How Top Leading Preschools are Fighting with COVID-19

As the coronavirus has made its way around the world, more than 160 countries have closed schools. Nearly 90% of the world’s student population is now out of class. While it is becoming difficult for adults to manage the work of home & office, the bigger challenge is to manage your kid’s learning & ensuring their proper development.

Here; Schools and teachers can play a pivotal role to engage with their students & working with them for kid’s overall development. This includes recommendations to mitigate the pandemic effect or impacts on children’s learning and wellbeing. Here is how the leading preschools are fighting against COVID-19 :

  1. Preschool/daycares helping students through remote learning, to provide students with holistic support.
  2. Creating interesting videos or reading material to help them learn. Providing an interactive medium of learning that helps kids at this stage.
  3. They are providing children with vital information on handwashing and other measures to protect them and the families against the virus.
  4.  Facilitating kids for their physical & mental health support through virtual classes.
  5. Going beyond the traditional way of teaching & up-skilling their teachers to cope-up with the current situation & be able to conduct virtual/recorded sessions successfully.
  6. Cleaning and disinfecting school buildings, classrooms. Sanitation facilities at least once a day, particularly surfaces that are touched by many people & preparing themselves to open after Government orders. 
  7. Working with very less fund to maintain daily administration work smoothly without any subsidy or Government support.

Similarly, preschools & daycares working on solid plans in place to ensure the continuity of learning, including remote learning options such as online education or recorded sessions of academic content to focus on the overall development of a child. These plans may also include necessary steps for the eventual safe reopening of schools as per authority’s orders or post-pandemic.