Tuesday, 13 December 2016

Reflection in Special Education and Alternative Learning System

Republic of the Philippines
MINDANAO STATE UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION


Name: Mariz T. Ombajin                                          Sched: 10:30-11:30
Subject: Cite 3                                                          Prof.: Diane Mae P. Ulanday
REFLECTION
Special Education is not just a simple education where pupils and teachers can easily understand and communicate each other base in normal classroom set-up. Special Education is really something special where the pupils in this curriculum must take more attention compare to normal set up, where they should have enough special needs for their special capabilities and special provisions for their different conditions.
 I learned from our seminar that children with special needs have many types and these are the children with gifted knowledge, skills or talents, where from the very young age they easily understand the lessons or can even advance their lessons and compete to higher year level; children with autism, I learned that these kind of children are mostly boys and good looking and have repetitive works; cerebral palsy, these children have no muscular coordination ;children with down syndrome, these children are young at mind but matured based on their body they have similar with children with autism; mental retardation are the most severe case, where they could not recognize their parents or  family; children with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), these children are very energetic and productive where they always want to catch the attention of everybody; learning disabilities, children with difficult to comprehend; children with different impairments in visual, hearing and physical and also the children with behavioral problems, where mostly they are so violent.
Children with special needs or even the adult one should be understand and accept in society as part of it because they still human after all even though they think and act as young they still have feelings and can feel indifference. Love and care are still the best remedy for these special people.



REFLECTION
 Alternative Learning System is a ladderized, modular non-formal education program in the Philippines for dropouts in elementary and secondary schools, out-of-school youths, non-readers, working Filipinos and even senior citizens. It is part of the educational system of the Philippines but an alternative to the regular classroom studies where Filipino students are required to attend daily. The alternative system only requires students to choose schedules according to their choice and availability where they could still work at weekdays and study in weekend.
ALS help the people to become more educated and accessible to knowledge through this program many dropouts and out of school youth continue to follow their dreams and hoping for a better future where mostly they continue their education and trying to get a degree in college in order to have a good and decent job.
Moreover, it may be true that the ALS of the Philippines have been a great help to anybody, but for my insights the education that they offer to the learners cannot suffice the educational needs for them to qualify for higher education and even to land in good and decent jobs. The students may have acquired the basic literacy but that is not enough for them to qualify for pursuing higher education especially if they go back to formal schools. The quality education is at risk. They may have learned the basics of education but then again, in our current society wherein it is very competitive, the need for higher education is still the demand to qualify for jobs. But then again ALS is still a great help for only getting the basic knowledge and it’s up to the learners on how to cope up the lessons and compete in college to have a more good and decent jobs in the future.





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