Yesterday, members of the Public Education Committee of the Chamber of Deputies met with the Board of Governors of the National Institute for Educational Evaluation (INEE) to start the consultation process in order to prepare the draft regulatory reform legislation for the Federal Education Act, recently amended by Congress.
The meeting addressed the issue of constitutional reform and the regulatory law for the professional teacher service and the INEE. The representatives of the INEE stated that the teaching evaluation should not be homogeneous, because it must consider factors such as cultural and linguistic diversity, the socioeconomic status of teachers and their environment, as well as the infrastructure of the community and the school where they teach.
Sylvia Irene Schmelkes del Valle, president of INEE, considered that to raise the quality of education the working conditions of teachers should be adequate.
''It doesn't seem fair to us to evaluate performance without taking into consideration the conditions under which they carry out their work.''In turn, the president of the Education Committee, Jorge Federico de la Vega (PRD), agreed that the teacher evaluation need not be uniform, given the socioeconomic conditions in which the process unfolds.
''We agree that the assessment must take into account cultural and linguistic diversity, the socioeconomic conditions within which the teaching develops and the teacher herself should be taken into account and reevaluated.''Spanish original