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Teaching and Learning Continuity Amid and Beyond The Pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic disrupted education systems around the world. Schools were forced to shift to online and remote learning models. This transition presented many challenges for both students and teachers. Students struggled without reliable Internet access or devices. Teachers found it difficult to assess student performance and track assignments online. While technology helped continue education during lockdowns, maintaining engagement and preventing dishonesty in assessments were ongoing issues. Moving forward, education systems must be better prepared for flexible learning models in times of crisis.
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Teaching and Learning Continuity Amid and Beyond The Pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic disrupted education systems around the world. Schools were forced to shift to online and remote learning models. This transition presented many challenges for both students and teachers. Students struggled without reliable Internet access or devices. Teachers found it difficult to assess student performance and track assignments online. While technology helped continue education during lockdowns, maintaining engagement and preventing dishonesty in assessments were ongoing issues. Moving forward, education systems must be better prepared for flexible learning models in times of crisis.
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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

significant experience on troubled organizations, structural fusions or campus and

institutional leadership will fail to escape professional judgment.


The Teachers and Students made adjustment in teaching and learning designs.

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

television broadcast. For learners with internet connectivity, computer-assisted instruction,

synchronous online learning, asynchronous online learning, collaborative e-learning may be

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

a poor internet connectivity.


The role of technology in learning continuity in our sectors played an important role

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

mental and emotional health, particularly in times of crisis.

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

assessing performance-based tasks (RLE),” “Difficulty tracking, checking of students’

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

which affects us students in terms of studying. As a future a student of Department of

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

themselves to internet connectivity just to have an informative answer in every situation. It is

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

discussion was actual and face-to-face.

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