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No return to school when school begins

2020-08-20T00:10:13.353Z


September 1st will be the opening day of most schools. However, due to the impact of the epidemic, all students in Hong Kong can only start school in the new school year, not face-to-face. Zhu Ziying, the chief principal of Decui’s kindergarten and elementary school, who is independent and has not participated in the kindergarten program, said that “homeschool” is popular in Canada, the United States and Taiwan, but most families in Hong Kong consist of dual-time parents, which is difficult for long-term To educate their children on their own, Decui launched the concept of "online school" in the new school year to continue teaching under the new normal of the anti-epidemic, and to help students prepare for the resumption of classes, which will make it easier to incorporate courses. In the last school year, some parents were overly engaged in class with their children, "quickly answer" from time to time, and some students were not too focused, so the classroom rules will be reviewed before each class in the new school year. Considering that schoolchildren stay at home for a long time and there are few opportunities to communicate with others, De Cui will arrange online birthday parties, dress-up parties, and one-on-one conversation time between teachers and students in Chinese and English once a week, so that students have the opportunity to meet friends and train social skills .


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Written by: Deng Yinglin

2020-08-20 08:00

Last update date: 2020-08-20 08:00

September 1st will be the opening day of most schools. However, due to the impact of the epidemic, all students in Hong Kong can only start school in the new school year, not face-to-face. Zhu Ziying, the chief principal of Decui’s kindergarten and elementary school, who is independent and has not participated in the kindergarten program, said that “homeschool” is popular in Canada, the United States and Taiwan, but most families in Hong Kong consist of dual-time parents, which is difficult for long-term To educate their children on their own, Decui launched the concept of "online school" in the new school year to continue teaching under the new normal of the anti-epidemic, and to help students prepare for the resumption of classes, which will make it easier to incorporate courses.

In the last school year, some parents were overly engaged in class with their children, "quickly answer" from time to time, and some students were not too focused, so the classroom rules will be reviewed before each class in the new school year. Considering that schoolchildren stay at home for a long time and there are few opportunities to communicate with others, De Cui will arrange online birthday parties, dress-up parties, and one-on-one conversation time between teachers and students in Chinese and English once a week, so that students have the opportunity to meet friends and train social skills .

Zhu Ziying, the chief principal of Decui kindergarten and primary school, said that the concept of "online school" will be introduced in the new school year to continue teaching under the new normal of anti-epidemic, and to assist students in preparing for the resumption of classes, which will make it easier to integrate courses. (Photo by Lu Yiming)

The school will remind parents and students of online classroom rules

Good classroom order helps students focus on learning. Lin Peiyi, the principal of De Cui Kindergarten (Administration and Ma On Shan Campus), said with a smile that children must be assisted by adults to log in when they go to online learning. However, when parents accompanied their children in class last school year, they rushed to answer because they were too involved, which affected teaching; Before the start of the school year, there will be a parent lecture to remind students of the precautions for home study. The teacher will also briefly remind students of the rules of online class before the start of each class.

At the beginning, younger children were accompanied by their parents in class, but their parents were too involved and eager to answer, so they ordered (online classroom rules) to avoid similar situations.

Lam Pui-yee, Principal of De Cui Kindergarten (Administration and Ma On Shan Campus)

Weekly parties or oral training outside the classroom to help students learn social etiquette

To manage the order of online classrooms, we must also ensure the quality of teaching. Russell Wen, the principal of De Cui Kindergarten (Academic and Prince's Campus), said, "I hope that online learning can cover students' knowledge, skills and attitudes." After the school notified parents of the online class arrangement, it received support from many parents and temporarily stabilized the admissions. Happening.

In kindergartens, the whole class will have class together every Monday, and learn the theme with 20-30 minutes of online lessons; Tuesday to Thursday will be divided into groups of 4 to 5 students, reading stories, literacy, learning mathematics or science, etc.; and Friday It is for the whole level to attend moral education classes, participate in birthday parties, costume parties, or receive oral training. She emphasized that the courses should be as close as possible to realistic teaching, and there are also teachers who play the role of students playing with toys and attending classes, teaching students to share and respect social etiquette.

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Pre-recorded teaching videos for the

new school year support parents in educating their children. In addition to real-time classrooms, pre-recorded teaching videos will be provided in the new school year. The topics that have been taught in real-time classrooms will be taught in another form or example in the pre-recorded videos. . Lin Peiyi pointed out that it is difficult for the teacher to disclose whether the strokes of each student in the online class are correct, and parents often encounter difficulties in teaching strokes, so special videos will be set up to help parents teach children to write.

Under the epidemic situation, young children seldom go out and have contact with others. Decui arranges for each student to have a one-to-one online dialogue with the teacher once a week, each time for 10 minutes, in turn in Chinese and English. In addition to training dialogue skills and friendship etiquette, It also allows K1 freshmen to build relationships with teachers.

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Decui Primary School will not return to school when school starts. 6 knowledge lessons will be set up. School rules and homework will also be "online"

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Source: hk1

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