When will the schools open, will they open? Statement by the Minister of Health, Fahrettin Koca, on September 21



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Teachers will notify parents of remote / live lesson planning and parent follow-up will be provided. The provincial and district directorates of national education and the school directorates shall be obliged to guarantee that students of all groups with disabilities benefit from educational activities in the best possible way, within local means.

The practical / vocational lessons of special education schools will be carried out remotely / live on digital platforms belonging to the Ministry of National Education with a very rich application and sample course videos. These courses may be carried out in person in the future in accordance with the instructions of the Ministry of National Education.

Teachers will be assigned for students studying at home or in the hospital. Adaptive activities in Special Education Vocational High Schools (Vocational High Schools for the Hearing and Physical Impaired) will be conducted remotely / live according to the integration week lesson schedule. After September 28, the lessons of the Anatolian Vocational Program, which was accepted in accordance with the decision of the Board of Education and applied in these schools, will be taught by distance / live education to students who were divided into two groups.

The situations of students studying at home or in the hospital will be fully processed in the e-School Management Information System and the course programs for these students will be assigned to teachers. Face-to-face education will be provided for students who choose to be homeschooled in kindergarten / classroom and first grade. The face-to-face education conditions will apply in the same way for students who are homeschooled in these classes. Students who are homeschooled at other grade levels will follow the distance education program at their own grade level under the supervision of the classroom teacher in which they are enrolled.

The contents elaborated by the General Directorate of Special Education and Guidance Services of “www.orgm.meb.gov.tr”, “tid.meb.gov.tr”, EBA and mobile applications and digital platforms such as YouTube and Instragram. In addition, conference videos for special education students, prepared for EBA TV and planned as 20 course hours per week, will be included in the programs notifying parents according to individual student needs by teachers.

The psychosocial support program prepared will be implemented by all teachers through face-to-face education or distance education, and psychosocial support services will be provided to students and parents. In addition, parent activities will be available in the “Adaptation Activities for Special Students” book.

The work and procedures to ensure the conditions required for hygiene in schools will be carried out in accordance with the “Guide for the improvement of hygiene conditions and the control of infection prevention in educational institutions” and the “Guide to study and management of outbreaks of Kovid-19 “published by the Ministry of Health in the field of the fight against Kovid-19. In addition, the contents of the “Information Guide for Students, Information Guide for Parents and Information Guide for Administrators and Teachers” prepared by the Ministry of National Education will be shared with relevant people and awareness will be raised.

All schools and special education institutions affiliated with the General Directorate of Special Education and Guidance Services will carry out activities within the scope of the “My School is Clean” certification program and will complete their efforts to obtain the certificate in question.

Taking into account that some students with special educational needs may have problems wearing masks and complying with social distance in face-to-face education, teachers will try to acquire this habit.

Problems related to the Electronic Schools Management Information System, where student affairs and procedures are carried out, such as registration, transfer, grade improvement and grade advancement, will be resolved mainly through the provincial and district national directorates of education and, where appropriate, unresolved situations will be reported to MoNE through the governorates.

Seating for students who will continue their face-to-face education in school bus vehicles will be arranged in a way that maintains social distance and avoids contact with each other. Additionally, parents will be banned from school buses, will wear a mask when needing to get on the school bus due to force majeure, and will be guaranteed not to sit in a seat other than the one specified. The monitoring of the transportation service provided by school bus vehicles will be done by the national directorates of education.

A department will be created for parents who are forced to be in school due to the situation of the student who continues face-to-face education, where they cannot contact students. It will be mandatory for parents to wear masks during their stay at the school. Parents will be asked to be sensitive to compliance with hygiene rules.

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