HISTORIC MILESTONES OF THE EDUCATIONAL REVOLUTION
• New Management Model • Intercultural Education •Revaluation of Teachers • Teacher Development • Ongoing Assessment of the Education System •Family Participation
• Updated curricula • Learning standards • Student assessment • Elimination of access barriers • Expansion of early childhood education
• Teacher Evaluation: In-service teachers & teachers interested in joining the public education system • Teacher training • Teaching standards • Increase of ‘tenure’ positions (nombramientos)
• Increase in educational reach • ICTs in education • Educational Millennium Schools (UEM)
1. Legal Framework New Management Model Decentralization will bring service to the people. To decentralize management, the country has been divided into nine administrative regions, 143 districts, and 1,200 educational circuits. This will bring educational services closer to the communities, which will aid in expediting and ameliorating procedures, designating positions for teachers , rationalizing the educational proposal, and resolving conflicts.
1. Legal Framework Intercultural education Appreciating cultural diversity is fostered in the classroom. Cross-curricular multiculturalism is ensured in the entire education system. Similarly, ancestral people and nationalities access culturally- and linguisticallyrelevant education through the offering of BilingualIntercultural Education in ancient languages​​.
1. Legal Framework Revaluation of teachers Teachers need to be valued to enhance the quality of education. The new salary steps is based on merits, with promotions tied to training, evaluation, and academic degrees in order to improve the quality of the education system. The new Law in Education (LOEI) places the Ecuadorian teacher on the same
level as public servants in the country, increasing their contributions to social security and guaranteeing both a higher reserve fund and a more dignified retirement.
1. Legal Framework Professional development An education system cannot be better than its teachers. A National University of Education will be created in order to both professionalize
Yesterday Director
teachers, administrative staff, and management
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as well as to support the National Education
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System with its new needs of human talent. Teacher
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Professional Career
Advisor Director Mentor
1. Legal Framework Ongoing assessment of the education system Evaluate, evaluate, evaluate‌ to improve.
The National Institute for Educational Evaluation will carry out through
internal and external evaluation of the national education system to determine the quality of education, all of which are based on set standards.
1. Legal Framework Family participation Families contribute to students’ education.
Traditionally, teachers and students have been the main actors of the educational process. However, the LOEI not only includes families and schools, but it also creates “scholastic governments” as a formal request for participation, supervision and peaceful conflict resolution in every school. These ‘governments’ are comprised of authorities, teachers, students and their families.
2. STUDENTS Updated curricula Today Pre K-8
Yesterday
Outdated, irrelevant, and poorly-applied curricula in the education system.
High School
Updated and relevant curricula in effect since September 2011 in the Highlands and April 2012 in the Coast.
Curricula correctly implemented in the classroom. Teachers are able to adapt it to the reality of different groups of learners.
Tomorrow
Today New BGU curricula, offering common learnings to all students and strengthening Technical High School curricular proposal (curricular guidelines in effect since September 2011 in the Highlands). Yesterday
30 years of outdated curricula and disorganized educational supply— without the supervision of the Ministry of Education.
Tomorrow High school graduates prepared MaĂąana (a) to lead democratic lives, (b) to access higher education, and (c) to be ready for the workplace and for entrepreneurship.
2. STUDENTS Learning Standards
Today Lack of quality standards in education Yesterday
Design and validation of learning standards for level 1 (Kindergarten), level 2 (1st to 3rd grade) and level 3 (4th to 6th grade)
The use of learning standards that guide what Pre-K to high school students should know and what they should know how to do.
Tomorrow
2. STUDENTS Expansion in early childhood education Early education curricula applied in all establishments.
Today 29,800 children in the Ministry of Education’s early childhood education program Yesterday
89,000 children in the Ministry of Education’s early childhood education program 36,082 children from INFA, with the support of public school teachers. 100% of children in the Ministry of Education’s early childhood education program receive uniforms and breakfast. 100% of early childhood education teachers trained. 100% of early childhood education centers receive textbooks and funding per student.
Quality learning standards for the functioning of early childhood education.
Tomorrow
2. STUDENTS Elimination of access barriers Today Meals
Textbooks
1 ,309,801 beneficiaries in 2006, with 80 schooldays. Yesterday
1,789,461 beneficiaries in 2011, with service everyday during the schoolyear.
Today
100% of K-8 students (2,791,035) receive textbooks according to the new curricula.
0 students Yesterday
2,702,538 beneficiaries in 2013, with service everyday Ma単ana during the schoolyear(100% of K-9 and early childhood education students).
