INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITY

PHASE 2 COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITY UNIT 1

COLOMBIAN EDUCATION
GRUPO 551035_2

ALVARO VELASQUEZ
CC 70557892

TUTOR
JOSE GREGORIO PRECIADO

UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL ABIERTA Y A DISTANCIA

LICENCIATURA EN INGLES COMO LENGUA EXTRANJERA
MEDELLN, MAYO 5 DE 2016

CHOSEN TOPICS FOR UNIT 1

1. Institutional modernization of the education sector.

Rethinking and modernizing their institutional structures, administrative and operational
procedures and supervision and incentives systems, so that is possible to obtain better
results in terms of coverage and quality in the midst of the financial constraints of the
Nation.
The entire education system is based on an anachronistic industrial model. Education
need to be reinvented, the schools of the Information Age still need to be created. This
will happen through innovation, experimentation, improvement, repair and replacement
strategies.

2. Curricular policies, educational content and teaching and learning strategies

Based on the definition of the curriculum and school autonomy ordered in the General
Education Law, in 2002 it provides guidance for curriculum development, determining
that educational institutions that offer formal education, are autonomous to organize the
compulsory and core areas defined for each level, to introduce electives within areas
established by the law, to adapt some areas to the regional needs and characteristics, to
adopt methods of teaching and to organize formative, cultural and sporting activities
within guidelines established by the National Ministry of Education.
The curriculum has to play a more constructive role in improving instruction, because
the curriculum that counts is the curriculum that is enacted. A better curriculum has to be
designed to help teachers to act more thoughtfully and effectively in developing a
learning environment.

3. Reforms in curriculum, evaluation and promotion of learners and

institutional assessment.
The Decree 230 of 2002 regulates the dispositions of the General Education Law,
related to the inspection and monitoring, criteria establishment for assessing school
performance of students and to promote them to higher levels, and the dispositions of

the Law 715 of 2001 about Resources and Competencies, as it is for the Nation to
establish curricular and pedagogical standards for levels of preschool, primary and
secondary, without affecting school autonomy of educational establishments and their
regional type specificity, and define, design and set up instruments and mechanisms for
improving the quality of education.
Learners may be at different points in their learning and may be progressing at different
rates, but every individual seems capable of further learning if motivated and provided
with appropriate learning opportunities. (Geoff N Masters, 2013)

4. Articulation of technical education to higher education.

Law 749 of 2002 organizes the public service of higher education in the ways of
professional technical and technological training for propaedeutic cycles, allowing
articulation with secondary education. This achieves that students continue their studies
to the professional level, and at the same time it provides them the possibility of entering
the job market parallel.
Todays economy demands a better educated workforce than ever before, and jobs in
this new economy require more complex knowledge and skills than the jobs of the past.
Articulation of technical education is an educational strategy for providing young people
with academic, technical and employability with opportunities to acquire the
competencies required in todays workplacesuch as critical thinking, collaboration,
problem solving, innovation, teamwork, and communicationand to learn about different
careers by experiencing work and workplaces.

5. Reform to organize the provision of education services in pre-school,

primary and secondary.
The Law 715 of 2001 establishes organic standards in responsibilities between the
nation and the territorial entities, and distribution of education resources to arrange the
state education and health in the country. This reform aims to strengthen the
decentralization of social services, including education, and to increase resources for
education, in order to serve the entire population of children and young people in school
age.