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THE NATIONAL EDUCATION LAW

THE NATIONAL EDUCATION LAW. THE STRUCTURE OF THE NATIONAL EDUCATION PRE-UNIVERSITY SYSTEM. Early education (0-6 years) Ante preschool level Preschool level Primary education Preparing grade I-IV grades Secondary education Lower secondary – gymnasium – grades V-IX

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THE NATIONAL EDUCATION LAW

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  1. THE NATIONAL EDUCATION LAW

  2. THE STRUCTURE OF THE NATIONAL EDUCATION PRE-UNIVERSITY SYSTEM

  3. Early education (0-6 years) • Ante preschool level • Preschool level • Primary education • Preparing grade • I-IV grades • Secondary education • Lower secondary – gymnasium – grades V-IX • Upper secondary – high school- grades X-XII /XIII :theoretical, technological, vocational. • Professional education for a period between 6 months and 2 years • Tertiary education

  4. Compulsory general education is composed by lower primary and secondary level • Technical education comprises grades XII and XIII from the professional, technical and vocational upper secondary school • The professional and technical education is formed by: • Professional education • Technical education • Post upper secondary school education

  5. School after School Program • By the decision of the School Administration Board there can be carried on activities such as “School after School” in partnership with the local public authorities, with the parents associations, NGO’s with competences in this area • Educational, recreational activities, consolidating the learning competences or their acceleration, remedial learning activities. • The Government can finance the School after School Program

  6. School Network • The school network is formed by the total number of the accredited school units, respectively the temporary authorized units. • The school consortia represent contractual partnerships between school units that ensure: • The mobility of the personnel between the member schools; • The usage of the facilities of the member schools; • Enlargement of the learning opportunities offered to pupils and mutual recognition of the learning results

  7. Study Formations • Ante preschool education- 7 children, 5/9 • Preschool education – 15 preschoolers, 10/20 • Primary education – 20 pupils, 15/25 • Lower secondary education – 25 pupils, 20/30 • Upper secondary education – 25 pupils, 25/30 • Special education for pupils with minor deficiencies- 10 pupils, 8/12 • Special education for pupils with severe deficiencies- 5 pupils, 4/6

  8. Curriculum • The national curricula produced in accordance with: • The specific needs for personal development; • The needs of the labor market and of the community; • Subsidiarity principle

  9. Curriculum • The number of hours: • 20 hours – primary education • 25 hours- lower secondary education • 30 hours- upper secondary education • Compulsory subjects • 80% for the compulsory education • 70% for the upper secondary education • Within each subject • 75% of the syllabus covers the teaching and evaluation classes • 25% at the disposal of the teacher for remedial learning, individual learning plans.

  10. Curriculum • For early education- centered on physical, cognitive, emotional and social education, precocious repair of the possible development deficiencies; • For lower and upper secondary education- centered on 8 competence domains which determine the pupil’s formation profile;

  11. Competence Domains • Communication competences in Romanian language; • Communication competences in foreign languages; • Basic competences for mathematics, sciences and technologies; • Digital competences; • Social and civic competences; • Entrepreneurial competences; • Sensitivity and cultural expression competences; • Lifelong learning competences;

  12. Curricula approach • The graduate’s profile; • The national frame of the curricula (curricula domains); • Teaching plans • Schools syllabuses • Textbooks

  13. E-learning. On-line learning communities • There will be set up the Virtual School Library and E-learning School Platform which will contain: • School syllabuses • Lesson examples • Methodological guides • Examples of evaluation tests

  14. Evaluation • The objective of the evaluation is to orientate and optimize learning; • All evaluations are made on the basis of national standards for evaluation for each school subject; • The control of the usage and respecting of the national evaluation standards by the teachers is made through the school inspection

  15. Evaluation • Marking students without using and respecting the national standards and evaluation methodologies represents a disciplinary deviation and it is sanctioned according to the present law • The evaluation is centered on competences, offers real feed-back to students and is located at the basis of the individual learning plans • There will be created an unique bank of evaluation instruments with an guiding function

