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Senior High School Department

Lopez Jaena, Murcia, Negros Occidental 6129

CHAPTER I

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Covid 19 Pandemic has brought a greatest impact in all

aspects of our lives especially education that we still tend to

adjust because of difficulties. Last school year has never been

easy and tough for us. We student at Lopez Jaena National High

School still survived and surpassed last school year despite of

uncertainties and challenges that is because of our resiliency

and determination to survive for our dreams. That Covid 19 forced

everyone to change. their way of living, but a major area of life

that has seen. significance change is “Education”. In this

article, Gewirtz argues. that the COVID-19 pandemic has

highlighted the importance of education and its role in promoting

public health, social cohesion, and economic recovery. She

suggests that the return to face-to-face classes after the

pandemic presents an opportunity for educators and policymakers

to address longstanding inequalities in education and to

reimagine the purpose and structure of schooling. The article

also discusses the challenges and opportunities of the post-

pandemic education landscape, including the need for greater

investment in digital infrastructure, teacher training, and

student support.
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Everyone feel unsafe with somebody out of there. Household

due to the fear of contacting COVID VIRUS. School is oftentimes

not scene a place haven after all, but a place to stay away from

to keep ones self safe. With the past 2 years learning teaching

was severely affected by the Covid 19 Pandemic. Face to face

classes is one of the most modern method of learning helping in

solving the knowledge explosion problem. Face to face increase

the learning effectiveness to a large degree allows the learner

to study at his favorite time and place. Face to face classes is

called as hybrid learning approach combines that blended learning

and Online learning. Is able to integrate benefits afforded by

the both traditional face to face learning and pure online

learning to deliver course content.

Statement of the Problem

This study aims to explore and understand the experience of

teachers in Lopez Jaena National High School during the first

year face to face classes after the Covid- 19 Pandemic.

Specifically, the study aims to answer the following

questions:
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1. What are the challenges faced by teachers during the

transition from online to face to face classes?

2. What are the strategies used by teachers to ensure the

safety of students in the classroom?

3.How do teachers adjust their teaching methods and

approaches to meet the learning needs of their during the

face to face classes after the pandemic?

Significance of the Study

The result of this study will benefit the following:

Supervisor. The supervisor can help reduce the impact of trauma

and lessen employee stress by fostering a sense of safety , power

and control for those under their supervision and their

colleagues.

Principal. The principal has good leadership in schools fasters

nurturing learning environments that help children grow and

develop.

Teachers. The teacher must work together with parents and

guardians to recreate the learning experience is the safety of

the learners.
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Community. Communities are vital sources of support, during

crisis, providing collective contexts for shared identity and

solidarity that predict supportive, prosocial responses.

Future Researcher. Future researcher can help you to define a

systematic study of possible future, and circumstances and to

know about teacher experiences after the pandemic in first year

face to face classes, also to generate knowledge around inquiry

practical educational context.

Scope and Delimitations

The main purpose of the study is to determine the

experiences of teachers in Lopez Jaena National High School after

the pandemic and what strategy they do to catch and communicate.

The study consider the teacher personal information and teaching

experiences.

The researchers conduct the study to 1 female teachers in

Lopez Jaena National High School in Senior High department. Each

of the respondents were interviewed by the researchers. The

researchers used structured interview questionnaire to gather

information from the respondents.

Definition of Terms
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Teachers- A teacher is a person who helps others to acquire

knowledge, competences, or values. Teacher is a designation for

the office, position, and profession for someone who devotes

himself in the field of education through patterned educational

interaction, formal and systematic.

Experiences- Experience refers to conscious events in

general, more specifically to perceptions, or to the practical

knowledge and familiarity that is produced by these processes.

Challenges- Something that by its nature or character serves

as a call to make special effort, a demand to explain, justify,

or difficulty in a undertaking that is stimulating to one engaged

in it.

Pandemic- A pandemic is like an epidemic but even more

widespread over several countries or continents.

Face-to-face- Face-to-face interaction is social

communication carried out with other present individuals without

any mediating technology.

