{"id":448277,"date":"2020-05-18T09:13:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T09:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=448277"},"modified":"2020-05-24T13:41:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T13:41:05","slug":"is-the-education-system-in-moldova-prepared-for-online-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/is-the-education-system-in-moldova-prepared-for-online-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the education system in Moldova prepared for online schools?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 4<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>The Government of the Republic of Moldova recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdg.md\/stiri\/stiri-sociale\/doc-guvernul-a-aprobat-proiectul-de-lege-ce-prevede-anularea-examenelor-de-bacalaureat-sesiunea-2020\/\">decided<\/a> to cancel this year high school graduation exams &#8211; the so-called Baccalaureate, fearing more people could get infected with the novel coronavirus. The exam marks will be replaced by an average of the annual grades for the respective courses.<\/p>\n<p>Generally, schools from Moldova, just like any other schools in the world, had to adapt to the new realities and go online in order to continue their activity. How efficient or challenging was the transfer process from traditional to online schools is something that needs to be examined in details.<\/p>\n<h3>Go online, if you can<\/h3>\n<p>Even though\u00a0the <strong>Ministry of Education, Culture and Research<\/strong> <strong>(MECR)<\/strong> announced, at the beginning of the pandemic, that <span style=\"color: #000080\">92.8%<\/span> of the total number of students were involved in distance learning,\u00a0there were over <span style=\"color: #993300\">7 000 students<\/span> and over <span style=\"color: #993300\">600 teachers<\/span> who were still excluded due to the lack of devices and internet access. According to the Ministry&#8217;s information, <strong>20 million lei<\/strong> were allocated from the state budget for the purchase of laptops and tablets for both children and teachers who need them for the educational process. The acquisition seems very lengthy though, as the Ministry officials avoid providing concrete deadlines. <em>&#8220;The purchase of laptops and tablets will not be made in a week or a month. This could take up to several months,&#8221;<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/cum-scoala-s-a-mutat-pe-internet-i-ce-spun-profesorii\/\">explained<\/a> the MECR Secretary of State, Natalia Gr\u00e2u.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Bureau of Statistics, <span style=\"color: #993300\">47.7%<\/span>\u00a0of Moldovan families have not even one computer at home, those from rural areas having a visible disadvantage when compared to families from urban areas. The same source\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/statistica.gov.md\/newsview.php?l=ro&amp;idc=168&amp;id=4055\">said<\/a>\u00a0that only\u00a0<span style=\"color: #993300\">41%<\/span>\u00a0of the population of Moldova has a computer and<span style=\"color: #993300\">\u00a038.7%<\/span>\u00a0have internet access.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">See also: <a style=\"color: #000080\" href=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/learning-online-schools-from-moldova-are-looking-for-solutions-in-the-context-of-coronavirus\/\">&#8220;The possibility to learn online \u2013 schools from Moldova are looking for solutions in the context of coronavirus&#8221;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The majority of teachers and students encountered one more challenge &#8211; <span style=\"color: #993300\">they had to learn how to use online communication tools overnight.<\/span> Lessons, explanations, conferences, recordings, presentations, discussions, homework &#8211; all of that had to go online and most education system&#8217;s employees weren&#8217;t prepared. Some teachers were flexible enough to adapt, others didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-448279 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/class.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"930\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/class.jpg 930w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/class-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/class-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/class-400x286.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Therefore, alternative solutions as the one of\u00a0<strong>Ana Cotuna<\/strong>, a\u00a0maths teacher at a school from Fundurii Vechi village, Glodeni district, came out.\u00a0During the pandemic period, she became a &#8216;postman&#8217; for her colleagues who do not have internet or computers at home. Teachers write the topics and the corresponding explanations on paper, Ana collects them, takes photos and passes them on to students. After the homework is done, students take photos of it and send it to Ana. She prints the homework and takes it back to the teachers. <em>&#8220;Some teachers are really stubborn and do not want to change. But there are also retired teachers who can perfectly cope with Zoom,&#8221;<\/em> she said.<\/p>\n<p>One more identified solution was to have teachers contacting by phone students who do don&#8217;t have access to internet and paying weekly visits to pupils with special needs.<em> &#8220;Teachers, equipped with gloves and protective masks and keeping social distance, leave the homework at the gates and explain to parents what to do,&#8221;<\/em> specified\u00a0<strong>Ana Apostu<\/strong>, the director of a school from Truseni.<\/p>\n<p>Still, everything is far from going smoothly. Moldovan teachers confess that online classes, even those of half an hour each, are exhausting both for teachers and students. The latter do not want to spend so many hours sitting at the computer, locked inside the house and try to find various justifications for not participating in online classes, even though they are compulsory.