  16. Evaluation – Educational portofolio • Educational portfolio comprises all the diplomas, certificates and other official registrations obtained following the evaluation of the acquired skills or participation to learning activities, in different contexts. • The educational portfolio is the central element of the evaluation of the learning • Its usage starts with the preparing class and represents the pupil’s educational identity card

  17. The structure and the characteristics of the evaluations • At the end of the preparing class- individualized • At the end of the 2nd grade- at school level; • At the end of the 4th grade-at national level, by sampling; • At the end of the 6th grade- at school level; • At the end of the 9th grade-at national level; • At the end of the 12th -13th grade- at national level.

  18. At the end of the preparing class • The teacher makes an evaluation report of the physical education, socio-emotional, cognitive, language and communication, capacity development and learning attitudes.

  19. At the end of the 2nd grade • Evaluation of the fundamental competences at: • -writing-reading; • -mathematics • Evaluation results are used in order to elaborate the individualized learning plans • It is communicated to the parents

  20. At the end of the 4th grade • National evaluation, by sampling, of the acquired fundamental competences in primary level • According to the international model • Has its aim the diagnosis of the system

  21. Students’ evaluation at the school level by two trans-disciplinary tests • Language and communication; • Mathematics and sciences • The results of the evaluation are used in order to elaborate the individualized plans and for the school pre-orientation • The results of the evaluation are communicated to parents and registered in the educational portfolio

  22. At the end of the 9th grade • Compulsory national evaluation for all students, score according to the international model • Written examination at Romanian literature and language • Trans-disciplinary written examination at mathematics and sciences • Written examination at an international language; • Practice examination regarding computer skills, held during the school year • Trans-disciplinary oral examination in order to evaluate the civic and social competences, held during the school year • The results of the evaluation are registered in the student’s educational portfolio

  23. Admission in upper secondary school (high-school) • On the basis of the educational portfolio if the number of the places is equal to the number of the candidates; • On the basis of the educational portfolio , of the graduation average, of the average at the national evaluation- a proportion of 70% • 30% from the grade obtained at the admission established by the education institution

  24. Baccalaureate examination(school graduate examination) • Examination A- the evaluation of the oral communication competences in Romanian language; • Examination B- the evaluation of the communication competences in mother tongue • Examination C- the evaluation of the communication competences in two international languages • Examination D- the evaluation of the digital competences; • Examination E written- - the evaluation of the competences which were formed during the upper secondary school(high-school) years

  25. Examination E 1.Written examination at Romanian literature and language 2. Written examination at mother tongue 3. Two differentiated written examinations: 1)Real profile • Mathematics • Science trans-disciplinary examination • 2) Humanities profile An international foreign language • Interdisciplinary examination from geography, history, socio-humanities 3)Technological profile • Written examination specific to the profile • Trans-disciplinary examination • Vocational profile

  26. THE MANAGEMENT OF THE SYSTEM AND OF THE EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

  27. The management of the education institutions • The institutions are managed by an administration board formed by 7,9,13 members • After the formation of the AB there is chosen a session president, for an year • Monthly meetings • Attributions – public responsibility for the achievements of the education institution, together with the principal

  28. Financing and material resources of the education institutions • Basic financing • Complementary financing • Supplementary financing

  29. Competitions • Between schools- institutional evaluation-classification of the schools on 5 levels: • Excellent • Very good • Good • Satisfactory • Unsatisfactory • Among teachers- the Teacher of the Year

  30. THE STATUTE OF THE DIDACTIC PERSONNEL

  31. Initial and continuous training. Didactic career • Theoretical initial training • Didactic master for a period of 2 years • A scholarship which is equal with the net salary of a beginner teacher • Practice for a year, in an education institution, under the guidance of a mentor teacher

