Compulsory Secondary Education Case Study

As we know, the Compulsory Secondary Education is structured by common educational principles and the attention to diversity of the students. The diversity refers to the heterogeneity that exists in the classes because every student has different interests, academic performances, level of previous knowledge, learning speed, a sociolinguistic variety and different sociocultural class.
So, the attention to diversity is a tool of educational improvement of the Spanish educational system. It intends to provide the same opportunities to all the students, attend with all the possible resources the difficulties a student can have during his/her educational stage and also, it intends to avoid the discrimination.
It is an important point within the
Students with specific needs of educational support (Alumnos Con Necesidades Específicas de Apoyo Educativo)
The article 7 of the General Dispositions of the Decree 40/2015 (pages 18877-18878) establishes the guideline to deal with students who present specific needs of educational support.
According to the law, the adaptations will be focused on time and students’ rhythm of learning, a personalized methodology, the reinforcement of learning techniques, the improvement of procedures, habits and attitudes and finally, the attention of the school counsellor. There are different types of students who present specific needs of educational support:
a) For the highly-gifted students, all the necessary actions to develop entirely their personality and achieve the adaptation with his/her classmates will be performed. In order to obtain that, flexible methodologies will be proposed to afford them to advance at their rhythm increasing their self-esteem and the skills that are involved in the emotional intelligence, especially important on these students. Extra activities will be given to them and other contents will be facilitated in order to increase their knowledge, keep their motivation and prevent their