Learning for special children will continue

HATS off to SPED teachers who deal with special children each and every day, because this is not an easy task.

Every day, there are new experiences because they have different behaviors, dealing with students who have visual and hearing impairments, autism, down syndrome, and other intellectual disabilities.

If a teacher has been in the service of SPED students for long, this just means that they have come to love their jobs, and that they truly care for their students.

Just recently, the Department of Education conducted an Online Capacity Building of SPED Teachers on dealing with Learners with Special Education Needs (LSENs) using Flexible and Blended Learning Approaches.

The online training aims to capacitate SPED teachers to effectively select and use learning tools that are beneficial to LSENs in finding and processing information, constructing knowledge, collaborating with peers, expressing understanding, and evaluating learning effects in concrete ways; adapt learning materials to the needs of LSENs; and provide appropriate online support for LSENs to contribute to their inclusive online experiences.

The training was timely because of the not-so-normal situation nowadays. Through the activity, teachers had learnings and clarifications on some issues.

The DepEd earlier assured that in the Basic Education Learning Continuity Plan (LCP) crafted by the Department, these students are also given priority and that their specific needs would be addressed to assure that they will not be left further behind.