According to the Ministry of Education, in Quito there are 71 institutions with technical and rural baccalaureate with 30,000 students. Half were already going to class.
The 77 students of the technical baccalaureate on hotel services from educational unit Rafael Alvarado, located in the rural parish of TumbacoIn Quito, they resumed face-to-face classes.
The technical and rural baccalaureate They are part of the beginning of the mandatory return plan proposed by the Ministry of Education to the national Emergency Operations Committee (COE) and approved by that body.
In the Metropolitan District of Quito, according to that State portfolio, there are 30,000 students technical and rural baccalaureate in 71 educational institutions and of them, half have already returned to the classrooms, voluntarily, so they estimated that the 15,000 remaining They would be integrated from this Monday, November 22.
Nidia Espinosa, rector from the Rafael Alvarado educational unit, commented that all the students arrived and since they have classrooms that are not being used, they had the possibility to divide the courses into two parallels, although the teacher found ways to work with both groups.
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Espinosa argued that the technical area requires students to learn by doing. In the case of their students they have gastronomy and bakery workshops. On the first day of attendance they were introduced to the biosafety protocols and during the week they will go to the workshops.
Luis Calle, Secretary of Education of the Municipality of Quito, indicated that there are three educational units that belong to the Quito council with technical specialties: Rafael Alvarado, with hotels, in Tumbaco; San Francisco de Quito, with accounting, in Guayllabamba; and Alfredo Pérez Guerrero, with agroecology, in San José de Minas. In total there are more than 200 students.
Calle indicated that there was a improvement process, repairs, adjustments to infrastructure and furniture due to the effects of the pandemic that caused the absence to classes.
Another of the educational entities that applied the return was the Great Colombia, which is located in the north of Quito. From the past October 25 the voluntary return began and progressive where they already included the students of technical baccalaureate, science and basic superior.
In that educational unit 875 students There is a technical baccalaureate and one of the specialties is the Garment Industry.
One of his students who returned this Monday commented that he was happy to share with his companions.
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Mary Brown Pérez, Minister of education, said that most of the establishments with technical and rural baccalaureate already had permits to use facilities in reduced capacity and others have been added.
He justified the presence of technical baccalaureate degrees, as he argued that within their curricular network training in work centers, electromechanical workshops, industrial mechanics, automotive mechanic, agricultural, cannot be done remotely. The change, he indicated, was to increase the capacity to 100% because groups were at home or alternated the days they went in person.
“We have not had any report of any inconvenience Until now. We follow up with each educational district, also with the national COE, through the eyes of the eagle, cameras and the National Police that help us in supervising the accesses and exits of educational institutions at these beginning of class; therefore, so far the balance has been extremely positive, “said Brown about an initial monitoring carried out in the morning hours.
He added that each institution should develop its schedule so that the spaces commonly used are not used at the same time. You can also make schedules more flexible input and output.
In a statement, the Ministry of Education indicated that since June 7, in 9,154 educational institutions, 2,880 urban and 6,274 rural, the return to classes with 806,380 students, 99,996 teachers and they have been presented 36 reported cases of coronavirus.
Vaccination of children
In the educational unit May 24, in the north of the city, A vaccination process was carried out for students 5 years of age and older in order to intensify this process.
Tatiana Soria took her son Benjamin, from 8 years of basic education, to be vaccinated and said that once immunized she is a little calmer to return to classes, because she considers that there is a setback when they learn online.
The girl Amaya Paucar, after being vaccinated, said she wanted to see his friends, play and take classes.
His father, Hugo Paucar, expressed that he is a great help so that they can return to face-to-face classes.
Ariel Sanguña, 12 years old, received the second dose. He hopes to return to face-to-face classes because he hardly learns at home.
According to the Government, the second group that must be incorporated into the classrooms is the rest of high school, eighth, ninth and tenth (12 to 17 years old) 6th of December and elementary basic education (6 to 12 years) January 17.
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