Regulation · Canary Islands · Objective assessment
Canary Islands sets common rubrics for Early Years and Curriculum Diversification
The Resolution of 2 October 2026 introduces official rubrics for Early Childhood Education assessment criteria and the areas taught within the Curriculum Diversification Programme. They provide a common framework to support objective assessment and grading, without mandating a single instrument or opening a call for applications.
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Published regional resolution · Official guidance rubrics · No implementation deadline
Our interpretation
Why it matters
The resolution defines attainment levels and links assessment criteria to competences, but describes the rubrics as a guidance tool. It creates no new filing requirement, reporting duty or deadline for schools and does not amend safeguarding or behaviour protocols.
Editorial recommendation
What to do
Providers delivering Early Childhood Education or Curriculum Diversification should make staff aware of the rubrics as an official reference. The resolution does not require providers to report adoption, immediately replace other valid assessment instruments or complete an implementation step by a specified date.
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Territory, instrument, publication and legal status
Canary Islands. The Directorate-General for Curriculum, Inclusion and Innovation issued the Resolution of 2 October 2026, published in issue 209 of the Canary Islands Official Gazette on 20 October 2026.
It is a published regional resolution establishing two annexes of official rubrics. It is not a draft, funding call, voluntary programme or private guide. Its stated purpose is nevertheless to guide and facilitate assessment: it does not require exclusive use of these rubrics or state a separate implementation date. It applies on publication alongside the curriculum and assessment rules already in force.
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What changes
The education authority adds a common attainment framework for Early Childhood Education assessment criteria and for the areas within the Curriculum Diversification Programme. The rubrics connect learning outcomes with key competences and are intended to support formative, collegiate and objective assessment.
Early Years uses the levels Less than adequate, Adequate, Very adequate and Excellent. Curriculum Diversification links the grades Fail, Pass-Good, Very good and Excellent to those attainment levels. The annexes set out the rubric for each criterion.
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Who is affected
- Teachers and teaching teams at Canary Islands providers delivering Early Childhood Education.
- Teachers and teams responsible for Curriculum Diversification areas in compulsory secondary education.
- Learners in those provisions, whose right to objective assessment is already regulated by the Order of 31 May 2023.
- It does not change assessment in stages or subjects outside the annexes.
Editorial analysis
Required actions and deadlines
The resolution makes the rubrics available to providers as an official reference and common framework. It sets no application, certification, filing requirement or implementation timetable. Nor does it state that every existing assessment instrument must be replaced where those instruments are varied, accessible and suited to learning situations and learners' needs.
Curriculum criteria remain the assessment reference points. Planning and professional decisions must continue to comply with the rules on objective assessment; this resolution adds an official tool for applying them rather than creating a new general duty beyond the existing criteria and safeguards.
Context and timetable
No change to safeguarding or behaviour procedures
The resolution does not amend designated safeguarding and wellbeing lead functions or bullying, cyberbullying and behaviour procedures. It is therefore classified under News › Regulation, but does not require an update to the regional profile or protocol activation tool.
Primary source and reading standard
Canary Islands Official Gazette · Resolution of 2 October 2026Check the original document and its date before acting. The portal’s proposals are labelled as editorial recommendations and do not replace applicable rules.
Disclosure: Luis Manuel Tolmos has a professional connection with Brains International Schools, described in his profile. This analysis is independent.
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