Name : GELLIBEE E.
GAVIOLA Section: MS Mathematics Education
Professor: FELIX R. OCAREZ
Seminar in Mathematics Education
Reflection on the Webinar Teaching- Learning Platforms for Mathematics Education in
the New Normal
The learners should not stop learning in the time of pandemic that is why educators
and educational system are preparing to make education be continued amidst in the current
situation we are facing today. This is what we called NEW NORMAL IN EDUCATION.
In the Webinar I have attended last December 2, 2020 with our speaker Dr. Anthony
Penaso, I have learned things that needs to be considered in the New Normal Education
especially to the students who cannot reach out in the blended learning. In the new Normal
Education, it is not about online learning. Yet, this reconsidered and evaluated.
First thing is, the who of education are objects that need to develop themselves. The
learning from home has abruptly changed the roles of teachers, students and parents. The
need for autonomous learning requires that teachers shift to be designer and facilitators of
earning instead of the wise on the stage. Lesson learned during the current situation driven
educators to change their perspective and practices.
As an educator, it is true that the current pandemic situation have disrupted traditional
way of teaching to the learners that is why we have to change our perspectives and know
things to be considered in the deliberation our topic to our students. Here is one the statement
showed by Dr. Penaso during his presentation, “Experts believe the innovations teachers use
during the outbreak may lead to lasting change with technology playing big role in the
schools in the future”, there are some educators who are not literate in technology that is why
educator’s preparedness should also be considered.
Another side of the coin was the students need to build up character of
interdependence, discipline and responsibility. Along the same lines, the current learning-
from-home practices should gear parents to be a bacon of these character values instead of
extended academic tutors for their children.