Project RADIUS aids distance learning
Suzette Q. Mariano
With the different learning modalities the Department of Education offered, catering the educational change brought about by the pandemic. Printed modules were used to deliver quality education to the Filipino learners and its way of making sure the delivery of quality education amidst the crisis we are facing.
Television-Based Instruction (TVI) was also implemented to make sure that Kapampangan learners will benefit from this modality which was made realized by the Division of Pampanga in partnership with the Provincial Government through the active leadership of Governor Dennis Pineda of which budget for airing of video lessons was approved via CLTV 36.
After a year and a half of battling the virus, San Juan Bano Elementary School has come up with a new modality of learning through the innovation of our principal Violeta G. Cordova the Project RADIUS (Radio Assisted Delivery of Instruction Using Signal). This alternative delivery mode aims to expand access to education by bringing it to where the learners are.
To provide learning opportunities for listeners and enable them to acquire equivalency in basic education through the broadcast of lessons. Furthermore, it will serve as supplementary in the modules or learning activity sheets to be used in teaching and learning. It is for this purpose that this project was conceptualized.
This academic year Radio Based Instruction (RBI) will be implemented in our school (San Juan Bano Elementary School), equipment was purchased through the school MOOE, RBI room was provided for the airing, trainings were given to teachers to serve as scriptwriters and anchors.
Radio transistors are much cheaper than smart or android cellphones. This can be operated with the use of battery or solar panel and does not need internet connectivity. Far more accessible that online distance learning Last September 16, 2021, during the presentation of BE-LCOP, Barangay Captain, Hon. Froilan M. Soriano pledged to provide the school with 1000 unit of radio transistor to be given to the pupils of San Juan Bano Elementary School to support the success of Radio Based Instruction.
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The author is Master Teacher I at San Juan Baño Elementary School