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MANILA, Philippines – More than 6,000 educational television and radio programs are set to be broadcast across the country as distance learning in public schools begins Monday amid the continuing threat of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an official of the Department of Education (DepEd).
Undersecretary Tonisito Umali said the programs would complement modular and online lessons, which would be the norm as the government has banned face-to-face classes.
He said that DepEd had a system to help parents and students with the many challenges that distance learning brings.
Classes in public schools have been postponed for two months to give educators more time to prepare for new modes of instruction and learning.
Supplement to the online class
A total of 24.7 million students enrolled in public and private schools this year, or 89 percent of those enrolled in the previous school year.
Umali said 3,120 television lessons and 3,445 radio episodes will be broadcast on 207 television channels and 162 radio stations across the country.
“That will complement the instruction that will be given online, or if there is no access to devices or the Internet, or through self-study modules,” he said at Laging Handa’s press conference on Saturday.
Umali said that DepEd had advised school superintendents and regional principals which episodes should be shown on a given day, in what time slots and for what grade levels.
Information about these programs should also be included in the weekly learning plan for students, Umali said.
He said the Department of Education would check to see if students understood the lessons, adding that teachers would know, when students return their activity sheets, if they have learned what was taught. Parents will also receive contact numbers for teachers if they need to call because their children are struggling with their lessons, she said.
If parents couldn’t get the self-study modules themselves, DepEd would find a way to deliver them to students.
As of the third week of September, DepEd has distributed more than 533 million self-study modules, or 80 percent of the target.
Umali said that DepEd would be flexible with students who have difficulty connecting to the Internet.
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