Taft District Teachers’ Experiences and Perceptions on Distance Learning towards Readiness and Challenges in the New Normal

Basis for Policy Formulation

Abstract

This research study explored the experiences and perceptions of distance learning towards readiness and the challenges met by Teachers of Taft District in the implementation of Distance Learning in the new normal. A descriptive research design was utilized. An adopted survey questionnaire was used to collect the challenges faced by teachers of Taft District during the COVID-19 pandemic for the SY 2021-2022. The data was fielded online via Google Forms, and demographic profiles, experiences, perceptions, and challenges met by teachers were collected. Based on the gathered data, most of them are female, ages 31-40 years old, and teacher 1 current position. Data revealed the challenges teachers met in module preparation were highly evident with a mean of 3.46, the distribution of module garnered a 3.49 mean as highly evident, and retrieval of module got a 3.01 mean interpreted as moderately evident. Other challenges and experiences on formative assessment results were moderately evident with a mean of 3.38, while summative assessment is highly evident with a mean of 3.41. In the implementation of distance learning home visitation, and remediation were moderate and highly evident challenges with a mean of 3.33 and 3.47 respectively.  Emphasizes the perception and experiences of all the challenges encountered that during the implementation of new normal education, many challenges emerge inadequate knowledge, time management, reliability and validity of learners’ performance is difficult to identify, only a few or very low retrieval of modules of the learners, and performance of learners was low from the preparation to retrieval of modules. From these findings, the researchers advanced that further tests be done on a bigger sample to validate the other challenges on distance learning modalities in new normal education.