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It remains one of the very big issues of the pandemic: How do students get through the crisis?
How Much Are You Missing?
And how can you make up for what you have missed?
The Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Community School in the Marzahn-Hellersdorf district of Berlin
has found a concept for itself.
Starting this Saturday, students can catch up on learning material in the planned six units until the summer holidays.
Heike Gabriel, head of the elementary school section of the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Community School:
»Corona affects all children, and it is clear that the learning arrears are there.
And it was important to do something now.
This is now our offensive, so to speak. "
The demand is immense, the offer means a relief for schoolchildren.
Adenike, student, 13 years:
"Well, I think it's actually quite good, because you can learn more there, which you missed even in the time when there was no classroom teaching."
Johanna, student, 8 years:
“Yes, that helps me.
That really helps me because I'm not that good at math. "
The lessons are led by teachers from the tutoring institute Studienkreis.
For them, the focus of their tasks is now shifting.
Lukas Wapenhans, teacher of the study group:
»Actually it is more this support aspect in the foreground, but now also this learning aspect, that we as teachers and try to somehow convey some tips to the students or to teach new topics, because it is simply in the School is partially not made. "
A study by the Ifo Institute shows how much distance teaching restricts.
According to this, the time spent on school activities in homeschooling drops to an average of 4.3 hours a day.
Ludger Wößmann, head of the Ifo Center for the Economics of Education:
"That is almost 45 minutes more than in the first lockdown, but it is also more than three hours less than on a normal school day before Corona."
This also makes the Abitur a special challenge, as here at the Windeck comprehensive school in North Rhine-Westphalia.
The school year was accompanied by a mask requirement, the change between face-to-face and distance teaching and the discussion about self-tests.
Nevertheless, the students now have to take the central high school diploma, with many additional rules and after a corona test the day before.
Melanie Grabowy, Rector of the Windeck Comprehensive School:
“I am very sorry that we have to put additional stress on them.
And for us, of course, this also means a challenge, because I always say the calmer and more relaxed you are, the more relaxed the students are.
Now we have 50 more rules to follow, and that puts us all under pressure. "
In view of the adversity of the past few months, the state student council spoke of a very unequal starting position among the high school graduates.
But it is also clear that the end of this school year is far from over the effects of the pandemic and the deficits have not been remedied.
And with that back to the community school in Berlin.
Those responsible here also know that these additional six Saturdays alone will not be able to make up for the arrears.
Further impulses are needed here.
Heike Gabriel, head of the elementary school section of the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Community School:
“In the medium term, we will think about what we can do in the new school year. It means adapting the plans from the first day of school in all subjects. And we want to provide support at the same time. And there we are in negotiations with the study group or in discussions about how we can do what we started today over the next year. "
In addition, it is not guaranteed that all six Saturdays can take place at all. That depends heavily on the infection process. According to the new provisions of the Infection Protection Act, schools must switch to distance learning from an incidence value of 165. In Berlin it is currently 135, in many other circles it has long been higher. And there the deficits are getting bigger again.