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Marilyn P. Gatinao                              

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Marilyn P. Gatinao                              

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This is now the second year of teaching online and having learners who opted to have printed modules. It is really tasking on my part because not only the online learners are demanding of our time but also their parents. They keep on messaging me about the lessons, the date of submissions and even the platform that they will use to submit their work. But all these were already taken up and instructed during the class. I cannot ignore them also because they are asking and so I can say that more time has been given to those learners in this modality than those in the modular distance learning. In MDL , once you have distributed the modules to the parents, they will communicate with you if they have some clarifications. I can say also that the WHLP played an important role in guiding the parents/ guardians in assisting the learners to answer the modules.

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Teaching learners with special educational needs proved to be a very hard endeavor even before the pandemic. With the onslaught of COVID-19, routines that were taught and mastered in school were re-taught with the assistance of parents and caregivers at home. Though it was very difficult at first, it was do-able. It may not be seamless or perfect but it is achievable. As a teacher, we must have a mindset or a wider perspective that there must be no learner left behind and indeed education is for all. A teacher's versatility must not only be confined in using technology but it should also include every ways and means to reach the marginalized and that is by way of coming up with appropriate strategies/ techniques and resources that suit the individual educational needs of learners.

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 Teka, Tech Ka? Appropriate Uses of Educational Technology in Remote Learning by Anne Camille A. Parato

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 Teka, Tech Ka? Appropriate Uses of Educational Technology in Remote Learning by Anne Camille A. Parato

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In this new normal that we have right now, it is impossible to adjust right away and be confident with our skills and embark on a new journey that we don't know anything about. In this webinar, There are different things that students, teachers, administrators and communities are lacking and we need the knowledge and collaboration of everyone to achieve this new normal.

As a teacher in the new normal, I have experienced a lot of changes and some of it were in the webinar. I think the important  lesson I have learned here is to have collaboration. From the Communities or Stakeholders of the School to the Administrators of the School that would help teacher and learners have the quality of learning that they are supposed to have even in the new normal.

The target of our education now is that all must be included an no one will be left behind. With the right technology, software and the cooperation of each, we can successfully achieve the goal.

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Formative Assessments in Distance Learning
1. Given the situation that we are facing today in the field of education, there are a lot of creative ways to check the level of progress our learners in learning.
2. In today's modern world, the use or integration of technology like mobile and web applications is highly encouraged because many, if not some, of our learners are exposed to these. In my personal observation, learners find learning engaging and interesting when they are given tasks to accomplish using applications like TikTok, Quizizz, or Kahoot.
3. Also, one way of assessing a learner's knowledge of a certain topic is to ask simple questions. With these kind of questions, learners may be motivated to explore more and learn the given lesson to them.

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Importance of Ensuring Continuity of Learning in Distance Learning

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Importance of Ensuring Continuity of Learning in Distance Learning

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Online platforms have been one of the most utilized mode to continue learning in this time of pandemic. However it posed a challenge to those who do not have the means due to lack of electricity, poor internet connection, or absence of gadgets to be used, making them resort to non-technological mode of learning. The resources shared a lot of information on how to use ICT for effective teaching and learning. It reminded teachers of the importance of engaging and interacting with students online, as well as providing timely feedback. For learners with special needs, distance learning is more than challenging but with the correct use of ICT, teachers can definitely make learning worthwhile for them.

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Pagdisenyo at Pagbibigay ng Formative Assessment( RIZZA CEBRIAN)

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Pagdisenyo at Pagbibigay ng Formative Assessment( RIZZA CEBRIAN)

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To be a teacher is to become resilient, especially in the situation that we are

in right now. We should cope up to the needs of our learners in order to provide

them the right help through knowing their weaknesses and strengths.

Knowing the different strategies of

conducting formative assessment is very

much helpful to me as teacher. The use

of our technology today is very much

relevant since this is the primary interest of our learners.

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Helping students become self-directed learners

In the implementation of distance learning, one of the challenges that we continue to encounter is the readiness of both the parents and the students to the new learning modalities.

