Southern Mindanao Colleges
Pagadian City
GRADUATE SCHOOL
Mansanadez, Joyce Grace T. MaEd
ED 229
Reflection Paper I
The COVID-19 pandemic is severely challenging the Philippines
where the most vulnerable are the children, especially girls, and
young women and also the older one. Over a year into the pandemic,
the
Philippine
government’s
continue
to
fight
against
the
pandemic, by planning in order to address the crisis, where one of
the affected is the education. Philippine schools have paused faceto-face
pandemic.
classes
for
over
a
year
due
to
the
COVID-19
Classes have been done via remote learning, modular
learning, blending learning, online learning and the distance
education strategy were implemented for the whole school year. Now
some government officials eyed for limited face to face classes.
For me having a limited face to face classes is fine for colleges,
but for elementary and secondary I think we do not have the
assurance for the safety of the students. Especially that the young
one’s are still not yet vaccinated. We must not forget that these
students
are
playful
and
wanted
to
be
engage
in
different
activities, some also are wants interaction with their classmates
by talking and sharing their thoughts, ideas and even with the
updates of their personal life and other issues and concern. For
me, we cannot avoid this students from doing this. It is really a
burden also for the part of the teacher if he/she watch the
students the whole day just to make sure that they are following
all the health protocols. That is why for me, I will not agree for
the limited face to face classes unless they are vaccinated then
I think we can start the limited face to face classes.