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Timing: When can schools reopen?
Schools have to be able to protect the physical and mental health of students, teachers and staff.
We have to ask:
Will reopening run this risk of spreading the virus?
My questions: How will we know what the risk is? Do we have a protocol for families reporting? How will they know? How accessible is testing? How are we monitoring school personnel? I imagine we need strict guidelines about not coming on-site in certain situations.
How to reduce class sizes and practice physical distancing?
My questions: Can we have morning and afternoon sessions? Can we still post lessons online, but students come groups at a time for in-person support?
I think we can only have up to 12 at a time. Our current tables could present a problem, or make things more challenging. We might want to look at that for the future.
What psychological support will the school community need?
Who is going to provide support? I assume the counselors. Do we have enough? There could be a heavy load. We REALLY want to look at including social/emotional into what we do in the classroom.
Continuity of learning for all:
How will we provide this? The best way I can think of is to continue to post our lessons online. We simply don't know who will be attending on site sessions, but I think we know that we will have a lot of absences anytime a student feels sick.
What disparities will exist? We need to address them.
There will be disparities in our foreign population (huge language barriers; parents will not be able to fully help them because they have minimal understanding; Do we need more support in for ASAP and SSL? How will we train them?
There will also be disparities for our SS students. Parents are unsure how to help their students. They are the ones asking for additional sessions and reaching out for support.
There will also be disparities in families where both parents are working. How can we combat this?
There will be disparities for students with fewer resources. We need to provide devices to them. Are we currently capable of doing that? Is our school equipped with enough devices to help them?
What pre-conditions must be met before schools reopen?
The primary criteria will relate to physical protection against COVID-19.
Schools in areas with least cases might open first, or schools with the most appropriate hygiene facilities:
I think this will require sanitation stations. Bathrooms and all facilities will need to be cleaned and sanitized frequently throughout the day.
Consider the availability of school personnel. The school day will need to be restructured.
What will this look like? Morning and afternoon sessions? Small group times during the day?
Third condition is to look at the capacity of local administration and institutions to make the changes.
Can we do double-shift schooling? What happens when students and teachers do not feel safe to come to school?
I wonder if we will look at providing on-site sessions for students who are not ours. I don't know if this is effective, but I imagine it should be more effective than all distance learning. Would we survey the families first to see who feels safe enough to come to school? Can teachers work in pairs? I.e. they might take on two groups together? I think this can get very messy if there is not a set schedule and it's left for parents to just sign up. I think we need to survey the parents first to find out who is even willing to come on site. We might need to have teachers pair up, but I think this will depend on the numbers. I can see this being the case if a teacher feels unsafe to return to campus, but she/he has students who want on-site sessions.
3. How can states organize the reopening of schools?
I think this will require great communication between schools and state. Who at our school communicates with them? Is it Iliana?
Next article:
https://en.unesco.org/news/education-ministers-share-plans-reopening-schools-after-covid-19-closures
Next Article:
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/lessons-from-around-the-world-how-other-schools-are-reopening
China is using: social distancing hats, strict sanitation guidelines, temperature tracking apps, plastic dividers on tables.
Schools are reopening in a staggard manner- this means there should be communication between the different schools. How will we do this? Who will be our liaison?
Temperatures are checked at school entrances, and students have to display a green code of health via a smartphone health code program.
My questions: What is this app called? What information does it provide? How reliable is it? How do we know?
Students have their shoes disinfected, then cleans hands at a disinfecting station, then goes to a another gadget that sprays disinfectant. They also have their temperature taken.
Some provinces are taking bigger measures. Some requires teachers and students to do nucleic acid testing.
Wuhan opened schools in May. They spaced out desks (our desks are going to be problematic) and organized smaller class sizes.
Some schools arranged staggered arrival times for teachers and parents.
In Singapore, they are reducing class sizes and alternating between the days that students go to school. Maybe TAs an subs can stay at home and provide Zoom sessions?
In Japan, it is up to Municipalities to decide when they go back to school based on their numbers of infected cases.
The ministry of health has set out guidelines for: keeping windows open to ventilate the air, for maintaining physical distancing, checking temperatures daily (what would the logistics of this be? Do teachers need to be trained and equipped for this?).
In Australia, in one of its largest states, students are only required to attend school once a week and they have a staggard scheduled.
In Victoria, teenagers will return first, then younger students. Why? That makes no sense to me. The younger ones are the ones who I think should go first.
In Germany, all students have returned. Class sizes have been reduced to half. Hallways are only one-way. Breaks are staggered.
