Portugal has a compulsory 12-year education system between ages 6-18. Education is free and universal from age 4. Evaluation is both formative and summative, as well as internal and external, with external exams given at various stages. Basic education lasts 9 years and is divided into cycles, with the goal of providing a common background. The school participates in numerous Erasmus+ projects to promote mobility, cultural exchange, and 21st century skills among students and teachers from multiple countries. Teachers and students report benefits from exchanges including modernized classrooms, use of technology, increased motivation and interest in travel and life beyond their island.

1. Education
System
Portugal
EBI Francisco Ferreira Drummond
Project ID: 2020-1-SI01-KA229-075865_3
Our Cultures - Our Treasures

2. ABOUT US
EBI FRANCISCO FERREIRA DRUMMOND

3. THE AZORES

4. Terceira Island

5. Education System
PRE SCHOOL
EDUCATION

6. Education in Portugal:
● Compulsory education lasts 12 years, between the age of six and 18 or until the
conclusion of upper secondary education (ISCED 3). Public education is free
and universal from the age of four, including the final years of pre-school.
● Evaluation in the Portuguese educational system is both formative and
summative, as well as internal and external. There is external evaluation of
learning at all ISCED levels: low-stakes tests (national, non-graded
diagnostic evaluation to assess knowledge and improve learning) in the
intermediate grades (2nd, 5th and 8th) of the 1st and 2nd and 3rd cycles of
basic education (ISCED 1) and national final exams at the end of basic
education (ISCED 2), in the 9th grade.
Education System

7. Basic education (ISCED 1 and 2)
Basic education is universal, compulsory, free and lasts nine years. It is divided into
three sequential cycles; each should complete and build upon the previous one from a
global perspective:
● the first cycle (CITE 1) corresponds to the first four years of schooling (grades one
to four).
● the second cycle (CITE 1) corresponds to the next two years (grades five and six).
● the third cycle (CITE 2) lasts for three years and corresponds to lower secondary
education (grades seven to nine).
The guiding principles of curriculum organisation and management aim to ensure a
common general background education for all citizens, via the acquisition of
fundamental knowledge and skills that allow further study.
Education System

8. ● Become a 21st Century
School
● European active School
TOGETHER WE MAKE SUCCESS!
Our Goals

9. ● Change our learning
environment
Our Strategy

10. ● Accept the unknown and try everything new.
● Work together to be better.
OUR CHALLENGES

11. Big STEPS
ERASMUS
PROJECTS
CURRICULUM
FLEXIBILITY
AND
AUTONOMY
PROJECT

12. ERASMUS KA1
PAIDEIA

13. ERASMUS KA1
PAIDEIA

14. ERASMUS KA1
SCHOOL -XXI
KA1- TEACHERS
2018-2020
14 MOBILITIES

15. ERASMUS KA2
Climate Change - 2015-2017
• 6 Countries: Portugal, Germany, Italy, Poland, Lithuania,
France
• 7th, 8th, 9th grades
Eurohome - 2016-2018
• 4 Countries: Portugal, France, Greece, Poland
• European Citizenship
• 7th, 8th,9th grades
OMIT – 2017-2019
• 4 Countries: Portugal, Romania, Germany, Greece, Spain

16. ERASMUS KA2
LEARNING BY DOING 2018-2020
• 5 Countries: Portugal, Finland, Romania, UK, Italy
• 2nd and 4th Grades
ONLINE LEARNING USING THE EXAMPLE OF ENVIRONMENTAL
EDUCATION
• 4 Countries: Portugal, Greece, Spain, Germany
• 7th, 8th, 9th grades
BUILDING 21ST CENTURY COMPETENCIES:LEARNING FROM THE
PAST
• 4 Countries: Portugal, France, Poland, Greece
•7th, 8th, 9th grades

17. ERASMUS KA2
HAPPY CHILDREN 2020-2022
• 6 Countries: Portugal, Spain, Romania, Turkey, Italy,
Slovenian
• Kindergarten and 1st graders
ECOMATES 2020-2022
• 5 Countries: Portugal, Greece, Estonia, France, Spain
• Kindergarten and 1st graders
WHERE IS BEAUTY? 2020-2022
• 6 Countries: Portugal, Italy, Turkey, Norway, Spain, Bulgaria
• 5th and 6th grades

18. ERASMUS KA2
OUR CULTURE, OUR TREASURE 2020-2022
• 5 Countries: Portugal, Estonia, Slovenia, Greece, Spain
• 5th and 6th grades
WATER 2020-2022
• 6 Countries: Portugal, Czech Republic, Romania, France,
Greece, Iceland
• 7th, 8th, 9th grades
SEED 2020-2022
• 5 Countries: Portugal, Spain, Greece, Romania, Poland
• 7th, 8th, 9th grades

19. ERASMUS KA2
SHAPES OF WATER 2020-2022
• 4 Countries: Portugal, Czech Republic, Iceland, Finland
• 7th, 8th, 9th grades

20. AFTER EUROPE...
TEACHERS' AND STUDENTS' EXPERIENCES
• NEW CLASSROOM DISPOSITION CREATES MODERN LEARNING
ENVIRONMENTS
• NEW SCHOOL EVALUATION CRITERIA FOLLOWING THE NEW
STUDENTS' PROFILE BY THE END OF COMPULSORY SCHOOLING
• BYOD - TOPA BRING YOUR OWN DEVICE
• NEW APPS IN EVERYDAY LIFE IN OUR CLASSROOM SUCH AS
KAHOOT, PLICKERS, POWTOON,…
• THE MOBILE PHONE BECOME AN IMPORTANT KEY TOOL FOR
LEARNING MOTIVATION

21. AFTER EUROPE...
TEACHERS' AND STUDENTS' EXPERIENCES
• STUDENTS' BEHAVIOUR
TOWARDS EUROPE
• MOTIVATION TO
TRAVEL
• LEARN MORE ABOUT
LIFE BEYOND THE
ISLAND

22. AFTER EUROPE...
TEACHERS' AND STUDENTS' EXPERIENCES

23. SELF-EVALUATION MODEL
• Classes' observation
• Teachers' meetings
• Formal school documents analysis
SHARING IDEAS AND GOOD PRACTICES BETWEEN TEACHERS
FOLLOWING ECCEO
• Created by Xavier Navarro (Chavarria y Borell, 2013)
• Monitored by the European Forum on Educational Administration
in Barcelona

24. Partnerships
Eco School
Blue School
Ocean
Literacy
Unesco
School

25. Our Culture
Our Treasure
EBI Francisco Ferreira Drummond
Project ID: 2020-1-SI01-KA229-075865_3