China News Service, Beijing, August 14 (Reporter Du Yan) Do teachers and students currently outside Beijing need to return to Beijing for home observation before school starts? What preparations need to be made before school starts? Will there be online teaching after the offline school starts? The relevant persons in charge of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission responded one by one.
Regarding primary and secondary schools, do teachers and students currently outside of Beijing need to return to Beijing for home observation before school starts?
The relevant person in charge of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission said today that on August 8, the Office of the Beijing New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Leading Group issued the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Start of the Fall Semester of the 2020-2021 School Year in Schools at All Levels and All Types in the City." The principle of control makes specific provisions on the conditions for teachers and students to return to school.
Teachers and students in low-risk areas shall return to school with the health pass code "green code"; teachers and students in medium-risk areas shall hold the health pass code "green code" and a 7-day negative nucleic acid test after 14 days of intensive or home medical observation Return to school and report; teachers and students in high-risk areas will not return to school for the time being.
Teachers and students who have recently returned from overseas will strictly implement the control measures for overseas returning to Beijing. After the centralized medical observation is lifted, they will return to school with a negative nucleic acid test certificate and a health pass code "green code" within 7 days.
What preparations need to be made before school starts?
The person in charge said that before the beginning of school, parents must first do a good job of self-protection, take the responsibility of monitoring the personal protection of students at home, reduce unnecessary gatherings, dinners, and not bring their children to crowded places. Second, it is necessary to cooperate with the school to provide feedback on the health status of students and their co-living family members and return from Beijing to Beijing, etc., and be sure to report truthfully, without concealing, false reporting, or omission. Third, take the initiative to learn family education knowledge, improve family education ability and level, pay attention to parent-child communication with children, establish a good parent-child relationship, and make full preparations for the beginning of school.
Will there be online teaching after the offline school starts? Starting from September, the courses of all grades in Beijing primary and secondary schools will be online simultaneously in the air classroom
The person in charge pointed out that in order to establish an education and teaching mechanism that is compatible with the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, the Municipal Education Commission requires districts and schools to scientifically formulate and orderly implement new semester teaching and curriculum plans, and to formulate education and teaching emergency plans. The municipal level will strengthen the construction of aerial classrooms, the national, municipal, and district coordinated course development mechanism, and continue to provide online course resources. Beginning in September, the courses of all grades in primary and secondary schools will be online simultaneously in the air classroom, to provide guarantee for the seamless connection of online and offline courses at any time, and students will not be suspended.
Schools will carefully sort out and summarize their experience and practices in online teaching, returning to school and resuming classes, accurately analyze their academic conditions, and improve the pertinence of teaching in the new semester. In particular, they will provide home learning guidance for students who cannot come to school due to the epidemic. And family education guidance to ensure consistency with the learning progress and learning content of the students at school.
Nucleic acid testing is required for students returning to campus in batches from Beijing universities starting from August 15
The person in charge said that starting from August 15th, universities in Beijing that have the conditions for campus epidemic prevention and control can organize students to return to school in phases and batches, to return to school at the wrong time and to report for new students, in combination with the arrangements for the primary school period. The return of colleges and universities will adopt a relatively closed management, including two meanings: first, the school must be strictly closed, irrelevant personnel are prohibited from entering the school, and anyone entering the school must strictly implement identity verification and registration, and body temperature testing. The second is to advocate non-essential not leaving school, and those who really need it can apply for leaving school. The school simplifies student application approval procedures through information technology, and guides students to personal protection.
Non-local college students must have a seven-day nucleic acid test certificate when returning to school. The test fee is paid by the school.
Universities instruct students to conduct nucleic acid testing based on the local area. If the students do not have the conditions for nucleic acid testing in the local area, they can first return to Beijing with a health "green code", stay at the school's health observation point, and transfer to normal study and life after a negative nucleic acid test.