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Abisheva Aliya
EJ-30

Confused students

Over the past two years, the world has changed in all respects, especially the education system and the format of the lessons. In Kazakhstan, students spent 2020 in quarantine and some educational institutions still work offline.

The country is divided into three zones

Green zone

regions that are in the green zone can safely visit public institutions, but are subject to quarantine measures

Yelow zone

the yellow zone means that there are restrictions on holding mass events and measures have been tightened

Red zone

and in the red most dangerous zone, people are forced to isolate themselves from each other so as not to spread the virus.

In Kazakhstan, vaccination with a new drug against coronavirus from Pfizer has started. Adolescents, pregnant and lactating women will be vaccinated. While in some regions they are only preparing for this process, in others they are already receiving a foreign vaccine. Almaty became the first city in Kazakhstan where teenagers and pregnant women were vaccinated against coronavirus with Pfizer. More than 1,500 parents have already applied for immunization of their children. This was announced at a briefing by the Deputy Head of the Public Health Department of the city. While schoolchildren receive vaccinations at vaccination points. Starting next week, the procedure will start in schools.

The vaccine gives a guarantee of protecting a person from the virus by 90%, the rest depends on the human body. One of the common mistakes among the population is that after getting vaccinated, they stop wearing masks, keep social distance, go to these and other events. Even when receiving a vaccine, antibodies remain for two months. This should not be forgotten. That is, to warn and protect yourself from the disease is not limited to the vaccine.

Aidana Ayazbekkyzy

general practitioner, head of the department of polyclinic No. 11

Kazakhstan has officially launched a campaign to vaccinate children and adolescents from the age of 12, as well as pregnant women and nursing mothers. And today, the chief sanitary doctor of Almaty, Zhandarbek Bekshin, said that in the past two weeks there has been an increase in coronavirus infections at the place of work.

The Pfizer vaccine was also accepted in other regions of the country. More than 119 thousand people are planned to be vaccinated in East Kazakhstan. In the meantime, 35,000 doses have been delivered to Ust-Kamenogorsk and Semey. They are stored in special warehouses equipped with new refrigeration units made in Denmark. These are freezers with ultra-low temperature - from minus 86 to minus 50 degrees Celsius. Each holds 63,000 doses of vaccine at the same time. They will be delivered to cities and regions in special containers. The vaccination campaign itself will start in the coming weeks.

80 mobile vaccination teams have been created in the region. They will gradually visit all schools in accordance with the schedule. That is, not school nurses will vaccinate children, but specialists trained in this. Parents who do not want to vaccinate their children at school can visit any vaccination center themselves.

Nurkhan Narymbetova

Deputy Head of the Regional Department of Public Health:

As for schoolchildren, now they are completely confused that distance learning is better for them or traditional full-time education at their desks. At the moment, society is faced with a new problem, this is Omicron, a new virus and people still do not know how it manifests itself and how dangerous it is, so the Ministry of Education decided to return distance learning until February 7, 2022, many breathed a sigh of relief and were glad about this news, but others were completely upset and did not want to lock themselves at home for a whole two weeks.

From February 14, Kazakhstani schoolchildren are planned to be transferred to the traditional format of education. This was reported to the President by Vice Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Yeraly Tugzhanov at an expanded meeting of the Government, Khabar 24 correspondent reports.

The children of the capital, Shymkent, Almaty, as well as those regions where more than 600 children study at schools, have gone completely online. Regulations change every day, as does the situation in the country. Not only the students are tired of uncertainty, but also teachers who are not at all comfortable to study and teach children at home when silence and attention are needed, and many simply turn off the camera and microphone, it was also not easy for parents, especially for elementary school children, when they do not with whom to leave the child at home.

Opinions

I don't know how to teach children Russian remotely. Any spelling task, for example, if students are at a distance from me and sitting at computers, definitely means their ability to find text on the Internet and do everything without a single mistake

Valery Kodachigov

Teacher of Russian and Literature at Gymnasium School No. 6

There are many UNT preparation services, so the remote mode specifically for UNT is very good, maybe even better than studying at school, since a teacher at school has to spend his time on 30 people at once, and here a computer can work with everyone

Shikova Anastasia

11A class student

“We did the lessons like this: we are sitting, my youngest child is sitting on the table, my daughter is sitting at the table, I am sitting next to her, and now we are all studying together, so to speak. I was torn. One child cannot do the tasks himself, and the second is still too small to captivate himself for a long time, ”Svetlana Kirichkova talks about her everyday life.

Karlygash Abdijabbarova,

The Chief Sanitary Doctor of Almaty

She has amended the quarantine order. According to the document, the following formats of education have been defined since January 24: - in preschool organizations - in a regular format at the request of parents (in the "red", "yellow", "green" zones); - in general education schools ("red" zone): primary grades 1-4 (grades 1-6 in international schools) - in a regular format; - up to 600 students inclusive - regular format; - over 600 - in a regular format with a workload of no more than 50% of the design capacity of schools.

In universities and colleges (the "red" zone), classes will be held in a combined format, but only if the groups exceed more than 20 people, since small groups of students can work as usual. For the rest, practical, laboratory, seminars, industrial practice - in the regular mode according to a flexible schedule, and lectures - online, which is also quite inconvenient, usually the schedule is made so that you have to listen to lectures on the bus on the way to the university for practice, so most of important information.

If you ask students what they would choose: distance learning or offline learning

If you ask students what they would choose: distance learning or offline learning, they would probably choose the first option, but after the first week they would return to the second option. Likewise, parents, when the child is at home, they complain that the child has no one to stay at home with, and when he goes to school, they begin to arise, because they have to get up in the morning and pick him up after class, and this is more strength than just going in in Zoom.

It should be noted that now online lessons have reached a new level, teachers have adapted to this format and figure out how to make their lessons more fun, find new platforms, methods, and even improve their teaching methods. Now they even ask students to close their eyes when they recite the poem via video link, because they know what tricks 21st century kids can come up with. The whole country hopes that soon the situation will stabilize and return to normal, but everyone understands that life will not be the same.

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Abisheva Aliya