100% of K-12 students receive Ma単ana free textbooks.
Today Uniforms
0 students Yesterday
Today Inscription fee bonus Families paid an inscription Yesterday fee in public schools.
100% of students (3,278,814) no longer pay inscription fees.
1,054,187 students receive free uniforms (100% of rural K8 students in the Coastal region and Highlands; 100% of students in the Rainforest. Tomorrow
100% of K-8 and early childhood Tomorrow education students will receive free uniforms.
Free public education is guaranteed.
3. TEACHERS Evaluation: In-service teachers & teachers interested in joining the public education system Today
Yesterday
Entering the public school system: -deficient general test with published bank of questions -In-service testing: Inexistent
Entering the public school system: transparent, dynamic, fair, and automated procedures. In-service: content knowledge testing, graded by optical readers. In 2011, 56,953 in-service teachers were evaluated.
Tomorrow
100% of teachers and education authorities interesting in working in the public school system evaluated online. In-service teachers & authorities evaluated by the National Institute of Educational Evaluation.
4. TEACHERS Teacher training
Today
Yesterday
Poor quality, irrelevant training based on supply—not demand.
Between 2010-2011, 394,065 “training quotas” or seats were offered, of which 181,564 teachers accessed at least one SIPROFE course. 29 mentors in 24 provinces were selected, training 900 teachers who were assessed as “insufficient”.
Tomorrow 100% of public school teachers will have received state-of-the-art ongoing training. 9,000 teachers will have been trained by 300 mentors.
4. TEACHERS Teaching standards
Today
Yesterday Lack of teaching and managerial or executive standards.
Teaching and managerial standards presented for public discussion through workshops.
Tomorrow Standards that describe, define, & guide how a quality teacher and director should be for the sound management of both the school and students’ learning achievements.
4. TEACHERS Increase of ‘tenure’ position (nombramientos) Today
Yesterday
Only ‘tenures’ belonging to retired or deceased teachers were replaced, which hindered increasing educational opportunities.
24,381 tenure tracks have been summoned. 11,070 tenure tracks have been awarded and many more are being created.
Tomorrow
20,000 tenure tracks will have been summoned through Zone Resolutions, calculated on the basis of a diagnosis of the demand to ensure the supply in every educational circuit.
4. SOCIETY Increase in educational reach % of population corresponding to the age attending to class
100,0% 90,0%
89,3%
91,2%
91,4%
93,1%
93,5%
94,8%
96,7%
95,4%
Today
80,0%
67,0%
70,0% 60,0%
50,0%
Yesterday 46,5%
47,9%
51,2%
53,6%
54,8%
59,4%
62,1%
Tomorrow
40,0% 2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Since 2005, the reach of high school students of the corresponding age has increased by 15 points.
2013
Educación General Básica (Población 5 a 14 años) Bachillerato Secundaria (Población 15 a 17 años)
4. SOCIETY Increase in educational reach ESTUDIANTES 4.500.000 4.000.000
3.500.000 3.000.000 2.500.000
895.731 737.048
215.471
939.100
933.846
234.753
211.104
2.769.760
2.867.242
46.302
43.508
2009-2010
2010-2011
154.411
2.000.000 1.500.000 1.000.000
2.283.840
2.620.093
500.000 0
38.344
50.082
2007-2008
2008-2009
Municipal SOURCE: Master File of Educational Establishments (AMIE)
Fiscal
Fiscomisional
Particular
Since 2007, the reach of public education has increased by almost half a million students.
4. SOCIETY Increase in educational reach
In 2011, over 60% of 17 year olds attend class.
4. SOCIETY ICTs in education
Today
Yesteday Little to no ICT implementation Chaotic delivery of computers Lack of public policy
434 new technological classrooms in public schools. 226 community technology classrooms, where 19,000 people are trained at no cost. 8,209 teachers trained in the use of ICT in education
Tomorrow 100% of schools in Ecuador with access to educational technology All technological classrooms open to the community Teachers trained through virtual education platforms Technological support programs through the community
4. SOCIETY Educational Millennium Schools (UEM)
Today
Yesterday
14 UEMs working
0 UEMs working
146 sister schools working (November 2011)
0 UEMs ready to be implemented
10 UEMs ready to be implemented
0 students attending
7,700 students attending a UEM 13,000 students attending a sister school (November 2011)
Tomorrow 104 UEM working 40,000 students attending a UEM 800 sister schools working 400,000 students attending a sister school