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 linguistically-

relevant education through the offering of Bilingual-

Intercultural 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

teachers, administrative staff, and management

as well as to support the National Education

System with its new needs of human talent.

Teacher

Director

Supervisor

Professional Career

Teacher

Auditor

Advisor

Director

Mentor

Yesterday

Today

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

Yesterday

Today

Tomorrow

Yesterday

Today

Mañana

Outdated, irrelevant, and poorly-applied curricula in the education system.

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.

30 years of outdated curricula and disorganized educational supply—without the supervision of the Ministry of Education.

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). High school graduates prepared

(a) to lead democratic lives, (b) to access higher education, and (c) to be ready for the workplace and for entrepreneurship.

Pre K-8

High School

Tomorrow

2. STUDENTS Learning Standards

Yesterday

Today

Tomorrow

Lack of quality standards in education

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.

2. STUDENTS

Expansion in early childhood education

Yesterday

Today

Tomorrow

29,800 children in the Ministry of Education’s early childhood education program

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.

Early education curricula

applied in all establishments.

Quality learning standards for

the functioning of early

childhood education.

2. STUDENTS Elimination of access barriers

Yesterday

Today

Mañana

Yesterday

Today

Mañana

Yesterday

Today

Tomorrow

Yesterday

Today

Tomorrow

1 ,309,801 beneficiaries in 2006, with 80 schooldays.

1,789,461 beneficiaries in 2011, with service everyday during the schoolyear.

2,702,538 beneficiaries in 2013, with service everyday during the schoolyear(100% of K-9 and early childhood education students).

0 students

100% of K-8 students (2,791,035) receive textbooks according to the new curricula.

100% of K-12 students receive free textbooks.

0 students 1,054,187 students receive free uniforms (100% of rural K-8 students in the Coastal region and Highlands; 100% of students in the Rainforest.

100% of K-8 and early childhood education students will receive free uniforms.

Families paid an inscription fee in public schools.

100% of students (3,278,814) no longer pay inscription fees.

Free public education is guaranteed.

Meals

Textbooks

Uniforms

Inscription fee bonus

3. TEACHERS Evaluation: In-service teachers & teachers interested in joining the public education system

Yesterday

Today

Tomorrow

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.

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

Yesterday

Today

Tomorrow

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”.

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

Yesterday

Today

Tomorrow

Lack of teaching

and managerial

or executive

standards.

Teaching and

managerial

standards

presented for

public discussion

through

workshops.

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)

Yesterday

Today

Tomorrow

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.

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.

89,3% 91,2% 91,4% 93,1% 93,5% 94,8% 95,4% 96,7%

46,5% 47,9% 51,2%

53,6% 54,8% 59,4%

62,1%

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4. SOCIETY

Increase in educational reach

Yesterday

Today

Tomorrow

Since 2005, the reach of high school students of the corresponding age has

increased by 15 points.

4. SOCIETY

Increase in educational reach

38.344 50.082 46.302 43.508

2.283.840 2.620.093 2.769.760 2.867.242

154.411

215.471 234.753 211.104

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895.731 939.100 933.846

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2007-2008 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011

ESTUDIANTES

Municipal Fiscal Fiscomisional Particular

SOURCE: Master File of Educational Establishments (AMIE)

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

Yesteday

Today

Tomorrow

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

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)

Yesterday

Today

Tomorrow

0 UEMs working 0 UEMs ready to be implemented 0 students attending

14 UEMs working 146 sister schools working (November 2011) 10 UEMs ready to be implemented 7,700 students attending a UEM 13,000 students attending a sister school (November 2011)

104 UEM working

40,000 students

attending a UEM

800 sister schools

working

400,000 students

attending a sister

school