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as well as the people we take advantage of
opportunities that are presented to us in the
life to give quality jumps
the same happens with countries and from that
I want to talk to you this afternoon without investing
additional resources
Costa Rica has a great
opportunity to take a leap in quality
to our public education is to what
it’s so important because to her if
there is most of our children
girls and teenagers
it is a unique opportunity
thanks to the population dynamics that
the country has been experimenting in the
recent years and that demographers have
called demographic transition
advanced to refer to the process
according to which population groups
in younger age tend to
reduce
while the older ones increase
this change in the younger groups
of our population pyramid has
a direct impact on our system
educational
since 2000 we have come
experiencing significant reductions
among children from 7 to 12 years old and
young people from 13 to 17
this reduction manifests itself has a
direct impact on enrollment that
as you can see in this
map already affects more than 70 percent
of the country’s schools
each one of those little dots that you
come and it ‘s an educational center where
there is a reduction of more than 20 per
one hundred percent of the tuition
in our schools that is
as a threat or an opportunity
I say it’s an opportunity
you say good but why a
opportunity and not a threat see through
For a long time our teachers have
complained that the large groups of
students has been an obstacle to
develop a higher education
quality
Well, this is the theme
thanks to the demography it will be every time
more a matter of the past
in the present millennium the groups both
of primary and secondary school will be
increasingly smaller will be each time
smaller which opens us a
set of possibilities for
develop a series of actions
unpublished previously unthinkable
I give you some examples in this century
we say the groups each time were more
little ones
that opens us the possibility of
develop an education more and more
personalized that takes into account the
individual characteristics of
our students who consider their
diversity and that we can then
boost the best yields of
we will each have happier students
and we could give them more education
personalized but also with groups
More smalls
we have the possibility to convert and
transform our classrooms into true
innovation labs that in the
which we can promote creativity
of our students and
skills that these months
they cite to insert themselves successfully
in the technological revolution that the
world lives and actively participate in
she generating new knowledge and
ventures but also with groups
More smalls
we have the possibility of moving from one
once and for all the page to this
boring rote education load
of contents of which we have all
been victims to go down to a
higher content education more
interesting that it generates classroom environments
that empowers our students
the apprenticeships an active learning and
collaborative where our students
can develop projects through
which may pose problems and
look for solutions and work as a team
relate the new knowledge that
they acquire with the knowledge that
you have to apply that knowledge to your
network to sociality is immediate to that
reality is that they know and that they are
meaningful
finally empower our students
the most important skill of our
weather
the ability to learn to learn from
permanent way and for life
but the reduction of the registration
It can also allow us to attend a
key issue is the universalization of
primary curriculum
Did you know that in this country
only 4 percent of our
schools in our schools our
children receive the full curriculum
yes just as he hears it we’re talking about
158 schools out of a total of 4,000
schools our children go from 7 to 2 of
the afternoon because in the rest of the
schools our children go five hours
in alternate hours
in the morning and in the afternoon which
for a long time he was agile because the
registration was very large and the
insufficient infrastructure but as
every time we are going to have reductions of the
enrollment
we have the possibility that many
low schools of alternate hours now
had expanded and this opens us the
possibility that more and more children
can receive materials that are
fundamental for its development
personal as the plastic arts the
music or physical education but
all these quality jumps will not be
possible if we do not introduce changes in
the forms of organization and work of
our teachers and here again the
demography gives us a push with the
reduction of enrollment
we can think of new alternatives
for example we could think about having
two teachers per classroom instead of one and
approaching ourselves a little bit to what
happens in the highest quality systems
of the world where there are usually two
teachers per classroom that is distributed
better your time and can devote more
time to take advantage of the tasks
substantive of the teaching task but
without having higher quality teachers
all this will not be possible for that reason
we have to innovate in the form of
training that we have so far
worked with our teachers and
take better advantage of virtual media
what we get to overcome that
training that we have had and for
example develop mass courses of
training that our teachers
can receive in the
classrooms with their colleagues and on key issues
for their development and that today they need
handle like for example in the
initial literacy or for example
how to apply the resolution of
problems
the problem solving approach or
well what is the best way to learn
today the brain
according to the most recent advances of the
neuroscience
but we can also promote and
strengthen the processes of
accompaniment of our teachers in
the classrooms
I hope conforming in each center
educational groups with the best twelve
Devil months we mark each
one of our educational centers
their teachers who are always creative
with the shirt on that always
They are interested in investigating and
innovate that they will observe their
colleagues in the classrooms and then they
let’s give our teachers time to
that they can meet with each other to
comment on how they can improve
his classroom practices
All these quality changes are
important but also in this
context we can also make jumps in
matter of equity to the extent that
achieve generalized improvements of the
quality of our educational system and
not have quality enclaves like
now
that’s fundamental to what good for
turn our education into one of
Our main instruments for
combat the social inequality that both
has increased in our country a
example of how we can expand that
structure of opportunities and go up to
all our children on the boat the
progress we do not have with the calls
single schools you know that
these schools were created in mid
of the last century as a way
the country had to bring education
to the farthest corners of the country and
not allow any of our
children will be left without their right to
education over time these
schools were growing and this
strategy and they already became
in 40 percent of the schools in the
country although only 3 percent of the
enrollment
these schools this successful strategy
In the last century
we continue however today
reproducing it until having situations
as you can see this
map where we have educational centers of
this guy a distance one from another and
barely a kilometer
most of those schools work
with great deficiencies with few teachers
where our students do not receive
all the resources with which we can
enhance the best skills of
our children in rural areas
well here we also have the
possibility of innovating because many of
these schools are also
experiencing very low reductions
significant enrollments and
you again it was good here that
threat opportunity I say we have
opportunity opportunities because
we could think of some areas of
country instead of having two centers
educationally with great deficiencies think
in modifying some of these centers
to have a single one highly equipped
with good wishes with greater number of
teachers who can provide a
quality education in other areas of
country
with these centers we could think of
assemble quality local networks that we
allow to better articulate these centers
in such a way that we can optimize
better resources and
provide a higher quality education
Costa Rica today needs strong doses of
creativity and decision to channel
to make better use of resources and
channel them to concrete actions
that allow us to have an education
high quality public in contexts
demographics very similar to ours
the so-called Asian tigers
They understood that having an education
high quality was your best investment
for the future and they started working
strong and hard and fast I have done that is
what we need more hands today in
costa rica start working with
sense of urgency
yes in the past with less resources and
less accumulated achievements this country took
important decisions on
educational
today with more resources and more achievements
accumulated
we have no excuse for not taking advantage of
opportunities to strengthen
capabilities of those who are our
main wealth as our country
children girls and teenagers
what we need is once for
all take out the peace pencil from
worker and get us to do to
together teachers directors parents of
family private sector authorities all
together to write a new one and
successful page in the history of
our education
thank you very much
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