Reopening schools: How to get education back on track after COVID-19
Timing: When can schools reopen?
Schools have to be able to protect the physical and mental health of students, teachers and staff.
We have to ask:
Will reopening run this risk of spreading the virus?
My questions: How will we know what the risk is? Do we have a protocol for families reporting? How will they know? How accessible is testing? How are we monitoring school personnel? I imagine we need strict guidelines about not coming on-site in certain situations.
How to reduce class sizes and practice physical distancing?
My questions: Can we have morning and afternoon sessions? Can we still post lessons online, but students come groups at a time for in-person support?
I think we can only have up to 12 at a time. Our current tables could present a problem, or make things more challenging. We might want to look at that for the future.
What psychological support will the school community need?
Who is going to provide support? I assume the counselors. Do we have enough? There could be a heavy load. We REALLY want to look at including social/emotional into what we do in the classroom.
Continuity of learning for all:
How will we provide this? The best way I can think of is to continue to post our lessons online. We simply don't know who will be attending on site sessions, but I think we know that we will have a lot of absences anytime a student feels sick.
What disparities will exist? We need to address them.
There will be disparities in our foreign population (huge language barriers; parents will not be able to fully help them because they have minimal understanding; Do we need more support in for ASAP and SSL? How will we train them?
There will also be disparities for our SS students. Parents are unsure how to help their students. They are the ones asking for additional sessions and reaching out for support.
There will also be disparities in families where both parents are working. How can we combat this?
There will be disparities for students with fewer resources. We need to provide devices to them. Are we currently capable of doing that? Is our school equipped with enough devices to help them?
What pre-conditions must be met before schools reopen?
The primary criteria will relate to physical protection against COVID-19.
Schools in areas with least cases might open first, or schools with the most appropriate hygiene facilities:
I think this will require sanitation stations. Bathrooms and all facilities will need to be cleaned and sanitized frequently throughout the day.
Consider the availability of school personnel. The school day will need to be restructured.
What will this look like? Morning and afternoon sessions? Small group times during the day?
Third condition is to look at the capacity of local administration and institutions to make the changes.
Can we do double-shift schooling? What happens when students and teachers do not feel safe to come to school?
I wonder if we will look at providing on-site sessions for students who are not ours. I don't know if this is effective, but I imagine it should be more effective than all distance learning. Would we survey the families first to see who feels safe enough to come to school? Can teachers work in pairs? I.e. they might take on two groups together? I think this can get very messy if there is not a set schedule and it's left for parents to just sign up. I think we need to survey the parents first to find out who is even willing to come on site. We might need to have teachers pair up, but I think this will depend on the numbers. I can see this being the case if a teacher feels unsafe to return to campus, but she/he has students who want on-site sessions.
3. How can states organize the reopening of schools?
I think this will require great communication between schools and state. Who at our school communicates with them? Is it Iliana?
Next article:
https://en.unesco.org/news/education-ministers-share-plans-reopening-schools-after-covid-19-closures
Next Article:
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/lessons-from-around-the-world-how-other-schools-are-reopening
China is using: social distancing hats, strict sanitation guidelines, temperature tracking apps, plastic dividers on tables.
Schools are reopening in a staggard manner- this means there should be communication between the different schools. How will we do this? Who will be our liaison?
Temperatures are checked at school entrances, and students have to display a green code of health via a smartphone health code program.
My questions: What is this app called? What information does it provide? How reliable is it? How do we know?
Students have their shoes disinfected, then cleans hands at a disinfecting station, then goes to a another gadget that sprays disinfectant. They also have their temperature taken.
Some provinces are taking bigger measures. Some requires teachers and students to do nucleic acid testing.
Wuhan opened schools in May. They spaced out desks (our desks are going to be problematic) and organized smaller class sizes.
Some schools arranged staggered arrival times for teachers and parents.
In Singapore, they are reducing class sizes and alternating between the days that students go to school. Maybe TAs an subs can stay at home and provide Zoom sessions?
In Japan, it is up to Municipalities to decide when they go back to school based on their numbers of infected cases.
The ministry of health has set out guidelines for: keeping windows open to ventilate the air, for maintaining physical distancing, checking temperatures daily (what would the logistics of this be? Do teachers need to be trained and equipped for this?).
In Australia, in one of its largest states, students are only required to attend school once a week and they have a staggard scheduled.
In Victoria, teenagers will return first, then younger students. Why? That makes no sense to me. The younger ones are the ones who I think should go first.
In Germany, all students have returned. Class sizes have been reduced to half. Hallways are only one-way. Breaks are staggered.
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