As Metro Manila braces itself for the possible extension of the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), Taguig City is starting the training of public school teachers in cyber education to pilot a “learn from home” program for residents.
The city government launched the project in a bid to arm teachers with skills for Web-based learning.
Through Cyber Schooling for Taguig Teachers, the city is providing tutors with the opportunity to learn online teaching methods and strategies, ICT (information and communications technology) literacy and presentation and communication skills over the Internet.
It will also equip them to facilitate self-paced learning offline.
“This initiative wants to keep our public school teachers abreast with new technologies in learning,” Taguig Mayor Lino Cayetano said.
“We understand that learners today are digital natives, who haven’t seen the world without computers and the Internet. Given the COVID-19 issue we face today, we also see this as a beneficial method, because learning would be resilient,” he added.
Under the program, classes of 30 teachers each will undergo training by Informatics, which has designed courses for over 500,000 students, on Skillsoft online courses.
Skillsoft is a US-based eLearning content provider that has been in the global eLearning industry for more than 20 years.
They will undertake lessons via Skillsoft’s Percipio, the eLearning content provider for over half of the Fortune 500 companies and world-class educational institutions, such as Yale University, Cornell University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Percipio will offer lessons on using Microsoft Office365 Education essentials like Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Teachers will also learn to use Microsoft Teams, a possible online classroom where teachers and their students can do face-to-face meetings, share screens and documents and chat real-time.
Those undergoing the course will tackle supplemental topics like Communication Essentials, Presentation Skills, Managing Virtual Teams, and Innovation & Creativity. Overall, they may access more than 1,000 courses and e-books online.
Teachers may take the courses using their personal laptops, desktop computers, tablets or smart phones. Those with no means to go online through their personal devices may borrow the desktop computers at Taguig public schools’ CyberLabs.
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