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BEST PRACTICES IN GRADE IV (IN DISTANCE LEARNING)

Part I. Description

  This school year is the beginning of new normal in learning. Many says the only way to adapt this new normal is to recognize the big changes we had. Learning has moved from public schools to personal spaces at homes. Its never easy from us to think of strategies on how effectively we teach our learners.

   Somehow, by the collective efforts of teachers, stakeholders, parents, and learners, we can say that education continues and will prevail despite of the hardships we have been through.

 Part II. Implementing Mechanics

  1. Timeline

October 5, 2020 to July 10, 2021

  1. Learning Resource Requirements
  • Parents’ Chat Group/Class Messenger
  • Facebook Group Page Per Class
  • Tablets for Learners
  • Self-Learning Modules (Printed/Digitized)
  • Google Meet
  • Google Forms
  • Quizziz (Asynchronous)
  • Powerpoint Presentations
  • Video Lessons
  • Lesson Guides (JPEG Format)
  • Supplemental Videos from Youtube

C. Procedure

  1. Created an advisory class chat group thru messenger to relay important information and concern to parents, learners, and teachers.
  2. Send the soft copy of modules through the parent’s email address.
  3. Contacted parents through their mobile phone if in need of one-on-one assessment of the learner.
  4. Conducted an online class through Google Meet.
  5. Conducted virtual Homeroom Activities.
  6. Communicated with the parents through chat group, email, and mobile phones.
  7. Collected the output of the learners via messenger if there were virtual activities in a video form or pictures of the learners participating online.
  8. Sent video lessons to the advisory class chat group.
  9. Monitored module lessons thru messenger or the personal number of parents.
  10. Posted lesson guides with simple instructions in JPEG format in GCs and Facebook Groups.
  11. Albums were created every week per subject for learners and parents to post their works in performance task.
  12. Sent google forms link to assess lessons evaluation.
  13. Sent supplementary videos for additional reference.
  14. Assigned Quizziz to supplement learning and practice mastery of the lesson especially in Araling Panlipunan class and Math class.
  15. Send prototype Likhains/Lets Create that will serves as sample performance Task with simple directions/instructions.
  16. Conduct home visitations if necessary.
  17. Exit test was made to learners who had difficulty in coping up the current SLMs.

D. Persons Involved
    1. Class Adviser
    2. Pupils
    3. Parents
    4. Master Teacher
    5. School Head

E. Assessment Method
    1. Google Meet/Online conference
    2. Google Forms
    3. Quizziz/Mentimeter/ Polls
    4. The Output of the Learners

Part III. Outcome/Impact

  • 20% of the learners attended online class. (65 out of 302 learners)
  • 97% of the parents communicated and cooperated with the class adviser concerning their child’s performance output.
  • 33% of learners shifted to digitized module since 3rd
  • 100% of learners complied all the requirements in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd
  • No pending grades reported.

Part IV. Conclusion/Recommendation

          These distance learning procedure we uniformly practice in Grade 4 helped us teachers to easily track our learners progress through out the school year. From the teachers creative and contextualized lessons guides that help parents and learners be updated in the lessons to answer with that they can use in their flexible time specially those who cannot join our online classes.

          The Google forms and contextualized lessons guides are the factors that greatly affects our parents and learners to shift from printed to digitized mode of learning. Creativity and innovations from our bright teachers are very commendable.

          After all, we at grade 4 believes that the best strategy we had was having a good and collaborative communication with the parents throughout this school year.