Learning recovery plan: Addressing the aftermaths of the CoViD 19 pandemic

ADELAIDA G. PINGOY,

Despite the dangers that came along with the CoViD 19 pandemic, it is a common contention that education must continue. Hence, it is important to lay down appropriate steps and actions to ensure success in the delivery of educational services. Any school’s success in this thrust is determined by the mechanisms and the systems it has put in place ahead of implementation.

It was good to note that as the global community experienced the impact of the pandemic especially in the learning of young children, Calala Elementary School, is decisive and committed in its efforts of not only ensuring the continuity of their education but in providing them the best possible learning opportunities.

The school, ably supported by its primary stakeholders, was able to come up with a learning recovery plan that is reflective of the contexts of each and every learner as well as of the community. Taking from the lessons of the previous school years, this makes the learning recovery and continuity plan a more calibrated and pragmatic version that the school believes can adapt with the uncertainty and complexity of the future. Available data have been utilized to ensure responsiveness, relevance and appropriateness of the plan.

The current plan incorporates the support and enabling mechanisms that shall be established and operationalized to ensure efficiency and effectiveness in learning delivery to address learning gaps, improve learning outcomes, and the total wellbeing of the learners. For learning gaps, bigger emphasis was given to literacy and numeracy, as these were obviously diagnosed through the conduct of comprehensive rapid literacy assessment (CRLA) and enhanced regional numeracy test (E-RUNT).

In this era of inevitable changes and stiff competitions, it has become imperative among schools to ensure that the best quality education is received by each and every learner. School heads and teachers must not only depend on nationally-crafted plans as they are the ones who are fully familiar with the most pressing needs of their clientele. Also, they are the ones who can identify a proportionate response to these needs based on resources available at their disposal.

The true spirit of the learning recovery plan is not only to mitigate the obviously noticeable aftermaths of the pandemic. The plan must, as already stated above, provide a cushion for future events, which may deliver an equally severe, or even worse, impact than the CoViD 19 pandemic.