Focal point-school at a distance: Who is not logged in, is called

In the Berlin district of Neukölln, the infection rate is always higher than the national average. It also has to do with the living situation of many Turkish and Arabic families living in three rooms, quarantine is not able to comply with, because there is no room to Insulate. Four-fifths of the families live on social transfers, often students share a room with several siblings.

Heike Schmoll

Political correspondent in Berlin, responsible for the "formation of worlds".

The Ernst-Abbe-Gymnasium has to get before the autumn holidays, what it means to have a Corona-focal point work. There are many more so in a teacher in quarantine that the school is able to maintain operation could be obtained. Tilmann kötter, Heinrich-Wedekind, head of school and the Board of the Association of Berlin school boards (IBS), would have liked to have imposed much earlier, a mask is compulsory for the entire school, but could only be used by the school Board to adopt. Meanwhile, all the students must wear in the classroom, their masks, this is also true for the Playground. Still, school leaders have to impose in Neukölln, a quarantine, which will be later specified by the health Department.

A however, kötter, Heinrich was able to prevail-Wedekind against the usual practices in the capital: He has introduced a hybrid model at his school. Half of the students learns in the school, and the other half in the Online area. This is not to say that all students of the Online learning at home. This is especially true for students that are committed by their families immediately to the house work and no rest for the Working. "Against this Formation hostility, we decided to go," says the headmaster, and I know that he has the College behind.

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For these pupils has the school in computer rooms, a digital emergency care. A maximum of 15 students can take this option. It can be set to either digital tasks, or a teacher directs the students when it comes to home even. "We have a great social responsibility."

The teacher, to the exchange model, realized quickly how much the workload increase. And yet something was added to make matters worse, what have experienced all of the home office-Experienced. Do you suffer from the blurring of boundaries between School-based and Private. "We are just going with the rules of Ethics between students and teachers, not to negotiate, so that students call to 22.46 at their class teacher and the password for the Cloud questions," says kötter, Heinrich Wedekind. The teacher tried to give as much feedback on completed tasks as possible, but to any task that is not feasible. In such cases, the teachers receive a solution sheet for the stand-alone correction.