The president of the Uruguayan Association of Catholic Education (Audec), Adrián Arias, said that both Catholic schools and non-Catholic private They requested an extension of “at least one year” for some institutions to implement the educational reform.
raised”if it was possible that some school that needed more time for the implementation could count on that”, He stated in Informativo Uruguay (Radio Uruguay). In particular, they take into account “smaller schools” that have difficulties to start the change from 2023.
“Until now We have not received answer. The proposal was received, it was said that it was going to be studied”, Aries explained.
The president of Audec recalled that 30 Catholic schools “have been promoting different strategies of educational transformation, showing that this transformation was possible in the previous curricular framework.”
from the association They share the view of putting “children, adolescents and young people” at the center and “the need for more active methodologies for learning”. In addition, they agree on “this perspective that integrates curricular content with the development of essential skills for life” and “that recognizes the diversity in each student”; this “supposes a review of the ways of evaluating, putting the processes at the center and not so much the final results”.
Anywaythey are concerned about “implementation issues” such as “timing”.
“We understand that the times with which it is being implemented can they are not the best that we would need a little more time, because not all schools have been able to dedicate the training time that this entails for the teaching staff and also to see the adaptations that this entails in the structures of teachers’ hours”, held.
“There are teaching profiles that we would have to reorient” and “subjects that are converted into other types of subjects”Arias explained.
But, according to the president of Audec, For now, training is being developed only in “public directors and inspectors”.
