Priority for language and math core objectives
Education Minister Dennis Wiersma will start adjusting the core objectives for language and math education for primary and secondary education before the summer holidays. The development of new core objectives for other learning areas, including citizenship and digital literacy, will start next school year and will therefore be decoupled from language and math. Then the remaining learning areas follow.
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Wiersma wrote this in a letter to the House of Representatives yesterday. He pledges to 'cut up' the development of core objectives. 'Reading, writing, arithmetic immediately, closely followed by basic citizenship and digital literacy skills, and later start with the core objectives in other learning areas.'
Particularly in primary education, a step-by-step process according to the AOb of interest
With the letter, the minister is responding to the wishes of various parties in the House of Representatives. Also the AOb has championed this 'cut' between basic skills and the other learning areas in various letters to parliament.
Earlier this month, in a debate with the House of Representatives, D66, among others, urged Minister Wiersma to make a distinction between the basic skills of language and arithmetic on the one hand and skills such as citizenship and digital literacy on the other. “For me, basic skills are language and arithmetic,” said D66 education spokesperson Paul van Meenen. “The minister mentions digital literacy and citizenship. I really see a big difference.” Education has a long tradition of examining, testing and standardizing language and mathematics. This does not apply to citizenship and digital literacy.
Step-by-step
Also the AOb has argued in several letters to the House of Representatives that Minister Wiersma should give priority to basic skills when developing a new curriculum. The AOb believes that this process should be done step by step and opposed an integrated approach from the outset.
Particularly in primary education, a step-by-step process according to the AOb This is important, because then teachers can be better involved and not overloaded with too many changes at once. Moreover, the subjects of language and arithmetic will put enough pressure on the overloaded education in themselves, says the AOb† With his new letter to parliament, Wiersma responds to this plea.
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