“This is the crown. Children will have to stay at home. There is a lot of confusion,” wrote a seven-year-old second-grader in Vienna. For young people, parents and teachers around the world, it has been an extremely difficult time experience as many schools have closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past week, as some young people in Austria begin to return to school, albeit in a different way than before, they reflect on their new learning experience. At home
During school closures, instructors have been asked to give young people responsibilities that they can do alone at home. The United Nations Information Service (UNIS Vienna) assisted with recommendations and concepts for trainers and academics. For older youth in the upper grades, homework was accompanied through online instruction. This type of virtual exchange has been more complicated when training young people. “Most of my students don’t have a virtual device of their own. In some families, there are no computers at home,” Elcin says. Kilic, a number one school instructor in Vienna whose pupils are between 6 and 10 years old. So the challenge for elementary school instructors like Kilic has been to look to provide what they would do in the study rooms to young people at home, as some of them struggle to perceive the abrupt breakdown of their overall daily routine.
The young people discussed how a virus that began spreading in remote China is now affecting their own lives in Europe. They also believe that everyone can help prevent the virus from spreading further, through their own behavior. Kilic pointed out to young people that it shows how interconnected other people in the world are and that together we can all make a difference because everyone’s contribution is important.
The teacher asked the youth to draw the world as they would like it to be and to reflect on their own sense of duty for the long term of our world. Students drew satisfied animals in a healthy environment, beautiful scenery, other people walking hand in hand. hand, as well as recycling bins and robots fighting the forces of evil to save the planet. Youth art reflected many facets of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), such as addressing climate change, life on earth and partnerships for the goals.
To be more informed about the SDGs, they also played the board game Go Goals!, developed through the United Nations Regional Information Centre (UNRIC) in Brussels. The game encourages young people to become guilty global citizens.
The UN’s numerous educational resources were brought to the attention of a teachers’ organization in Austria at an online painting workshop in May. Teacher workshops are held for users at UN headquarters in Vienna, but the online painting workshop was organized through UNIS Vienna, in collaboration with the The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Austria and the Faculty of Teacher Education at the University of Vienna (PH Wien) informed teachers about other strategies and tools to engage young people. in the progress goals and the UN paintings. sustainable (SDG).
Young Austrians may have been absent from school for more than two months, but that doesn’t mean they learned less, but other things in other ways. “It is not necessarily negative that the content of what is taught has changed, due to the existing situation. As a teacher, I see it as part of my task to respond to the wishes of my students with flexibility and to deal with the problems that exist in society,” says Kilic. When they return to school, young people will share their experiences and add what they envision for the long-term world.
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