LDM 2 FOR TEACHERS: A STRUGGLE OR CHALLENGE?
Teacher Rosvie m. Meneses
As this new normal opens many opportunities to teachers to grow the question is:LDM 2 for Teachers a Struggle or a Challenge?
LDM Course 2, along with LDM Course 1 for Division and School Leaders, is the brainchild of the National Educators Academy of the Philippines (NEAP) of the Department of Education in support of the Basic Education Learning Continuity Plan (BE-LCP).
This course that teachers are taking now is intended for teachers and is focused on the instructional implications of using these alternative LDMs. Course Objectives that at the end of this course, they will be able to: know the different LDMs and platforms: their features, uses, and pedagogies and plan for the implementation .
LDM Course 2 contains Modules 1 until 5 which tackle Module 1-5 description) The modules are all relevant to the needs of the times and are very helpful and applicable with the kind of delivery modality that the Department of Education is pushing with. All the modules teach teachers what and different modalities are under the New Normal and how each modality will be delivered to the learners. The course also provides opportunities for teachers to share ideas through Learning Action Cells (LAC’s). The idea of “learning together” has allowed teachers explore various points of view which can help them see things in a different perspective.
LDM Course 2 modules also teach teachers how to do different learning, intervention, assessment and evaluation mechanisms adaptable to the present situation and consistent with health and safety limitations during the Pandemic times. Without a doubt, LDM Course 2 is a way to enhance,capacitate and firmly elevate educators in maintaining positive and optimum results for the learners.
However, amidst all the many different tasks that teachers are attending to everyday, the outputs for the Course have seemed to be too burdensome. The outputs seem challenging because it is not only the LDM Course that the teachers are required to do yield. They are required to submit all outputs and course work. Call it information overload or work overload but this is really an the learning to better sustain programs,projects and activities in the Department of Education.
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Teacher I Sta Rita ES