Last call. To celebrate it, dressed smartly in school, the same tradition as the salad and the film “Irony of fate, Or enjoy your bath” on New year’s or Easter cakes on Easter. Another of the holiday traditions — to speak and to hear speech, to confess his love to the teachers and pupils walk the whole day around town with a small bell on the chest, secretly drink champagne from plastic cups.
it is believed that the Last call is a celebration for teachers, students (or former students) and their parents. Although, of course, everyone understands that this is actually the day school students. For them it symbolized the end of one life phase and the beginning of the next.
In 2020, the year the situation changed. And the Last call is on-line as the all-Russian campaign of the Ministry of education. And plugging in the house listening to speeches. But transformed not only the form of the festival, its essence has also undergone some changes. And I want to note.
to Start, of course, is with the traditional greetings to the students. But not only graduates all students who graduated this academic year. Because for many (for most) transition to network learning has become a difficult test of willpower, perseverance, stamina and ability to concentrate.
Apart from the fact that approximately 15% of people in the world capable of perceiving information on hearing, to regroup children and young people had, without any training. In addition, the usual form of training at a Desk in school, the lessons certainly disciplinary and organizes space and time are much better than education in a pleasant, but chilling home.
this year with the end of school (or regular school year) and be sure to congratulate the pupils ‘ parents. Im prishlos to readjust and rebuild their lives in a pandemic and isolation. Some was seriously sick themselves, sick of their loved ones. Someone lost a job or was forced to work from “home office”, that is, often from the kitchen and sometimes the bathroom.
While parents of students had daily to participate in the educational process, which in ordinary life passes in addition. Not only that, children should be raised “to call” on the first lesson, pupils had to bring to such a state that they were able to form.
Finally, the child-student was ready to grasp knowledge, but everyone here was beset with difficulties and obstacles: the educational websites and the programs offered by Minposition, regularly fell network, hung electronic diary with tasks, does not open educational services. After the main part, the parents went to help with homework to organizing sessions with Tutors. Due to their support, the children managed to graduate this year.
Last call this year is a great occasion to thank school teachers and University professors. Here I must digress. According to the Fund ‘Public opinion’ 22% of Russians (that is, about one in five) have never used the Internet. And 61% of users are in the network with mobile devices.
This means that most of the active users are young people. And that the Internet is used by people mostly for entertainment purposes or for communication with near and far.
And this, in turn, means that “go” for on-line lessons teachers not only had “the wheel,” some teachers (primarily elderly) in March 2020, the year for the first time in my life I saw online.
Leave out that they too have children who had to move to the corner that they had to get up even earlier than the students (because schools and universities require daily temperature data and state of health) that the Director of the required reports and plans. And that some teachers “free time” I had to collect rations to schoolchildren.
Every morning, the professors and teachers were out in front of the class and started the lesson. And nobody said that teaching in the online format requires a fundamentally different approach and additional education. Once and no one was their to form. They only said that to continue the classes is necessary, otherwise children will grow to learn and then not to collect.
As for the disciples, they fell network not working diary on the conference (the existence of which 80 percent learned for the first time). Them the move had to invent and reinvent different approaches to students and (hide) parents both had to motivate to learn. Sometimes listening to unflattering epithets about their appearance or oratorical skill. Like everyone else they were sick themselves or have sick loved ones. They were covered panic, overtired they don’t sleep at night.
But that didn’t happen in their life “behind the scenes” in the morning they turned on the network to hold another lesson, a seminar or lecture.
Last call — great tradition. But I really want to wish everyone a return to its classic form. The white bows, the polished boots, a few speeches and a few tears.
the bell on the lapel — a symbol of something new. Present.
