Teaching and Learning Continuity Amid and Beyond The Pandemic
Teaching and Learning Continuity Amid and Beyond The Pandemic
The Covid-19 was initially reported to the World Health Organization on December
31, 2019 and was declared as a global health emergency on January 30, 2020 this crisis
shaken the educational foundation system in our country. The Covid-19 pandemic gives
unbelievable challenges and has affected the educational sectors, every country is presently
and implementing plans on how to control the virus because of the positive cases are still
continually rising. With this crisis the educational sector resort to decide on pushing
education entirely online, universities must acknowledge that the game has changed and try
new ways to progress with virtual learning. We have different kind of modality in new normal
education system and that are blended modality, where in teacher’s gave a modular to
students at the same time the student’s need to attend to their respective meeting while the
other one is purely online classes. Training in using teaching and learning platforms will be
available for both teachers and students. Because of the Covid-19 movement restrictions,
“The DepEd has been encouraging students to continue their eLearning through online.”
Most of the schools in the Philippines whether it is a public, private and even universities are
force to shut down their campuses — moving online classes and dramatically changing their
teaching- learning process and ways of doing assessment — and those in higher education
are grappling with how to meet the challenge. This pandemic has pushed the idea of the
importance of innovative and resilient organizations that prepare students to be creative and
resilient. There are factors that also affect the students to continue their eLearning. First,
many students really had a hard time in their studies - especially those students who doesn't
have an internet connection, very far from their school, and those who can't afford to buy
mobile gadgets. Another challenge is the lack of knowledge and experience. Many
institutional leaders, even those leading decades, have never led an organization through a
time of substantial financial difficulty. Many boards lack a single manager or trustee with
There are lots of challenges and threats to the educational sectors since they are the one
who is independent to decide to make a step forward on how to handle the threats in their
department. The suddenness and uncertainty the education sectors as well as its systems
were caught off guard wherein it leads them to rush things up specially in addressing the
changing learning landscape. The Educational system must prepare to develop plans to
move forward and address the new normal after the crisis. to be resilient, higher education
needs to address teaching and learning continuity amid and beyond the pandemic. There
are different kind of learning process that was being implemented in our country just to
continue the teaching-learning activities. Some of these are; online learning modalities and
distance learning modalities so that we can avoid the spreading of the virus through face to
face interaction. Most of the universities and public schools in the Philippines have resorted
to online class learning during school lockdown. Due t the unforeseen crisis and the sudden
shift of teaching and learning set up have affected the teachers and students most specially
for the learners who have no internet access as well as access to technology. Some of the
students were left behind since they cannot afford to have paid for internet connectivity and
also to the lack of engagement between teachers to their students. One of the major
problems that the educational sectors has facing is the students was being dishonest most
specially when it is midterm of final exams. Since the students were given the chance to
choose what pace, mode and place do they want to learn. The learners were given the
option to continue their studies and have the privilege to choose what way can the learners
proceed and comply with their requirements. Aside from online and distance learning the
educational sectors also considered the flexible distant learning, project based, and
considered but for those who have not access in internet connectivity this is already a
dilemma for some of us since we all know that the Philippines is one of the country who have
for all of us. Technology provides improvise and flexible solutions for both learners and
instructors in times of crisis to combat disruption and helps people to communicate and even
work virtually without the need for face-to-face interaction. This leads to many system
changes in organizations as they adopt new technology for interacting and working. The
positive impact of technology in times of this crisis is that technology helps both learners and
teachers to make their presentation much more creative and full of knowledge since most of
the things that the learners can know were one click away from internet. But, being a
professional teacher it is your way and role t make them understand in easiest way as they
can. Streamable lessons were also given to all the students using technology. By using
zoom, google meet and other platforms that can serve as a streaming platform for the
teacher were used to record their discussed topic so that the students were be able to
rewatch it again. Having access to resources is also part of technology's impact during
pandemic. It is serve to give the students a eBook library wherein they don’t have to
socialize with others during lockdown because having an internet access allows as to make
all things impossible to possible. Remote learning. Computers, tablets, and smartphones
have allowed students to remain connected to the classroom, albeit virtually. Many students
have appreciated the less structured nature of remote learning and ability to work at their
own pace and on their own terms. Distance learning has also been a blessing for students
with social anxiety. Staying connected. In the age of social distancing, devices and other
forms of technology have been a social lifeline for many, especially children. Young people
have relied on screens to stay safely connected with grandparents and other family
members and chat with friends while playing video games online. Studies have shown that
using social media and messaging platforms to stay in touch with loved ones improves
Even though we have an internet access most of the students still don’t know how to
cope up with the rapid arising of technology. They don’t know how to use it and how to
create an informative activities using the said technology. Also, one of the problems of the
students is that they can’t focus on their studies since they don’t know how to learn on their
own and some of the factors why they cannot focus was their surrounding or the are they
were lived in. aside from this the students having a difficulty complying group activity as well
as the time based online exams. There is a need to address the teachers’ concern on how to
conduct off-classroom performance evaluation and the bulk of submissions that they have to
evaluate which are submitted online or offline. The design and planning are important factors
to consider not only in the assessment per se but also in the parameters on how students
will be graded (Osborn, 2015). For the teachers, the following concerns emerged, “Difficulty
outputs” and “Concerns on failing due to non-submission of requirements online and low
midterm Performance”
We all know that the pandemic affected and influence the three years of our life since
2019 up until now. Some of the students were applying to any kinds of work just to have a
source of income to support their studies. Because of the pandemic it affects our school
routine, from traditional face to face classes it became an online and long-distance modality
Teacher Education it is normal for me to have an extensively way to make my dream come
true. My recommendation for this topic was that we, students, government officials and
DepEd should have a prior and advance preparation for this kind of crisis so that we cannot
experience again the kind of learning system where in the students need to depend
important to have at least a face-to-face interaction between the students and the teachers
since the instructors may and can instilled a lot of knowledge to their students when the