In the conditions of risks of Covid-19 spread, Latvian large schools will mostly organize studies in morning and evening shifts or alternately in weeks, this morning Guntars Catlaks, the head of the State Education Content Center (VISC), told LTV “Morning Panorama”.
For 1st to 6th grade students, VISC recommends to organize studies in person.
The biggest problems in these circumstances are the organization of teaching in large schools. Catlaks noted that schools will still provide detailed information on their plans this week, but there have been two options in the negotiations so far: shift work or classroom learning, with one class attending one class at a time and the other half studying remotely, with a change next week. .
Asked to assess whether schools are ready to implement the new competency content in these circumstances, Catlaks acknowledged that the situation in Covid-19 made it difficult to implement the new content, but he hoped that the negative impact would not be so significant as to halt the process.
Catlaks said that the restrictions imposed by Covid-19 had helped students learn two important components of new content: self-directed learning and digital skills.