25 nationalities and various groups with different curricular levels in the same classroom. The Andrés Manjón school, at Delicias neighborhood in Zaragoza, with almost 100% immigration, arrives every day to its students online, to help them pass the course despite the difficulties that the coronavirus pandemic.
In most cases they have to accompany and support their families which in many cases even They do not know the Spanish language. “Weekly – this is a long-distance race – the teachers get in contact with our students” and ask them if they need anything, how are they doing, what have they done, what time do they get up … “anything of companionship “and,” in addition to that, respond very well to broadcast groupsn “. It tells the school principal, Beatriz Abad.
This is how he works team of teachers from the Andrés Manjón Public School, together with NGOs how Help in Action wave San Ezequiel Moreno Foundation. At any time and at any time they can receive a call and answer it.
They give families orientation on custom, routines… “and at 10, we will put the Clan TV So you can hear an hour a day of Spanish“or” about the structures that we have been giving in the classroom, “continues Abad.” And so you go on doing a review of everything they have been seeing in the classroom, especially, don’t lose touch. “
They are aware that in these cases parents cannot help. “Most of our students have a fairly large family, who have to share devices [electrónicos] between 6 or 4 brothers “, for example. With a blog they have managed to guide these children. In fact, the school is the only contact with the language of the country in which they live for many of these schoolchildren.
For teachers at the Andrés Manjón school, experiencing distance learning has been difficult, but the promotion and fight for these students to acquire the basic contents, neither linking one course with another with reinforcements.
“We never started with the book” at the beginning of the course, “nor the first week, nor the second, nor the third nor the fourth,” explains the director, because “they require a longer adaptation period than in other centers” since come from summer “where they reset completely, where there are families and students who barely hear Spanish“during the 3 months of vacation.
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