Curriculum in

Ecuadorian
education
Elisa Nato - Ariana Cisneros
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Government of Vicente Government of Eloy Alfaro

Rocafuerte
Public education was viewed as Free and lay education
an essential duty of the
government.
1861 1944

1835 1897
Government of García Moreno Curriculum

Elementary education took form. The official plan of study for

The Constitution of 1861 students at the secondary level
mandated that the religion of the included the course “foreign
Ecuadorian republic was language” (English), where
Catholicism, Apostolic and students attended 3 hours a
Roman. I week through the school year.
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Curriculum Reform Aimed at the
Development of the Learning of
English
The Foreign Language
Indigenous schools Administration was established
3 indigenous schools started to under an agreement signed
function in Quito. between the Ministry of
Education and the British Council
1960 1993

1945
Research Centre for
Indigenous Education
It had 724 adult education
centers and 300 schools for
children.
1992
Ecuadorian Intercultural
Bilingual Education Model
It was legally and officially
recognized by the Ministry of
Education of Ecuador as a global
curricular proposal for the model.
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This curricular document called

Curricular upgrade and
It had as a basis the
strengthening of Basic General
development of skills among Education incorporates curricular
students, include mathematics, guidelines and specifications only
science, social studies, and for four core studies: mathematics,
language literature language and literature, social
science, and natural science.
2006 2012

1996 2007
2nd, 3rd, and 4th ( basic elemental
Regarding the structure of the
years; 5th, 6th, and 7th ( basic
school years in public institutions. :
intermediate years; 8th, 9th, and
Making Basic General Education
10th( basic higher years=
(BGE) from first to tenth grades
universal
secondary school years to the last
grades (8th, 9th, and 10th) of BGE,
and I-II-III years of Unified General
Baccalaureate (UGB
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he aim of these curriculum
launched a new national English guidelines is to support and guide
project called Advance English the English teaching and learning
Project processes by providing a set of
2.5 Current
it also published the English methodological suggestions to apply
Approaches:
Language Learning Standards the CLT
Curriculum guidelines
(ELLS) based on CEFR A1,A1,B1
and specifications
2016
t

In 2012, 2014
Teaching english will be compusory
the until this date there has not been any
from 2nd grade of EGB to 3rd grade
official Curriculum Standards for the
Foreign of Baccalaureate for public, private
previous years of secondary school
and municipal.
Language
Administr
ation