Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought challenging situations for educational institutions to continually provide meaningful and significant learning for the students across all nations. As educators, these pressing challenges motivated us to conduct a study on how prepared the schools and the Department of Education in the delivery of quality education in spite of the sudden crisis. This paper discusses the preparations of educational institutions to continually provide means of learning across all types of learners. Our inquiry from selected educational leaders, supervisors and curriculum specialists, as well as from the teachers, confirmed that the Department of Education, especially in Southern Mindanao, has explored different means to continue its service for the Filipino learners. These include online learning, modular learning, television and radio-based instruction. Moreover, schools in Southern Mindanao have also considered blended or hybrid learning as modality for this year considering the different situations of students. This paper discusses the different implications of this new learning modality not only to the learners but also to their parents, teachers, to educational and government leaders as well.