- The Government of Madrid and the regional representatives will discuss on 8 April how to manage the end of this year’s course. The State School Council is the main consultative body of the Spanish Government’s Department of Education and has made these proposals on the eve of the meeting.
The country has given the news. On April 7, the State School Council has agreed to raise the following proposals to the Spanish Department of Education in the approved report:
That activities carried out from home in a state of alarm are evaluable
The School Council proposes that families without technological means should be excluded from the evaluation
The School Council has proposed to the Department of Education that it can evaluate the activities carried out from home during the state of alarm, but has established an important exception: in the case of families that do not have the necessary "technological means", i.e. that do not have internet at home or digital devices, the School Council has proposed a personalized monitoring of the teachers to assess the work done.
The School Council has issued a report stating the following in relation to the matter: "to evaluate the educational activities carried out in the home through personalized reports on the students, taking into account the technological conditions and connectivity of each of them to generate knowledge (the digital gap cannot be the cause of the negative evaluation of learning and skills)".
If in the third evaluation the student gets a positive note in a subject proposes that the previous two automatically be exceeded
The School Council has approved that the third evaluation serves to recover the previous two, as explained by El País: if the student gets a positive note in a subject, the previous two evaluations are automatically taken for granted in the case of those who suspended them. In any case, "provided that the teaching staff considers it appropriate". The same procedure could be applied to them 4. For ESO students, so they could get the ESO degree. And the School Council has called for this procedure to continue to be used in Bachillerato.
In Primary, the objective of home work is to review the contents that have been given until April
The Council has approved that, in Primary, the contents that will be given from home are the following: that they cannot go ahead in academic programmes and that work at home must be focused "passing through and deepening" what has been given until April. The Council says that in Primary "it will be very easy to add to what has not been learned in these months at the beginning of the next course".
What to do with the contents in Secondary and High School?
On May 5, the School Council will study what to do with selectivity content
In both cases, the lack of elaboration of new contents from home would directly influence the selectivity of the themes to be evaluated. On May 5, the School Council will study what to do with the content of selectivity. For the time being, the Department of Education and the Autonomous Communities have agreed that the selectivity of this course is more flexible, that is, that more subjects be given to choose the theme to be developed, so as to ensure that the topic being asked is given in class.
To the repetition of the course "yes, but in extreme cases"
The Union of State Students has asked that, without prior examination, all students pass the course. The School Council has rejected this request from the students of the Basque Public School to "not relax". But the recommendation that the Council makes to the Department of Education is that only "extreme cases" be repeated as a result of the exceptional situation that has led to the closure of schools.
In July there will be no class
He proposes that there should be no class in July: "Now you're not on vacation."
One of the options on the table was to delay classes until July. The Council has rejected this possibility and has proposed that the school calendar approved by the autonomies for this course be maintained. "It must be borne in mind that teachers, students and families are making an effort to follow the course via the internet; now they are no longer on vacation and the psychological burden they have had to bear also requires a regular rest time," the report says.
The School Council calls on the Department of Education to ensure technological resources for the most vulnerable
The report calls for students in the most vulnerable situation to be provided with the material and technological means necessary to continue the course. The Country gives the following information: In the Spanish state, 10% of non-university students do not have access to the internet at home.