THE USE OF MELC IN THE NEW NORMAL

By: May Ann M. Enriquez

Administrative Aide VI - Schools Division of Balanga City

Date posted: August 5, 2020

While teacher has spent a lot of effort to support the Basic Education- Learning Continuity Plan amid the pandemic, DepEd is staunch in opening the school year 2020-2021. The competencies were changed. MELC addressed the shortened number of school days.

There were many questions that have been gleaning around. The only thing that a teacher will do through the help of their school leaders is to support and keep pace with their goals.

The continuity of student learning outcomes in the different subject area and grade levels must be implemented. The DepEd Curriculum Guide is not applicable in this kind of situation, so the Department of Education make a way to elicit the most essential learning competencies that the learners should learn, or the teachers must deliver to at the learners in the New Normal.

This mode of delivery of the K-12 Curriculum, using the most essential learning competencies is perhaps the most useful guide that a teacher may use. Unlike before that each competency must be taught and strictly implemented, the MELC is adapted to the recent condition we have today. The only problem is that there is less communication to the students since there is no social interaction and only through the module can they learn. Teachers will try to contact them via Zoom or Google Meet.

Although there are technical problems between the teacher and the students’ communication because not everyone has the capacity for one, the MELC will speak through the module. The public school teacher has served a lot of effort and collaboration to ascertain learners’ education. Through the solid cooperation of teachers, the modules will be the primary source of information for the learners. As such, it is always hoped that the competencies will really be understood and done, as there is no question yet to its essentiality.