Organization & work of the inspection services: team work and assignment

ABSTRACT Despite inspectors have been evaluating and assessing schools in Spain for more than 160 years, there is still a need of analysis and debate on how we are expected to unify criteria to improve our job. Since every Comunidad Autónoma (self-governed Community) has its own regulation and different ways of organizing the way they work, all of them just linked by a general state law, as a matter of fact, there are 17 different inspecting offices in Spain currently, as many as the 17 different self-governed Communities there are in the country. In our report we shall analyze the currents trends in inspection and evaluation of services throughout fifteen different Strategic Plans and another three Inspection regulating laws from three self-governed Communities, focusing on different approaches about organization of the inspection services. Also, through the analysis of the communities of Castilla-La Mancha, Madrid y Navarra and their regulation we will focus on the composition, structure and organization of the distinct inspection services, by analyzing team work and the relationship between inspector and schools. To finish with, we shall compare the legal approach of the Andalusian self-governed community with the rest of communities, regarding inspection services and their composition, nomination, assignment, responsibilities and their Team work