Taga Ormoc Daily

On the Vice President's latest remarks We find it unfortunate that Vice President Ma. Leonor "Leni" Robredo, notwithstanding President Rodrigo Roa Duterte's call to stop finger-pointing, has once again engaged in nitpicking to criticize the government's COVID-19 response. We have been as transparent about our lapses as we are about our gains, and as we have said in previous occasions, fighting COVID-19 is a collective effort. It is a whole-of-government approach. The Executive has no monopoly of good ideas and deeds and we have to stress that the effects of COVID-19 have been unprecedented. No country in the world would proudly announce that it has been prepared to meet the challenges posed by the pandemic. We therefore welcome inputs from all sectors, including constructive ideas from the political opposition, to improve our delivery of services. The remarks of the Vice President that the national government is in a state of self-denial or praising i...

"Basic education pupils are not required to purchase gadgets and laptops as the Department of Education (DepEd) stressed that blended and distance learning are not limited to online means as there are other ways to teach them. This was according to Curriculum and Instruction Undersecretary Diosdado San Antonio in a radio interview on DZBB on Sunday. He said that it was clear that when the agency prepared the learning continuity plan in consultation with all sectors led by DepEd Secretary Leonor Briones that online was not the only option for the children to learn amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “Talagang binigyan diin natin yung distance learning na hindi lang online kasi alam naman natin na totoong maraming lugar at mga pamilya yung nasa liblib na lugar ang talagang kahit may gadget ay hindi naman magkakaroon ng access sa internet kasi walang signal,” San Antonio said. He said that the agency has readied printed self-learning modules for distance learning. The announcem...

"More than 12 million learners in the basic education level from both public and private schools have already enrolled for the incoming School Year (SY) 2020-2021, the Department of Education (DepEd) said on Friday. On the third week of the month-long enrollment this June, DepEd national data for SY 2020-2021 as of June 19 showed that the total number of enrollees has reached 12,768,466 nationwide for Kindergarten to Grade 12 in both formal and informal education systems. Since June 1, the DepEd has implemented remote enrollment through alternative means of communication that do not require physically reporting to school, such as text, call, email, and online messaging. On June 16, DepEd also opened drop boxes and kiosks in barangay halls and schools, where parents who do not have access to remote means of communication may pick up or drop off the Learner Enrollment and Survey Form (LESF). Currently, there are 12,319,956 learners enrolled in public schools and 439,520 ha...

PAHAYAG NG DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH-EASTERN VISAYAS June 15, 2020 | 3:00 PM Magandang araw sa inyong lahat!  Ang Department of Health- Eastern Visayas ay patuloy na nagbabantay at gumagawa ng mga hakbang upang tuluyan ng matapos ang krisis na ito dito sa ating rehiyon. Over the weekend, naitala natin ang pinakamataas na kaso ng COVID-19 dito sa ating rehiyon at umabot na tayo ng 200 na kumpirmadong kaso. Sa patuloy na paglobo ng kaso, naitala din natin ang local transmission sa i-ilang lugar dito sa atin, at ito ang mga bayan ng La Paz, Hilongos at Tacloban City. Ano nga ba ang ibig sabihin ng local transmission? Ang local transmission ay nangangahulugan na ang lugar kung saan  pinanggalingan ng sakit ay sa lugar mismo Habang  ang “community transmission” ay ang hindi mai-ugnay na pagkalat ng sakit at sa mga dumaraming kumpirmadong mga kaso sa lugar. Ekinonsidera na may local transmission sa mga lugar na nabanggit sapagkat nagkaroon na ng pagkahawa ang ibang ta...

DEPED’S MELCs DOWNLOADABLE FOR FREE ON DEPED COMMONS The Department of Education’s (DepEd) Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELCs) may now be downloaded for free on DepEd Commons (commons.deped.gov.ph/melc) starting today. “We have made the MELCs available for free download at DepEd Commons to help our teachers focus on what is most essential given the challenge in learning delivery this school year,” said Undersecretary Alain Pascua. Included in the link are the K-12 MELCs and its corresponding guidelines, which was prepared by the Bureau of Curriculum Development (BCD), under Director Jocelyn Andaya, and approved by Undersecretary Diosdado San Antonio (Curriculum and Instruction). According to the MELC guidelines (also downloadable for free), the MELCs is part of the Department’s response to develop resilient education systems, especially during emergencies, and will enable DepEd to focus instruction on the most essential and indispensable competencies. “We are tryi...