Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
Region III
SAN JOSE DEL MONTE NATIONAL TRADE SCHOOL
City of San Jose del Monte Bulacan
www. sjdmntrade_2000@[Link]
A NARRATIVE REPORT ON ARALING PANLIPUNAN DEPARTMENT
IN-SERVICE TRAINING SJDMNTS
Date: December
Time: 1:00 P.M to 4:00 P.M
Platform: via google meet [Link]
Introduction
As educators gear with the “new normal” set-up in this coronavirus pandemic,
this is the appropriate time to use our discomfort to forge a new paradigm. This is now
the time for schools to ensure that teachers do not just translate what they do inside the
classroom into their online teachings.
Teacher-driven discussions and lengthy lectures are no longer norms in this
situation. In online learning, students are almost always divided on their focus that of
their classes and their attention to their mobile gadgets.
We as teachers should innovate to teach online by tapping legitimate online
tools and resources. By using online learning resources on topics and creating learning
playlists or menus, students would be up for an exciting learning process.
By being not only an issuer of educational content but a master curator of
learning resources, teachers like us are designing efficient and effective synchronous
and asynchronous learning activities for continuous engagement of students.
Educators need to design assessment and grading systems and think on their
purposes and priorities. Encouraging student learning is the best and not just let
students accountable for their own learning. Mentors must think that in times of
remote learning, continuous feedback from students on their learning can help them
reflect on their strengths.
Teacher’s feedback would be a “discipline” so that students will further
improve on their studies. The pandemic would be a big factor in finishing
requirements by students, which in normal times are easily done.
By focusing on their mastery on learning, educators can also adopt grades that
clearly demonstrate mastery of knowledge and skills, as well as craft criteria for
mastery of learning. Constant feedback will help students achieve these criteria.
Grades would eventually be issued with compassion and fairness.
Participants
All Araling Panlipunan Junior High School Teachers in San Jose del Monte
National Trade School are present in the said DLAC Seminar. The Speaker in this
session was Mrs. Virginia G. Buensuceso. The DLAC topic is “The Official
Guidelines for Assessment Under New Normal”.
DLAC Seminar Observation
The seminar started at 1:00 in the afternoon. The national anthem was leaded
by Mrs. Lope to be followed by inspirational Opening prayer by Mrs. Babylyn
Salonga. Before the session, Mrs. Osorio prepared an Icebreaker that each of us
enjoyed that online activity. Afterward DLAC was started. Mrs. Buensuceso started
the session and discussed the official guidelines for assessment under new normal.
The Department of Education issues DepEd Order No. 30, s. 2020 or the
School Calendar and Activities for School Year 2020-2021 as an amendment to the
previously issued DO for the School Calendar SY 2020-2021. Meanwhile, Order No.
31 listed the guidelines for student assessment and grading to be adopted this school
year.
Teachers may continue to administer quizzes and long or unit tests, as well as
performance-based tasks, according to the order. Performance-based tasks include
skill demonstrations, group presentations, oral work, multimedia presentations, and
research project, the DepEd said in the order. For this year, the school calendar begins
on October 5, 2020 and ends on June 11, 2021. Under distance learning, students will
be learning mostly from their homes through printed and digital modules and online
classes. This will be supplemented with educational programs aired over television
and radio.
Prior to the pandemic, public school students were graded based on three
summative assessment tools: written works, performance tasks and quarterly
examinations. But with quizzes and examinations no longer feasible, DepEd says
students should be graded based on written works and performance tasks that will be
“administered to assess the content and performance standards that describe the
knowledge, abilities and skills that learners are expected to demonstrate.” These tasks
may be designed to include the student’s learning portfolio, which documents all the
evidence of learning within the grading period and a minimum of four written works
and four For online distance learning, written outputs may include blog posts; reaction
or reflection papers; essays; graphs, charts or maps; problem sets; laboratory reports,
and work designs that may be submitted via e-mail.
