Tiramonti: “The boys have to deal with a year without lessons” – Viva la radio

“The start of classes this year presents us with many challenges for experts, teachers and civil servants; It’s not just about dealing with the pandemic (coronavirus), children and teachers have been out of class for a year, without being present, ”said Guillermina Tiramonti, Master in Education and Society at FLACSO Argentina .

And he warns: “The situations are very heterogeneous, there are boys who have been Zoom, through virtual classes; others did their homework WhatsApp and others had no relation to the school; and now we hope that everyone will go back to school and that we will have to deal with this heterogeneity ”.

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“We need to move forward with a program where kids who have a connection can continue to work from home, that those who don’t can do something they don’t need the internet in, and we need to help them. ‘teacher so that he is not alone’ stressed.

For that, “We need a proposal that makes it possible to deal with the heterogeneity of the boys who will take turns in the presence, to define what we do when they are face to face and when this is not the case, the boys must pass an extraordinary year for the unprecedented “.

Regarding the content, Tiramonti underlined: “The school must transmit resources to dialogue with the culture and the society, that is to say that I read, write, the principles of mathematics and sciences; the idea would be to focus on the acquisition of these instruments ”.

Especially Students will take a week in person and a week online, social distancing will also be respected and they will not be able to spend more than four hours at school.

Likewise, teachers will not have overtime for teachers.

Interview with Raúl Monti and report by Alejandro Bustos.