As approved by the national Emergency Operations Committee (COE), there are three dates for the return. It starts this Monday, November 22 with high school degrees.
Heavy rains affected the roof of one of the workshops from educational unit Alangasí, which is approximately 30 minutes from Quito. Alangasí, which is located to the southeast, is one of the 33 rural parishes of the Metropolitan District.
In that workshop, students from first, second and third year of high school industrial mechanics, between 15 and 17 years old, do locksmith practices.
At the moment, with reduced capacity, they attend 13 to 15 students, But from next week there will be 25 to 30 students when the mandatory return to face-to-face with full capacity begins, which was proposed by the Ministry of Education and authorized by the national Emergency Operations Committee (COE). It will start with technical and rural high school graduates.
In Ecuador, the return to face-to-face classes will begin with a group of 402,309 15 and 17-year-old students
Francisco Ponce, teacher of the technical area of machining, stated that maintenance will need to be done to the machines, because they are in bad condition.
On November 8, 988 students of 1,400 returned to blended activities, but as the days went by the figure rose to 1,261. There are two levels of education, each with about 700 students: eighth, ninth, tenth (upper basic) and high school with three specialties: science, machining and metal construction and accounting. The age is between 12 and 17 years.
A Beatriz Martínez, Rector the worries the return to full capacity because it could no longer be applied social distancing inside the classrooms, where signage has been placed so that there is a one-and-a-half meter separation between desk and desk. In each classroom there were 35 and even 40 students. Today they are from 15 to 17.
They work in two groups: half go to face-to-face classes, while the other students follow him virtually. The class schedules are in the morning and in the afternoon.
Upon entering the classrooms there are gel dispensers, Classes are held with windows and doors open and in the corridors there are signs indicating one-way walking.
In that educational unit they are preparing the schedules to implement them from next week and Martínez considered that it will not be possible to comply with the 45 minutes of classes, but a shorter time or there will probably be groups in recess so that they are not all at the same time in the courtyards.
Some students like Camila Morocho, 14 years old, they have been blended for two weeks with the authorization and support of their parents. He does not wear a uniform.
The girl said that prefer to go in person because there is virtually not much interaction with the teachers.
She got complicated math because they apply formulas and looked for tutorials on the internet.
He said that before entering the establishment form outdoors, They check that they carry their security kit and enter. With a little gel they are disinfected.
His classes range from 07:00 until 11:40.
His parents recommended that he take care of himself. She received the two doses of the coronavirus vaccine.
“We will have to take care of ourselves more, protect more“Added the student about the return to full capacity.
Another measure to take will be that not everyone will leave school at the same time, but will do so in groups since there is only one entrance door.
Before 10:30 last Thursday, a second group entered the classrooms in the Teodoro Wolf school of basic fiscal education. A first group did it from 08:00 to 10:00. In one of the three front doors those who enter are disinfected and the temperature is taken. While some students attend in person, others follow the activities virtually.
Since last October 18, they attend 269 of 986 children of that establishment, which is also located in the rural parish of Alangasí. They are students from first to seventh of elementary school from 5 and 12 years.
The average is 15 to 17 students per classroom when before the pandemic there were 30 in first grade and 35 in second through seventh grade.
When to school director, Esthela Medina, Asked how they are going to guarantee distancing, he replied that this is “the concern” that he also has.
He added that they have the necessary classrooms to make two groups, if required.
Students between 5 and 11 years old would return to full capacity January 17.
He estimated that a 98% of students He has received the first dose and on November 22, the second dose will be placed.
This is the approved calendar for the return to compulsory and progressive face-to-face classes in Ecuador
María Fernanda Acosta, 10 years old, seventh grade, was vaccinated with the first dose and has been going to classes for three weeks.
For her it is much better because can learn more. In Language he has had certain problems because he commented that reading is a lot and he does not like it so much.
Before 11:00, Veronica Lopez, a kindergarten graduate in early childhood education, taught 5-year-olds through the Zoom platform on a computer. There are 24 students in his classroom. A first group had face-to-face activities between 08:00 and 10:00.
He commented that infants do not get bored because they carry out dynamic activities, discuss a topic and carry out an activity, but always with help from an adult from home.
The parents committee contributed with money for the provision of the internet to more than the Ministry of Education gives, according to its president Segundo Quimbiulco, who found it a wise idea to return to face-to-face because they learn more and the children are in contact with their peers. (I)
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