domingo, 1 de septiembre de 2013

THE END-LESS STRUGGLE ON FLT AT PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN COLOMBIA

On my search for new literature to use on my consultancy project, I found an interesting document that I have shallow read long time ago. As I was reading it, I realized that many things are marvelous when they are written on a piece of paper (document). However, put them into practice it is a hard task to achieve, taking into consideration all the disadvantages and the lack of resorces we have to deal with in public education.

The second section of the Decreto 1290 del 16 de abril de 2009 talks about Classroom Evaluation and what a teacher needs to do in order to make all the students reach the objectives proposed. All the parameters included for the final aim are specially conducted to the evaluation of young learners and how the teacher must use all the possible strategies to help every single child to get the goals. So, as far as I understood, the loaded charge on the learning-teaching process is given to the teacher. Yes, off course it also expresses the role that stakeholders play into the process, but at the end of the day if the students do not fulfill the indicators, the teacher is going to be the responsible for it. I found this unfair, because I have seen many teachers that even giving a 110% there is still a low performance on second language competence, and I blame not only the lack of commitment from students,because they are spoiled by all those laws, but also the poor stimulus from government to the educational guild.

I am affraid that as long as they change some of the policies, education in Colombia is not going to get better. I let you the doument and you can read it if you want and have your own conclussion.


http://www.mineducacion.gov.co/1621/articles-213769_archivo_pdf_evaluacion.pdf