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all the keys to a new school year

all the keys to a new school year

The goal according to the plan is “make teaching more flexible so that education is more inclusive and centralized in the learning rhythm of each student”, where the change of focus intends that the school years do not work in a compartmentalized way, but that the subjects and teachers cooperate with each other for the benefit of the student – that it will no longer complete years, but “cycles” and “spans”.

A central point in the reform is the greater autonomy of the centers, where directors and teachers can evaluate whether or not the functioning of the classroom is changed. While moving within the framework of the educational program, teachers will be able to plan classes in a different way according to the context of the school or high school.

As far as evaluation is concerned, by 2023 there will be no card with a scale of “regular” to “outstanding”. The evaluations will be about the 10 competences that the student must acquire: metacognitive competence, intrapersonal competence, initiative and action orientation, communication, relationship with others, creative thinking, critical thinking, scientific thinking, computational thinking and competence in local citizenship. global and digital For the Basic Cycle, the traditional evaluation from 1 to 12 is maintained in each of the subjects.

Regarding teacher training, changes in infrastructure are announced, foreseeing the installation of more teachers’ rooms in urban schools. Likewise, ANEP seeks more frequent meetings of teachers.

One of the biggest changes is that the student can only repeat in 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th, that is, at the end of each cycle. The identification of those students who have more difficulties will be maintained, to continue offering specific accompaniments instead of making them repeat the year. In the case of Initial Education, from 2023 the repetition for boys and girls will be removed.

A 14% increase in the school basket

Two weeks ago, the Consumer Price Information System of the Consumer Defense Unit conducted a price survey 55 school itemsduring the period from February 1 to 16, 2023.

For this, the data of the prices of 393 establishments that were sent to the Consumer Price Information System where, in addition, stationers such as Escool.uy, Gandulia, La Papelera, Mosca, Office2000, and Papacito were surveyed. With the survey done, the results showed a price increase in 38 items while a reduction could be seen in 3.

In this same sense, it was possible to see that the average interannual increase in the prices of this sample of school supplies between February 2022 and 2023 was 14.05%while for the same period, but between 2021 and 2022, the average year-on-year increase was 5.70%.

The three products that increased the most from the disclosure made were the 48-unit Tabaré sheets with 39.86%, followed by the Acrilex Crayons for 12 units with an increase of 37.77% and, finally, the 100-hour Papyrus Notebook. with 34.33%.

On the other hand, the products that increased the least were the 12-unit Stabilo thin markers with an increase of 1.05%, followed by the Stabilo fluorescent marker with 2.08% and the 48-sheet Papyrus lined notebook with 2.16 %.

What did Lacalle Pou say in the Assembly?

Last Thursday, during his appearance at the ParliamentPresident Lacalle Pou defended educational reform. “All of us who are here have stated the need for reform in education,” said the president.

“We all know that the problem is on both sides: what is taught, which is often far from reality and, on the other hand, that children, adolescents and young people do not believe -they do not see- education as a tool for improvement”, remarked the president, referring to the “comfort zone” from which education had to leave.

Source: Ambito

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