Reassessment training

As every year, on October 5, UNESCO celebrates World Teachers’ Day. In 2022, the slogan was: “Transforming education starts with teachers”, urging countries to pay attention to the needs presented by their teachers. UNESCO said in a statement that there is a teacher shortage crisis in the world, noting that the profession is abandoning the profession and that the number of people studying to be teachers has declined.

This is disturbing news, and even more so if it comes as part of a commemorative effort to recognize and celebrate the fundamental role that teachers play in the social transformation of every country, especially after a health crisis like the pandemic.

There is a lot of talk in Mexico about teacher reassessment, but how should it be? On the one hand, a call to society to trust teachers, school leaders, and educational communities who, after returning to face-to-face learning, are facing problems left in detention, mainly with social-emotional care and learning recovery, as well as reducing school dropout. Furthermore, recognizing that the problem is compounded when the education authorities do not have a strategy, much less clear control over the actions taken. Surely in our inner circle we know a teacher who began this academic year with obvious physical and emotional exhaustion. For this reason, it is important to make visible the effort they represent for them to meet the needs of their students and implement innovative methods and strategies despite the daily administrative burden.

Teacher reassessment should be a requirement of the SEP and an expected promise by the Federal Executive, because while it is part of the official discourse and part of the Education Sector Program’s priority that sets professional development, continuous improvement, and a call to service as a goal, the truth is that the current the educational situation is far from being achieved and the priority needs of our teachers are being left unaddressed. For example, the saturation of students attended by each teacher, by group, as shown in a recent study by the Graduate School of Social Sciences, in which Mexico and Colombia are the OECD countries with the highest average number of students per teacher in public institutions. primary and secondary schools.

Mexico’s desired transformation of the education system must match the priorities of teachers with the needs of students; This is the only way to defend the right to study. Teachers need to be listened to and fulfilled, and this will serve to motivate those who are in the process of learning so that the dream of future teachers is not limited to teaching conditions, precarious salaries and bureaucratic procedures. place. We need agents of change that are overrated by society and the state, we need less improvisation.

ANGELICA MONTES

ACTIVATION COORDINATOR OF EDUCATIONAL AGENTS AND SCHOOL COMMUNITIES (MEXICANS FIRST)

@ANGIIE_MONTES

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