School education during the war

There is no education institution for its own bomb shelter, so its leadership has agreed to combine efforts with a neighboring school and the church. However, on the eve of the beginning of the school year there were still a lot of unknown, Maria recalls. Video of the Day "In mid -August I was at two parent meetings. We were offered to choose between the remote and mixed form of study. I voted for the second option: at least it provides an offline training, ”she says.

The woman explains: during the distance, she noticed that the children were learning to study and communicate with peers. And during online lessons, they need additional attention and support of parents.

“I noticed that my daughter, for example, became uncertain in myself: in the spring, the lessons lasted up to thirty minutes, it used to be that she did not have time to answer the teacher's questions, because it was necessary to interview all the students, so she simply painted during the class. The son does not want to turn the camera, and his common interests with school friends are reduced to computer games. In addition, not all parents work remotely, someone goes to work.

That is, children should stay at home and connect to the lessons on their own. No matter how cool, there is no single right solution, ”Maria shares and adds: well, if the children come to school in September-October. Further in connection with the coronavirus and the beginning of the heating season, parents fear that training will go online. During the coronavirus pandemic, the remote learning format has become commonplace and attracted many innovative solutions.

Thus, the NUSH Electronic Library has 1335 textbooks and manuals in all subjects for general secondary education institutions from 1st to 11th grade. Free electronic tutorials for study this year were also provided by the Morning Publishing House and EDPro's educational company.

And video tutorials, tests and materials for independent work of 18 basic subjects for remote and mixed training of students of 5–11 grades and methodological support of teachers can be found on the website of the All -Ukrainian School online. On September 1, more than five and a half thousand Ukrainian schools started online training. About 4,000 now work in mixed format.

Under wartime, only those educational establishments that have a bomb shelter can continue their education in the walls of the school. Recommendations on the organization of shelters and an algorithm of action for teachers during the alarm signal have previously presented the State Emergency Service.

For children, simple explanations for what to do during air anxiety can be found in video instructions created in conjunction with the psychologist Svetlana Royz, and in the video of Unicef ​​Ukraine. And the Ministry of Internal Affairs prepared a secondary school's alphabet, which gathered key recommendations for students during the war. "2-A" class of Vinnytsia Gymnasium № 24 in the new academic year chose a remote format of training, says class teacher, junior teacher Natalia Balan.

“I think in the current circumstances is the right decision. I take responsibility not only for my life, the lives of my two children, but also for 36 students of my class, ”the teacher comments. It was the ability to work in an online format that helped restore the educational process this spring, after the start of a full-scale war.

“Children were familiar with the process of distance learning during quarantine, so I cannot say that it was technically difficult to return to lessons in wartime. Parents helped very much: they sent me students' creative tasks, and I later evaluated them orally. Then the parents said that the children were very fond of feedback from me. Together, we created a video - support of our warriors, draw drawings and made other creative products, ”says teacher Natalia Balan.

"The educational process resumed in March, when they were able to streamline public activity, because our institution housed the headquarters to assist internally displaced persons," says Nadiya Boychuk, a teacher of the Agronomychnen Lyceum of Vinnytsia District. - The students and I worked at Zoom. Every day they held morning meetings, tuned to the positive. Together they summed up the day, created a single dream, made a desire. The lessons had a sufficient amount of physical activity.

Some of the children were abroad, despite this, students were looking for opportunities to join our online learning. Also, new students who moved from Chernihiv, Borodyanka, Popasna, Okhtyrka, Irpen, Kharkiv also came to the class. Four of them remained with us in the new academic year. " Nadiya Boychuk adds that five students plan to continue the new school year online as they are still abroad.

To create comfortable conditions for teaching Ukrainian children abroad, in particular, for the continuation of their school education in Ukraine in remote format are also trying in those countries where the most Ukrainian military migrants are now. Thus, 49 distance learning points for students from Ukraine were prepared in Warsaw - there are almost 700 seats. The capital of Poland has become a temporary home for about 60 thousand Ukrainian students.

Most of them continue their education in the Ukrainian education system. In addition, since the summer of 2022, the Ministry of Education and Science has launched a network of Ukrainian educational hubs for vocational training of Ukrainians of all ages, as well as the organization of education of children under the state program that moved to other regions of Ukraine and abroad. Outside of Ukraine, the first such hubs opened in Switzerland and Poland.

The latter will also be trained for Ukrainians who found themselves in other countries in Europe and North America during the war. Despite the war, it is extremely important for children to study and get education, the teacher of the Agronomyn Lyceum of Vinnytsia district of Vinnytsia region Nadiya Boychuk is convinced. “During the holidays, it became noticeable how the children missed school. Those who live close to 5–10 minutes to meet, hug, talk, tell about news, please.

By the beginning of the new academic year, we prepared classes, shelters. Our teachers actively studied at the Vinnytsia Academy of Continuing Education, participated in educational webinars, conferences "Educators", "Lesson", "Universities", etc. My colleagues and I have learned to provide domedic assistance. Programs, methodological recommendations, new state documents have been worked out, ”the teacher says.

In the new academic year, it is also extremely important to have a value component - as well as psychological training, many teachers have paid attention. “When planning the new school year, priority for me was first and foremost a creative component, in particular, books that we will read and discuss with children.

I also determine support and interaction with students and colleagues priority: the program can always be recovered, but our human skills, skills of realizing ourselves as personalities, we have no right to lose, ”-a teacher of Ukrainian language and literature of Cherkasy Humanitarian and Legal Lyceum of Cherkasy City Lyceum Council, Honored Teacher of Ukraine Kateryna Molodik.

Despite all the challenges that the Ukrainian education system overcomes now, teachers often converge in their comments in their united opinion - our most important people who think, create, and together stand up for the country. Keeping sincere communication and communication with each other is equally important than learning a new lesson.