The Dilemmas of Educational Reform in the Times of Pandemic

Rowena B. Beltran

The terms “reform” and restructuring on everyone’s lips, but few can agree on the nature of the required reforms or who will emerge after more than a decade of compulsory education. What should this student know? What values should she or he espouse? What job related skills should be developed at school in order to maintain a nations competitive edge in the global economy? How should the ability to think critically about social skills be fostered? Or should it be fostered at all? How should school respond to the often conflicting demands of diverse cultural, linguistic ,religious, and sexual orientation groups that their particular perspectives be incorporated into the curriculum? The differences that have always characterized our societies are suddenly out in the open and can no longer be denied.

All private and public educational institution have been heavily affected by the pandemic , the dilemma of delivering instructional activities have put the administrators, parents, and specially for instructors in delivering the pedagogical needs of the learner.

Public schools serve the societies that fund them, and they aim to graduate students with the skills knowledge , and values necessary to contribute to their societies. In other words, animage of the future society that students will help form is implicit in all the interactions between students and educators in school. Blended learning has already started and it has already been delivered but in the battle front is the teachers who are sacrificing their limbs and health for the delivery of modules to their feeders in their respective community.

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The author is SST-II at San Roque Dau High School, Lubao, Pampanga

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The author is Master Teacher I at Camachiles Elementary School