During the period of restrictions, there were difficulties in education life as in every field. Almost 30% of the population of our country consists of continuing education students. More than 5 million of these students are secondary school students.
When we think of so many students, it is very sad that schools are closed and education is stopped during the pandemic process. Class bells did not ring, schoolyards, classrooms and gymnasiums remained empty. The schools, filled with the voices of the students, fell into a sad silence. However, each teacher had only one thought. How can I continue the lessons? At this point, the Ministry of National Education developed a program (EBA: Informatics Network in Education, https://www.eba.gov.tr/) and students at all levels from 1st to 12th class were able to follow their courses and topics both on the internet and on TRT television. This was quite productive for theoretical lessons. But what would we do in practical lessons? How would we engage students? This seemed like a serious problem.
We were able to solve this problem with remote online application course programs. For example, we made live broadcasts in physical education classes. Regardless of class size, we divided students into groups and enabled them to participate in these live broadcasts at certain times of the day. Of course, we did not expect it to be as productive as the lessons before the pandemic. However, it was very useful to ensure the continuity of the students in the lessons and to keep them in the education life. While doing sports exercises in live broadcasts in physical education classes, we also kept students in sports by covering theoretical subjects such as sports history, major sports organizations (such as the Olympics, world championships), successful athletes, and famous sportsmen.
Another issue that we had the most difficulty in this period was the inability to carry out school sports activities. Students could not compete against each other. Cultural and social cohesion environments no longer existed. All they could do was online classes. Everyone missed the school, the schoolyard, the classes. And now we are finally back to our normal life before the pandemic. I hope students never have to be separated from their schools again.

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