Spanish Education System Modernization Quiz

Education System Modernization in Spain

• The education system in Spain is being modernized through the LOMLOE, which aims to promote inclusivity, flexibility, and quality across all levels of education, while adapting to the changing needs of students and society.
• The development of the curriculum is a shared responsibility between National and Regional Education Institutions (EI), with Regional EIs establishing 50% of the curriculum (60% if co-official language).
• The LOMLOE emphasizes competency-based, autonomous, meaningful, and reflexive learning, and seeks to integrate technology, promote values and civic education, and ensure educational equity and inclusion.
• The curriculum development involves curricular elements such as basic/core knowledges, assessment criteria, objectives, outbound/output profiles, key competences, descriptors, and specific competences.
• The National Royal Decree and Regional Decrees play a significant role in shaping the curricular elements and are essential for curriculum development.
• The outbound/output profile refers to the competences that students must have developed and acquired through each educational stage, guiding what skills and abilities teachers need to foster in class for students to develop.
• Key Competences (KC) are essential for students to progress successfully in their education and training and to face global and local challenges, and are connected to specific competences and descriptors.
• Basic/Core Knowledges are necessary for acquiring specific competences, and they are connected to specific competences.
• Specific Competences are the competences that students should be able to deploy in activities or situations, drawn from KC and connected to basic/core knowledge and assessment criteria.
• Assessment criteria indicate the different levels of attainment students can reach when performing learning situations related to specific competences, and they are connected to specific competences.
• Objectives are achievements students are expected to reach when finishing a stage of education and are connected to Key Competences (KC) and their descriptors.
• The modernization of the education system in Spain involves very strong connections to the national legislation, including UNESCO reports and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), as well as different laws and decrees at national, regional, and local levels.