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The Prime Minister announced today the precautionary suspension of the operation of the Gymnasiums and Lyceums of general education throughout the country, within the framework of prevention measures for COVID-19, following a suggestion of the Committee of Experts for the protection against the coronavirus . Primary schools, kindergartens and elementary schools, as well as full-time schools, continue to operate, while there is still the possibility to enroll in full-time schools, so that students obtain educational benefits, support families in practice and avoid contact. with high-risk groups, mainly grandparents. School decisions will go into effect Monday, November 9 for three weeks.
As for the special education and training schools of all levels, their lifetime operation will continue as normal. Special attention has been paid to students and their families, among other reasons why they are disproportionately burdened by distance education.
Tutoring centers, study structures, language centers will be suspended for the same period of time and can only operate remotely.
Schools that suspend their operation for life immediately begin compulsory modern distance learning, so principals must develop programs for modern distance education. The material will normally proceed through distance education.
The Ministry of Education and Religions has ensured:
– the improvement of the public networks and platforms of the Panhellenic Schools Network,
– cooperation of the Panhellenic Schools Network and CISCO Webex at no charge to the State for the implementation of modern e-learning,
– zero data charge for access to all educational platforms used by the Ministry for distance education from providers Cosmote, Vodafone, Wind, Forthnet,
– possibility to connect with a landline (landline) to the modern Webex distance learning platform,
– strengthening of school equipment with more than 80,000 mobile devices (53,000 from NSRF, more than 10,000 from RDP contests and more than 20,000 from donations), out of some 4,500 devices that existed in July 2019,
– Specific instructions from the Educational Policy Institute for the preparation of distance education programs,
– teacher training programs for distance education.
Vocational education will operate the IEK, the post-secondary year – apprenticeship, second-chance schools, lifelong learning centers, colleges and universities (in the last two only the labs and clinical exercises of the last year of undergraduate student programs can live).
Absences
The absence of students from each lesson hour of modern distance education is recorded by the teacher in an Electronic Daily Study Card and is counted in the general total of absences that the student will make during the school year and is taken into account characterization of your study.
The completion and custody of the student’s electronic daily report is the teacher’s obligation. To check the absences of the students, a Student Book (absent book) is kept, in which the sum of the absences of the day of each student who was absent is registered numerically, as they have been registered in the Daily Bulletin of the Student. The custody of the Student Book (absenteeism) is assigned to a teacher, appointed by the Teachers Association, who keeps it electronically. In addition, every teacher is obliged to properly record the titles of the unit that he taught on a daily basis.
The Minister of Education and Religions, Niki Kerameos, He said: “The exponentially increasing spread of the coronavirus in society and its possible transfer from the extracurricular environment of students to within the school, has led to the preventive suspension of the operation of general secondary education structures for life, keeping all open schools and special education units. We are fully prepared to transfer the learning process to its distance form, we support by all means our students and their families, our teachers, our executives, and we are optimistic that in in a short time we will return to normality. “Together, with the same zeal and adaptability that we showed during the first phase of the pandemic, we will fight to ensure individual and public health, while we continue the educational process for each and everyone.”
Source: skai.gr
