The Minister of Education has announced that we will soon have the final form of the framework plans (obligatory subjects) for the high school. Many education actors are waiting for “brave” plans, while in the system the resistance to change is huge.
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“Any minister will come must conclude the curricular reform at the high school.recently said the Minister of Education, Daniel David, announcing that the framework plans for high school are ready, but that the time should be chosen to be presented.
This year, the minister Daniel David said, the framework plans and the programs must be concluded, so that in the autumn the auctions and the elaboration of the textbooks begin and also in the autumn to debut the teachers’ train to teach the new contents.
What these framework plans will look like is the big question, after the initial form launched in the debate towards the end of January was long challenged by the people in the system, proving that the fight remains on the number of hours and chairs and not what and how it is to be done so that what the students in high school are learning to their needs.
Judging from the statement of the minister on Tuesday, who appreciated, in the context of presenting the OECD report for Romania in education, that high school is in the stone era, not even in the Middle Ages, these framework plans should be brave.
The reform of high school education should start with the transition from high school to high school, is the education expert Daniela Vișoianu.
“In my opinion, the only possible transition that brings more equity and quality from high school to high school is the rounding. The child goes to the nearest high school near the house, I do not abolish high schools in small cities, on the contrary, they reinforce them, children can choose in the respective high school to make certain disciplines in acc indicates the expert who could be the educational route of the gymnasium graduates.
It would also be the time to rethink the evaluation system, which is currently done only at the end of the cycle, and for the reform of the contents.
“Have to put more learning. Less content and more deep learning. The student goes to the high school near the house, if he has theoretical profile he does mathematics- history or biology-friction as dominant profile and gives more exams ”, explains Vișoianu. The model with exams at the end of the year, in the disciplines that the students choose (even two to three times during the high school) exist in most European states and favors learning, says the expert.
“There is no pressure with a function admitted to the bachelor and the children really test their skills. Because only when you learn the two, three, four, five disciplines, one year, because you know that you have an exam at the end of the year, in May, at six evaluation disciplines, you make a consistent learning effort and clarify if you want to stay with mathematics/history or from the XA or from the XA, you can change for the XA, when you can change, you can change, Because you were not allowed to choose only mathematics and history. With math profile, you had to take four disciplines from the real sphere and two from the human sphere and you realize what suits you. You are never allowed to choose 100% after I do not know what you have in the head, because the outside I say – a child can change himself, can discover different learning interests, we have to create only the context in which he is to make an effort, to train and to see what happens. ” explains Daniela Vișoianu how things could go in high school.
“I still have no signs or confidence that the minister will propose some revolutionary framework plans. I hope to come up with more proposals ”, adds Vișoianu.
“I think any child has to get a qualification”
The variant in which the high schools are presented with several options and from these the framework for the framework will be made it is difficult to put into practice if the current national evaluation system is kept, it draws the attention of Daniela Vișoianu. In high schools that opt for flexible variants, competition will increase even more, without being able to ensure equity. Another aspect on which the expert Daniela Vișoianu insists is the need to have a qualification at the end of the high school.
“I believe that all the variants of framework plans should be unified in one from which the flexibility will appear inside the high school, not between high schools. And I believe, by the way of other countries, that any child must achieve a qualification. The Dutch now have on the PNRR reform in which the children from theoretical, through associations between theoretical high schools and vocational high schools, can choose some hours, some classes, inside the education structure, so as to obtain a qualification. Schleicher (n. Red. – Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education & Skills in OECD) said today (n. Red. – Tuesday, May 27, at the presentation of the OECD report for Romania in education) that the dual must go more to the rural. Or the dual that goes to the rural means laboratories and the ability to learn the practical job. In the rural I do not have enough practice partners to school a class of 26 students, even if I have two qualifications, 13 and 13 “notes the expert and limitations that the Romanian system has today.
How could the frame plans be finally? “The current minister has all the force of conviction and the power of arguments to support a proposal of brave and ambitious framework plans. It is almost a personal choice to assume to be the champion of some frames like this”, Concluded Daniela Vișoianu.
“It is a test of courage”
Education expert Marian Staș says, on the other hand, that the Minister of Education, Daniel David, is expected to put on the table two or three variants of framework plans, not one, so that the high schools that have the courage to experience to do so. The moment of launch sees him after the installation of the new government resulting from the negotiations, with Daniel David Minister of Education.
“It is for me a tournament test, a courage test, because never so far the public system has had variants. Essential is for Romania to learn to decide, to learn to choose, Children the sameas our brothers do over Prut, from Chisinau, where they have four to five variants of framework for high school, for about 7-8 years, almost 10 years ”Staș said.
