This story is from June 23, 2020

West Bengal: After three-month Covid break, teachers return to schools

Many teachers started going to schools on Monday after a gap of almost three months following the Covid-induced lockdown.
West Bengal: After three-month Covid break, teachers return to schools
KOLKATA: Many teachers started going to schools on Monday after a gap of almost three months following the Covid-induced lockdown.
Around 35 teachers were back at South City International School. The authorities, after necessary sanitization drives, had asked teachers to come in, if possible, to use school infrastructure for online classes.
Some other schools that have been sanitized and kept the option open for teachers are, Apeejay School, New Town School, St Xavier’s Institution Panihati and DPS Howrah and many teachers have started using these facilities for better teaching-learning experience.

The teachers are travelling in private vehicles, either their own or provided by schools.
While some schools have sent laboratory equipment to teachers’ homes to help them set up labs, others have sent their systems engineers armed with laptops and Wi-Fi routers to teachers’ homes so that they can graduate from phones to laptops. Some schools have also bought portable Wi-Fi equipment for teachers.
“Kids immediately noticed the change in the background and recognised their classroom when we started teaching on Monday. It was a surprise and they were just as excited as we were. Not only connectivity, even teaching tools like flip charts come in handy if we are teaching from school and it was a relief to be back,” said Nabamita Biswas, teacher at the primary section of South City International School.

Principal of Apeejay School, Rita Chatterjee, has resumed office along with the admin and support staff. She is taking English classes for the senior students of the school from the campus and teachers will be back this week to prepare and distribute report cards to parents. They are also free to start teaching from campus.
“Though we did our best from home, but working from school always feels better. We are using the school laboratories all over again for practical demonstrations online for students. This breaks the monotony,” said Subhadeep Mitra, biology teacher of St Xavier’s Institution, Panihati.
Physics lab equipment have sen to the residence of Shubhashree Chakraborty, head of the department of physics of Heritage School, so that she can set up a lab at home for online teaching. Similarly, head of the department of chemistry of the school, Shubhojit Majumdar, has set up a laboratory at home for practical demonstrations while teaching online.
Though portable Wi-Fi has been given to 70 teachers at New Town School, principal Shatabdi Bhattacharya has resumed office and kept the option open for teachers who want to teach from campus.
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