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By ALEXANDER LOPEZ

BUTUAN CITY – The number of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) infections in the Caraga Region continues to increase as new cases were confirmed by the Department of Health (DOH-13) on Saturday afternoon (August 22).

A total of 146 reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) results were received by the agency on Saturday from the GeneXpert TB Reference Laboratory of Butuan Medical Center, Southern Philippines Medical Center and Davao One World, of which 35 are positive for the Covid-19 virus.

The DOH-13 said that of the new cases, 24 are locally stranded individuals (LSIs), three are returning overseas Filipinos (ROFs), five are local transmission cases in Butuan City, two are close contacts of previously confirmed cases, and one is a hospital non-medical worker.

About 71 percent or 25 of the new cases are asymptomatic while 29 percent, or 10, have exhibited mild to moderate symptoms.

The DOH-13 said asymptomatic cases are strictly monitored in the designated quarantine facilities while symptomatic patients are

Addressing challenges in special education under the ‘new normal’

By MARGORIE O. GUIRITAN SPET I Mambajao Central School

Because of the COVWhat you do and how you ID-19 situation in the counbehave as an adult tends to try, DepEd has developed a be the biggest influence on Basic Education-Learning how your children act. They Continuity Plan (LCP) to be are watching and learning implemented this upcoming from you every day. You can school year 2020-2021. In the use this fact to help instruct BE-LCP, DepEd assured that your children. Special Education (SPED) is In addition to sharing included in the various learninformation, talking helps ing delivery modalities being to build relationships. It is prepared to ensure learning through connections that continuity of learners with people learn to trust each exceptionalities. other and grow. The more

However, as special edyour children feel secure in ucation teachers, how are their relationship with you, we going to address these the more readily they will challenges under the “new learn from you. normal”? As you spend time to

Face-to-face interaction is gether, share with them your very vital in teaching special experiences, feelings, and education. Now, we are beset values related to the skills on partnering with the parbeing taught. Invite your ents in order to still attain full children to share with you and optimum learning among their feelings and thoughts, children with special needs. and help them to identify This posts a great challenge, their pride and sense of acespecially when we deal with complishment when they the working parents, yet, we learn something new or finish must exert maximum effort a task. and patience for learning to These internal feelings continue. then become the self-mo

As a parent, you have tivating factors that drive many opportunities throughyour children to continue to out any day to influence learn. Yes, it is very challengand teach your children. ing but with the combined Sometimes that can happen super powers of the teachers deliberately, like when you and the parents in this new show them how to tie their normal, the teaching and shoes; or it can happen uninlearning of children with tentionally, as your children special needs will be attainobserve you doing things. able and achievable.

Managing optimum patience and calmness in dealing with children with special needs

By MARGORIE O. GUIRITAN SPET I Mambajao Central School

Teachers of all levels that empowers this type of should know their classrooms learner to gain success. Also, will represent a variety of it is up to this teacher to take cultural backgrounds, learntime and comprehend each ing styles and intellectual student’s individual needs abilities, most significantly so that frustrating situations when you are teaching chilcan be avoided. dren with special needs. Also, it is essential to

Teachers should be patient provide a calm temperament and calm and help maintain when dealing with these type a balance between their own of learners. Many children expectations and the learners’ must balance behavioral and unique abilities. For me, it is learning issues, so a classvery challenging but what room environment can be drives me most, is my love, extremely stressful. An efmy passion, my commitment fective teacher will be able in handling children with to calm his or her students special needs. They are so so that anxiety is reduced. special to me and they bring When children feel safe, they so much fufillment towards are more likely to be open to me that they are making learning. the works lighter and more More so, values of pamanageable. I just love dealtience and calmness must ing and teaching them, I call always go with each other it my calling. especially when dealing with

When a child has special children with special needs. needs, patience is a must. And while these children Since this type of learner takes learn so much from me, longer to perform simple actually, in my own realizatasks, understanding is key tions and actualizations, I for development. No matter am learning a lot from them how long it takes, a special consequently. They just don’t education teacher must give realize it, but to be honest, a child time to complete the they are the ones who taught task. Having a good sense of me how to be more patient, humor will help along the how to be more understandway. Although the classroom ing, and most of all how to is a place for serious learning, be more calm amidst life’s dealing with a special needs challenges. And with that, I child will require the ability to will be forever truly grateful create a cheerful environment to my pupils.

