The Valencian curriculum creates a hole in ESO: 100,000 students will not study the human body for changing the order of the contents

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The

has made a substantial change in its curriculum that causes concern to high school teachers.

This region has changed the order of the contents of the

subject in 1st and 3rd of ESO.

Most of what was taught in the 3rd year until now will be taught in the 1st year and a good part of what was taught in the 1st year will be studied in the 3rd year.

The problem is that, in the exchange, this knowledge "loses depth", according to the

union .

In addition, during the transition, the students who are in 2nd and 3rd this year will be left without learning what has been transferred to the first year.

They are about

students -half of those enrolled in this stage- who are not going to see the human body, transplants, organ donation or vaccines.

UGT has requested a meeting with the

to ask it to correct a situation "unusual and totally contrary to the one followed by the rest of the Autonomous Communities in their curricular developments."

The union maintains that changing the order of Biology contents causes "dangerous dysfunctions" and violates the "principle of equity in teaching."

Why?

“Because 12-year-old students do not have the level or ability to understand the immune system or the nervous system well, which since Logse have always been given at 14 years old,” says

professor of Biology at the

in Ondara (Alicante).

That leads, UGT warns, to "an emptying of content."

Much of the knowledge of 3rd grade will now be taught in a very simplified way in 1st year of ESO, "without continuity in the third year".

«Students will study the human body in 6th grade, then they will see it again in 1st ESO and will stop delving into the rest of the stage.

In Baccalaureate, those who continue in this non-compulsory education will only deal with it in an elective that is not common to all students.

They endanger thousands of scientific vocations, "warns another teacher from Valencia.

"Furthermore, there will be discrimination between Autonomous Communities, because if a student moves to another region, she will not study those contents," adds Almodóvar.

And then there are the Valencian ESO students who, during this course and the next, are affected.

Those in 1st will give an agenda that will be repeated in 3rd: it's the least bad thing.

But the really affected are those who are now in 2nd and 3rd, because they will not be able to study "essential" subjects.

Which?

Sexuality and gender are reinforced

According to the comparison of the state curriculum with the Valencian one, the contents of

, contraceptive methods and sexually transmitted diseases, which will be given in both courses, are now reinforced.

Only to 1st year is the study of the digestive, respiratory, circulatory and excretory systems, relationship and nutrition functions, the endocrine system and the musculoskeletal system, injury prevention, the immune system, vaccines, transplants and donation of organs, infectious and non-infectious diseases... In 3rd grade there are more contents on living beings, geology and sustainability.

In the Conselleria they explain: «The decision to transfer the contents of the Biology and Geology curriculum related to the human body to the 1st year of ESO is due to the need to respond to the concerns raised by the 1st year ESO students, which means that we have considered necessary to reorder the subject now».

«In any change of educational laws there is a transition, in this case in two courses, in which situations such as those proposed by the union may arise.

However, what is important is the exit profile of students in the 4th year of ESO.

In other words, when the stage is over, the students have achieved the competencies established in the exit profile of the stage.

If the center's Department of Biology and Geology considers that the students doing 3rd year of ESO this year and the next one have not acquired in a consolidated way the exit profile of the stage due to the introduced change, they can and must, in their pedagogical autonomy , establish the strategies that are necessary to achieve it, since all the departments have room to expand the curriculum in order to be able to attend to the basic knowledge that, according to Lomloe,

Lomloe's laboratory

In other words, the Government leaves it to the institutes to make the adjustments they consider, which is going to be complicated because it will cause a new curricular reorganization so that everyone finishes ESO knowing what the curriculum marks.

The Valencian Community is the Lomloe testing laboratory and has not launched the educational reform on the right foot.

There is a lot of discomfort among their teachers because such a significant change has been made during the holidays, without giving them time to take action.

And the problem with Biology joins the discontent that there is with teaching by areas of knowledge, a methodology that the Generalitat has tried to make mandatory in the 1st year of ESO, although finally the Justice has overturned the imposition.

It so happens that Biology is one of the subjects that can be merged with others (for example, Mathematics and Technology).

Teachers see in all these changes an interest of the Administration to "dilute" the subject.

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