Stop to the punitive evaluation

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Civil organizations against the education of the CNTE

Stop to the punitive evaluation

By: Carlos Damian                                             June 4, 2015

The violence perturbs to the education and the professors win a miserable payment

Mexico. -   The Secretary of Public Education (SEP, for their initials in Spanish) it informed their decision (06/29/15) that “it suspends the evaluation process indefinitely” for the entrance, promotion and permanency of teachers in the education basic and High School senior, what will affect to more than 350 thousand professors and directive of the country that will be examined in the cycle 20156 - 2016. The tests would be applied starting from the second semester of this year; they were part of a strategic axis in the application of the educational reformation, because for the first time the abilities of the teachers were evaluated in service that of not reaching “suitable” results in three occasions, they could be removed of their teaching task. In an official statement of three lines, the federal dependence pointed out that the National Coordination of the Service Professional Educational -organism that should be part of the evaluation of applicants' thousands to enter to the teaching, and give you this year in the valuation of the acting of the professors in service - it detailed “with reason of new elements to consider” in the process, the dates in that you/they would be carried out the exams are “suspended indefinitely for its realization."     The eve, leaders of the National Coordinator of Workers of the Education (CNTE, for their initials in Spanish) they rejected the application of this tests, to those that qualified of “punitive”, and they noticed that of not being suspended their application, they would carry out an electoral boycott June 7 in at least 11 entities. The dissident teachers pointed out that the first of June -date in that they announced an indefinite strike in at least four states and mobilizations in other 16 - they would go to the Secretary of Government (SG) to demand the installation of a work table whose only point to discuss would be the suspension of the calendar of evaluations. "We have 11 points in our petition sheet, but there won't be any advance if before we don't discuss a non punitive evaluation outline for the professors", they affirmed last Thursday (06/28/15). although that the Law of the Educational Professional Service settles down in its article 52 that the evaluation of the educational acting is obligatory, and that all entrance process to the teaching will be carried out by means of a competition of opposition, this won't be carried out in the dates diffused by the National Institute for the Evaluation of the Education (INEE) and approved by the SEP.     After the announcement, the INEE summons to meeting  In accordance with that calendar, published in passed March, 350 thousand educational and directive in service of basic education and High School would be examined by first occasion in the cycle 2015 - 2016. Ramiro Alvarez Retana, national coordinator of the Educational Professional Service, informed at the end of that month that 150 thousand educators would be validated from September 9 to November 30 of this year, while other 200 thousand would carry out the test among the first of February and May 31, 2016. Also, he explained with the results of the evaluations the promotions they would also be applied in educational and directive functions, like part of the new program that it will substitute that of magisterial career whose term for the publication expires May 31, in accordance with the Law of the Educational Professional Service (Profile, parameters and indicators, published February 26, 2014). as long as, the competitions of opposition for the entrance in charge of teachers and directive of education basic and education half superior would be carried out from the 4 to next July 19. The evaluations with promotion ends in directive functions, supervision and technical - pedagogic consultant they would be applied from the 13 to June 28 and the results should be published July 26.     The SEP gave to know the past 10 of May that 190 thousand 234 people concluded the pre-registration process to participate in the competitions of opposition for basic education that this year would throw 18 thousand 476 stage positions, 33 thousand 617 hours/week/month, as well as 15 thousand 141 positions of basic education, which should be assigned before the school cycle begins 2015-2016 in next August.  At night, the INEE informed in an official statement that summoned to an urgent meeting of its government meeting, headed by Sylvia Schmelkes, in order to elaborate a positioning, after the announcement made by the SEP.  On the other hand there is a call to build an education of quality, with justness and including, the Organization of United Nations for the Education, the Science and the Culture (UNESCO) it subscribed the Declaration of Incheon in Korea where is recognized that “the crises, the violence and the attacks to the teaching institutions, as well as the natural disasters and pandemics continue perturbing the education and the development to world scale". After concluding the works of the World Forum on the Education, carried out at May 19 - 22 in Korea of the South, with representatives of more than 130 countries, the multinational organism gave to know the final declaration, where the global educational goals settle down up to 2030.      The growing violence rebounds in the education   The assisting nations recognize that the success of the calendar 2030 that includes to strengthen an education of quality, with access for all and with a humanist vision, it requires of political solid and of planning, as well as of a strong commitment of the governments to face the conditions of risk that continue affecting the educational processes. Among the risks it highlights the violence. One of the commitments included in this declaration is that the states will guarantee sure educational spaces, with inclusive and sensitive systems to the formative necessities of all the people, what should embrace to the groups but vulnerable, as migrants, displaced and refugees.  On the financing to the education, it intended that there is a desirable minimum investment from 4 to 6 percent of the gross internal product of each country, and at least it is dedicated from 15 to 20 percent from the public expense to the teaching tasks. It also intends to create a plan of global coordination, headed by the Unesco that allows to reach the outlined objectives, among those that bigger transparency mechanisms and rendition of bears in mind are contemplated in the expense of the sector, as well as an improvement in the instruments applied to evaluate the learning and the results of the educational systems.   The declaration also outlines like goal that there are nine years of obligatory minimum scholarship, as well as a year of pre-primary, and bigger attention to the development of the first stage. As for the professors, the countries gathered in Korea of the South agreed to strengthen their preparation, and with it, their autonomy in the taking of decisions, but they also point out that they should be properly hired, trained, motivated, and with enough resources to carry out their task. The continuous formation and of quality it is another from the outlined challenges of face to 2030, so that it is an educational opportunity open to all, with a high technical quality and professional. On the other hand the INEE doesn't intervene in the normal schools that after all they are the institutions that form to the educational ones and in its to have it has many years of experience.  But it is of public knowledge that the applied exams are made by people different to those that carried out the teaching process, we will have problems unavoidably, reproved and diphase. That institution that defines the contents and elements of these exams, a priori is determining what they should study those that are approved. This whole academic relationship is tautological and basic, we cannot deny it. Some institutions of superior education rejected the expenditure certifications for the internal implications that would be made by means of the Ceneval. These academics are parapet ones in the Ceneval, and the INEE is the institution that it should examine to the educational ones for its entrance, promotion and permanency. (La Jornada, politica, p.p. 3-4, May 30, 2015)