IN PREPARATION for the blended learning scheme this school year, the Schools Division Office of Zambales has organized an online training for educators that includes a workshop in writing radio scripts.

The “Online Training-Workshop on the Development of Radio-based Scripts in English and Mother Tongue Multi-Lingual Education in G2 and G1 Sambal” aims to enhance the knowledge and skills of teachers in writing scripts, so they can develop radio-based instruction scripts and transform alternative delivery mode self-learning modules into scripts.

Training participants comprise 26 teachers, two Education Program supervisors, a PSDS/MTB coordinator, a Schools Division English coordinator, and two members of technical working group.

The workshop is on September 1 to 2 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. via Google Meet.

Department of Education Undersecretary Alain Pascua has issued a memorandum seeking teacher-broadcasters that can help in the production of DepEd TV, DepEd Radio, and DepEd Teleradyo episodes that will be telecast nationwide.

Earlier, the agency has begun the test broadcast of DepEd TV episodes on state-run Interconti-nental Broadcasting Corp. and Solar Learning. However, photos of a Grade 8 lesson went viral as netizens slammed what some described as “painful” errors in the lesson.

While DepEd has acknowledged the errors and vowed to make improvements on its TV broad-cast content, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, chairman of the Senate Committee on Basic Educa-tion, Arts, and Culture, said quality control should not be compromised amid the rush to make learning resources available when classes open.

“We’ll probably have another hearing on the content aspect of distance learning because quality control is very important,” Gatchalian said.