While education amid the pandemic remains quite challenging, Education Secretary Leonor Magtolis-Briones underscored the need for all stakeholders - including learners, parents and teachers - to be more open when it comes to various initiatives that would expand learning deliver.
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“Let us embrace innovations in our teaching and learning processes amidst the situation,” Briones said in a statement issued Monday, March 29.
In particular, Briones commended that “Pivot 4A TV” launched by the DepEd-CALABARZON. “With the launch of Pivot 4A TV, our learners and teachers in CALABARZON can access more localized educational content that can stir their interest and creativity,” she added.
To reach more learners, teachers, and parents, DepEd CALABARZON on March 19, unveiled its “Pivot 4A TV” to expand the Learning Delivery Modalities (LDMs) in the region.
During the virtual launch, Regional Director Wilfredo Cabral shared that Pivot 4A TV is the latest by-product learning platform anchored on the region’s contextualized Basic Education Learning Continuity Plan (BE-LCP), titled Pivot 4A QuBE.
“Through Pivot 4A TV, we want to give our teachers firsthand information on how to make education delivery and instructions easier for our learners,” Cabral said in Filipino. “We also want to give our learners the opportunity to see various options on how they can really learn in the distance learning,” he added.
Cabral shared that Pivot 4A TV will also serve as a guide for “parents to understand the course of action and the different learning competencies in the succeeding quarters.”
The newly formed platform features key segments, namely, (1) Pivot Gabay – Your Quick Guide to Learning, (2) Pivot Balita – News beyond Learning, (3) Pivot Dokyu – True Stories of Learning, and (4) StraightForwaRD – a monthly segment featuring the RD, together with regional and division heads, sharing the region’s plans in enriching curriculum implementation and practices in their respective areas of concerns during its initial implementation.
DepEd-CALABARZON also emphasized that its flagship program, Pivot 4A QuBe, also paved the way for various contextualized programs and preparations of different schools division offices (SDOs) for distance learning, and eventually, Pivot 4A TV.
Meanwhile, Curriculum and Learning Management Division (CLMD) Chief Job Zape, Jr. highlighted that the region was able to devise and develop valid learning resources known as Pivot materials in the region as one of the accomplishments in the Key Result Areas (KRAs).
“We needed to produce and design materials that are suited to the demand of each of the learners in their respective learning spaces our stakeholders to feel the burden of the pandemic, or not feel even the hardship in teaching and learning,” Zape ended.