Learning Delivery Modalities in the

COVID 19 pandemic brings a lot of changes in many aspects of our lives. One of these is the new delivery of learning. To ensure the continuous implementation of the K-12 Curriculum and basic education program, Department of Education tries to change the landscape of learning delivery. The implementation of this learning modality comes along with curriculum modification and adjustment, alignment of learning materials, and teacher training. The Department of Education mandates every school leaders with the help of stakeholders to prepare a learning continuity plan which will serve as guide for the teachers, parents and learners for the new normal. New Normal

By GRACE S. LAVIDEZ Bongbongon Elementary School

Master Teacher I

There are four different learning modalities introduced by DepEd in this time of pandemic. These are Face to face, Distance Learning, Blended learning and Home Schooling Program. Face to face learning modality is the common way of delivering the lesson via face to face in a classroom. However this is subject to physical distancing and minimum health standards due to the pandemic. Distance learning is a modality where pupils learn even at distance from a teacher. It can be categorized into three types; modular distance learning, online teaching, ETV and radiobased instruction. Blended learning is a combination of distance learning and face to face. Home Schooling is a program under alternative delivery mode where the pupil learns from qualified parents, guardians or tutors. In choosing the appropriate modality, basic things must be put into considerations. Like the access, conditions/ situations, readiness and availability of resources. We must also consider the context and situation of the learners in our respective area.

The new modalities of learning brings doubt and worries to the teachers, parents and pupils. However, we must keep in mind that education must continue. With the recent situation that we have, it is indeed necessary to collaborate with one another to ensure that the continuity of quality education to every child is being achieved.

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:

That the late DOMINGO Q. PAGALING, who died on September 30, 1992, at Claveria, Misamis Oriental, died intestate, without will or testament, and without any outstanding debts in favor of any person or entity; at the time of his death the deceased left a parcel of land with TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-9078, situated in kilay-a, Municipality of Claveria, Province of Misamis Oriental, Island of Mindanao, containing an area of THIRTEEN THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED THIRTY THREE (13,233) square meters, more or less, and has been the subject of an EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE filed by the heirs of DOMINGO Q. PAGALING, per DOC #274; PAGE #55; BOOK #II; Series of 2019, under the Notarial Registry of ATTY. BUDDY REY L. LOSANDE. admitted at identified hospitals for management.

The new Covid-19 cases in the region are distributed in the following areas: Butuan City (9); in Agusan del Sur - Bayugan City (4), Rosario (1), San Francisco (2), San Luis (2), Talacogon (1); in Surigao del Norte - Sta. Monica (1), Taganaan (1); in Surigao del Sur - Bayabas (2), Carmen (1), Lianga (1), San Miguel (3); in the Province of Dinagat Islands - Cagdianao (2), Loreto (4), and San Jose (1).

As of Saturday, Caraga Region has a total of 455 Covid-19 cases with 333 recoveries, 118 active cases and four recorded deaths.

Butuan City has a total of 161 cases with 110 recoveries, 48 active cases and three recorded deaths.

“Our cases are continuously rising just as we are continuously moving. We call on everyone to increase vigilance and be accountable to our own health,” DOH13 director Jose R. Llacuna said in a statement Sunday (August 23).

He also urged the public to “stay away from the three big Cs: Closed spaces that have poor ventilation, crowded areas, and closedcontact settings especially where people have closerange conversations.”

Llacuna added that the risk of clustering of cases or cases that will most likely increase is when these 3Cs overlap.

“When these settings are not avoided and we do not protect ourselves, then there is a high risk of getting the infection,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Province of Dinagat Islands (PDI) is no longer free from Covid-19 as the DOH-13 announced on Saturday afternoon its first seven cases.

