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Since school will not resume in May, the question everyone asks is: But how and when? Pending the solution of the Ministry of Education, politicians, experts and technicians are working to study the plans that will guarantee safe access to classrooms for more than 8 million students and 1.2 million operators, to which we must add the numbers related to the peer schools (around 950 thousand students and 200 thousand teachers). Please continue to study this without risking an outbreak of the epidemic. Everyone agrees on one point: that a protocol must be adopted to adapt all institutions and ensure that students at each level of education can adopt and follow the same directions, avoiding chaos. Open schools, the company protected the title of the plan produced by the Polytechnic of Turin, which is based on staggered entrances and exits at regular intervals of time, to avoid meetings, outdoor and distance learning activities, halving the number of students for classes with turns. Stefano Parisi’s plan, drawn up with Prof. Giuseppe Bertagna, from the University of Bergamo, and Emmanuele Massagli, President of ADAPT, University of Modena as part of the Operational Plan https://ricostruireitalia.it, is also based on necessity of dividing students into small groups and dividing their activities between classroom study, e-learning, other activities in places of culture, other outdoor activities. But let’s see in detail.
Half classes and attention to nurseries and kindergartens
For the resumption of school in Italy it is necessary to define a national protocol, similar to those elaborated for the restart of production activities, points out the Polytechnic in approximately 60 pages that attempt to define the modalities for a safe resumption of school. Assuming that early childhood and school education services are as crucial as productive activities for the country’s recovery, it is evident that The educational system responds to the problems of balance between the family and the work of the parents, but above all to the constitutional rights of children and young people to receive education and have access to resources for the full development of their abilities.. Needs and rights, it is emphasized, have been compressed, perhaps inevitably, in recent weeks with negative consequences that have widened social inequalities among children.
Depending on the age of the boys and girls, specific evaluations should be carried out, explains the Polytechnic. The younger the children, the more difficult it is to imagine that they can adopt conscious preventive behaviors, first of all wearing masks – it can only be compulsory in primary schools. In addition, the study points out, the smallest are the least susceptible to the virus, which could therefore return sooner. However, in kindergartens and kindergartens, the relationship between educators / children must be reconciled in terms of the need for (very material) care and security in terms of health.
For kindergartens, the number of children per educator is the reference parameter. In nursery 0/3 years, the numerical ratio of infants / educators is currently 5 (from 0 to 12 months), 6 for children (from 13 to 24 months) 8 for adults (from 25 to 36 months). It is hypothesized to bring the maximum number to 5-6 for the three age groups, in order to better control not only the children, but also the number of parents that revolves around them. The kindergarten sections currently consist of a minimum number of 18 and a maximum of 26 students, with the exception of cases of disabled students: in this case, it is advisable not to exceed 10 children per group. For older children, therefore, from elementary school upwards, the number of students per class is expected to be halved, and the implementation of an alternation of distance and face-to-face teaching, providing half the group in class and half at home with periodic shifts. Purchases? For the University of Turin, the following is expected: the costs will be borne by schools and local entities and associations for all prevention devices (from Plexiglas to masks) and for sanitation; the expenses will be borne by the local authorities for the preparation of premises, structures and furniture and for the renovation of outdoor spaces; management costs and logistical impact of personnel management.
June to September
The plan that Parisi instead presented to the head of the government’s task force, Vittorio Colao, proposes to reopen the schools immediately, from June to September. Also in this case a subdivision of students is proposed, in groups of eight. Daily and / or weekly, other activities in cultural places such as museums, period buildings, exhibitions, theaters and sports activities (including visits to parks and gardens) should be distributed in activities within the moenia, e-learning from home. botanicals). The activities in this scheme take place from 8 to 17, and the school can also use Saturday morning to guarantee the turn. Given that the number of teachers currently employed by schools would not be sufficient, it is proposed to use university students to attend undergraduate courses that allow teaching as an option within the health system (an option that could also exceed the limits imposed by the advanced age of our teachers). The reconstruction proposal assumes that we can reopen schools in 5 weeks, following six key steps: health protection, defining operating rules to guarantee it to students, teachers and auxiliary personnel; a general plan of the Ministry of Education to provide indications on the types of summer training offer for students and resources; national and territorial working groups; temporary modification of the teachers’ contract; greater autonomy of the school: and finally the LARSA, or workshops for the deepening, recovery and development of learning. Between one activity and another indoors, there should be at least half an hour of rest, to ensure the sanitation of the rooms. Too avant-garde compared to the reality of the Italian school? The logic with which we are working is precisely to address the Covid 19 emergency in many areas, with a new approach compared to the past so that from the emergency we can go to the ordinary, modernizing the country, explains Parisi.
May 2, 2020 (change May 2, 2020 | 3:34 pm)
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