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.

TOPIC: Blended Distance Learning Delivery Modalities

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DepEd TV
DepEd Online
DepEd Radio
Classroom