HOW TO IMPROVE OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM

A number of recent studies have showed our serious problems, especially those related to students low performance comparated with OECD countries. Spanish has higher levels of school failure, lower levels of skills and results in tests as well as in graduation in secunday education.

Critics of the Spanish education system complain that its teaching methods are too traditional and unimaginative, with the emphasis on learning by rote. It has also been plagued by poor teacher training, Badly motivated and poorly paid teachers, and a high student failure rate, although all have improved in the last decade.
We must advise teachers regarding issues previously unknown, as disruptive students, motivation, attention deficit, hyperactivity, anorexia, bullying or cyberaddiction. They also need training in topics such as specific materials for diversity, flexible groups, new technologies applied to education, evaluation, improving mentoring, measures to improve relationships, and so on. The future teachers require direct experiences and examples of the task of teaching, rather than knowledge of their discipline that soon become obsolete.

Finally in my opinion, if we make laws that really help our education, we could improve our education system and results. We can mimic the action of Jeb Bush in Florida, the Swiss model FP; Swedish school vouchers, charter schools Chilean; selection processes in South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong for example.