Learning Continuity Plans
Rizza D. Apolinario
The Department of Education (DepEd), particularly the Central Luzon Regional Office, is bent on sustaining the delivery of quality education to students in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, with Learning Continuity Plans (CLPs) being implemented by different schools division offices (SDOs).
Different learning resources have been developed and delivered in various platforms such as virtual science classrooms, video lessons for television DepEd Hour programs, plus innovative instructional materials prepared by t each er s.
Materials sourced from authorized platforms such as Department of Science and Technology Science Education Institute and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization have also been stored, posted and made available in a created Facebook page of SDOs.
A health innovation in the CLPs is the awareness and advocacy campaign, in which some SDOs developed a School QR code to monitor the information of clients that will enter the school for easy contact tracing. The school QR code is a must for every school client to present whenever they enter the school vicinity especially during the distribution and retrieval of modules in response to Basic Education Learning Continuity Plan and in connection with the basic health protocols.
Another CLP initiative is an SDO initiative dubbed “Self-Learning Kit Honesty Booth” which focuses on the safe and systematic distribution and retrieval of learning kits among K-12 learners. To date, a total of 11 classes from Kindergarten to Grade 12 with 2,199 learners from different schools were catered.
Then there is the Four o’Clock English-Time Habit in Teaching and Speaking English Grammar, an intervention program that aims to address the gaps in the implementation of printed modular distance modality.
The Four o ’Clock habit is a figurative term which means after all the works or modules of the day, the learners will keep on sharing the joy of improving themselves.
It allows teachers to constantly correct grammar and improves comprehension of students with poor reading and comprehension ability.
Delivery of lessons via TV-based instruction known as Super K-Teleskwela is also ongoing as a supplement to the Modular Instruction to provide quality and more accessible learning opportunities to learners.
TV-based lessons are produced for Grades 4-Senior High School students and SPED learners across all learning areas from Monday to Saturday at 11:00 am until 7:00 pm. Then there is radio-based instruction, dubbed as “Sikat Radyo Eskwela,” to reach more learners especially those from far-flung communities.
An SDO has created a Division Call Center for Tutors and Guidance Counselors program whichprioritizes the holistic development of its learners, and allows students, parents and stakeholders to raise their concerns on mental health and overall health being.
The program includes the deployment of volunteer public school teachers Monday to Friday from 8:00AM to 6:00PM to address academic-related queries and concerns, and the counselling services of guidance teachers and counsellors 24/ 7, seven days a week.
The CLPs opened hundreds of opportunities for teachers to discover their potentials as broadcasters on air, for parents to ease the burden in Modular Distance Learning and for stakeholders to share their time and resources.
--oOo-The author is Master Teacher I at Sta. Monica Elemenbtary School