After multiple disagreements, dialogues and meetings, the Teaching Performance Evaluation (EDD) will be carried out in April of this year, according to the vice minister of Teacher Accreditation and Certification of the Ministry of Education (Minerd), Francisco D’ Óleo.
The official reported yesterday that the ministry intends to move forward with the new scale of incentiveswhich consists of a salary increase of 17% to 32% for teachers who obtain results of 70 points or more.
In previous evaluations, teachers with scores of 60 to 69 fell into the improvable category and received a 17% increase, something they seek to eradicate at this stage.
A provision that the Dominican Association of Teachers (ADP) opposed, since it sought to maintain the previous scale, in which teachers with scores of 60 and above received incentives.
The vice minister pointed out that in this process they will be evaluating about 120 thousand teachers, including teachers, pedagogical coordinators, center directors, school counselors, school psychologists, ICT facilitators, teacher librarians, teaching secretaries of educational centers, teaching coordinators and teaching technicians. . In addition, to the national, regional and district directors.
He also said that teachers who do not pass the EDD will be integrated into a professional development plan to improve the quality of their practice.
Assessment
Martha Lebron, director of Teacher Evaluation at Minerd, indicated that in April they will begin observing teachers in the classrooms, to see their performance in their environment and their content planning. Then, they will continue with the assessment of other aspects.
He highlighted that in June they will be delivering the first evaluation report and the second, between July and September of this year.
Likewise, he indicated that the Dominican Institute for Evaluation and Research of Educational Quality (Ideice), the Salomé Ureña Higher Teacher Training Institute (Isfodosu), the National Institute for Teacher Training and Training (Inafocam), universities and specialists will provide technical support. experienced.
He reported that these organizations are equally qualified as the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI), which would initially give the support technical in this process, but the agreement was annulled due to the opposition of the Dominican Association of Teachers (ADP), who considered that its hiring was not transparent.
Previously, technical support in the EDD would be provided by the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI), however, the agreement was annulled due to the opposition of the Dominican Association of Teachers (ADP), who considered that the hiring of this organization was not transparent. and that she was not qualified.
