Reflection
Reflection
Look back at who how you have fared with your teaching last school year when distance
learning was first done. Did you know what to do at first? Did you think all these teacher
preparation educations and experience you had enough for you to do your work? Which
worked? Which did not work? Why and why not? What could have been done to make
your teaching better? Organize your thoughts and let the ideas flow in your reflection
paper.
This present COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented challenges. More
than just a health crisis, it has resulted in an educational crisis. A new normal
educational policy was implemented to sustain and provide quality education despite the
lockdown and community quarantine.
Distance learning execution surprised not only the learners but most especially the
teachers. Resiliency at that time was highly required to teachers like us. But to be honest
at first, finding ways on continuing the learning-teaching process was a big question for
me. In my perception at that time, the migration to modular learning modalities to
mitigate the risk of face-to-face interaction was an impossible action for our unit. Lots of
problems kept on coming one after another – availability of learning activity
sheets/modules, lack of resources in reproducing the said learning materials, and in
communicating with students and parents and with the community.
But as the saying goes, “Nothing is impossible to a willing heart”. This came to my
senses at the perfect time before I lost control. As a teacher, I realized that I must cope
and be flexible for the sake of many. Working together with colleagues and with the full
cooperation of students and parents and the community helped me adopt with the new
normal education. Attending different trainings and seminars also helped me on how to
deal with new teaching strategies.
We have lots of experiences last school year in this new normal education, and it is
a hundred percent different from our traditional face to face classes. New learnings and
experiences for both teachers and learners were encountered. But maybe because it is
really our human nature and talent, we learned to deal with it and we continue to deal
with what is about to come. For me, preparedness is really a requirement before
delivering any lesson. It is not easy to deal with the changes that happened in our
education system. The feeling of being unprepared before the time of distribution of
learning materials made me anxious. Specialized subjects with unfiltered most essential
learning competencies puzzled me most of the time especially with how to develop the
learning activity sheets. Focusing on the needs of the learners helped me find the
answers regarding what to put and what to impart. It became clear to me that I must
become part of the solution, that what I need to do is to cater to the learners’ needs,
whatever status they are.
For me currently, there is no perfect learning modality for our situation and
preparing for every lesson is still a continuous and challenging process. No perfect
strategies, but there are a lot that we may apply and use to ease the difficulties in
delivering the lessons and at the same time help our students to understand lessons
easily. For teachers it is also a step-by-step process; we are learning as we are trying to
face and to become part of the solution. I believe that as a teacher what we must keep
on doing is to constantly support our learners to become more compatible and
comfortable in our new learning system.
Every student has a different need, and we as a teachers must always be ready to
give a solution to their individual needs. Yes, it is laborious, yet gracious at the end when
we see the results – that no one was left behind and that we have all healed from this
pandemic and we are able to stand again.