On Thursday, Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian, Chairman of the Senate basic education, culture and arts committee, expressed his desire to push for limited, localized face-to-face classes pilot testing in areas with zero COVID-19 cases. He stressed that the pilot testing is necessary to get a lot of information and data that will be studied very hard and serve as reference for preparation when face-to-face classes are allowed.
There are a lot of researches that came out in the US, in Europe, but these are US settings. The Philippines is a much different setting, so it is important that we do this pilot testing so that we gain knowledge and we use scientific data to navigate through Covid in light of the opening of classes in the future,
said Gatchalian.
Gatchalian said that in January this year, the Department of Education (DepEd) set in motion to pilot test a thousand schools, localized, limited face-to-face classes starting in areas with zero Covid-19. He noted that the distance learning was very challenging as it is the first time in the country’s history for this program to be launched.
He added that since the assessment was set in motion, many schools were already doing their own assessment and analysis to determine whether learners were actually learning.
From a preliminary data he got from Valenzuela, it showed that students in that city were not doing well with a range of 40 percent in performance.
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He said that even before the pandemic there were already many problems in learner outcomes and cited the dismal performance of Filipino learners ranking last in various international assessments and even lags behind Southeast Asian region in both Science and Math.
He emphasized that scoring for 40 percent doesn’t speak well for the country’s distance learning and has to get a performance range of 70 percent to catch up.
Gatchalian also added the problem of family livelihood, where the parents’ capability to work to earn money for their family’s daily needs is cut due to them having to teach or tutor their children under distance learning.
OTHER ARTICLES:So, those are the things that we see in the distance learning complications. So, what we really want is for the government to intervene, DepEd to intervene to make it easier. For example, some of the solutions that we are seeing are for our teachers to participate heavily, to add more time to connect with our students and to interact with our students.
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Gatchalian pushes for face-to-face classes pilot test
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