DepEd ensured flexibility in teaching, learning during COVID-19 PANDEMIC
By MARIA NANCY T. MORADO
Teacher II
Bugabus Elementary School
South Butuan District I
Due to the challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic to education, the Department of Education (DepEd) make an adjustment on the assigned task for the learners due to the fact that learners have long been disengaged from academic learning since the onset of the pandemic last March 2020.
By ensuring flexibility in teaching and learning, stress and burden of learning through the multiple distance modalities offered by DepEd will be reduced even as learners are guided to focus on the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELCs).
To help reduce stress and anxiety, the following measures are highly recommended:
a. Schools may determine activities contained in the Self learning modules (SLMs) or Learning Activity Sheets (LAS) for the first quarter which may be declared as optional so that learners are enabled to focus only on the most essential activities while allowing the fast learners to perform additional tasks;
b. Additional learning activity sheets may be made available for the fast learners who need enrichment activities;
c. For the succeeding quarters, learning tasks in the SLMs or other learning materials may be streamlined to ensure that learning development is manifested and that activities or exercises sufficiently cover/develop the learning competencies leading to mastery;
d. Schools should put premium on the instructional management task of teachers in their work load or assignments;
e. Support to the mental-health/socio-emotional wellbeing of teachers, students and their parents or learning facilitators should be expanded by organizing group wellness sessions and the like;
f. Time allotment for the completion/submission of activities/task of learners may be reconsidered;
g. Learners and home learning facilitators found to be experiencing difficulties shall be provided additional support by the teachers/learning support aides;
h. Quarter 1 is extended until December 12, 2020. Quarter 2 shall be from January 4, 2021 to February 27, 2021, Quarter 3 shall be from March 1, 2021 to April 24, 2021, and Quarter 4 shall be from April 26, 2021 to June 11, 2021;
i. The week of December 14-19, 2020 will be devoted to in-Service Training (INSET) which may include MELCs-based Quarter 2 planning for Distance Learning Delivery Modalities (DLDM). Based on the retrieved modules in Quarter 1, the MELCs actually covered relative to their targeted weeks of implementation may be studied. The results of the study shall be the bases in programming the MELCs and their corresponding modules for Quarter 2 implementation starting on January 4, 2021. In addition, the week may also be used for the other activities at the Regional office, Schools Division Office, and school levels to assess the implementation of the contextualized Learning Continuity Plan (LCP) and gather evidence as basis for plan adjustments.
j. Based on the assessment, external stakeholders and partners, may be tapped to provide much needed support like materials, equipment, and mechanisms, among others to help teachers, learners and parents in addressing the challenges in distance and home-based learning. Coordination with barangay/purok officials on matters related to child safeguarding and child protection shall be strengthened.
DepEd also authorized the regional offices, schools division offices, and public schools are fully authorized to implement other measures deemed appropriate for their respective contexts.
The measures suggested are expected to enable the learners and learning facilitators to navigate through the challenges of the new normal in the teaching and learning process and make necessary adjustment throughout the school year. ###
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