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CHAPTER II

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES

This chapter includes the ideas, finished thesis,

generalizations and conclusions, methodologies and others. Future

researchers will find it helpful to be familiar with the

information in this chapter as it will help them understand

aspects of the current study that are relevant and similar.

Review of literature and studies

As per Sumitra Pokhrel (2021), the COVID-19 pandemic has

created the largest disruption of education systems in human

history, affecting nearly 1.6 billion learners in more than 200

countries. Closures of schools, institutions and other learning

spaces have impacted more than 94% of the world’s student

population. This has brought far-reaching changes in all aspects

of our lives.

According to Roshan Chhetri (2021), Reopening of schools

after relaxation of restriction is another challenge for teachers

with many new standard operating procedures put in place. This

has brought far-reaching changes in all aspects of our lives.

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Social distancing and restrictive movement policies have

significantly disturbed traditional educational practices.

Thus, the stress causes and manifestation to public schools

teachers at the secondary education level. This study proved that

one of the primary reasons for teachers stress is time and

Concern for student. Many educators feel morally responsible for

their students well-being. (Nyambongi 2018)

According to a study-based report, teachers in the new

normal would have to employ new practices and forms of management

both professionally and emotionally to adopt to the virus

outbreak changes fully. The report provided a structured

timelines for response management such as guidance, utilizing

technology, and forming digital re-creational activities (Wyman,

2018).

According to an article on how approaches to diminish

teacher stress and lift their ability to play out their best.

School pioneers can help reduce teachers stress by developing

working conditions that help educators. Educators Experiences

less pressure and resolve to occupations even more regularly

under agreeable working conditions. Schools can likewise help

diminish educator stress by advancing successful teacher

understanding connections. One approach to achieve this is by

utilizing system that reward positive understanding practices.

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Educators additionally need to unsure they deal with themselves

so they can deal with others without effectively thinking about

themselves, educators lose the ability to think about others.

(Ketchell, 2018)

Theoretical Framework

The current study utilizes this framework to organize and

contextualize the teachers experienced after the COVID-19

pandemic.

Anfara and Mertz (2015) explained the theoretical frameworks

were “any empirical or quasi-empirical theory of social and/or

psychological processes, at a variety of levels that can be

applied to understand the phenomena'' (p. 15). Bloomberg and

Volpe (2016) stated that theoretical and conceptual frameworks

are often interchangeable. For this qualitative research, this

was utilized as the theoretical framework to explore and explain

the phenomena of teaching after the pandemic. It was also used to

illuminate the stress and burnout public and private school

teachers endured working through an unprecedented time in the

history of education.
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Blagg, Luetmer and Herold (2020) expanded that many public

and private school teachers faced challenges as they had never

used, understood, or been trained to deliver instruction using.

blended learning prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. This challenge

forced teachers to shift gears as they needed to learn how to

instruct students using new platforms and learn to adjust to ways

to deliver instruction (Blagg & Luetmer, 2020; Herold, 2020;

Scott, 2020). It was also used to illuminate the stress and

burnout public and private school teachers endured while working

through an unprecedented time in the history of education.

Krahenbuhl (2016) stated. This framework supported this study as

teachers were required to be active learners, developing their

skills related to teaching remotely while using virtual

resources. Blagg, Luetmer and Herold (2020) expanded that many

public and private school teachers faced challenges as they had

never used, understood, or been trained to deliver instruction

using blended learning prior to theCOVID-19 pandemic. This

challenge forced teachers to shift gears as they needed to learn

how to instruct students using new platforms and learn to adjust

to ways to deliver instruction (Blagg & Luetmer, 2020; Herold,

2020; Scott, 2020). It was also used to illuminate the stress and

burnout public and private school teachers endured while working

through an unprecedented time in the history of education.

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Krahenbuhl (2016) stated. This framework supported this study as

teachers were required to be active learners, developing their

skills related to teaching remotely while using virtual

resources.

Schematic Diagram

After Teacher Coping

Pandemic Experiences Mechanism

Figure one: Shows the flows of the research in teachers

experiences after the pandemic. This research gather information

of teachers experiences and coping mechanism.

