This study is part of a research work about the qualitative improvement of education focused on the redimension of counseling officers as change promoters, based on the guidelines of the project IPSI. In this moment, the iniciatives of improvement of teaching are very frequent,  reform proposals  enhance the search  for  that high quality education desired for and by everybody (Escudero, 2001).

This study intends to open an action line for the improvement of educational centres from the Educational Guidance Teams (EGT). The experience shows us  that, for more than 30 years,  counselors have shaped a marginal identity of their profession acting as ¨fire extinguishers¨ instead of promoting prevention (Hargreaves, 1998). We can find classical theory contributors as (Louis et al, 1985; Loucks–Horsley and Crandall, 1986; Holly, 1991) which consider necessary to count on  support agents to mediate and make the change effective(Fullan, 2007), but this mediation should be constructive, collaborative and contextualized following an strategic vision of the processes.

Internal and external support services at schools should focus on providing support for the improvement of educational quality (Bolívar, 2008, 238), helping  professors in their teaching role, and supporting the students in learning situations; so as to  enhance educational innovation and selfassement processes and professional and institutional development.

Counselors as advisors become very important tools as agents of change, innovation, consultants and trainers of education professionals (Sanz Oro, 1996). With their performance they provide new teaching, management and organization strategies which intend to reach  educational improvement. One of this functions is guidance, which has become so relevant  to be considered a key factor in the improvement processes of the educational system(Hopkins, 2007; Guarro, 2005).

There are lots of issues related to guidance professionals, that is why we considered our object of study should focus on the performance of counselors as advisors.Thus, our research intends to creat a new practice based knowledge highlighting new roles and attitudes to carry out  advicing in educational centres(Murrillo, 2008).

The objectives of our study are:

• Understand the development and performance of the advicing function
• To document the process that takes place in an specific context, due to the action of a counselor as advisor.
• To understand the keys, dimensions, axis and  aspects interacting to enhance or hinder the supporting role.
• Analise the work from the perspective of the advisory function to stimulate the improvement of educational centres .
• Determine the keys and demensions to consider the effectiveneess or failure of the work  of counselor towards improvement according to the context.

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