By Cyrus A. Natividad

Zaida Navarro Layog, a graduate of the CPU College of Agriculture, is now a Principal.

The Covid-19 pandemic remains to be a challenge to the education sector, as the transition from face-to-face classes to other modes of learning continues. It has a bigger impact when teachers have to adjust themselves to facilitate the change in the educational learning system; mostly in places where internet signal is intermittent.

A Centralian educator and Principal II of Don Ignacio Ramirez Memorial School, District of Lambunao West in Iloilo, Mrs. Zaida Navarro Layog shares her experience on how she’s able to manage and facilitate the modular system to her teachers and students despite the difficulties. Layog said, “The transfer from face-to-face instruction to a new learning management system has changed the teachers’ discipline and routines. On the other hand, it provided a chance for parents to engage learning with their children at home.”

In an Interview, Layog said, “parents who are working and those who are less educated; leave their child with no assistance for distance learning. Teachers are left with no choice, but to partake in the challenge for the benefit of their students.”

She added that “The challenge to our teachers comes with students who are in the remote areas with insufficient or no signal at all. Monitoring the students’ performance has become more difficult, thus we make our initiative to source out support for our students.” Layog encourages her teachers to assist parents and students in their distance learning. This requires the teachers’ initiative and commitment.

Mrs. Zaida Navarro Layog is a Graduate of Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Economics – (CPU 1982) and a 4th Batch COCOFED Scholar. She preferred to teach and is now a School Principal II of the Don Ignacio Ramirez Memorial School in Lambunao, Iloilo.

She is married to Jinny I. Layog with four children: Jiza Ruana, Jeshra Faye, Justin Jil, and JZ Carlo Serafin.