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 144 pupils of the school from Coropceni village, Telenesti district, only <span style=\"color: #993300\">30%<\/span> have computers or internet at home. <strong>Ion Curchi<\/strong>, the director of the school claimed that even children who do have internet access, <span style=\"color: #993300\">that may be only on the phone, the signal being really weak<\/span>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I understand that many want great statistics, but this is not always the case. I switched to Messenger because this way I can gather more students together, but the best solution in this situation is to write the tasks and explanations on paper and meet with children in the centre of the village to hand them in.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-448280 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/homework2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"930\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/homework2.jpg 930w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/homework2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/homework2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/homework2-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>Parents as superheroes<\/h3>\n<p>Parents, on the other hand, confess that the pandemic period, when everybody is at home working or leaning, represent a powerful emotional shock. <em>&#8220;I have to be mega multi-functional: mother, cook, teacher, employee and student. Sometimes I feel that I want to run away from home. I have the impression that I am at war, on different battlefields,&#8221;<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/cum-scoala-s-a-mutat-pe-internet-ii-ce-spun-parintii\/\">said<\/a> <strong>Cristina<\/strong>, mother of school and kindergarten-age children. There are not enough devices for everyone in the house connecting at the same time for different purposes. That is why, the explanatory lessons transmitted on TV by the MECR are her salvation. That is the time she uses the laptop for her work, not for online classes of her children.<\/p>\n<p>In order to determine her children to be more responsible and less distracted, the woman also bought a bell, with which she rings every time the lesson begins or ends. <em>&#8220;But that doesn&#8217;t help either,&#8221;<\/em> she said.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Now we have to learn a lot of subjects, so that we can explain them to our children and it doesn&#8217;t seem right to me that we have to do the work instead of teachers, as long as we have to focus on our job as well.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A benefit of the online education, according to <strong>Ala Revenco<\/strong>, a founders of the &#8220;Solidary Parents&#8221; Group, is that video lesson libraries have been created for all classes. However, some parents and teachers claim that the impossibility of asking questions creates difficulties in assimilating the material taught in the videos.<\/p>\n<p>There is so much yet to be implemented and improved in these times. Beside the creativity and effort of teachers, parents and children, there is still more to be done by the authorities that should really help handling this whole situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 4<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>The Government of the Republic of Moldova recently decided to cancel this year high school graduation exams &#8211; the so-called Baccalaureate, fearing more people could get infected with the novel coronavirus. The exam marks will be replaced by an average of the annual grades for the respective courses. Generally, schools from Moldova, just like any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":448278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[650,56],"tags":[609,715,413,35,27,716,62,576],"class_list":["post-448277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-reportaje","tag-coronavirus","tag-distance-learning","tag-education","tag-important","tag-moldova","tag-online-classes","tag-parents","tag-teachers"],"content_social_share":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 4<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>The Government of the Republic of Moldova recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdg.md\/stiri\/stiri-sociale\/doc-guvernul-a-aprobat-proiectul-de-lege-ce-prevede-anularea-examenelor-de-bacalaureat-sesiunea-2020\/\">decided<\/a> to cancel this year high school graduation exams &#8211; the so-called Baccalaureate, fearing more people could get infected with the novel coronavirus. The exam marks will be replaced by an average of the annual grades for the respective courses.<\/p>\n<p>Generally, schools from Moldova, just like any other schools in the world, had to adapt to the new realities and go online in order to continue their activity. How efficient or challenging was the transfer process from traditional to online schools is something that needs to be examined in details.<\/p>\n<h3>Go online, if you can<\/h3>\n<p>Even though\u00a0the <strong>Ministry of Education, Culture and Research<\/strong> <strong>(MECR)<\/strong> announced, at the beginning of the pandemic, that <span style=\"color: #000080\">92.8%<\/span> of the total number of students were involved in distance learning,\u00a0there were over <span style=\"color: #993300\">7 000 students<\/span> and over <span style=\"color: #993300\">600 teachers<\/span> who were still excluded due to the lack of devices and internet access. According to the Ministry&#8217;s information, <strong>20 million lei<\/strong> were allocated from the state budget for the purchase of laptops and tablets for both children and teachers who need them for the educational process. The acquisition seems very lengthy though, as the Ministry officials avoid providing concrete deadlines. <em>&#8220;The purchase of laptops and tablets will not be made in a week or a month. This could take up to several months,&#8221;<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/cum-scoala-s-a-mutat-pe-internet-i-ce-spun-profesorii\/\">explained<\/a> the MECR Secretary of State, Natalia Gr\u00e2u.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Bureau of Statistics, <span style=\"color: #993300\">47.7%<\/span>\u00a0of Moldovan families have not even one computer at home, those from rural areas having a visible disadvantage when compared to families from urban areas. The same source\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/statistica.gov.md\/newsview.php?l=ro&amp;idc=168&amp;id=4055\">said<\/a>\u00a0that only\u00a0<span style=\"color: #993300\">41%<\/span>\u00a0of the population of Moldova has a computer and<span style=\"color: #993300\">\u00a038.7%<\/span>\u00a0have internet access.