Conducive learning spaces at home

Patrice Catacutan Patawaran

The Department of Education (DepEd) highlighted the Home Learning Spaces Program, which aims to bring together education partners and experts to help learners and their families create a quality and conducive learning space at home to answer the challenges imposed in implementing the Basic Education Learning Continuity Plan (BE-LCP).

Established by the External Partnership Services (EPS) and partners, the project aims to create a learning nook in houses for learners to feel more comfortable studying. In coordination with its partners, the Department provided study tables, lamps, chairs, bins and other learning materials, which can help augment the needs of the learners.

Officials said the idea of the Home Learning Spaces is we will provide the learners, with the help of our partners, basic materials to make their homes more comfortable for them to study. Home Learning Spaces give corners to learners that will make them more productive and study more freely.

Though we had gone back to face-to-face learning, we still need these spaces because the easing of in-person learning is by batches. Home learning is still possible, and will still happen, officials said.

The DepEd also recognized the cross-cutting roles of communities, industries, and institutions in nurturing lifelong learning that transcends formal education and, consequently, advancing the learning ecosystem’s adaptive development.

Learning opportunities can best thrive if we regard learning spaces, physical and virtual, formal and non-formal, as habitats for learners, where learners learn and become adaptive, the Department said.

The agency also underscored the gains that the COVID-19 pandemic prompted in the education sector, such as the significance of lifelong learning, innovations in learning delivery, and multi-setting learning spaces.

There is a need to provide learning opportunities not only in formal education but in numerous settings, including the workplace, the home, and in socio-economic settings within and beyond national borders, to facilitate continuous learning, upskilling, and reskilling throughout life, the DepEd said.

The Department has been emphasizing the necessity of creating more conducive learning spaces where children can learn and to play.

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I Sta. Maria Elementary School