Daniel David, the Minister of Education, said on Tuesday, May 27, that the Romanian high school is in the “Stone Agenot even the Middle Ages”, In the context in which the new OCDE report on education and skills in Romania shows that the degree of inclusion of young children, of pre -preschool age, is only 11.4%.
Daniel David/Photo: Mediafax
The report shows that the degree of inclusion of young children, of pre -preschool age, is only 11.4%, which represents a problem regarding the future education of these children.
The minister explained that the OCDE report emphasizes that Romania does not have enough infrastructure to do quality education, but stressed that a new curriculum is needed to be based on competences, writes Freedom.
“The problem is that we often do not transfer skills, but pieces of skills. And then we are surprised that we are not able to be performing in international test systems, which do not test pieces of skills, but skills (…)
In the area of high school education we are in the stone age, not even the Middle Ages. The truth is that things need to be changed and they must be changed quickly. We need new disciplines, we need new contents, we need new teaching methods, we need new textbooks. The OECD report insists on this idea of curriculum based on competences“, Said Daniel David.
He stressed that the OCDE report raises the issue of national assessment, showing that assessments in the second, 4th and 6th grades, but should be more guided on child feedback, for the existence of personalized education.
“Regarding the evaluation in the eighth grade, the OECD says things very clearly, and other reports have said before and I said in the report I presented that at this moment our eighth class evaluation does not serve the educational purpose in a system in which the education is mandatory until the twelfth grade, in the sense that it is too restrictive, when it is a Romanian language, that we evaluate several components and also that it is punctual and then strikes the life trajectory and the educational trajectory of a child.
OECD tries to make some suggestions, saying that it may be good to take in the clo Notes in the 7th and 8th gradesnot only this punctual assessment, beyond the fact that we extend the domains”, Says the minister.
He argues that one of the problems is the standard difference in terms of scoring, from one school to another.
The report believes that the baccalaureate is “relatively acceptable”, and the minister points out that “as this exam is now thought, it is relative” and has not caused critical analyzes in the OECD report, as it caused the evaluation from the end of the eighth grade.
“A note of 8 in Cluj-Napoca may be different from an 8 note in Satu Mare”
The Minister of Education said that skills should be transferred in the educational process, specifying that “Some insist a lot on declarative skills.”
“Some we insist a lot on declarative knowledge, forgetting the other two components, others go on Skills forgetting the theoretical component in the back and why it is important to know those skills and then we are surprised that we are not able to be performance in the International Timss or Pisa tests, which test no pieces of skills, or are their skills, or”, Explained the Minister of Education.
He also emphasizes that a note of 8 in Cluj may be different from a note of 8 in Satu Mare.
“We do not yet have some very rigorous standards for the way we give notes. So a note of 8 in Cluj-Napoca can be different from a note of 8 in Satu Mare or in a smaller city and then it is very important to make sure that the notation standards strike the minds of the teachers wherever they are in the schools in Romania,“He said.
