New crown pneumonia | How can I teach K1 students if I cannot return to school? Some kindergartens transfer to train parents to teach their children

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Written by: Deng Yinglin

2020-08-03 23:56

Affected by the epidemic, the Education Bureau announced today that the new school year, primary and secondary schools and kindergartens will "open school" as scheduled, but they cannot return to school to receive face-to-face instruction, and they must continue to study at home. The principal of Chu Chang Kindergarten of the Tsuen Wan Chamber of Commerce and the vice chairman of the Federation of Education, Lin Cuiling, predicts that it will bring turmoil to the kindergarten academic community, and even a new wave of dropouts. Considering that the K1 school was too young to learn e-learning on its own, the school turned to educating parents , Use video classrooms to train parents to tell stories and do labor, and allow parents to educate their children using materials prepared by the school.

As for primary one freshmen, Wu Yongxiong, chairman of the Hong Kong Buddhist Federation’s Primary School Principals’ Association and the principal of the Buddhist Lin Jindian Memorial Primary School, pointed out that the need to cancel the traditional summer primary one adaptation class and the new school year’s electronic education are not harmful to primary one freshmen. Life, so the school had to distribute the physical homework to them, and maintain the weekly collection of physical homework after the beginning of school, and try to help them adapt.

Affected by the epidemic, kindergarten children in the new school year are still unable to return to school. (Profile picture)

Children can be taught self-care skills and courtesy only after class is resumed.

Principal Lin Cuiling said that in the past few months, many parents reported that they could not start after receiving the material package. Therefore, the school will launch a "Parent Education Class" and hold a video parent class in the evening to train parents to say Stories and teaching children to do labor.

As for self-care ability, courtesy and communication skills, she bluntly said that she needs to learn in groups and face to face, and cannot teach online. It is expected that students will need time to adapt after the formal resumption of classes.

As for K3 students entering Primary One, they may also face adjustment difficulties. (Profile picture/Photo by Zheng Zifeng)

Primary school principal: video teaching is not ideal for primary one freshmen

Primary one freshmen may also face adjustment difficulties. Wu Yongxiong, the principal of Buddhism Lin Jindian Memorial Primary School, pointed out that in addition to environmental changes, the teaching arrangements for "promoting to primary school" are also very different. For example, there are 8 or 9 teachers in each subject in primary schools, and each class uses different textbooks. The students in Japan have certain challenges: "K3 students have not been in class for a long time, and they don’t know the new teacher. It is very unsatisfactory to start the school by video. It takes a while to recognize people."

To assist freshmen in adapting, Wu said that the school is tentatively transferring small family long-days to online. Considering that the original summer adaptation course for primary one freshmen needs to be cancelled during the epidemic, the school will transfer the Chinese and English mathematics exercises in the adaptation course to home Classes are distributed to students to complete at home. Since they are not used to handing in their homework electronically, they will receive physical homework once a week after the school starts to help them adapt.

K3 graduates from kindergartens need time to adjust to entering Primary One. (Profile picture)

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this year. The Education Bureau revealed that it has received six kindergartens and kindergarten-cum-child care centers to confirm their closure notices so far this year. Lin Cuiling pointed out that the economy is poor and it is unpredictable when face-to-face education will resume, causing more parents to consider dropping out. It is expected that this announcement will bring turbulence to the entire kindergarten sector, and the impact will be even worse than in February and March this year, within a few days at the earliest. There is a wave of school dropouts, and private kindergartens will be greatly affected. For example, she pointed out that some principals had received more than 100 class N dropouts overnight; many private kindergartens had reduced their income in the past six months and still had to pay rent and teacher salary expenses. Parents supported and the landlord was willing to reduce rents and run schools. Group support and reserves will become the key to the survival of the school.

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As for non-profit-making or subsidized kindergartens, Lam Cui-ling believes that there may also be a wave of dropouts, or a large number of parents may ask for half-day schooling. She explained that government subsidies may not fully cover tuition fees. In order to reduce expenses, parents of full-time students may wish to transfer to half-time. As the school has different measures on whether to charge miscellaneous fees, individual parents may do so if their financial situation is not satisfactory. If you choose to withdraw from school, "the amount of miscellaneous fees is not large, but the monthly calculation will have a certain impact. If parents are unemployed, they will even choose to teach by themselves. And the withdrawal of lower grades will affect the number of students and tuition income of the school in the next few years."

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