By Rey Chiu, PIA-Bohol | Posted on Aug. 16, 2020
The Department of Education (DepEd) Bohol Division is asking local government units in the province to hire ‘learning facilitators’, who could help them in the delivery of weekly modules to students.
Assistant Division Superintendent Dr. Casiana Caberte said the geographical locations of students in some areas in the province and the unavailability of parents or any guardian to help them in their lessons have prompted them to make this call.
“Due to work, there are parents who would not have time to sit with the child, as there are also kids who are left to the care of the grandparents with the parents working or are far from home, and there are also siblings that could not properly elucidate on the lessons in the module,” said Dr. Caberte, who knew all this from the Learner Enrolment Survey Form the DepED sent out months ago.
Moreover, independent surveys also showed that there are parents who are helpless in facilitating the “new lessons”.
This is where the Division-proposed locally funded learning facilitators, Dr. Caberte explained.
Learning facilitators, according to DepEd Bohol, are those who have finished the Bachelor’s Degree in Education but have not been hired yet. They have been trained to do exactly the same tasks needed by the learners who have no one to guide them with the printed modules.
“These people could be hired by the LGUs to help us go to and check on specific students who could not find any help at home in the modules,” Caberte added.
Amaryllis Villarmia, the information officer of DepEd Region 7, cited the example of Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) Officials in Alburquerque as a means by which LGUs can assist them especially in the delivery of their Modular Approach Learning Modality.
“These group of initiators are actually welcome to assist us should there be a shortage of teacher assistants or teachers who can assist the learning engagement of the children with Modular Approach Learning Modality. Since they are from a barangay, didto man sad gyud ta manguha og partners to help us in the implementation of our modular approach,” Villarmia added.
Bohol Island News has featured the story of SK officials in Alburquerque town for their “Project Tulak Karunungan – eSKwela Program Mobile Kariton Klasrum”, where they visit barangays to conduct short classes with children from kindergarten up to Grade 4. (with reports from Bohol Island News Staff)
