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January 31- Resumption of Classes and start of 3rd Academic Quarter
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14th of May, 2021
by Ederlino B. Mogado
How is your performance as a classroom teacher? Are you doing what is expected of you?
Since 2004, teaching observation is already a part of my profession. This is the time when my superiors observe my teaching performance, not to look for my mistakes and Waterloos during the teaching-learning situation but to see how they can help me improve it. Instructional supervisions or teaching observations are really done to help the DepEd deliver quality education.
When the Covid19 pandemic spread all over the world everything has changed; activities of the community people, health sector, and of course the institution I belong to, the Department of Education. School children stopped going to school. They were being confined in their homes answering digital and printed modules while others are in their online classes through google meet, google classroom, or zoom meeting. The old or traditional way has changed instantly and the new normal is now embraced by all of us. Lucky are those learners who have access to the internet that their teachers could explain every concept they need to master every week. But sad to note that there are unlucky learners who learn by themselves because no knowledgeable ones are with them to assist and explain the things they need to know and learn. It is pitiful that economic status really affects the education of Filipino learners. The question now is, are they really learning or not? According to some news and pictures going viral on social media, parents are the ones answering the modules of their children while others buy answer keys from opportunist people in the community.
After two grading periods, there came a memorandum instructing the conduct of class observations. How is this possible? The answer is through online or virtual class observation and through peer teaching. Some teachers were bedazzled by this memo because how could superiors see teachers’ performance this time of pandemic when printed modular is the learning modality of the learners? Would they really know what is going on if they are observing teachers’ performance the way they want? Teachers could do nothing but to prepare lessons that best suit the criteria reflected in their COT. Yes, teachers teaching online and teachers printing modules complied and were observed. No questions for those who started online teaching/class but how about those who distributed modules and learning activity sheets?
One program does not fit all, as one strategy does not apply to all. It is like learners learn in different ways because the learning styles of learners differ from one another. What is the point of observing the teaching performance of teachers under printed modular learning modality through peer teaching or online? There is nothing wrong with teaching observation because we want to give quality education, but the tool is critically different and not applicable.
The tunnel is too dark, but we know that at the end of it, a bright light surely awaits to light the path each of us wants to take. Let us be the light, not the darkness that occludes the vision of those who need it.
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