“We must engage in a battle for the level of our school” | EUROtoday

Two months after his arrival at the head of the Ministry of National Education, Gabriel Attal offers a speech on the esplanade of the National Library of France, in entrance of an viewers of 200 visitors, as half of World Teachers’ Day, Thursday October 5. On this event, he particulars for The world the tasks he needs to hold out, and publicizes the launch of a ” assignment “ accountable for formulating proposals in any respect ranges of education in order to “to increase the level of students”. The minister additionally places ahead concepts to enhance the attractiveness of the educating occupation, contemplating that the precedence is not to extend salaries.

At the begin of the faculty 12 months, you introduced a “shock of knowledge” to lift the level of college students. What is it precisely?

There is a type of urgency to lift the level of elementary information, arithmetic and French, which decide success in all different disciplines. Some knowledge is eloquent. In 2018, a 4 12 months previous scholar^e had the level of a fifth grader^e from 1995. Upon entry into 6^e, one in three college students can’t learn appropriately, one in two can’t say what number of quarters of an hour there are in the fraction “three quarters of an hour”. Finally, in 3^e25% of patent candidates have lower than 4/20 in arithmetic.

We have taken measures since 2017, similar to the doubling of the main sections, CP and CE1 in precedence schooling, which have already lowered the gaps in studying and arithmetic. We have launched a huge persevering with coaching plan for our 370,000 faculty lecturers in arithmetic and French. The first outcomes are there, however we nonetheless must speed up and engage in a battle for the level of our faculty.

However, based on OECD surveys, we’re one of the international locations that dedicate the most time to educating these “fundamental skills”. So what extra ought to be finished?

Rather a lot of work, opinions and parliamentary studies have been carried out on the topic in current years. The base is there, and it’s dense. I’m due to this fact launching a “knowledge requirement” mission to make this work a actuality and transfer ahead. It will cope with colleges, center colleges and excessive colleges, and can carry collectively lecturers, who know the actuality on the floor higher than anybody else, rectors, academy inspectors and normal inspectors of nationwide schooling. They will return their proposals to me inside eight weeks for preliminary implementation from September 2024. I hope that the first to be interviewed can be the union organizations representing lecturers. All lecturers may even be concerned: subsequent week, we are going to launch a session of all of our 860,000 lecturers on the priorities and actions to be applied to lift the level.

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