Obviously, majority of our students are only familiar with face to face learning modality. As we shift from the traditional way of teaching to distance education, a new layer of responsibility was added to both the parents as home learning facilitators and the students.

The new ways of learning as required by our situation today demands more time of engagement of the parents to their children and a new way of learning to the students. Apparently, there is a need for our students to embrace ways to survive distance education. Becoming self-directed learners is now fundamental to every student to respond with the challenges of distance learning.

Helping the parents understand the use of Weekly Home Learning Plan will help them guide their children in performing and doing the learning tasks every day. The WHLP defines the learning goal and translates this into learning tasks. When there is clarity of these two important components of distance learning, students become self-directed.

Having a daily schedule congruent to the WHLP and being consistent in following the daily schedule will help our students become self-directed learners. Teachers must also help the parents to better understand how to implement the learning tasks indicated in the WHLP. Intermediate grade level students to high school students can also follow the learning tasks in the WHLP independently. When our learners are trained to use the WHLP correctly, this will contribute to their success to becoming self-directed learners.

Blending MDL with ODL will also help both the teachers facilitate the learning of students and will also contribute in providing scaffold to the students as they gradually become self-directed learners.

It takes commitment and communication among the teachers, parents and students to survive distance learning. Once habit, routine and clarity of procedure are established, students will become successful self-directed learners.

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Establishing strong systems for progress monitoring and measuring the effectiveness of interventions

With the current limitations in measuring students' learning, much responsibilities are given to the teachers to facilitate and monitor learning despite the absence and distance set by the pandemic. As time passes, teachers were able to initiate and think of certain activities to assess students' learning.  Moreover, DepEd is always trying its best to assist the schools and mentors in terms of their needed support. Hence, I believe that open communication between the school head, teachers, parents and students is important in checking the learning status of students and devising interventions to address concerns and problems that confront them. Also, we teachers should continuously upgrade ourselves with pedagogical knowledge and technological skills since this is much needed in the learning assessment nowadays. Though not all students may have gadgets and internet connection, at least we can be "nearer" to some if not all of them. Anyway, there are still options (such as calls, texts, home visitation if the situation permits) which we may do to  monitor our students. Furthermore, a number of of activities that are anchored on the MELCs and in consideration with the learners' context where students may choose from may also help in assessing their learning.

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Helping students become self-directed learners, somehow is a challenge given by the teacher, as well as the Deartment of Education. But the task is actually not just by the learner him/herself but primarily by the family. In the orientation among parents and guardians it must be clearly emphasized that they are given self learning module, it is not something to just accomplish but to learn on their own, with the guidance and assistance of the adult tutor or help. Parenting is another issue, did the parents really teach or develop among their children independence? Ohave we ever thought "how equip are our parents? to teach and raise children to be independent? Do our parents understand self learning for their children?

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Helping students become self-directed learners is a must. This pandemic trully had lead them to become one or they must be one.  But reality tells us that there are students who fail to do their modules and performance tasks  asked of them for what ever reason/s they may have. Consequently, the adults or siblings come to the rescue to do it instead. That leaves the teacher and the aim of DepEd to develop a self directed learner.

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Pagdisenyo at Pagbibigay ng Formative Assessment

In the current mode of learning delivery of our educational system nowadays, I believe that it is very important for the teachers to teach and guide the parents/guardians of his/her learners on how they could assess the learning of their child even at home. In that way, they could monitor and supervise the learner's progress or even the weaknesses. In return, they could report it back to the teacher, so the teacher could make appropriate planning or learning intervention for the learner.

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I think in measuring the effectiveness of interventions in the learning-teaching process, we should also consider the workloads of the teachers. Interventions will be strongly established and, as well as, modified to best address the perceived problems in the school’s educational set up only if teachers will be given enough time to deliver and execute it well. In this new normal, submission of reports, ancillary services etc. have hindered the implementation of interventions, most especially in the far-flung schools.