In a statement, the Provincial Inter-Agency Task Force of PDI said that in the past months, despite the limitations of the health care system and quarantine capacity, more than 2,000 LSIs were welcomed in the

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE AMONG HEIRS WITH WAIVER OF RIGHTS AND ABSOLUTE SALE

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:

That the late PRISCILLA C. YAÑEZ, who died on October 21, 2014 at Opol, Misamis Oriental, without any will and testament; that the said deceased, at the time of her death left a parcel of real property covered by Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-30602 situated at Barangay Poblacion, Opol, Misamis Oriental, containing an area of ONE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-EIGHT SQUARE METERS (1,188sq.m) and has been the subject of an EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE AMONG HEIRS WITH WAIVER OF RIGHTS AND ABSOLUTE SALE, filed by the heirs of PRISCILLA C. YAÑEZ, in favor of KEVIN JAY YAÑEZ CELESTIANO, per DOC #48; PAGE #11; BOOK #13; Series of 2020, under the Notarial Registry ATTY. PALAWAN S. LUCMAN, JR. province.

“We all knew the risks associated with the entry of LSIs and returning overseas Filipinos, as we have seen in other provinces. However, we did not hesitate to welcome them because they are our fellow citizens—our neighbors, relatives, and friends. Our way of handling this situation, since the beginning, has always been based on human rights and guided by compassion,” the statement said.

The Task Force also assured the people of PDI that it is ready, together with the provincial government and the national line agencies to ensure the containment of Covid-19 to avoid any transmission to the general population with the help of the municipal counterparts and front-liners.

“We have already prepared for this—with our communities as our frontline—since the beginning of our efforts to ensure the health and safety of each and every Dinagatnon,” the task force said. (PNA)

EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE OF EXEQUIEL N. TIA WITH WAIVER OF RIGHTS AND CONSOLIDATING OF SHARES

Notice is hereby that the intestate of the afore-named persons are the surviving spouse and children of EXEQUIL N. TIA who died on November 17, 2008 at Ozamis City;

DECEASED died intestate, without Will and Testament and without any debts or asccounts;

DECEASED left conjugal parcel Transfer Certificate of Title No. (T-6090) T-354 more particularly described as follows;

“Lot No. 91-H3 of the subdivision plan (LRC) Psd-193146, LRC Cad. record No.1626) situatied in the Barrio of Centro, Tangub City, Island of Mindanao. Bounded on the NE., points 2 to 3 by lot 91-1(LRC) Psd-193146; on the SE., points 3-4 by Lot 91-H-5; and points 4 to 5 by 91-H-4, both of the subdivision plan on the SE., points 5 to 1 by Lot 90, Tangub Cad., and the NW., points 1 to 2 by Lot 91-H-2., on the subdivision plan. Containing an area of Four Hundred Sixty Two (462) Square Meters more or less. Meanwhile, except for Richard G. Tia these named heirs co-owned a parcel of land adjacent to TCT No. T-6090) T-354 and this is covered by Transfer Certificate of Title No. 41-2012000041 particularly described below:

“A parcel of land (lot 91-H-2-B. Psd-10-064488) portion of lot 9-H-2, (LRC) Psd-253568; surveyed for Conchita Gallego; Land Use-Residential, situated in Centro, Tangub City, Misamis Occidental, Island of Mindanao. Bounded on the NE; along line 1-2 by lot 91-H-2-A, Psd-10-064488 on the NE; along line 3-4 by existing brgy. road lot 91-1, (LRC) Psd-193146 on the SE; along line 4-5 by lot 91-H-3, (LRC) Psd-253568 on the SW; along line 5-6 by lot 90, CAD-27, Tangub Cadastre on the NW; along line 6-1 by lot 91-H-1, (LRC) Psd-253568. Containing an area of Three Hundred Thirty Two (332) square meters.”

It is the desire of the mentioned co-owners to terminate their co-ownership of the parcels of land covered by Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-6090) T-354and Transfer Certificate of Title No. 141-201-2000041 for the full enjoyment and use of their respective shares.

By virtue of these presents, the heirs/co-owners of the two parcels of land covered by Transfer Certificate of Title No. 141-2012000041 agree to CONSOLIDATE the said adjoining lands and to subdivide them in such purpose that will make their shares compact, continuous, and contiguous. Under Notary Public of Atty. IVY S. MANAGO ; as per Doc. No. 378; Page No. 77; Book No. VII; Series of 2012