Classes go online as school opening pushed to 1 July

[snoop1130]

Classes go online as school opening pushed to 1 July

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - The new school term this year will begin on 1st July due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many schools have moved their classes online, using remote learning technology to enable undisrupted education in all subjects.

 

At Prachawit School, School Director Pimporn Theppinta said today that the school has prepared teachers in all subjects to implement both online and offline teaching tools to hold online classes.

 

Teachers will record their lecture, and upload the video recording onto a virtual drive where students can watch it, as well as adopting an online conference room on Zoom, and direct contact between teachers and students via Facebook and Line.

 

The school has adopted Google Classroom as another platform for students to upland their completed assignments.

 

Mrs Pimporn said the school has reached out to parents and students, saying they have found all high school students are ready for online classes, while 90 percent of students in kindergarten and primary school are ready.

 

The school will be following up with and assisting the 10 percent who are not prepared for online classes. It is asking parents to be confident in the system it has developed, that will allow students to learn and develop their skills as effectively as regular classes. The school will also arrange tutoring programs for students once the situation returns to normal.

 

Mr Wichai Sangsri, the Director of Ubon Ratchathani Primary Education Service Area Office 2 has held a meeting with related agencies to prepare online and remote classroom services.

 

The office plans to allow kindergarten, primary, and junior high school students to learn through the Distance Learning Television (DLTV) platform, while high school students will be studying content delivered by the Office of the Basic Education Commission.

 

These remote classes will be trialled from 17th May to 30th June, ahead of the beginning of the 2020 academic year, which has now been pushed back to 1st July.

 

The first semester will take place from 1st July to 30th November 2020, while the second semester will run from 1st December 2020 to 30th April 2021, with no school break in between.

 

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[KhunBENQ]

Pure fantasy for the typical upcountry primary schools.

 

[cyril sneer]

unless it's a private school, it's madness to think children will attempt to participate in these

[bluesofa]

36 minutes ago, cyril sneer said:

unless it's a private school, it's madness to think children will attempt to participate in these

Oh I dunno. If they put it on youtube with canned laughter they might get some takers.

[z42]

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

The first semester will take place from 1st July to 30th November 2020, while the second semester will run from 1st December 2020 to 30th April 2021, with no school break in between.

I don't think anybody is going to accept terms like that.

 

Absolutely ridiculous

[rkidlad]

They're expecting kids to study for 10 months straight with no real break? Yea, not happening. 

[Denim]

Just give all the students top grades and a pass in all exams and forego all the BS. Not much difference to normal practice and a lot cheaper.

[Thunder26]

Online learning doesn't work with very young learners as they always need parent's help. Therefore, the problem comes as the parents spend time teaching their children by themselves while paying enormous sums to schools, that originally had the job to take care of the children in the first place.

[kingstonkid]

10 hours ago, rkidlad said:

They're expecting kids to study for 10 months straight with no real break? Yea, not happening. 

The kids will study for the 10 months straight with no issues.  After the flood they had to adjust things and most of the kids survived.  If you look at the western system that most of us grew up with we had school for 10 months straight with a break at xmas and a winter 10 day break.

 

The thing they need to do though is ban all the BS activities that the schools have and strictly concentrate on teaching.  Get rid of the art and speaking competitions where Som Chai gets to miss class for a 2 week period because he has to dray a nice picture.  Get rid of most of the teacher meeting days during the week.  If teachers want to meet then fine Saturday is just as nice a day as Monday.

[dinsdale]

Welcome to the digital divide. Zoom: Being dropped all over the world and sued due to poor end encryption being run through Chinese servers. Once again the empty heads running the show have absolutely no grasp of reality.

 

Add another 30 or 40 students to the screen and that would be your typical state school. Not a hi-so internatinal or rich kids private school. Internet in the home for state school kids? Not very likely. Computers in all homes? Well we know the answer to that. Ivory tower empty headed morons who have absolutely no idea what they're doing. Teaching in a clasroom of 40+ students is rediculous. Doing it online? What do you think?

Edited May 1, 2020 by dinsdale

[DrTuner]

If they don't ramp up the testing, they might as well open it up and aim for herd immunity. Lockdowns and closures are useless if the time bought is not used to set up the test & track network, otherwise it's just a delay until the next outbreak.

 

But you know, too expensive to test, face, secret stats and all that jazz. TiT.

[dinsdale]

52 minutes ago, kingstonkid said:

The kids will study for the 10 months straight with no issues.  After the flood they had to adjust things and most of the kids survived.  If you look at the western system that most of us grew up with we had school for 10 months straight with a break at xmas and a winter 10 day break.

 

The thing they need to do though is ban all the BS activities that the schools have and strictly concentrate on teaching.  Get rid of the art and speaking competitions where Som Chai gets to miss class for a 2 week period because he has to dray a nice picture.  Get rid of most of the teacher meeting days during the week.  If teachers want to meet then fine Saturday is just as nice a day as Monday.

Complete rubbish. The flooding was mainly in October (school holidays) and November. There was no change to semesters. 10 months straight. Please refer to the following list and show us all a 10 month straight semester. A 10 month semester is just more brainless stupidity from the empty heads running the show. Absenteeism will be very high from both students and teachers. It's quite simply too long and unreasonable to put this on both students and teachers. More thought needs to be given to this not the normal thoughtless on the run policy from an incompetent 'leadership'.