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One positive impact of this pandemic to education is about the quick adaptation of the educational system to the new landscape of learning . Schools immediately familiarized with different modalities and platforms that they can use to continuously deliver learning. But in order to continue and go with the trend teachers were forced to integrate the use of technology. It was not easy at the start ,but sooner those teachers who are in doubt at the beginning is now a teacher capable of maximizing the use of technology in instruction. I will always believed in the saying that " Pag gusto may paraan pag ayaw maraming dahilan " .So lets embrace that change is inevitable .. with or without crisis teachers need to continue learning and upgrading skills.

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It is our prime responsibility as teachers to cater the needs of students depending on the modality they preferred. Though majority of our students would like to avail the learning just like others but still each of them have their own reasons and story. So to maximize learning teachers need to prepare materials that are both beneficial regardless of how they will access. Interactive online classes can be designed to those with internet connection and contextualized learning activity sheets and modules for those who are in modular. An offline teaching materials can also be shared by the teacher to sufficiently provide the necessary learning . Also the teacher need to assess the level of learning acquired from time to time to evaluate whether both of them are achieving the desired learning outcomes.

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Imelda D. Espiritu
Managing a class of learners under different distance learning modalities.

With distance learning, schools and teachers face  great challenges as we aim to make learning equitable at all levels of community. As a classroom teacher, the challenge falls on how to meet the needs of students with learning and thinking difficulties. Students were greatly affected by the situation now, some of those who excel before are now falling behind because they are not used to distance learning modalities, but some took advantage of the situation because they can make a living while they are studying due to the flexibility of the delivery of education now.

Teachers should be adept enough in delivering differentiated instruction to diverse learners at this challenging time in the education sector, but teachers can’t do it alone, the support of the parents and the community take a big part of the success on delivering quality education.

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Effective use of ICT to facilitate teaching and learning in distance LDMs
The reading gave a lot of insights to me specifically on the Modular Modality, Constant communication with parents and learners will greatly improve learning outcome. The problem is hiw do teachers communicate if this parents and learners chose modular modality because of no access to internet connectivity? Then the only way is through mobile calls and text I think this will be very helpful specially if teachers will be given load to be able to call their learners preferably unli calls and texts to all networks

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For me there is no such effective use of ICT to facilitate the teaching and learning in distance LDMs if the teacher is not also an ICT enthusiast. As to learners point also, based on the result of a research conducted in our school, coping up of the activities in every subject and internet is a problem. That's why they preferred blended asynchronous and synchronous.

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Building resilience and growth mindset among teachers and students and their families is indeed a philanthropic mission of every teacher in this new normal.

Cooperation, collaboration and understanding with love and compassion are the key values to build resiliency among the students and their families. What a mission indeed!

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Helping students become self-directed learners equates independency. But in this pandemic pedagogy, it made me realize that teaching the learners to be self-directed is quite a great responsibility since we don't hold anymore the lives of our learners, what I meant is the pacing of learning is solely based on how they comprehend and understand the lesson without seeing their teachers.

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Last school year was a really an experimental  phase of the different modalities in managing a class. Without any doubt, teachers accepted the challenges amidst the pandemic. It wasn't easy especially to an institution who are adopting different modalities. This connotes teachers handling different modalities in one class.
Based on the result of the research I conducted about the challenges encountered by the learners in distance learning, results clearly illustrates that blended learning in the new modality is strongly recommended. Another research also revealed that teacher should only handle 1 modality to consider the preparation of materials.

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Rona A. Banas                                                              

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Rona A. Banas                                                              

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To fully establish a strong systems for progress monitoring and measuring the effectiveness of interventions, constant feedbacking among the learners and parents is a must especially in this trying time. Stakeholders as well should be informed of the status quo of the school.

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Establishing strong systems for progress monitoring and measuring the effectiveness of interventions

For the teaching-learning process to be really effective and meaningful, constant progress monitoring must really be established. This is of paramount importance in the sense that this can help the teachers provide appropriate support or intervention for different kinds of learners. Furthermore, interventions must also be evaluated in terms of their effectiveness, in order to make sure that they really serve their purpose.

