The Alternative Learning System aims to continue providing education to learners despite challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. It is using various distance learning modalities like life skills self-directed modules, DepEd TV broadcasts, and partnerships with organizations to deliver education remotely. Funds are also being provided for training teachers in online learning, reproducing modules, and protective equipment so that alternative learning can continue to reach the least, last, and lost during these difficult times.
The Alternative Learning System aims to continue providing education to learners despite challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. It is using various distance learning modalities like life skills self-directed modules, DepEd TV broadcasts, and partnerships with organizations to deliver education remotely. Funds are also being provided for training teachers in online learning, reproducing modules, and protective equipment so that alternative learning can continue to reach the least, last, and lost during these difficult times.
The Alternative Learning System aims to continue providing education to learners despite challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. It is using various distance learning modalities like life skills self-directed modules, DepEd TV broadcasts, and partnerships with organizations to deliver education remotely. Funds are also being provided for training teachers in online learning, reproducing modules, and protective equipment so that alternative learning can continue to reach the least, last, and lost during these difficult times.
The Alternative Learning System aims to continue providing education to learners despite challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. It is using various distance learning modalities like life skills self-directed modules, DepEd TV broadcasts, and partnerships with organizations to deliver education remotely. Funds are also being provided for training teachers in online learning, reproducing modules, and protective equipment so that alternative learning can continue to reach the least, last, and lost during these difficult times.
Topic: The Alternative Learning System under the New Normal
Speaker: Asec. G.H. S. Ambat
The Alternative Learning System aims to be innovative and to level up in giving
instructions, and to triumph over the challenges of COVID-19. They dream to reach out the least, the last, and the lost to provide them opportunity to learn and achieve their dreams. Second chance education must level-up amid a pandemic. It is our goal to continue education despite the difficulty of our present situation. The Department of Education provides capacity building to make teachers be more responsive to the needs of the learners in a distance learning environment. The Department gives ALS Life Skills Self-Directed Modules. Through these modules, ALS learners are expected to acquire skills on self-development, communication, cooperation financial management, and community engagement, especially in the middle of the pandemic. Distance learning is a modality that requires more effort from both learners and teachers, so DepEd initiated a Convergence Learning Project, in partnership with Sandiwaan Center for learning, Cypher Learning, and Solar Learning to provide education among the ALS learners. ALS TV promotes learning in which the every video is aired three times a day to enable ALS learners to catch up at a time most convenient to their personal schedules. Before the end of 2020, Solar TV will distribute television sets with digital boxes to the Bahay pag-asa, BJMP and BuCor detention Facilities, drug rehabilitation and treatment centers where ALS classes are also being held. Through this, we allow the learners to be more inspired in their endeavors because the Department of Education always shows its support. Funds are provided to train ALS teachers in online and remote learning. It will also be used for the reproduction of modules and the purchase personal protective equipment for ALS teachers, and the preparations in Community Learning Centers. Innovation and adaptation are not new to the ALS Program, and to DepEd itself. But instead of being complacent in the comfort of knowing that “noon pa ‘yan ginagawa sa ALS” the times call for recalibrated plans and collaborative actions. To make good on Sulong Edukalidad’s commitment to enable every Filipino learner to aim high and reach their full potential, even amid a pandemic, ALS truly, has levelled up.