DISABILITY-INCLUSIVE TEACHING IN EMERGENCIES ONLINE COURSE – Alapan 1 Elementary School
To: Regional Directors
Schools Division Superintendents
Public and Private Elementary and Secondary Schools
All Others Concerned
- The United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) and its Optional Protocol ensure the right of leamers with disabilities to education. These rights should be more strongly upheld during pandemics when the most negatively allected are the leamers with disabilities and other vulnerable and marginalized learners. Collective efforts of international orga_nizations took shape through the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and World Bank (WB) joint project called Accelerated Furrding to Strengthen GPE s Global and Regional Response to the covlD- 19 Pandemic.
- Under this project came the Responding to the Educational Needs of Learners with Disabilities during Emergencies Project which developed and piloted an online course as a regional response to the COVID-19 Pandemic through the Southeast Asian Ministry of Education Organization (SEAMEO), in collaboration with UNESCO Bangkok Asia and the Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, and funding from the Global Partnership for Education (GPE).
- The online course, dubbed as Disability-Inclusive Teaching ln Emergencies or DTeEm, offers teachers in regular and special education schools, teachers-to-be in universities/ colleges of education, and other stakeholders the following modules with 26 supplemental animated videos:
a. Module 1: Stress Management and Psychosocial Support,
b. Module 2: Utilisation of Different Assistive Technologies,
c. Module 3: Developing Emergency Response Plan, and
d. Module 4: Continuity of Learning. - The learners of the free self-learning online course will receive the following:
a. Four badges (one badge upon completion of each module), and
b. e-Certificate of Completion. - DTeEm online course has been piloted in the following countries with their local languages: Bhutan, Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Timor-Leste. The initial assessment of the course reveals its positive impact on the course participants, particularly in expanding their knowledge and skills in teaching and supporting the development of learners with disabilities in emergencies.
- SEAMEO is expanding the reach of the DTeEm’s benefits to more countries and teachers and educators in Southeast Asia and beyond. The Department of Education (DepEd) supports SEAMEO’s efforts to bring the positive impact of DTeEmto Filipino teachers and educators.
- In line with this, DepEd encourages teachers in both public and private schools at all levels nationwide to take t.Ile online courses. Instruction on how to register and other technical details are contained in the enclosed Learner’s Guide to Learalag Manage meat System.
- An online orientation about the course is scheduled on March 17, 2022, at 10:30 a.m. (Manila time) with the following link:
Zoom Meeting: https://link.seameo.org/DTeEM2Launch
Meeting ID: 812 3727 6473
Passcode: 7743
- All regional directors, superintendents, district supervisors, and school heads are instructed to disseminate the information about DTeEm Webinar launch and promote its rollout in their respective divisions, districts, or schools.
- Course participants carr use official time to attend the webinar launch, login into the course, and perform course requirements. Participating in the course should be properly scheduled with education supervisors or school heads to ensure that regular teaching hours and students’ learning periods are not unnecessarily disrupted.
- For more information, please contact the International Cooperation Office, Ground Floor, Teodora Alonzo Building, Department of Education Central Office, DepEd Complex, Meralco Avenue, Pasig City through email at ic@deped.gov.ph or at the telephone number (02) 8637 -6462.
- Immediate dissemination of this Memorandum is desired.
(Source: DM_s2022_026.pdf (deped.gov.ph))
