Working for nearly three years in many public schools within Zone 6 of Cuenca, we discovered that few schools know that the “TiNi” program has been mandated from the Ministry of Education in Quito to be part of the “malla curricular” and is to be included in daily teaching of other required subjects including mathematics, literature, language, social studies, physical education, cultural and artistic education. It is not a “special project” as most administrators and teachers seem to believe and the Ministerio has mandated that 5 hours a week be devoted solely to the “TiNi” curriculum and methodology. Here is one of the statements that appears in the Guia and available as a link in the following section below.
De conformidad con el Acuerdo 020-A del 2016, la flexibilidad en el Plan de estudios para Educación General Básica, establece que cada institución educativa podrá aumentar o disminuir la carga horaria de las áreas instrumentales (Lengua y Literatura, Matemática y Lengua Extranjera) en función de las necesidades que presenten sus estudiantes orientándose a cumplir con los objetivos curriculares de cada una de estas áreas en cada grado y nivel; las instituciones educativas deben incluir su Plan de estudios e incorporar TiNi, como un espacio pedagógico o aula de recurso que permita a los docentes trabajar las asignaturas establecidas en la malla curricular de manera transversal. (Guia, p. 8).
To help teachers and participants better understand the position of the Ministry of Education in Quito regarding the “TiNi” Program, I have linked several documents that contain the history of the implementation of this program in Ecuador along with a few news articles about different schools who have implemented the program into their curriculum.
TiNi – Tierra de niños, niñas y jóvenes para el buen vivir 