Homework, which was the main way to review class has changed to content that encourages students to study by themselves,
and they are at a loss for a large amount of homework.
As mentioned in Step 5, it is not difficult to imagine how difficult it is for international children who often feel uneasy even in their usual school studies to read textbooks and proceed with their studies.
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No support for home learning
Foreign parents cannot support school homework due to a barrier of language
Language support provided by schools and local volunteers has been forced to suspend due to the simultaneous closure of schools and public facilities.
Non-regular Japanese teachers are losing their place to work
The income of foreigners working in travel-related fields such as hotels and restaurants is as difficult as or even higher than that of Japanese people.
For example
Factory shifts are reduced to avoid three Cs
They close the restaurant they run
Even if parents can share their worries,
parents from abroad have difficulties exchanging information due to the language barrier and their anxiety and worries increases.
Free online classes for international children during summer vacation
Lending tablets and Wi-Fi routers to the homes needed (limited numbers)
Implementation of consultation support for parents as necessary
For children who need support for learning Japanese by specialists, YSC Global School recommends enrolling in a regular curriculum, which will start in late August.
Provided free online self-study and homework support to more than 2,000 children for a total in three months until the school starts in March.
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Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's GIGA School Initiative
The GIGA School Initiative
is designed to help students receive compulsory education with a five-year plan to provide a PC for each learner and a high-speed network environment.
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology announced this plan in December 2019 and aimed to implement it by 2023.
With the spread of the new coronavirus, the online teaching environment needs to be improved quickly.
It has been decided to accelerate the target to fiscal 2020.
However, according to a survey released by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology on April 16, among the municipalities that are temporarily closed,
Only 29% of them provide learning guidance using online teaching materials.
In addition, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has published the following documents on children with foreign roots.
Crowdfunding is a term coined by combining “crowd” and “fundraising”,
which refers to raising small amounts of money from many and unspecified people via the Internet.
"The biggest feature of crowdfunding is that anyone who has ideas or thoughts such as
"I want to make things like this or "I want to solve problems in the world like this" can communicate as "plotters",
and anyone who sympathizes with this and wants to "support" or "try things or services" can be supported as "supporters."
(Quoted from CAMPFIRE "What is crowdfunding" )
Even in the midst of the corona disaster,
such crowdfunding was carried out in the hope of "solving the problems of children with foreign roots.
Currently, most support information is available only in Japanese.
If you're not good at reading and writing Japanese, you can't even realize that there's support."
It takes a lot of time and effort to prepare teaching plans and materials.
Do you understand?Just by asking them, it's just a lesson for learners to listen to.
I can't ask questions well in Japanese, so I leave in the middle."
