ORDEN ECD/65/2015 COMPETENCES

ANEX II GUIDELINES TO FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF KEY COMPETENCES

The role of the teacher should be advisor, prompter and facilitator of the skills development of the
student. The methodology must focus on tasks with a specific objective, which the student must
resolve by an appropriate use of different types of knowledge, skills, attitudes and values; it also
should take into account the attention to the diversity and the respect of the different rhythms and
styles of learning through individual and cooperative work.

One of the key elements in teaching through competences is waking up and maintaining motivation
towards learning in students, which implies a new approach of the students role: active and
autonomous.

To enhance the motivation to learn through competences is required, in addition, the use of active
and contextualized methodologies.

The active methodologies have to be put into practice through cooperative learning, also through the
resolution of tasks in group, then students get familiar with the strategies used by their classmates
and can apply them to similar situations and favour an active participation, the experimentation and a
functional learning that will facilitate the development of skills, as well as the motivation of the
student and the transfer of learnings.

Working on tasks helps the student to organize his thinking promoting critical reflection and the
elaboration of hypotheses by applying their knowledge and skills to real projects.

Also, it is recommended the use of the Portfolio that reinforces the continuous assessment and allows
us to share results.

Teachers must be involved in the elaboration and design of different types of materials, adapted to
the different levels and to the different styles of learning of the students to attend to the diversity in
the classroom.

It is necessary a close coordination of the teachers when dealing with methodological and didactic
strategies.

This coordination also allows teachers to address rigorously to the integrated treatment of
competences and to progress towards a collaborative construction of knowledge