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Anna Marie J. Gutang                                                    

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Anna Marie J. Gutang                                                    

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In times of challenges when schools will be closed, it is important to have a back up plan that will ensure learning continuity to our learners. Knowing that our country's most essential product is the human resource and we cannot afford to produce incompetent labor force. Thus, learning continuity plan is very important. Hence the distance learning modality was crafted. This modality of learning has many different ways such as printed learning kits, online platform, through TV and radio, and even keypad mobile phones can be an avenue for learning. Yet, all of these modalities need guidance and monitoring both from school heads, teachers, and parents. In a marginalized community where high-tech modalities are rarely found, low-tech or even no-tech modalities are utilized. If there are  learning apps that use internet connectivity, there are also apps that are applicable for offline platform that use low-cost feature phone. Moreover, distance learning modality paves the way of acquiring digital literacy skills since we are urge to explore these technologies  in delivering knowledge to our learners. In our case, since most of our students are from marginalized families we used paper-based learning kits, SMS communication to both parents and students for monitoring and guidance. Furthermore, in this trying times, our school guidance program created facebook page which is very much accessible to our learners for mental health program. Lastly, we may be facing so much challenges through these past few years but if we are innovative enough, there is always a way to reach out our learners for knowledge wherever they were. All we just need is faith, courage, and determination to make things work in the right way.

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Establishing strong systems for progress monitoring and measuring the effectiveness of interventions

Strong monitoring for effective intervention is necessary to track the learning progress of the learners and to be able to guide them in their study.

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Establishing strong systems for progress monitoring and measuring the effectiveness of interventions

I strongly agree that the use of the Thematic Approach in assessing learners through performance tasks is an effective learning strategy because the learners can connect their understanding to real-life learning experiences. However, the preparation of these learning materials takes the whole teaching force to accomplish and needs a lot of effort and time.

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Effective use of ICT to facilitate the teaching and learning in distance LDMs

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Effective use of ICT to facilitate the teaching and learning in distance LDMs

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JONI B. GALLARDO
The changes around us are technological in nature. Because of this pandemic, most people work from home, and learners learn from home in modular or online modality. Technology has indeed officially become essential in our lives. The use of ICT in every lesson not only motivate and capture learners' interests, but it also help learners to be engaged more and explore platforms that could aid them in learning. JONI B. GALLARDO

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Christine Tepanero   Establishing Strong Systems for progress monitoring and measuring the effectiveness of intervention.            Unique measures to monitor the effectiveness of interventions undertaken should always be in place because the failure or ineffectiveness of an intervention will not only mean waste of resources but also waste of the valuable time to respond to the difficulties/issues our learners are facing. Placing such system will only be made possible by a continuous collaborative effort of everyone in the school community--admin, teachers and other stakeholders.  Data/research driven innovations should be encouraged and it should commence with a thorough planning that will not leave any single pace of implementation untouched. 

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Christine Tepanero   Establishing Strong Systems for progress monitoring and measuring the effectiveness of intervention.            Unique measures to monitor the effectiveness of interventions undertaken should always be in place because the failure or ineffectiveness of an intervention will not only mean waste of resources but also waste of the valuable time to respond to the difficulties/issues our learners are facing. Placing such system will only be made possible by a continuous collaborative effort of everyone in the school community--admin, teachers and other stakeholders.  Data/research driven innovations should be encouraged and it should commence with a thorough planning that will not leave any single pace of implementation untouched. 

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The Pandemic has brought about tremendous change on the way the teaching and learning processes are undertaken.  More than ever, it is now that the teachers need to be extra sensitive to the different circumstances of the learners. When before, we only have to think about their learning need and styles, now, we also have to consider other factors like their access to internet connection, the availability of gadgets, home support system (presence of people who can help them out in their studies, etc. ), their health conditions (including their mental and psychological status) and others.  Teachers therefore need to be really creative in coming up with ways to deliver learning in as many ways as possible, responding to every learner's unique needs and situations at the same time. Other skills should also be enhanced among teachers to effectively perform their function in a distance learning modality.

