Glance at Education in Ecuador
Legal Foundation of the Ecuadorian Educational System
Historical Background
Educational investment
Levels
Characteristics of the evaluation and promotion system
Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador
Education is a right that all Ecuadorian citizens should enjoy.
It has a humanistic vision framed in human rights, the environment and democracy.
It's mandatory, participatory, inclusive, intercultural and diverse.
The state guarantees their access, permanence, mobility and exit without discrimination.
It favors the values of gender equity, justice, solidarity and peace.
It encourages the critical sense, artistic orientation and physical culture.
It encourages individual and community skills, creativity and initiatives.
Public education will be universal and secular at all levels.
It is free up to the third level of higher education.
Social spending prioritizes the following sectors:
Health
Education
Social welfare
living place
Job
Social spending ensures free education.
It favors the productivity of the country.
Improves the economic growth of the country.
Investment in education increased by 28 percentage points.
Reaching 2.6% of GDP.
GDP in 2014 stood at 4%
Experiencing an increase of 112% percent.
The passage of students from one grade or course to the next is called "Promotion".
Student evaluation
Recording of information that evidences the achievement of student learning objectives.
Student evaluation processes should not always include the issuance of grades or marks.
The types of assessment by purpose are:
Formative
Summative
Diagnostic
For Initial Education and High School sub-level:
The essence of assessment is to provide feedback to the student so that he/she can improve and achieve the minimum learning outcomes.
For Elementary Basic, Middle Basic, Higher Basic and Baccalaureate levels
Students in the Initial Education level and in the Preparatory sub-level will be automatically promoted to the following year.
To the next grade requires an average grade of seven out of ten (7/10) in all the subjects of the different areas of the national curriculum
The certificate of having passed the EGB to students at the end of the tenth grade
The Degree Certificate to third year high school students who have passed the degree written exams.
Bachelor's degree, which is the certification that certifies that the student has met all the requirements of the level.
It was created in the year 1550 in the San Andres de Quito school
The education in Ecuador is regulated by the Ministry of Education
Under the government of Eloy Alfaro
Public or fiscal, municipal, and private education.
Lay or religious; Hispanic or intercultural bilingual.
There were many attempts to establish formal education in our country in deed the Santo Tomas University was founded and remains
Today with the name of Universidad Central del Ecuador, which has been the representative point of Ecuador in the development of educative issues through time.*
Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador (2008), the state will guarantee free education at all levels.
The activity schedules have two seasons: Costa and Sierra-Amazoni
Initial Education
Begins when the child is less than 5 years old.
It is the process of accompanying the integral development of children.
Its objective is to enhance their learning and promote their wellbeing through meaningful and timely experiences.
Basic Education
High School
The main legal basis for education in Ecuador is the National Constitution, which establishes all the precepts in educational matters within the framework of the rule of law. Other important laws are:
An instrument with operational validity and the result of the National Government's policy for the promotion and development of Public Education in Ecuador is the Ten-Year Education Plan.
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Children of this age naturally seek to explore, experiment, play and create, activities that they do through interaction with others.
To allow children to play independently according to their interests and with as much control as possible.
Its objective is to develop the capacities, abilities, skills and competencies of children and adolescents from the age of 5 until they continue their high school studies.
Evaluation, on the other hand, is intended to be permanent, systematic and scientific, and its purpose is to diagnose the student's learning situation and achieve improvements in his or her training.
If a student in the eighth grade of General Basic Education does not achieve an average of 7 between the two quarters, he/she must repeat the year.
The educational system promotes the automation of processes; therefore, students who pass the 4 sub-levels.
Its purpose is to offer a better educational service for all young people who have passed the General Basic Education.
They must study a group of core subjects called the common core, which allows them to acquire certain basic knowledge corresponding to their general education.
The General Unified Baccalaureate level is organized by areas of knowledge.
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-The National Plan for Good Living
-Organic Law of Higher Education
-Organic Law of Intercultural Education
-Organic Law of Intercultural Education (LOEI) and its Regulations.