Araik Harutyunyan Appeals to Teachers to Keep Students Engaged at Home with Interesting Tasks

The Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Armenia, Araik Harutyunyan, has made a statement addressing teachers.

“Dear teachers, despite the tremendous joint efforts we made together in the spring months to ensure the continuity of education through distance learning, I am sure each of us believes that the best option would be for schools to open in September and for children to return to school as usual—to interact with friends in the classroom, to reconnect with each other and with you, and to restore life to normalcy.

This goal is worth putting in our efforts once again, urging our children to:

• Limit their outdoor interactions and play;
• Follow important anti-epidemic rules:
• Wear masks;
• Regularly sanitize hands;
• Maintain distance.

Please reach out to your students with this call and think together about interesting summer tasks that will keep them at home while also contributing to their development and expanding their cognitive interests. Suggest watching interesting films and discussing them with friends online, recommend reading and organizing remote summer book discussions, encourage them to help parents, cook something delicious, participate in household chores, and try to learn something new independently.

I am confident that the students will listen to you because the authority of teachers in our society has been and must remain very high.

Dear children, stay at home so that you can go to school in the autumn,” he wrote.