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TEACHING IN THE NEW NORMAL
Education Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic Mrs. Corazon D.C. Hernandez
OVID-19 PANDEMIC has continuity of education despite learning process. Different
not stopped at national the lockdown, virtual learning schools’ domains are used to
Cborders. It has affected is introduced. “Virtual learning ensure quality education. In
people regardless of nationality, is a learning experience that some cases, teachers need to
level of education, income, or is enhanced through utilizing be acquainted with the virtual
gender. As the world becomes computers and/or the internet teaching. Likewise, teachers have
increasingly interconnected, both outside and inside the been preoccupied with many
so do the risks we face. Our facilities of the educational preparations of learning activity
routines are changing as our organization.” The instruction sheets, lesson exemplars, and
lives are upheaved by the most commonly takes place in an modules. Enrolment was done
changes brought by COVID-19. online environment that allows online, talking to both parents
for live interaction between and students in preparation
“We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t the teacher and the students for the registration through
coming back, that we are being as they are participating in calls, texts, or chats. Teachers
born into a new normal: a new learning activities. In other have to save energy because
kind of society, a new relationship words, the virtual classroom is of the massive preparations in
to the earth, a new experience a shared online space where module distribution, retrieval,
of being human.” — Charles the teachers and the students and checking of students’
Eisenstein work together synchronously or outputs. Students’ learning
asynchronously. kits are delivered to respective
The language of a ‘new normal’ barangays, and barangay
is being deployed almost as Specifically, virtual learning uses
a way to quell any uncertainty computer software, the Internet, It all boils down
ushered in by the coronavirus. or both to deliver instruction
A “new normal” is a “state to to students. This minimizes to two major
which an economy or society, or eliminates the need for
etc., settles after a crisis, when teachers and students to share concerns: internet
this differs from the situation a classroom.
that prevailed prior to the start connectivity,
of the crisis.” In the new normal, different
learning platforms are and the issue of
What has become “normal”? implemented where schools
The lockdowns, quarantines, use integrated set of interactive the curriculum
face masks and shields, hand online or offline services that
hygiene, vitamin intakes, provide teachers, learners, and educational
nutrient-rich food, physical and parents, and others involved
social distancing, and the ever- in education with information, resources that
present support technology tools and resources to support
are a “must” to continue for and enhance educational have to be
a lifetime. These and more delivery and management.
compose the new normal. adapted for use
Teachers are encouraged to
This crisis has exposed the attend webinars, from which to adjust to new
many inadequacies and they are also trained on
inequities of our education different platforms to use in the normal education.
system. However, to ensure the virtual or modular teaching-