Hasakah – North-Press Agency
Delsoz Youssef
For more than a month, Kurdish language teacher Loreen Youssef, a resident of the town of Tal Tamr, north of Hasakah, has been teaching her children at home after schools were closed as a preventative measures against the new coronavirus, to make up for lost schooling and keep them in the school atmosphere.
Fears of coronavirus and the ban on movement imposed by the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria caused difficulties for thousands of students in completing their school year due to school closures, after which the Education Committee launched a video-based education project.
The Education Committee's plan aims to compensate the students for their lessons after the closure of schools with a project titled "Our Home is Our School", by recording all lessons for all levels using video technology and publishing them via electronic platforms and the Autonomous Administration' "Rojava TV" channel.
30 – year – old Loreen Youssef had to teach her children at the primary level at home to compensate them for the rest of the school curriculum.
She says to North-Press: "For a period of time my children did not go to school because of coronavirus and the closure of schools, and I, as a teacher, teach them at home so that they are not far away from study environments."
Regarding the initiative of the Education Committee on distance education, Youssef pointed out that "the electricity is often interrupted at the same lessons are broadcast on TV, so my children drop out of their lessons, which prompted me to take care of them and teach them to compensate them for the lessons they miss."
In the Musherfa neighborhood of Hasakah, 15 specialized teaching staff continue to work over eight hours a day within one of the educational academies to record lessons for the preparatory and secondary levels in preparation for broadcasting in succession later.
History teacher Gulistan Ali told North-Press that "the subjects that are given through electronic platforms are the basic ones such as history, geography, physics, chemistry and mathematics, and each lesson is allocated a period ranging between 20 and 30 minutes."
She added that they aim to reach all students and ensure that they do not interrupt their lessons. "We follow a smooth and interactive method because students see us from behind the screens," Ali said.
On March 14th, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria decided to suspend all schools, institutes and universities (students and teachers only) until further notice, in order to face the danger of the spread of coronavirus.