Since the digital attendance management started to be tested, all of the city of Stockholm just over 570 municipal preschools had access to the system. One of the kindergartens were the first out was Hagelstavägen 22 in Bromma, which has 86 children, divided in five departments.
” We started last spring to test a little and have gradually built on. The main advantage is that we can see how many children are present in groups and plan for it, ” says Ann-Sofie Ulin.
in Skolplattformen, the common digital platform for the Stockholm city schools, and called for the united NATIONS that stands for the absence/presence system. Guardians use the tool to log and report their child’s absence and presence, either through an app or your computer. Where they can also put into the children’s schedule and scheduled leave for holidays and the like. In this way, the educators in the early an overview and can better plan for activities, lunch and snacks, and the allocation of educators.
– the Children will be checked in digitally by the educators in the morning through an ereader and checked out when they go home. Everything is saved digitally, so we do not have papperslistorna which is very nice. Every morning when you have meetings you know how many children there will be in each department and school, ” says Susanna Gereben assistant förskolechef.
Hagelstavägen 22 is one of three kindergartens that belong to the same unit in the Bromma district administration.
” Through this new system is easier to get a overview and we can help each other within the device, if it is the very absence among children in a kindergarten, the staff can come and work on another. It will be effective, ” says Ann-Sofie Ulin.
” Yes, that we no longer know why children are absent. Before, it was easier when they called in and we got to know that aha, now we have the flu. But many parents call and tell yet if it is chicken pox or something that other parents want to know, ” says Ann-Sofie Ulin.
Förskolecheferna also says that it initially been part of the hassle and that it is marked that the system has been new with many updates and the like. But, overall, they are happy with the new närvarosystemet.
” It has been both rose and rice but they want to communicate digitally, this is where we live. They like that it is here that you can go around the clock and notify and no need to wait for the preschool to be open and talk with voice mail. There has been more problems with is to add a schedule themselves. All the system can be developed, but it has overwhelmingly been a positive response, ” says Ann-Sofie Ulin.
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