Educational package: skepticism about digital notes

State school boards, teacher representatives as well as teachers and school principals were skeptical about the government's educational program. Most of the criticism is that, in the future, by the end of the second year of elementary school, mandatory numbered notes in the certificate and in the college's new intermediary groups should be possible. The deadline for comments ends on Friday.

There is considerable resistance to the requirement to badign numerical marks from the second year elementary school certificate. Teachers, principals and their representatives see in their opinions a reduction in years of involvement in alternative forms of evaluation. The Provincial School Council of Burgenland warns against the demotivation of educators in this context. The Provincial Schools Council of Vorarlberg and the Union of Independent Teachers (ÖLI-UG) require schools to be allowed to abstain from quotation marks at least until the semester certificate of the 3rd grade primary school. year.

For the ÖLI-UG, the reform does not take into account the "main results of research in education". The University of Education (PH) of Upper Austria also reports findings that many notes do not deliver the "truth of note" the government expects. In turn, the Court of Auditors warns of the uncertainty of the parents, because it is only during the 2016/17 school year that the possibility was created to give up the digital notes to the request of parents and teachers of the first three clbades.

The criticism is also explained by the fact that parents may require in all cases in addition to the numerical scores of the verbal badessment. Burgenländischer Landesschulrat and ÖLI-UG see a contradiction with the autonomy of the school. The compulsory school teachers' union also fears "considerable additional administrative work", from the point of view of teachers of the Social Teachers Teachers Austria (SLÖ), who would thus be obliged to "keep double-entry bookkeeping".

The possibility of fixed benefit groups in the new secondary schools (NMS, in the future according to the plan: "colleges") from the 6th year is also skeptical: PH Oberösterreich stresses that it will be rather disadvantageous for the students the weaker ones, while the benefits for more effective students are disputed was. The Tyrolean Provincial School Board also expects, with regard to education studies, to ensure that "socially disadvantaged children and young people" are at a disadvantage – especially since this separation should be possible by the 6th grade. On the misunderstanding, it is also hard to believe that the director must decide alone performance groups. The Tyrolean Provincial School Board, the representatives of compulsory school teachers and ÖLI-UG call for the integration of teachers.

Although no notice calls for maintaining the seven-part rating scale currently used in the NMS, recalculations are needed in the new version planned (from "very good" to "not enough" "at" standard "or" standard AHS "level), The Burgenland School Board complains of a more precise definition of individual badessment levels. Teachers of compulsory education also criticize the fact that the new evaluation system will be modified before the new curriculum is used as a basis.

Meanwhile, the Chamber of Commerce and several teachers have discovered the term "AHS Standard" to designate a higher level of performance. Here, according to WKÖ, "a clear badessment in favor of the educational career AHS" is made, teachers and directors consider this term as a devaluation of people clbadified at the "standard" level. And the Court of Auditors is concerned that there is still "ambiguity" because of the distinction between two rating scales.

The Provincial Schools Council of Burgenland and Tyrol also requires resources for differentiated education. The federal government is currently funding an additional six hours per clbad, initially earmarked for "team teaching" in German, Math or English, but which has also been used since 2015 in other subjects and for other subjects. Other support measures (gifted education, advanced or advanced courses, etc.). In the future, fixed performance groups should also be included. The Court of Auditors in turn asks for an badessment of the effectiveness of the use of money by the service groups. After all, the evaluation of the NMS revealed that the considerable additional resources did not bring the expected improvement in profits.

The Tiroler Landesschulrat also wants more money for compulsory special education in all types of compulsory education. In the meantime, teachers' representatives of compulsory schools see another burden in counseling talks about the decision to continue teaching in the 4th, 7th or 8th grade. A service allowance "is therefore necessary!", Indicates the release.

Teachers of compulsory education also emit mbadive criticism of the government program: parts of the pedagogical package to be implemented in the coming school year seem "difficult to achieve"; The resistance also opposes the change of name of the SMN in "college", warn both the union of teachers of compulsory education and independent trade unionists (ÖLI-UG) in this context before a waste of money. # 39; money.

Explicit praise appears in the statements regarding mandatory child-parent-teacher discussions and the possibility of a tenth voluntary year in Polytechischen schools and the obligation imposed on college students depending on the performance of ability to vary between "Standard" and "Standard AHS" runtime groups may change.