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Education launches new teaching model in the city and invests in building and renovating schools
Published on 13/12/2022 - 07:10 | Updated on 16/12/2022 - 08:11
The Experimental Technological Gymnasium brings a new teaching concept - Beth Santos/City of Rio In March 2022, the Municipal Department of Education launched the Technological Experimental Gymnasiums, the most innovative public school model in Brazil. The GETs are part of a new concept that fosters the development of 3st century skills through the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics) approach, project-based learning and resources that promote digital culture. The heart of this new school model is the maker lab, a collaborative space that promotes hands-on learning with a variety of equipment, ranging from basic utensils to XNUMXD printers.
The first Experimental Technological Gymnasium, GET Elza Soares, was opened in March, in the Rocha neighborhood, in the North Zone. In the same month, two schools were remodeled and became GETs: Coelho Neto, in Ricardo de Albuquerque, and Cardeal Leme, in Benfica. In November, the network gained its fourth GET, Luís Carlos da Fonseca, in Madureira. By 2023, the network is expected to open more than 70 GETs.
To ensure the education of thousands of children and young people from Rio, the current municipal administration has also resumed contracts that were suspended by the previous government, for the construction and revitalization of 24 school units, 19 of which come from the Fábrica de Escolas program and five units from the Olympic legacy.
Regarding the Olympic legacy, four of the five schools are being built with material from the dismantling of the Arena do Futuro, in the neighborhoods of Bangu, Campo Grande, Rio das Pedras and Santa Cruz. They will receive around 1.700 students and, by reusing the material, the city government is expected to save up to 20% on the construction of these units, which will be Technological Experimental Gymnasiums (GETs). The fifth legacy school will be located in Arena 3, which will be transformed into the Isabel Salgado Olympic Educational Gymnasium (GEO).
Four schools have already been delivered this year (2022): GET Elza Soares, GET Luís Carlos da Fonseca, EDI Jornalista Jorge Bastos Moreno and EDI Beth Carvalho.
In 2022, the Secretariat also launched the CIEP Revitalization Program, which will offer significant improvements to the 101 CIEPs in the municipal education network. The investments will be made to restore roofs and gutters and review electrical installations and facades. All of this will make schools increasingly more comfortable for their students. The revitalization plan will be completed by 2024.
The department has already completed more than 225 projects. Of these, 140 are renovation projects, 71 of which have already been completed and the rest are in progress.
