What's next for schools?
Further resolutions will be made this Wednesday to contain the corona pandemic.
As was already heard in advance, there will probably be changes again for schools.
Today the heads of government of the federal states are meeting with the Federal Chancellor
It is also about new corona rules for schools
The institutions in the district have made preparations
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen -
Alexander Göbel, headmaster of the Tölzer Seidl-Gymnasium, has prepared two different concepts.
On the one hand, there is a school hygiene concept that was recently adapted to the new general hygiene plan.
And then there is a concept for distance teaching.
“Here, too, there are framework guidelines.
So we have to make it suitable for us. "
For example, it is clear that there will be no virtual good morning greeting at high school in the event of distance learning, as is the case, for example, at elementary schools.
Training via video platforms is particularly difficult in terms of data protection law.
Nobody can be forced to participate in sound and vision, neither teachers nor students.
“I can't give the regulation.” Because the grammar school is registered as a school for the mebis platform - video conferences are not possible via this.
As soon as another software comes into play, data protection law becomes difficult again.
For example, teachers could offer a virtual question time.
“The pupils are also obliged to keep in close contact and give feedback.” Basically, however, virtual schooling represents a massive additional effort. For him, it is now a matter of waiting for the next instruction from the Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs.
Christoph Beck, head of the Hohenburg grammar school, would also like to wait.
How exactly the measures look like depends, for example, on whether and, if so, which classes are divided and have classroom and distance lessons alternating.
"As soon as we know more details, we will react and make the best of it." He is optimistic.
"We can do it."
In addition to the hygiene regulations, this school year at the Tölzer FOS / BOS the focus is on “digitization”.
The school announced this in a press release.
The school was already technically well positioned before the crisis.
New paths would now be broken.
Distance teaching is carried out in different variants: On the one hand, students who are in quarantine can take part in virtual classroom teaching using software.
On the other hand, quarantined teachers could be switched to the classroom via video conference.
“So we are well equipped and tried and tested.” We are also well positioned for a possible further tightening of the measures.
But: "The digital teaching that is made possible by this equipment in no way comes close to face-to-face teaching in the classroom." Because schools are not knowledge factories.
Human interaction cannot be streamed.
One sees it similarly in elementary schools.
"We hope that we will be able to do face-to-face lessons for as long as possible," says Sigrid Prommer, principal of the Egling elementary school.
In Kochel this could be maintained if the rule was further tied to the minimum distance of 1.5 meters.
"We can do that spatially," says Rector Jakob Dondl.
Almost 100 pupils are currently being taught in Kochel and 188 in Egling. Should alternating instruction with homeschooling be introduced, both schools will work with the new “Big Blue Button” system.
The parents were informed.
Those who do not have any technical means can get a loaner from the school.
“We have enough devices for all parents who have applied for one,” says Prommer.
Should there be alternating lessons, the schools have different concepts.
The Dietramszell elementary and middle school would not change by the week, but by the day.
"The children are easier to bind with this rhythm," says Rector Susanne Falkenhahn.
All were divided into groups, taking into account siblings and the bus schedule.
“That was a great organizational effort.” The mood is “tense”, says Falkenhahn with regard to the general situation: “The constant changes are also conveyed to the children.
There is no predictable structure, and that is difficult for everyone. "
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