ACTIVITY COMPLETION REPORT

LAC 3: Online Orientation on the Utilization of the Most Essential Learning

Competencies

The Learning Action Cell in Online Orientation on the Utilization of the Most Essential
Learning Competencies was held on September 8, 2020 at exactly 8:00 am with 11 active
participants via Google meet.
The meeting started with an opening prayer and followed by our National anthem
spearheaded by Mrs. Jessica L. Lazaga, school Registrar and Mathematics Teacher III of Catmon
National High School. After reflecting with a prayer and the singing of our national anthem, a
Mathematics inspired rollcall and energizer was facilitated by Mrs. Marilou E. Magsalay. LAC
was presided by our ever competent Subject Area Coordinator and LAC Leader Mrs. Regina M.
Enriquez.
The Learning Action Cell focused on Unpacking the Most Essential Learning
Competencies (MELCs) and its Importance in the New Normal setting such as to guide teachers
as they address the instructional needs of learners while ensuring that curriculum standards are
maintained and achieved, and to ensure that learning standards are relevant and flexible to
address the complex, disruptive, volatile, and ambiguous impact of COVID-19 in the Philippines
particularly in the basic education sector, and to map of the essential and desirable learning
competencies within the curriculum.
The LAC Leader excellently discussed the key points in unpacking the
MELC’s. She explained well the importance of Laying the foundational concepts and skills at
each grade level are pivotal in the learning progression of each learner. This consequently
scaffold the learner’s understanding and acquisition of higher skills. She also points out that the
identified most essential learning competencies in Math puts premium on the development of
numeracy skills which are fundamental to practical and real-life problems, rather than Math
content-knowledge; and on the development of higher-order thinking skills which goes beyond
procedural fluency. It followed the content domains as articulated in the curriculum – Numbers
and Number Sense, Measurement, Geometry, Patterns and Algebra, and Statistics and
Probability. Similarly, the skills and processes to be developed as emphasized in the curriculum,
are maintained. These include knowing and understanding; estimating, computing and solving;
visualizing and modelling, representing and communicating, conjecturing, reasoning, proving
and decisionmaking. It is further aimed that the values and attitudes – accuracy, creativity,
objectivity, perseverance, and productivity, be strongly honed among learners especially at this
crucial time of health emergencies.

She ends her talk with a worth sharing words of wisdom, she quote that the
value of Mathematics as a learning area should not be confined in the corners of a classroom or
any learning space. Its application to real-life world problems should be dealt with depth and
breadth which may be mirrored in classroom instruction. After The LAC Leader accommodates
queries from the participants the session ended with the virtual awarding of e-Certificate
presented by Ms. Aloha Magat. Truly, this LAC session was very informative and enjoyable.
Thanks to the resource speaker who intelligently shared her expertise in Unpacking the MELC
and the participants who diligently listens and reflects with the new learnings provided by the
resource speaker.