  32. Didactic career • Having a didactic position during the practice period • Contest for free/reserved positions • Distribution by School Inspectorate on the positions which remained free • The teachers that are hired for a determined period of time can benefit of continuity on the position they have if they have the approval of the administration board

  33. Career Evolution • Didactic level II • Didactic level I • Teacher emeritus

  34. Professional development • Developing competences and keeping up to date in the area of specialization; • Developing competences for career evolution , through the system of preparing for and obtaining the didactic levels • Acquiring or developing management competences • Acquiring new competences by conversion programs for specializations and/or having new didactic positions • Acquiring complementary competences • Obtaining a new didactic specialization by attending corresponding courses, different from the current specialization is considered lifelong training

  35. Didactic positions occupancy • The tenure(permanent)didactic personnel keeps their right obtained through the national tenure examination, at the release date of the present law • The tenure didactic personnel who obtained this position by government assignment has the opportunity to keep this right

  36. The settlement of the activity downsizing • The mutual consented transfer between the education institutions • The assignment on vacant positions, coordinated by School Inspectorate, according to the methodology elaborated by MECTS until 15th November

  37. Very important • The non-tenured teachers that have participated at the tenure unique national contest in the last 3 years, anterior to the release of the present law, and who have obtained at least 7 and had a position within the school they become the tenures of the respective position if: • There is certified the availability of the position • The administration board of the school approves

  38. Modalities of hiring the didactic personnel • The positions are occupied following a contest at the level of the education institutions • Vacancy of the position is made by the administration board at the principal’s proposal • The School Inspectorate analysis, corrects in collaboration with the education institutions and approves the free/reserved didactic positions offer • The list is made public by posting it at the School Inspectorate and education institutions

  39. Modalities of hiring • The contest organized at the level of the education institution/consortium • The contest consists in: • Practice examination or special inspection in the class • Written examination at the didactics of the specialization- for the didactic personnel with individual work contract • Presenting a curriculum vitae and job interview for the associated personnel or retired

  40. The role of the School Inspectorate • Centralizes the didactic positions and the classes which remained vacant and which will be assigned as follows: • To tenure teachers from an education institution in order to complete the norm • Beginner teachers who are doing their internship • To the candidates that did not obtain any position as a consequence of the contest organized at the school level • Pensioners, respecting the criteria of professional competence

  41. Management positions • The position of principal is occupied through a public contest by teachers who are members of the National Experts Body in Educational Management • The contest is organized at the education institution level by the administration board • The principal signs an educational management contract with the mayor/the president of the County Board of the territory administrative unit • During their mandate the principal and the deputy principal cannot be president or vice president of any political party

  42. Didactic Norm • 40 hours a week: • Didactic activities of teaching-learning-evaluation, practice, exams for the end of a level of study • Methodological scientific preparation activities • Education activities which are complementary to the process of teaching: mentorship, school after school, lifelong learning.

  43. Regulatory acts • ROFUIP • Continuous training methodology • Didactic personnel movement methodology • AB functioning methodology • Personnel evaluation methodology • Constitution of the mentors body methodology • The regulations for the organization of the school inspection

  44. Application deadlines • 1st of January 2012- introduction of the standard cost per pupil • 1st of January 2012- assignment of 6% of PIB • 2012-2013- inclusion of the preparation class in the primary education level • 1st of January 2013- to grant 500 euro for permanent education of each new-born • Beginning of the school year 2014-2015- admittance methodology in upper-secondary education- 10th grade, according to the new law (for pupils who are in the 7th grade) • 2015-2016- inclusion of the 9th grade in the lower secondary education (the generation which started the 5th grade in school year 2011-2012)

  45. A few conclusions • The vision of the law • Centered on the beneficiary • Taking responsibility for the offered services • Institutional descentralization • Equal chances • Quality assurance • Coherence • The predictability and the stability of the system • The full application of the law takes about 4-5 years • The involvement of the teachers in elaborating the methodological methods for the application of the law

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