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">See also: <a style=\"color: #000080\" href=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/learning-online-schools-from-moldova-are-looking-for-solutions-in-the-context-of-coronavirus\/\">&#8220;The possibility to learn online \u2013 schools from Moldova are looking for solutions in the context of coronavirus&#8221;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The majority of teachers and students encountered one more challenge &#8211; <span style=\"color: #993300\">they had to learn how to use online communication tools overnight.<\/span> Lessons, explanations, conferences, recordings, presentations, discussions, homework &#8211; all of that had to go online and most education system&#8217;s employees weren&#8217;t prepared. Some teachers were flexible enough to adapt, others didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-448279 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/class.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"930\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/class.jpg 930w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/class-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/class-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/class-400x286.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Therefore, alternative solutions as the one of\u00a0<strong>Ana Cotuna<\/strong>, a\u00a0maths teacher at a school from Fundurii Vechi village, Glodeni district, came out.\u00a0During the pandemic period, she became a &#8216;postman&#8217; for her colleagues who do not have internet or computers at home. Teachers write the topics and the corresponding explanations on paper, Ana collects them, takes photos and passes them on to students. After the homework is done, students take photos of it and send it to Ana. She prints the homework and takes it back to the teachers. <em>&#8220;Some teachers are really stubborn and do not want to change. But there are also retired teachers who can perfectly cope with Zoom,&#8221;<\/em> she said.<\/p>\n<p>One more identified solution was to have teachers contacting by phone students who do don&#8217;t have access to internet and paying weekly visits to pupils with special needs.<em> &#8220;Teachers, equipped with gloves and protective masks and keeping social distance, leave the homework at the gates and explain to parents what to do,&#8221;<\/em> specified\u00a0<strong>Ana Apostu<\/strong>, the director of a school from Truseni.<\/p>\n<p>Still, everything is far from going smoothly. Moldovan teachers confess that online classes, even those of half an hour each, are exhausting both for teachers and students. The latter do not want to spend so many hours sitting at the computer, locked inside the house and try to find various justifications for not participating in online classes, even though they are compulsory.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 144 pupils of the school from Coropceni village, Telenesti district, only <span style=\"color: #993300\">30%<\/span> have computers or internet at home. <strong>Ion Curchi<\/strong>, the director of the school claimed that even children who do have internet access, <span style=\"color: #993300\">that may be only on the phone, the signal being really weak<\/span>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I understand that many want great statistics, but this is not always the case. I switched to Messenger because this way I can gather more students together, but the best solution in this situation is to write the tasks and explanations on paper and meet with children in the centre of the village to hand them in.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-448280 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/homework2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"930\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/homework2.jpg 930w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/homework2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/homework2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/homework2-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>Parents as superheroes<\/h3>\n<p>Parents, on the other hand, confess that the pandemic period, when everybody is at home working or leaning, represent a powerful emotional shock. <em>&#8220;I have to be mega multi-functional: mother, cook, teacher, employee and student. Sometimes I feel that I want to run away from home. I have the impression that I am at war, on different battlefields,&#8221;<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/cum-scoala-s-a-mutat-pe-internet-ii-ce-spun-parintii\/\">said<\/a> <strong>Cristina<\/strong>, mother of school and kindergarten-age children. There are not enough devices for everyone in the house connecting at the same time for different purposes. That is why, the explanatory lessons transmitted on TV by the MECR are her salvation. That is the time she uses the laptop for her work, not for online classes of her children.<\/p>\n<p>In order to determine her children to be more responsible and less distracted, the woman also bought a bell, with which she rings every time the lesson begins or ends. <em>&#8220;But that doesn&#8217;t help either,&#8221;<\/em> she said.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Now we have to learn a lot of subjects, so that we can explain them to our children and it doesn&#8217;t seem right to me that we have to do the work instead of teachers, as long as we have to focus on our job as well.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A benefit of the online education, according to <strong>Ala Revenco<\/strong>, a founders of the &#8220;Solidary Parents&#8221; Group, is that video lesson libraries have been created for all classes. However, some parents and teachers claim that the impossibility of asking questions creates difficulties in assimilating the material taught in the videos.<\/p>\n<p>There is so much yet to be implemented and improved in these times. 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