The Escuela Nueva model was adopted in Colombia in the 1970s as a national education policy to address issues with traditional education methods. It focuses on active, skills-based learning linked to daily life through self-instructional textbooks, learning corners, and increased teacher-student interaction time. Key components include curriculum design, community involvement, teacher training, and administrative support. Studies found higher test scores, promotion rates, and lower repetition and dropout rates with this model. Further adaptation and research is still needed for full implementation.

1. But quality is still poor
Access is almost universal
Quantity
Quality
• 50% spend 2 years in first Grade [1]
• Grades approved 2/3 of schooling time
• 53% students need average 7.6 years
complete primary education [2]
93.3% enrollment LCA countries [1]

2. ESCUELA NUEVA
An Alternative Education Model
Presented By
Md. Abdul Malek
K.M. Imdadul Haque
Amir Hamza
Farvis Alam
A.M. Touhid Hasan

3. Escuela Nueva
• In 1970s, Escuela Nueva was adopted by the Colombian
government as a national education policy
• In 1989 it was selected by the World Bank as one of the three
most successful reforms in a developed country
• It was implemented in more than 20,000 rural schools in
Colombia.
• F:JOBTFBEN model.mp4

4. Stumbling block to Crack
Quality
Lack of active
learning experience
Low salaries and
poor selection
Inadequate
Training Facilities
Too much Expectation
in class performance
Too much extra
time donated in class
Too little
learning time
Opportunities
Of thinking
Lack of
motivation
Poor linage with
Daily life
No access to
Computers

5. Objectives on quality education of LAC
Many contents and skills be taught at the school. However, the use of the expression "taught" should
be not permitted if the action did not have the intended effect on its direct object. Only if the process
succeeds and learning occurs we will say that education happened.
LAC have recently agreed that better education is linked with sustained economic growth. They have
focused on four basic objectives
1. Reading with understanding.
2. Communicate in writing.
3. Valuing good citizenship.
4. And handling a method for learning from the context

6. To ensure these modest objectives, a new method of education is
required. Because in traditional methods there are some issues like:
• Passive methods (teacher centered)
• Urban biased curriculum.
• Lack of special training
• Lack of educational materials to support learning processes
• Rigidity of calendar and schedules
• Lack of parental involvement

7. Rational of EN
1. Seeking the involvement and benefits of all parties concerned
ENParents
teachers
Students
Education
Improvement
Life long
learning
2. Skills-based learning tasks linked with daily life
Links with daily life
Give purpose of
what students read
Expression & analysis
Increase thinking &
comprehension ability
EN

8. Rational of ES
3. Writing for systematic thinking and exchanges
EN curriculum has stressed the value of writing activities in helping students to explore,
organize, and refine their ideas about themselves and to construct and present their own
interpretations of environment and subject matter. EN recognizes the importance of linking
reading, writing, and oral expression. The self-instructed textbooks integrate all aspects of the
teaching of literacy, by having students read and discuss what they have written or having them
write about what they read.
4. Decisions for enhanced motivation and thinking
Each time that students make a decision about their learning they become committed about its
implications and they have gone through a process of systematic thinking.
5. Allocate more teachers time
The EN teacher may have a long interview with one student, because the rest of the students are engaged
in their own work and many discipline problems are handled by the student council members. If other
students are busy sharing ideas and skills, the teacher can relax and be listening carefully that single
student

9. Key Components
Curriculum
Community outreach
Teacher training and evaluation
Administration

10. Description of Escuela Nueva
1. Teachers must see in a demonstration school where it works.
2.Self instructional textbooks with detailed instructions .
3.Learning corners allowing simultaneous class activities .

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4.School / classroom libraries for group work and advanced students
5.Chairs and tables meeting standards for group learning
6.Preparing the school / classroom map and using community
information.

12. 7. The new teachers role is the role teachers want to play
9.Microcenters to keep the momentum and solve challenges
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8. Training teachers to use textbooks and the EN tricks .

13. 10.Using local content and accumulating knowledge.
11.Using group work for better thinking and adjusting.
12.Remedial learning tutoring with child-to-child strategies.

14. • Adaptation of social consensus
• Adaptation of local innovation in social contexts.
• Constant adaptation and accumulation of knowledge.

15. Economically &
educationally feasible
Must be carefully
planned and
implemented
Outcome of Escuela Nueva

16. Positive results
Materials CostOperation Cost
Teacher Training
Cost
Multi-grade schools Training in Microcenter • Involving parents in free labor
• textbook design

17. High self esteem scores
High promotion
rates
Teacher’s
reward and
community
support
Reduced
repeater and
dropout rates

18. Conclusion and Recommendation
• Textbooks must be changed
• Teachers new time table
• New method of teacher’s training
• Parents accepting new methods
• Social belief based achievement test
• More research on Writing and testing method
• Combining traditional and innovative approach for upper level
implementation.