CNE recommends “collaborative and stable educational teams” of four or five teachers with a tutor teacher or curriculum manager.
Study by the National Education Council (CNE) defends the creation of a single initial cycle of six years in basic education, through the merger of the 1st and 2nd cycle, and proposes the end of the single teacher model in primary school.
The recommendation comes at a time when the Ministry of Education announced, in January, that the merger of the two cycles will advance in the 2027/2028 academic year.
According to the document cited by , the reorganization of basic education should be based on a “new pedagogical conception”, replacing the current monoteaching with “collaborative and stable educational teams”. In practice, this means that students in the initial years would no longer have just one teacher responsible for most subjects, but would be accompanied by several teachersincluding teachers who currently teach in the 2nd cycle.
The experts involved in the study defend a model of cooperative pluridocency, with four or five teachersin order to reduce the number of interlocutors in the 2nd cycle and ensure greater continuity in the students’ journey.
The CNE also proposes the creation of the figure of the tutor teacher or curriculum manager.
The study also highlights that the change cannot be limited to the formal reorganization of cycles. To be effective, it will require profound changes in three dimensions: assessment, human resources management and teacher training.
To this end, the CNE considers it necessary to replace the weight of summative assessment with a more formative and regulatory logic, make teacher competitions more flexible to allow for stable teams and adapt teacher training to truly interdisciplinary work.
In the experts’ analysis, the current organization of basic education has contributed to the loss of identity in the 2nd cycle and for the growing curriculum fragmentationwhile introducing an excessively disciplinary logic into the 1st cycle. The initial six-year cycle is therefore presented as a structural response, in line with models followed in other European countries.
