Training, which allow our students to develop both the competences of the professional title and the soft skills through immersion in a foreign-speaking work environment, all in order to provide our students with the necessary abilities to make a smooth transition to working life. We greatly value the practical training both in the school and abroad, and in order to promote and enhance this experience we have agreements with different public and private entities through which we develop both training in specialized work centers and service-learning projects.