DepEd conducts psychosocial support and training for parents, teachers and non-teaching staff in prep for SY 2020-2021

The Department of Education (DepEd) is conducting a series of Psychosocial Support and Training for parents, teachers, school heads and identified DepEd region and division non-teaching personnel as the opening of the School Year 2020-2021 approaches to further strengthen the role of parents and teachers as the education frontline during coronavirus pandemic.

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Teachers had undergone series of webinars conducted nationwide aimed to train teachers to adopt the changes in the delivery of lessons in the class.

As for parents, the Department launched the ‘Gabay Bahay: An Online Parenting Series’ which is a weekly online learning activity that aims to engage with parents in protecting the health, safety and well-being of their children.

The online parenting series is in line with the Department’s goal in protecting and fulfilling the rights of a child anchored on the Convention on the Rights of Children especially in times where community quarantine is currently imposed in the country.

With the emergence of the pandemic, DepEd engaged in such endeavor because the task to educate students has become more challenging with no face-to-face classes. As well as, DepEd saw that parents could be vital in fulfilling the learning continuity.

Save the Children, as implementing partners of the online parenting series, prepared the modules being discussed in the sessions while Globe Telecom Inc. provides resource persons. The said online activity which is streaming live every Wednesday, 4 p.m. in DepEd Philippines Facebook Page started last July 15 and will air its last episode on August 19.

For secondary teachers, school heads and identified DepEd region and division non-teaching personnel, online trainings on the provision of remote Psychological First Aid (PFA) for learners using the Supporting, Enabling and Empowering Students (SEES) Manual, supplemental online and self-guided PFA modules, and guidance notes have been launched on July 21, 2020 and cultimated on July 30, 2020.

Consequently, a training on Remote Psychosocial Support (PSS) through Play for Elementary Learners will also be conducted for elementary school teachers, school heads, and identified DepEd division non-teaching personnel on August 3 to 6, 2020.

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The training will revolve on how to utilize the Teacher’s Activity Guide on Psychosocial Support through Play developed by Unilab Foundation Inc through their Heads Up Project.

Moreover, the Bureau of Human Resource and Organizational Development (BHROD) Employee Welfare Division (EWD) and DRRMS with the assistance of the National Education Academy of the Philippines (NEAP) also provides psychosocial support and training on wellness to teachers and non-teaching personnel.

The objective of the programs is to prepare the teachers, identified DepEd non-teaching personnel and parents in monitoring themselves, look after their wellness and enable them to fulfill their respective duties and responsibilities in the education continuity.

The Psychosocial Support and Training on Wellness will run until September 11 with topics that include self-care, intellectual and financial wellness, environmental wellness, social and vocational wellness and other dimensions of wellness which will be led by professionals in psychosocial support.