TLE and 21st century skills

THE education system may have been greatly affected by the COVID-19 outbreak, but the Department of Education (DepEd) is still adamant to continue delivering basic education to all learners.

After all, education is the key to becoming productive citizens in our country.

The K to 12 Curriculum seeks is to equip every Filipino learner with 21st century skills and be adequately prepared for work, entrepreneurship, middle level skills development and higher education.

And the teaching of TLE plays a very important role in the realization of the overall goal of the curriculum.

Whether or not the K to 12 graduate is skilled and ready for work, entrepreneurship and middle skills development depend to a great extent on how effectively TLE was taught.

The agency, despite the challenges in delivering basic education caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, is doing its best to distinguish the effective modality to be implemented in every school – Online Learning, Modular Distance Learning, Blended Learning, Radio-Based Instruction, and TVBased Instruction.

The shift of the teaching-learning delivery in schools to modular distance learning has posed quite a challenge, but DepEd is always finding avenues to solve the problems and capacitating its teachers and school heads to become more effective in their field.

Teachers – including those specializing in TLE – have undergone various trainings and seminars to be more equipped in delivering better education amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

TLE is geared towards the development of technological proficiency and is anchored on knowledge and information, entrepreneurial concepts, process and delivery, work values and life skills – that is why it is imperative that whatever learning modality that the student has chosen, whether modular or online, they should possess mastery of knowledge and information, skills and processes, acquisition of right work values and life skills; skills for lifelong learning; and cognitive, behavioral or psychomotor and affective dimensions of human development.

TLE is a subject where students learn best by doing.

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The author is Teacher III at Sto. Rosario Elementary School, Angeles Ci t y