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The statement, signed by the Minister of National Education, Ziya Selçuk, read:
In order not to be affected by the rebound in the course of the epidemic in the world and in our country, students, teachers and employees who continue their training in our educational institutions in person, in accordance with the recommendations of the Ministry of Health and the Scientific Committee of the Coronavirus, in accordance with the decision made at the cabinet meeting chaired by our President, from Friday, November 20 to Monday, January 4. We will continue all formal, private, formal and non-formal education activities through distance education.
All preschool institutions, kindergartens, elementary schools, middle and high schools, special education schools and classes, applied courses in professional secondary schools and special education courses under our Ministry will also be within this scope. Nor will there be face-to-face training in support and training courses and reinforcement courses. The “individual trainings” in rehabilitation and special education centers within the scope of the special education law numbered 5580 can be conducted face to face.
The schedules of the weekly distance education courses will be shared with our students and parents by our teachers under the coordination of our school administrations. Our school administrators and teachers will structure the distance learning processes in the new semester according to the course subjects and the curriculum they teach with their students during the semester break. During this period, we will be with our students with our TRT EBA channels, our live classroom applications, EBA internet platform, print and digital auxiliary resources.
NO EXAMS WILL BE TAKEN UNTIL DECEMBER 31
Exams will not be held in person or remotely until December 31, 2020, the planning of the exams will be carried out according to the course of the epidemic process, and will be communicated to our students through our school administrations and teachers. Our students will be responsible for the educational curriculum, which is carried out in person and with distance education.
With the new academic year, we will send the weekly course programs of the TRT EBA Kinder / Primary, Baccalaureate and Baccalaureate channels, where 812 teachers work in 112 branches and 1,653 lesson videos are prepared and broadcast in 13 studios, to the mobile phones of our 18 million students via text messaging service. Our conference broadcasts will continue to show three times a day to allow our students to retrieve and reinforce them.
In addition, we have previously shared with them that we have delivered 60 thousand tablets sent through public institutions and organizations, local administrations, private sector organizations and civil initiatives to our students with priority needs in accordance with the distribution strategy that we prepare in light of the official data. Our distributions continue simultaneously with support campaigns and acquisition processes. We will have delivered 30 thousand tablets to our students in 10 days. The process of acquiring 500 thousand tablets that we will distribute and we will have delivered to our students by the end of the year was completed. With the support of our stakeholders, we aim to reach all of our students in need as quickly as possible.
Live classroom applications, which have served 49 million 768 thousand course hours since March 23, 2020, when we began distance education, will actively serve during this period. With the integration of the EBA live class and alternative applications into our system, we have the capacity to deliver around 2 million lessons per day. Live class hours will be notified to our students and parents by our teachers.
Acquiring the title of the world’s most visited educational website with 9.1 billion clicks, our EBA Internet portal serves our students with more than 1,700 lessons and more than 40,000 rich, trustworthy and interactive content. At EBA, our teachers and students are presented with video or interactive narratives, exercises, summaries, infographics, project documents, specific content for teachers, more than 5,000 books and more than 240,000 questions.
We continue to work to adapt the exam curriculum to the distance learning process for our students preparing for core exams. Details will be shared with the public next week.
In this process, our teachers will continue their work remotely, and will be able to come to our schools to receive distance education and benefit from tools such as computers and cameras. Our branch teachers, for their part, have been working for at least a week to follow and coordinate the distance education process.
They will come to our schools for 1 day. Our teachers will continue to receive additional tuition fees during the distance education process.
In the Guidance and Research Centers, face-to-face services will continue to be provided to those who will be diagnosed for the first time. In this process, requests made through November 18, 2020 for inter-school transfer requests will be processed and no new requests will be received until December 31, 2020.
We are in a process in which we need to unite with our parents, teachers, school administrators, and the entire educational family for the confidence, peace, happiness, and success of our students. It is our greatest desire to restart our gradual transition to face-to-face education, where we take our measures at the highest level based on hygiene standards, and even design our children’s non-contact games in school gardens and classrooms. We would like to wish we did not take this break, and even know our schools with all grades as in the vast majority of countries in the world. However, we had to make that decision due to the conditions in the country. Of course, we keep repeating our call: “We need everyone’s support, please follow the rules” for the future of our children. According to the table for the last week of December, we will share with the public our planning and calendar of gradual transition to face-to-face education in our schools.
I would also like to inform you that we are ready to answer all the questions of our citizens about distance education with our EBA Assistant 24/7, MEB Assistant and call center 44 0 632 MEBİM.