Performance tasks may either be products or performance-based activities such
as YouTube campaign videos, multimedia productions uploaded on social media,
investigatory projects, musical arrangements, online debates or presentation,
interviews, panel discussions and skills demonstration. For students using other modes
of learning, written outputs may include book or article reviews, essays, journals,
reaction or reflection papers, reports, data recording and analysis, laboratory reports,
and development of work designs and charts. performance tasks within the quarter.
Performance tasks may involve interviews, multimedia presentations, projects,
campaigns, case studies, multimedia production, portfolios, investigatory projects,
collages and diorama making, designing and implementation of action plans and
experiments or investigations.
“For the current school year, quarterly assessments shall not be administered.
However, days allotted for quarterly assessments… may be used for the presentation
of major performance for the quarter that addresses the performance standard,” the
policy stated.
The 20-percent grade weight for quarterly assessments will be distributed
equally to the two other components, with DepEd noting an emphasis on performance
task for some learning areas.
Assessment, according to DepEd, should be used to inform and improve
classroom practices and promote learning outcomes.
It is used to keep track of the progress of the students in achieving the learning
standards and in the development of 21st century skills, to promote self-reflection and
personal accountability among students, and provide basis for the profiling of student
performance. Grading, meanwhile, is defined as “the way of reporting assessment data
by assigning a value to the results as a record of students’ ability, achievement or
progress.” But the implementation of different distance learning delivery modalities
has sparked a larger conversation about the role grades play in student learning,
DepEd said. “The grading system implemented in this interim policy provides
reasonable leniency to learners who are put to a larger disadvantage by the pandemic,
but at the same time does not compromise the integrity and principles of assessment
and grading,” it noted. Creative, flexible assessment.
They must communicate to learners and their parents the design and standards
for grading the assessment, and set up mechanisms to monitor and record progress
remotely. “Teachers need to be creative and flexible in assessing student learning,
while still adhering to the principles of quality assessment practice,” the policy stated.
“In distance learning modalities, teachers shall design assessments bearing the
assumption that the learners will asynchronously take them and have open access to
various sources,” it added. Assessments must also be accompanied with timely,
constructive and meaningful feedback to benefit student learning. With distance or
blended learning, DepEd said it is “necessary to utilize alternative tools and strategies
for assessing and supporting learning, while avoiding creating undue pressure on the
teachers, learners and their families.”
Learners must be fairly assessed and graded in the continuation of education
during this health crisis, with the provision of reasonable leniency and considerations
for possible difficulties met by the learner, it said.
DepEd reminded teachers to “set realistic expectations and use their
professional judgment to find a good balance between what is effective and what is
feasible to accomplish remotely.”
Students, meanwhile, are expected to be proactive in updating their teacher of
their situation, progress and challenges encountered.
They are also encouraged to complete the non-mandatory self-learning tool that
may help them and their teachers keep track of their progress. When necessary,
parents and guardians are also requested to assist in the assessment process, by
communicating with the teachers and guiding their children in accomplishing the
assessment tasks.
“DepEd aims to develop independent learners who can study and work on the
assessments on their own,” the policy said.
“However, in this school year’s implementation of distance learning
modalities, parents and guardians will play a crucial role in guiding their children in
adapting to the changes of distance learning processes,” it added.
The interim guidelines on assessment and grading cover all public schools in
the country, with private schools and other academic institutions offering basic
education programs also encouraged to implement the guidelines.
Reflection/Application
To better address the vision of attaining “The Official Guidelines for Assessment
Under New Normal”. The following salient points are hereby recommended as
suggested from the teacher-participants:
1. “This setup also poses challenges, such as the need to have a flexible assessment
and grading system that takes into account the different learning modalities chosen by
the students”
2. “Schools must adopt assessment and grading practices that can most meaningfully
support student development and respond to varied contexts at this time,”.
3. “Teachers, school leaders, learners and parents must commit to uphold the integrity
of learning and instruction in the context of distance education,” the policy stressed.
4. “With the new setup, teachers are tasked to design the assessment to allow for
flexibility in multiple modalities”.
ARALING PANLIPUNAN DEPARTMENT
SCHOOL LEARNING ACTION CELL
APPLICA
TION
Prepared by: Jessica DJ. Fernandez
AP- Teacher I