CHAPTER IV

Presentation, Discussion, and Interpretations

This chapter include the presentation, discussion, and

interpretation of the data gathered from the respondents.

The presentation and discussion follow the three themes were

conducted to each participant are, Teacher’s Experiences and

Challenges, Teaching methods and Strategies, Health and Safety.

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RESPONDENT NUMBER 1: TRANSCRIPT OF RECORD

Question no. 1: What are the notable experiences and

challenges face by you, during the first of face-to-face classes

after the pandemic?

Response: The respondent stated that, “It is difficult for us to

teach students who are addicted to social media, and we are

having a hard time bringing back what the students learned before

the two-year Enhance Community Quarantine (ECQ).

Question no. 2: How did you adopt the teaching methods and

strategies to accommodate the transition from online learning to

face-to-face classes?

Response: According to the respondents “Communication is the most

effective strategy we used to facilitate our teaching to students

because if we don’t have communication with your students you

will really struggle dealing with them.”

Question no. 3: What steps were taken to guarantee the health and

Response safety of both students and employees?

: According to the respondents “ We are investing available

resources to implement the health and safety of teachers like me

and especially the student guide from the centers for disease

control and prevention (CDC) and also to keep the students safe

it is necessary to improve the relationship between schools and

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keep the inside of the school clean and safe, and it is necessary

to

wear a face mask and maintain social distancing to avoid illness.

TEACHER’S AND EXPERIENCES AND CHALLENGES

The teachers who teach after two years of face-to-face

classes announced that they have experiences and challenges in

teaching students, it is difficult for a teacher to teach because

of two years without face to face classes and because other

students is only focused on the internet, so it is difficult for

them to bring back what the students knew when they were still

studying face to face. According to the teacher the pandemic

affects the life and social emotional of each student, because

all social activities have stopped and the students are cut off

from their teachers with unequal access to the live teaching of

the students and there are few opportunities to meet friends in

person and also those in extracurricular activities.

TEACHING METHODS AND STRATEGIES

According to the teachers Communication is the most effective

strategy they used in teaching when students return to school,

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because of this they have communication with each other and the

students become comfortable in learning and so that they have

desire to return to school and also to facilitate the work of a

teacher because they have communication with each other.

Health and Safety

The teacher invest resources to implement health and safety

guidance from the centers for disease control and prevention(CDC)

to keep students and teachers safe and improve the ventilation of

schools, and to keep the interior clean and safe of the school

can also purchase personal protective equipment

and can also get additional physical space for example mobile

classroom units so that students can distance themselves within

the classroom. According to the teacher, in order to be healthy

and safe and so that the students and teachers can avoid getting

sick, we can wear face masks and we need to implement Social

Distancing to avoid getting sick among the students and inside

the school.
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CHAPTER III

METHODOLOGY

This chapter presents the operational framework of the

study. It includes the following: Research Environment, Research

Design, Participants of the study, Gathering Instrument.

RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT

This study was conducted at Lopez Jaena National High

School. Barangay Lopez Jaena, Murcia, Negros Occidental. The

school area is approximately 2 hectares.

RESEARCH DESIGN

This study used Qualitative Naturalistic Inquiry as an

approach to understand the realities of the Pre – K through 12

teachers experience after the COVID 19 Pandemic. Naturalistic

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inquiry enables the research to learn participants in the

uniqueness of an within a particular context that seeks an in-

depth understanding of social phenomena within their natural

setting. (Pattons, 1985) and in order to find constructed meaning

and better understand multiple realities(Erlando,Harrsis,

Skipper, and Allan ,1993).

PARTICIPANTS OF THE STUDY

The participants of the study were Grade 11 Teachers who

experience difficulties in teaching after the 2 years Enhance

Community Quarantine(ECQ)in Lopez Jaena National High School,

School year (2019-2022).

SAMPLING PROCEDURE

In this research, procedure may be used in order to

economizetime, money, and efforts, and arrive just the same, at

most reliable findings desired by the researchers. Random

sampling was used in the selection of participants. Further

Simple Random Sample was utilized to determine the experiences of

grade 11 Teachers and how day overcome the situation after 2

years of Enhance Community Quarantine (ECQ).

