Perceptions and Teachers’ Experiences of Distance Learning Towards Challenges in the New Normal Education

Objective: This research study explored the experiences and perceptions of distance learning towards readiness and the challenges teachers face in implementing Distance Learning in the New Normal. Methods: An adopted survey questionnaire was used to collect the challenges faced by 140 teacher respondents during the COVID-19 pandemic for the SY 2021-2022. The data on lived experiences, perceptions, and challenges met by teachers was fielded online via Google Forms. Findings: Data revealed the challenges met in module preparation were highly evident with a mean of 3.46, the distribution of module garnered a 3.49 mean as highly evident, and retrieval of module got a mean of 3.01 interpreted as moderately evident. Formative assessment results are moderately evident with a mean of 3.38, while summative assessment is highly evident with a mean of 3.41. In the implementation of distance learning home visitation, remediation was a moderate and highly evident challenge with a mean average of 3.33 and 3.47 respectively. However, challenges met by teachers in new normal education were moderate to highly evident. The teachers expressed their readiness to switch to distance learning education; they felt hampered due to a lack of facilities, equipment, and capacity building for distance learning education. The results showed no budget in the modular setup of education, learners are not available at home. Sometimes learners did not seriously answer the module and have unrealistic answers about their work on the module. Novelty: Many challenges emerge inadequate knowledge, time management, reliability, and validity of learners’ performance are difficult to identify, only a few or very low retrieval of modules of the learners, and performance of learners was low from preparation to retrieval of modules. Advanced further tests were done on a bigger sample to validate other challenges of distance learning modalities in new normal education. Keywords: Perception, New normal education, Distance learning, Teachers experiences