Meduca receives 102 guides from the OEI that can be updated

The Ministry of Education (Meduca) received from the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI) 102 didactic complexes (guides), which include from initial education to ninth grade, which arise as a result of a real and exhaustive intervention, with which it seeks improve the quality of teaching.

The digital material is available and within 5 years, said the Minister of Education, Maruja Gorday de Villalobos, the next update can be used, implemented and reviewed in its content, planning and mainstreaming of topics approved in this administration as education for the sustainable development, financial education, entrepreneurship, STEAM, robotics, among others.

“Throughout the country we are at 80% of delivery of the guides and before the end of May we will finish in the areas that are difficult to access. It was a team effort of more than 1,500 Panamanians, curriculars, academics, editors, Spanish teachers, historians and the support of the OEI, the Inter-American Development Bank and the Mecse office,” said Gorday de Villalobos.

For her part, Lizbeth Ramos, coordinator of the Improving the Efficiency and Quality of the Educational Sector (Mecse) program, pointed out that it is a day of happiness, of triumph, of achievements, since the entire collection, from preschool to high school, of the basic subjects social sciences, mathematics, Spanish and natural sciences.

“In the preschool area, we received the Big Book, which helps the teacher and makes the teaching-learning process easier for younger children. It was only from preschool to high school, Spanish and mathematics, but due to the emergency experienced by the pandemic, we decided to expand it and take the four basic subjects and we did it since 2020,” Ramos explained.

According to Melissa Wong, director of the OEI, Panama already has its own material, it has copyright, with a collective construction, with an appropriation by teaching unions and parents who are expected to support this work that is beneficial. for your children.

“An attempt has been made to leave personnel and installed capacity in Panama, with a specialization of Panamanians who can work in the updating and modification process and that, over the years, this information can be changed, improved, digitized in the creation of new contents, which seeks to ensure that the country has an educational policy for school textbooks,” said Wong.