Spotlight of Education Today

Elma M. Gozun

Learners, parents, and teachers around the country experience the extraordinary domino effect of the novel coronavirus as schools are closing down and quarantine methods are being implemented to address the world pandemic. While governments and health officials do their best to slow down the outbreak, the Philippine education system is collaborating to collectively answer and offer quality education for all during these difficult times. Teachers are still present to assist everyone in providing quality education for all even in these exceptional times.

The COVID-19 crisis intensifies the learning crisis. Many schools have shifted to online learning, modular learning, or blended learning during school closures as a stop-gap measure. As the country rebuild and reinvent the school system in response to the COVID-19 crisis, there is a possibility to improve the strategies on a way to best support the delivery of quality education for all.

The mission of all education systems is that the same and this is to continue the rights for education we are already living as a reply to the pandemic we are all facing. The challenge today is to lessen the negative impact of this pandemic. As the education system address this crisis, we need to redirect our thinking of how we will recover stronger, with a renewed sense of responsibility for teachers, learners, and parents.

Continuing education through alternative learning platforms, as soon as possible, must also be a top priority right now, to ensure the interruption to education is as limited as possible. Education must continue following the guidelines provided for us to make this school year a quality experience.

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The author is Teacher II at Pandacaqui Resettlement Elementary School,

Mexico West District