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Gennesse C. Badar
Focusing on low-and no tech modalities to reach the most marginalized:
Teacher plays a significant role in helping those students who opt to have low-and no tech modalities.
Timely feedbacking and constant monitoring are vital to assist the learners and help them improved despite the absence of face to face classes.
To do this, teachers need to allow learners to choose their preferred platform as to how they can be communicated because not all learners can join  class group chats due to lack  of internet connection  and absence of smartphones.
For the latter's concern, we teachers may utilize SMS to communicate with our students to build constant communication with them most specially those who badly need our assistance.
Though we find it taxing or extra mile effort on our part specially having a lot of students, but our passion for teaching and love for our students would help us overcome the said challenges.

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In my point of view, learners with strong self directions are learners who are more ready in facing real life. 

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In my point of view, learners with strong self directions are learners who are more ready in facing real life. 

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In my point of view, learners with strong self directions are learners who are more ready in facing real life.

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Chona B. Rebibis
Establishing strong systems for progress monitoring and measuring the effectiveness of interventions

To ensure the effectiveness of interventions provided, there should be a systematic procedure in monitoring and measuring learners progress and performance.

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Imelda Dulay-Espiritu
Regular formal and informal assessments provide teachers with valuable information on the progress and achievements of their students. Not only this, but monitoring student progress also gives teachers the opportunity to reflect on their own teaching and assess the impact of the instructional strategies they use. https://www.teachstarter.com/us/blog/4-benefits-monitoring-student-progress-classroom-us/

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4 Benefits of Monitoring Student Progress in the Classroom

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Find out the benefits of monitoring student progress, plus resources that will assist you in your own classroom.

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Imelda Dulay-Espiritu
The importance of monitoring of students progress enables the teachers to analyze the learners understanding about a specific lesson.  It will give idea on teachers on how he/she can deliver differentiated instruction,  if there is a need for remediation for those who are lagging behind or additional activities for the fast learners.

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Managing A Class of Learners under Different Distance Learning Modalities

Teachers during the pandemic times became not just a source of knowledge but a source of flexibility in delivery the distance learning through various modalities. in my class of 40, 1 have 6 learners who religiously attending the online class. 32 of them are low-tech or those who can attend the class in their own pace. and 2 of them are no tech or purely using the printed materials provided by the school. This scenario must be embrace by us, teachers. this is the new now. by offering professional developments we are offering teachers opportunities for the to grow and extend their horizon. thank you NEAP for taking the initiative in bridging help to our teachers.

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Building resilience and growth mindset among teachers, students and to their families :
Teaching with Compassion and Psychosocial Support to Students.

Biblical and logical pronouncement-Human being created as capable to build resilience and have growth mindset.
As teacher, it is important to have the ability to adapt well to adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or even significant source of stress while in the midst of pandemic, encountering different learner's unique situation; for us to continue our advocacy and mandated service to school and community.
Having growth mindset, individuals may learn more, learn quickly and view challenges and failures as opportunities to improve learnings and skills.
If we addressed  the building and resilience and growth mindset among teachers, students in our school and to entire department, it can help them manage stress and feeling of anxiety and uncertainty. Health is very important factor in our lives nowadays. It can help to unlock hindrances in learning under operating learning delivery modality.
Teachers can teach with compassion and provide psychosocial support to students. teachers in their locals, defining psychosocial issues and providing psychosocial support amidst Covid 19 Pandemic, Taal volcano eruption, Hardships/Perseverance in Modular Learning Modality.
Adapting and addressing challenges of school amidst the pandemic are nurturing professional growth, providing emotional care, self care, keeping up with the challenges and strengthening's faith.

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Helping Students become self directed Learners:
As a teacher facilitator it is best to apply a teaching strategy that would allow the learners discover their own learning. The designed lesson to execute for instruction should be well detailed and must consist of engaging activities that would lead them to the idea and concept . With that approach , i have observed that students are more curious , active and analytical .Most of them feel empowered, given the freedom to try and to commit mistakes , sense of ownership is developed and most of all they feel valued by others coz their ideas were recognized and accepted.