HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 6 (ACN) For the next school term, on an experimental basis, the third improvement of the education system will be implemented in 154 schools in the country, representatives of the Ministry of Education (MINED) reported today in this capital.
Silvia Navarro, director of the Central Institute of Pedagogical Sciences (ICCP), said that this process will be developed in the first, second and fourth year of life of infants, and in grades first, fourth, seventh and tenth.
At the National Seminar for the Preparation of the 2017-2018 School Year, she commented that such levels will have new plans and curricula, textbooks, methodological guidelines and workbooks.
In explaining the main transformations, she mentioned that in the Early Childhood (new denomination), five dimensions will be assumed: personal, aesthetic, communicational, relationship with environment and motor skills, and will enhance the prominence of the family.
She explained that in Primary Education the repetition and the final test will be conceived in the second, fourth and sixth grades; while in high school they will reduce the teaching load of the general obligatory curriculum.
She also referred to changes in Pre-university, Youth and Adult, Technical and Professional, Teacher Education and Special Education, the latter present throughout the Cuban education system, she said.
The director of the ICCP emphasized in the scientific investigations that guarantee the perfection, and pointed out that for this, four curricula and 126 programs were subjected to consultation, besides the exchange with 37 organisms and institutions of the country, with teachers, methodologists and managers.
Navarro stressed the importance of training the teaching faculty of the centers hosting the experiment, of socializing these transformations with families, students and all the community actors where the 154 schools are located.
She reiterated that for the effectiveness of the third improvement, systematic meetings will be held with teachers and directors, as well as providing documents and other means to support this process.
Until Saturday the National Seminar for Preparation of the 2017-2018 School Year will be held in Havana, as well as meetings in which teachers of the country to analyze and evaluate in advance the objectives prioritized for this school period.
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