Online schooling being trendy now amidst the pandemic, as generally observed as the most viable avenue for learning. Virtual classrooms filled out the vacuum and made it possible for learners to meet their teachers, perform tasks and interconnect with other students which for quite sometime perked up the excitement of the schooling public.

Many moons passed by so quickly, and still here we are doing online and digital modular classes. Here I am asking myself as an online teacher, how do I feel about it? Am I for it? Is it worth it? How long will this set up be?

And in transparency, my answer is… it’s just like treating a wound topically and momentarily, teachers, parents, students and the education arm of the government are tightly joining hands just to make education work for the entire studentry.

True enough that classroom face-to-face learning is incomparable in terms of its gains.  But do we have a choice… except to embrace what is on hand?

Online teachers, on-site mentors and parental engagements are all major players acting their integral parts of the student support system. For it is, what I call the “three-headed-spear”: All working together to ensure student’s progress in the course work of any learner’s quest for education. Parents, of course, by all means provide the most essential resources in sustaining a child’s online and modular education. Teachers, meanwhile, provide a healthy educative environment to facilitate learning the best and easy way they can. Mentors on-site do tasks which will continuously yield positive learning outcomes by conceptualizing, energizing, and realizing what else they can do to better the current learning situations.

Again, how do I feel about it? No concrete feelings. Am I for it? Do I have choices? Is it worth it? Yes and no. How long will this setup be? No one knows…

By: Marilyn D. Sacdalan | Teacher III | Bataan National High School City of Balanga