The curriculum of the stage approved yesterday by the Government includes the subject of Values and only allows repeating once “in an exceptional way”
Yesterday, the Council of Ministers approved the royal decree on minimum education in Primary Education, the compendium of basic skills and knowledge that a student must know at the end of this academic stage in order to consider that they are in a position to continue their compulsory studies, to go on to THAT. A new design of content that is more competitive and with a gender perspective that contemplates that it can only be repeated once, and exceptionally, in the entire stage.
It is the practical application in Primary of the guidelines, contents, organization and pedagogical techniques that Lomloe marks, the new educational law approved a little over a year ago. It is the new teaching model, the new curriculum that will begin to be applied next September in the odd years (first, third and fifth) and the following year in the even ones. The Early Childhood Education curriculum was approved a week ago and the ESO and Baccalaureate will follow shortly.
It marks how 60% of the Primary school hours should be in all of Spain (50% in the communities with their own language), work that the ministries must now complement with the remaining 40% or 50% of their competence, of which they should cede a representative percentage of the design to the schools themselves.
The new subject will include affective-sexual education, ecology, respect for minorities and the fight against gender violence
As established by Lomloe and the evaluation royal decree approved in the autumn, the new Primary recovers the structure in three cycles of two courses each that it had before 2013, it will establish reinforcement plans for students who have learning difficulties, it will only be possible to suspend at the end of each cycle, repetitions will be limited to a maximum of one in the entire stage, and there will be no more numerical marks. The grades will be qualitative: fail, pass, good, remarkable or outstanding, but the numerical grades from 1 to 10 will no longer have to be included in the Primary Education evaluation records.
SOME KEYS
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Subjects: Eight Basic Skills
The new curriculum establishes eight key competences that students must acquire at the end of basic education, which are: competence in linguistic communication; multilingual; mathematics and in science, technology and engineering; digital; personal, social and learning to learn; citizen; enterprising; and in cultural awareness and expression. -
Qualifications: Continuous evaluation and educational reinforcement
The evaluation of the students will be “continuous and global, and will take into account their progress in the set of learning processes”. In addition, it establishes that when a student’s progress is not adequate, “educational reinforcement measures” will be established. It can only be repeated once during the stage and on an exceptional basis. -
Mathematics: Emotional management among basic knowledge
The new subject of Mathematics in Primary is one of the subjects that has caused the most stir, as it incorporates emotional management among the basic knowledge. The Ministry explains that basic knowledge is structured in six ways around the concept of ‘mathematical sense’ and integrates a set of knowledge, skills and attitudes designed in accordance with the evolutionary development of students.
The subjects that suffer the most variations in the new state Primary curriculum are Religion and Artistic Education, which includes Art, Music and Dance. The first, which in all educational stages becomes voluntary, since it will not count for the final grade nor does it have a substitute subject, is reduced from an hour and a half a week to one hour. Artistic training goes the opposite way, until it reaches an hour and a half a week.
The reform will enter into force next year only for odd courses, and the following year for even courses
However, as is the case now, more than half of the schedule will be made up of Language and Literature and Mathematics, followed by Knowledge of the Natural, Social and Cultural Environment, all three with slight increases in schedule, plus Physical Education and Foreign Language, with times almost identical to the current ones.
The novelty of the stage is Education in Civic and Ethical Values that, with 50 hours of class, must be given in a compulsory way in fifth or sixth, as each autonomy chooses. The new subject will include content on affective and sexual education, equality between men and women, respect for minorities and gender identity, ecology and the fight against gender violence.