DATA GATHERING INSTRUMENTS

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The Researchers will secure permission to conduct the study

from the office of Mrs. Sta Ana, the principal of Lopez Jaena

National High School seeking for the approval to conduct the

study. After such, permission is secured, the researcher will

personally administer the interview to the target participant of

the study.

This data gathering instrument procedure aims to gather

valuable insights and experiences from teachers during the two-

year period of Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ). The procedure

includes steps to design the instrument, select participants,

administer the instrument, and analyze the collected data. The

purpose is to understand teachers' experiences during the ECQ and

develop research questions that align with the purpose. The

instrument can include demographic information, Likert-scale

questions, and open-ended questions. Participants are selected

based on factors like age, teaching experience, subject taught,

and school type. The instrument is administered by obtaining

necessary permissions, informing participants, sharing the

instrument, providing clear instructions, and setting a deadline.

Data collection and analysis are conducted, including monitoring

progress, data cleaning, and data analysis. Findings are

summarized in a clear and concise manner, focusing on key

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insights related to teachers' experiences during the ECQ. The

data collected through this procedure can contribute to improving

educational practices and supporting teachers in similar

challenging situations.

CHAPTER V

Summary of the Findings, Conclusion, and Recommendations

This chapter presents the summary of findings, conclusions,

and recommendations based on the insights from the discussion and

interpretation of data.

Summary of findings

The COVID-19 coronavirus, which is suspected to

haveoriginated in Wuhan in the Hubei province of China, has

become a global pandemic. With illegal and unregulated wildlife

markets likely to increase the risk of outbreaks in the future,

WWF commissioned Globe Scan to conduct a survey among the general

public in Hong Kong SAR, Japan, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam to

measure and better understand opinions on what support looks like

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for the closure of all illegal and unregulated markets, within

the context of the COVID-19 global pandemic.

Generalization

The Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) has brought about

significant challenges for teachers, but they have demonstrated.

remarkable resilience, adaptability, and determination in

overcoming these obstacles. Teachers have transitioned from

traditional classroom instruction to remote teaching modalities,

utilizing digital tools, adapting lesson plans, and developing

engaging instructional materials. They have also enhanced their

technological skills, embraced creative instructional approaches,

and provided student-centered support. They actively engaged in

collaboration and professional learning communities, faced

technological barriers, and demonstrated resilience in the face

of adversity. Teachers have also engaged in professional

development and self-reflection, focusing on self-reflection and

refining their remote teaching practices. These experiences and

strategies can serve as valuable insights and best practices for

future scenarios requiring remote teaching and learning.

Recommendations
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To overcome the enhanced community quarantine, teachers

should enhance their technological skills, foster collaborative

learning communities, prioritize student engagement and well-

being, embrace blended learning approaches, and advocate for

resources and support. They should adopt differentiated

instruction, reflect on instructional practices, and engage in

self-care and well-being. They should advocate for adequate

resources and support, collaborate with school administrators,

local authorities, and stakeholders to address technology-related

disparities, and seek partnerships with organizations to bridge

the digital divide. Additionally, teachers should prioritize self

care and maintain a positive mindset, embracing challenges as

opportunities for growth and adaptability in navigating future

uncertainties. By implementing these recommendations, teachers

can continue to provide high-quality education and support for

students in any educational setting.

1. For the SCHOOL PRINCIPAL, we recommend that they should

conduct programs for students and teacher that will foster good

communication and camaraderie.

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2. For the SUPERVISOR, we recommend that they should conduct

collaborate with school administrators, local authorities, and

stakeholders to address technology-related disparities, and seek

partnerships with organizations to bridge the digital divide.

3. For the TEACHER, we recommend that they should adopt

differentiated instruction, reflect on instructional practices,

and engage in self-care and well-being.

4. For the COMMUNITY, we recommend them to conduct more

engagements with one another, such as community assembly, or a

symposium regarding their life during pandemic.

5. For the FUTURE RESEARCHERS, we recommend them a further

research upon this topic with greater or more access to

respondents.
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