Potential Impediments
Roselyn T. Ramos
Parents and guardians will face various challenges in fulfilling their roles as Co-Facilitator The first challenge lies in the fact that parents and guardians have varying skills, knowledge, and qualifications.
WhileFilipinoadultsareliterateenoughtobefunctionaltothecommunity, it does not mean they are already qualified to teach. To ensure the content’s uniformity, equality, and quality, teachers should deliver while aided by parents. Existing research also shows the interconnectedness of parents’educational level and their income.
Educated parents earn more, and can escape poverty and benefit from a better quality of life. Furthermore, parents’educational attainment can heighten their feelings of competence and confidence in guiding their children’s education. It manifests in different ways, such as being more proactive in checking their child’s performance through parents-teachers association (PTA) meetings, providing their child’s educational necessities, and other parental-educational duties.
The modular approach situates Filipino students to learn in the comfort of their homes. Limited contact with teachers will place parents or guardians as the learners’model or the More Knowledgeable Other. as “someone who has a better understanding or higher ability level than the learner, concerning a particular task, process, or concept.” Vygotsky proposed that human learning is a social process.
A learner may or may not learn alone, but will learn better. Modular learning is a form of distance learning that uses Self-Learning Modules (SLM) based on the most essential learning competencies (MELCS) provided by DepEd. The modules include sections on motivation and assessment that serve as a complete guide of both teachers’and students’desired competencies.
Teachers will monitor the learners’progress through home visits (following social distancing protocols) and feedback mechanisms, and guide those who need special attention. Online learning is not the only type of distance learning. While the COVID-19 pandemic sent educational institutions scrambling to move classes online, many forget that there are other modes for distance learning.
For instance, the Department of Education (DepEd) developed TV/radiobased instruction methods to utilize existing technologies that reach rural areas. However, the most popular mode of distance learning under consideration is modular learning.