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The new normal of ESO students: divide the groups and alternate each day to attend class

12 June 2020 - 09: 32

The Minister Vicent Marzà, accompanied by the Autonomous Secretary of Education and Professional Training, Miquel Soler, has participated by videoconference in the Sectorial Conference on Education convened by the Ministry of Education and Professional Training with those responsible for the autonomous communities. The Minister Marzà has agreed 14 general points with the Ministry and almost all autonomies, and has moved a proposal to prepare for the return to Valencian classrooms of students on September 7 at the Valencian Educational Forum.

"Taking into account what is set out in the Royal Decree-Law towards the new normality, of all the scenarios that we had prepared, that of the return to classrooms the next course is feasible and the most suitable for the educational, social and emotional good of the Valencian students and families as a whole ", Vicent Marzà has made explicit, and added: "We have been working with possible scenarios for weeks, and that of guaranteeing safe educational spaces for face-to-face classes has been well worked. In fact, we are distributing hygiene and safety material in the centers since we entered the de-escalation, so in this sense there are already a lot of work done ".

It must be remembered that the Ministry has already made a first distribution of hydroalcoholic masks and gel, and has also proceeded to thoroughly disinfect all educational centers. All with the aim that in September the classrooms are safe spaces for all Valencian students and teachers following the recommendations indicated by the health authorities.

Transfer of the proposal to the Valencian Educational Forum

The minister Vicent Marzà and the autonomous secretary Miquel Soler have also met with the rest of the agents of the educational community in the Valencian Educational Forum made up of the Ministry, parents, directors and directors of centers, teachers' representatives and representatives of the concerted centers.

The key to Valencian organization revolves around attendance and safety in classrooms as the main axis; maintaining the distance of one and a half meters between students in educational spaces, as established by Royal Decree-Law 21/2020; the reduction of ratios in the classrooms whenever possible and the individual organization for each educational center taking into account its particular characteristics, in collaboration with the centers themselves.

According to Marzà, "We believe that face-to-face training must be worked on because all of society is adapting to the new situation and education cannot be kept on the sidelines. After months of distance training, students must re-engage in their educational routine. The centers are spaces for learning, but also for socialization and emotional development of children and young people. Relational spaces and the main instrument for reducing inequalities ".

Along these lines, the autonomous secretary, Miquel Soler, explained that "With this general principle, we are working to ensure that 100% of the Infant and Primary students go to class every day during their normal hours, including the complementary services of canteens and school transport".

In the cases in which adaptations have to be made, work will be done depending on the size of the classrooms and where necessary, the ratios will be reduced and more groups will be created. The Ministry will transfer to the management teams of the educational centers that need it a proposal for organizational models. In accordance with this, each center will configure its organization and will specify the specific needs for its center and the Ministry will provide solutions.

In Infant and Primary, they also want to guarantee canteen services and school transportation, as well as the regular school hours of educational centers.

In the case of Secondary, Baccalaureate and FP, the Ministry's proposal is that the training of the students be 100% face-to-face, with the usual school hours.

In cases where security measures cannot be adopted due to the number of students and the size of the classrooms, the Ministry proposes that work be done on a formula based on student attendance at class on alternate days. Each group of students will be divided into two and an attendance based on this alternation will be configured. In this case, daily face-to-face assistance will be encouraged for students in the first ESO courses.

In this sense, a group will attend class one day and the next will dedicate it to working content at home that their teachers have provided. In this way, a more individualized training monitoring per student is also ensured, since the groups will be much smaller.

Likewise, more reinforcement programs for ESO students will be designed in cooperation with the Ministry, along the lines of those that are already underway in many institutes in the afternoon.

Those responsible for Education wanted to thank the entire educational community "the great task that has been carried out during these months of confinement, de-escalation and organizational effort that we will all continue to do together now to start the course, since this will be the contribution of the educational community to the whole of Valencian society".

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