Coping with new normal education

Teachers in the elementary and secondary level are exerting all efforts to cope up with new normal education as the Covid-19 situation has become more demanding than ever for teachers and learners. As teachers and frontliners in this raging pandemic, it has become so to know that learning in the home through modules is not enough these days.

Thus, teachers are coping up with the concerns of reaching out to students, understanding challenges that our students are having, and prioritization of what is good for teachers, students, parents and stakeholders. With this, the biggest realization is we as teachers, embrace the changes in the educational system under any prohibition or restriction towards what we look forward to as the new normal.

The coronavirus crisis has been giving us experiences that become our lessons as lifelong learners, thus calling on us to embrace change with an open mind and start learning more.

Change is a constant and the only thing that changes is change itself. Amid the pandemic, we learn to embrace our limitations as teachers and the need to know more; to process all the learnings; of being sensitive to the fact that teachers are also going through; and putting above all the mental health of our students who are the real “victims” in these crucial times.

Let us thus embrace change now.

Being resistant to change will be of no good. It is only in doing so that we can help one another see through and win the war against this unseen enemy.

Let us help one another to cope up with this crisi's challenges.

--oOo— The author is Teacher II at Magalang Elementary School.