 

South Australia: 2019 SA SCHOOL HOLIDAYS AND TERM DATES

Period	Start	Finish	Length
Term 1	Tuesday, 29 January 2019	Friday, 12 April 2019	11 Weeks
School Holidays	Saturday, 13 April 2019	Sunday, 28 April 2019
Term 2	Monday, 29 April 2019	Friday, 5 July 2019	10 Weeks
School Holidays	Saturday, 6 July 2019	Sunday, 21 July 2019
Term 3	Monday, 22 July 2019	Friday, 27 September 2019	10 Weeks
School Holidays	Saturday, 28 September 2019	Sunday, 13 October 2019
Term 4	Monday, 14 October 2019	Friday, 13 December 2019	9 Weeks
School Holidays	Saturday, 14 December 2019	Monday, 27 January 2020

 

Los Angeles: 2 semesters. 1st: Fall semester 79 days. Second: Spring semester 101 days.

 

England:

Term 1: Monday 2 September – Friday 18 October 2019

Half Term: Monday 21 October – Friday 25 October 2019

Term 2: Monday 28 October – Thursday 19 December 2019

Christmas Break: Friday 20 December – Friday 3 January 2020

Term 3: Monday 6 January – Friday 14 February 2020

Half Term: Monday 17 February – Friday 21 February 2020

Term 4: Monday 24 February 2020 – Thursday 2 April 2020

Easter Break: Friday 3 April – Friday 17 April 2020

Term 5: Monday 20 April – Friday 22 May 2020

Half Term: Monday 25 May 2020 – Friday 29 May 2020

Term 6: Monday 1 June 2020 – Wednesday 22 July 2020

[dinsdale]

Just noticed finish 30th April. So what about Songkran. And what about this years Songkran which they stated is delayed not cancelled. Imbiciles.

[rkidlad]

2 hours ago, kingstonkid said:

The kids will study for the 10 months straight with no issues.  After the flood they had to adjust things and most of the kids survived.  If you look at the western system that most of us grew up with we had school for 10 months straight with a break at xmas and a winter 10 day break.

 

The thing they need to do though is ban all the BS activities that the schools have and strictly concentrate on teaching.  Get rid of the art and speaking competitions where Som Chai gets to miss class for a 2 week period because he has to dray a nice picture.  Get rid of most of the teacher meeting days during the week.  If teachers want to meet then fine Saturday is just as nice a day as Monday.

Right, and after 10 months straight, then what? 2 weeks off in May and then back to school again til the end of September. So now it’s actually 10 months straight with a two week break and then 4 and a half months til October break. That’s even if some kids have a break in October. 
 

In the UK we have 6 weeks off in the summer. Back again ‘til Christmas which is 2 weeks off and then have 1 week off in February and 2 weeks off in April for Easter. Back to six weeks off in July. I don’t know what country it is you’re referring to that studies for 10 months straight.
 

Kids aren’t adults. And the kids here don’t just study 8.30 to 3.30. Many kids do after-hour lessons and weekend lessons. The idea is that you throw as much education as possible at them and then they’ll learn it. Truth of the matter is that’s not how it works. Most kids can only learn so much til their concentration goes and they cease to learn anything because they’re tired. 
 

As the Finnish model has taught us, it’s about the quality of education and not quantity. 

Edited May 1, 2020 by rkidlad

[Saltire]

My local village high school, I am told, has about 800 students coming from here and many surrounding villages, brought to school by pickups etc.

 

There are two things that spring to mind.

 

1 Class sizes - I once had to go talk to a teacher about children's day and was inside the school for the first time. The class I would guess had about 60 young students, and about 40 desks. To say they were like sardines is an understatement. There is simply no way to social distance in a typical classroom.

 

2 Online option. While many kids now have smart phones, out in the sticks most homes do not have wifi and/or a computer. I'd hazard a guess at only 10 or 20% with wifi. I'd not like to try to do online learning on a phone.

 

Someone suggested getting rid of all the time-wasting sessions in the schools, couldn't agree more. Almost every week there is a one day holiday for some, if not all of the school, outwith the national holidays. Free up more time for actual learning.

 

[Falcon]

Personally, I don’t see how the terms should be affected if The children are doing in line lessons. Our sons school is starting on line lessons At the start of the semester, And will commence physical school opening times when allowed to, right now they are saying July 1st, so why should the terms (semesters) change? Either the students do in line school and this be classed as normal school time and they leave all holidays in place and keep the normal semester dates or the schools don’t do the online study and then somehow scrape back the 6 weeks missed. They can’t have it both ways otherwise it’s just an extra 6+ weeks of school (On line) for nothing.

[Krataiboy]

4 hours ago, kingstonkid said:

  If you look at the western system that most of us grew up with we had school for 10 months straight with a break at xmas and a winter 10 day break.

Which "West" were you schooled in - Dodge City the Wild West? In the UK, state schools have traditionally had six weeks' summer holiday, plus an additional week or more (depending on location) at in February (half term) and at Easter and Christmas.

[paulikens]

7 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Just noticed finish 30th April. So what about Songkran. And what about this years Songkran which they stated is delayed not cancelled. Imbiciles.

i think they will change that decision, i think songkran wont happen this year now