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The school year is over, but the Ministry of Education, Sports and Science, together with the educational community, is already working on plans on how the training will be developed from September 1. According to Jolanta Urbanovič, Vice Minister of Education, Science and Sports, three options are being considered to start the new school year.
“We will meet in regular classes, we will study in a mixed way and only a part of the children will go to school, or the situation will be that all will study only at a distance,” the vice minister said in a press release.
According to her, if the transition to distance learning were to take place again, at least 50 percent. The lessons would be video lessons. As the Vice Minister emphasized, this three-month distance learning experience revealed that a wide variety of virtual learning environments and electronic tools are available to schools.
Many schools, in preparation for the upcoming new school year, have already chosen and focused on a single virtual work environment, and the ministry plans to develop new support tools for school leaders and teachers.
Schools need to prepare for the new school year
It is planned to systematize the distance learning experience three months before the start of the new school year, to help lay the foundation for the development of a national digital education strategy. The distance learning experience and new directions for the upcoming school year were discussed at the distance learning community forum “Learning Community: Towards Digital Education” held on Thursday.
“The unexpected situation became a challenge for the entire education system, but at the same time it was an opportunity for great progress. We crossed those difficult thresholds and reaffirmed the importance of acting in the community. Of course, distance learning is not the equivalent of live communication. However, under certain conditions, this is a necessary measure. Therefore, looking towards the education of the future, we must be able to use it effectively, “the press release quotes the Minister of Education, Science and Sports, Algirdas Monkevičius.
According to the Minister, there are still many questions that need to be answered, just like other countries. However, most of them lie in the immutable goal of education: the success of the child, the revelation of their abilities. We must encourage, trust and empower the community so that together we can prepare plans for the new school year, to that each school has them and knows how to implement them successfully, “says Minister A. Monkevičius.
You can combine regular training with distance learning.
Until September 1st. The National Education Agency will update the website dedicated to distance education www.nsa.smm.lt/nuotolinis, will add a catalog of digital tools, sources of methodological material, recommendations on virtual learning environments, selection and application of digital content . Meetings with publishers, companies, tools they create, and other digital resources will be presented to teachers in August.
The distance learning experience will also serve the currently renewed general education programs. The general curricula are complemented by a new section on the organization of the distance learning process, there is a provision that the school may decide to organize the education combining the usual and distance learning methods.
The National Education Agency and Vytautas Magnus University will offer in-service training courses for teachers who want to improve their digital skills. They will be paid for with the support of EU funds. Incidentally, distance learning has greatly strengthened cooperation between teachers. 78.6 percent. teachers say that their collaboration has been strengthened, three out of four teachers say that this new experience has strengthened them as teachers.
Following the introduction of quarantine in March and the transition from schools to distance learning, a website was created with all sources of distance learning and other relevant material, many recommendations for schools on virtual environments, electronic journals, tools digital for distance learning, data security at school, special educational needs, a memory of education, the response to bullying or other violent behavior in video lessons, online a lecture cycle program for teachers, a list of constantly compiled and updated digital tools, and more. Videoconferences were held with representatives of municipalities, school leaders, educational support, IT specialists and teachers.
The ministry purchased and distributed around 35,000 computers and Internet SIM cards to schools. More than half of them reached schools in one week. In the late spring, the purchase of teachers’ Internet-connected laptops began. Computers are expected to be distributed to teachers in August.
With the relaxation of quarantine, most schools have chosen to end the school year remotely. Only 19 percent. The school year of schools with a primary education program continued in June in a mixed way.
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