{"id":273864,"date":"2020-11-02T22:59:25","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T03:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=273864"},"modified":"2020-11-02T22:59:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T03:59:25","slug":"deped-adjusts-4-quarters-of-school-year-2020-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/11\/02\/deped-adjusts-4-quarters-of-school-year-2020-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"DepEd adjusts 4 quarters of school year 2020-2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_270186\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-270186\" style=\"width: 1520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/120189847_4017025068357157_3328045986252055312_o-e1601353395633.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-270186\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/120189847_4017025068357157_3328045986252055312_o-e1601353395633.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1520\" height=\"1392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/120189847_4017025068357157_3328045986252055312_o-e1601353395633.jpg 1520w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/120189847_4017025068357157_3328045986252055312_o-e1601353395633-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/120189847_4017025068357157_3328045986252055312_o-e1601353395633-768x703.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/120189847_4017025068357157_3328045986252055312_o-e1601353395633-1024x938.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1520px) 100vw, 1520px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-270186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The DepEd extended the first quarter of the school year up to Dec. 12, 2020. (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/DepartmentOfEducation.PH\/photos\/a.380071542052546\/4017025061690491\">File Photo: DepEd Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Department of Education (DepEd) has adjusted the four quarters for school year 2020-2021 in response to the &#8220;key challenges\u201d in teaching students during the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>In DepEd Memorandum issued on October 30, DepEd Undersecretary for Curriculum and Instruction Diosdado San Antonio said the decision is part of the suggested measures to foster &#8220;academic ease&#8221; during the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio also said that DepEd Secretary Leonor Briones has been &#8220;closely monitoring the delivery of basic education services\u201d in public schools since October in collaboration with the Executive and Management Committees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a need to recalibrate the strategy of assigning teaching responsibilities of teachers and learning activities of the learners with the assistance of their parents,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The DepEd extended the first quarter of the school year up to Dec. 12, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The second quarter would start from Jan. 4, 2021 to Feb. 27, 2021; the third quarter, Mar. 1, 2021 to Apr. 24, 2021; and fourth quarter, Apr. 26, 2021 to Jun 11, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The week of Dec. 14 to 19, 2020 will be devoted to In-Service Training (INSET) which may include MELCs (Most Essential Learning Competencies)-based Quarter 2 planning for Distance Learning Delivery Modalities (DLDM),&#8221; San Antonio said.<\/p>\n<p>Briones earlier scheduled the first quarter Oct. 5 to Nov. 28, 2020; second quarter, Dec. 1, 2020 to Feb. 6, 2021; third quarter, Feb. 15, 2021 to Apr. 10, 2021; and the fourth quarter from Apr. 12, 2021 to June 5, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Department of Education (DepEd) has adjusted the four quarters for school year 2020-2021 in response to the &#8220;key &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":270186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ma-teresa-montemayor","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273877,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273864\/revisions\/273877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}