USING MELC IN NEW NORMAL EDUCATION

Donata L. Bolos

In the new normal education, there was an adjustment in the curriculum made by the Department of Education in consideration to the formidable effect and impact of coronavirus across the country. It has elicited the Most Essential Learning Competencies or MELC from the curriculum guide and rewritten the curriculum for the school year 2020-2021. The MELC, according to DepEd, “are defined as what the students’ need, considered indispensable, in the teaching-learning process to building skills to equip learners for subsequent grade levels and subsequently, for lifelong learning.

MELC is useful to teachers as guide that causes to lighten the burden of learners in acquiring knowledge, understanding, skills, and attitudes that they need to demonstrate in every lesson. With some learning competencies removed, students can focus on the indispensable competencies that they must acquire in the new normal set up of learning delivery which is from classroom-oriented learning into distance learning.

However, with the distance learning modality, the problem is that there is less communication between the teachers and students especially to internet which caused them to limit their position to ask inquiries and/or assistance.

On the other hand, to assure that there is no student will fall behind, teachers have served a lot of effort, cooperation and collaboration to create modules anchor with the MELC to ascertain learners’ education. W ith these modules, it is hoped that the targeted competencies under MELC will be achieved.

The author is Teacher

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III at San Agustin Elem. School

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