MIS
Sets to Reopen School
The
government policy which begins to impose face-to-face schooling is positively
welcomed by Manado Independent School (MIS). Various preparations are made and the
institution implements high standard operating procedures to help prevent the
spread of Covid-19, because the health and safety of all school residents are
the highest priority. Several health protocols are implemented by MIS, such as
wearing a mask before entering the school gate, followed by spraying
disinfectant liquid for motorbikes and cars, and finally checking body
temperature before entering the school area. The installation of hand
sanitizers in every school hallway, in the classroom, as well as in every
office is completed including the regular sanitation of the school environment
more intensively. In classrooms, offices, and cafeterias, plastic dividers are
also installed to make it easier for school residents to apply physical
distancing. The shift system is also implemented for students in using the
classroom plus MIS prepares face shields and masks to be distributed to all
students and teachers.
Currently,
MIS is still engaged in virtual learning which is enriched with hardware in
every lesson of the teachers using graphic tablets or drawing tablets which
make it easier for teachers to draw by hand and enter drawings directly into
the computer such as drawing directly on paper using a pencil to make learning-teaching
activities more lively and attracts the
attention of all the students to be more
focused. Vijaya Kollabathula, Ph.D, Principal of MIS High School emphasized that in order to fulfill the learning that are
designed by the teachers through the course outline, MIS teachers use an
innovative learning model through online media. “During teaching and learning
activities, the teachers use Google Meet while discussing the topics together
with the students. The content that is presented during Google Meet is stored
in google classroom for easy access to the
students as they reviewed the lesson by themselves, " he added.
MIS also
has a Media Center like a recording studio. It is equipped with 3 new high quality
cameras which are class gifts from class 2020 graduates for each level of
Kindergarten and Elementary School, Middle School, and High School. It aims to
make the recording easier and produce learning content including activities
that will be presented to students. The school also uses OBS (Open Broadcast
Software), a video recording and live streaming application that has good audio
/ video capture and mixing performance, and is equipped with unlimited scenes. It
is also equipped with 5 Lab rooms, and hundreds of computers so students who
have internet problems at home can come to MIS to use the mentioned facilities
following the enforced the health program protocols.
In
addition, MIS provides online training called webinar to all teaching staff
from kindergarten, elementary, junior, and high school levels where this
innovation is carried out so that learning can continue effectively and
efficiently through careful learning planning. The webinar training took place
through the Google Meet application on Monday, October 5 to Wednesday, October
28, 2020 with the resource speaker John
Darryll S. Mercado, a Google Certified Trainer and Innovator from the
Philippines, who discussed “Google Suite for Education Fundamentals Training”, and a trainer from Jakarta who discuss about WACOM.
The efforts
in fulfilling all the applicable requirements of MIS to be ready to open
schools during the new normal period are really carried out to the maximum level,
especially health protocols to create a safe and healthy school environment.