When pandemic hits the world, nobody is prepared for even the owner of the schools and universities. As an educational organization there is a need to continue and accept change. For all we know that change is constant and only permanent in this world. Educational system was forced to embrace and adopt digital learning. The new normal setting which is the virtual learning becomes the new set up in school. There?s a lot of virtual tools that came from learning management platform, for video conferencing, for class discussion and email messaging. Pedagogical approaches and techniques should be given attention and importance. Hence, there is a need to conduct a research study relating to virtual tools and pedagogical approaches to determine the efficient and effective ones. This research study aimed to determine the pedagogical approaches of teachers from private schools in an online classroom. Descriptive method of research was utilized. The participants were private school teachers. The participants were from five prestigious schools in Metro Manila with a population size of 180. The participants of the research were all selected irrespective or their rank and or position. The results revealed that majority of the teachers were female with a bachelor?s degree and mostly teaching in Junior High school and handling different subject matter. The participants mostly utilized Schoology in terms of Learning Management System, Gmail in terms of Email messaging, MS Teams in terms of Video Conferencing, live chat and screen sharing, The participants strongly agree in managing social interactions and learning support on the dimensions of pedagogical approaches used in the classroom. There is no significant relationship in pedagogical approaches when grouped according to sex, education, years of teaching, subject handled and grade assignment. The top management may provide effective and efficient tools for Synchronous and Asynchronous class of students to be applied in Learning Management System, Email messaging and Video conferencing. For pedagogical approaches in different areas such as managing social interaction the conflict may be resolve using online educational games and interactive activities. In instructional design, the top management may implement Instruction Delivery Monitoring System for Synchronous and Asynchronous class. In guiding the use of technology, teachers may monitor the students by giving classroom netiquette in proper usage of technology. Furthermore, in learning assessment and learning support teacher may monitor the progress of the students by using technology-based assessment and virtual learning activities. Lastly, the management may provide professional development to teachers by trainings and seminars to help them improve their knowledge and skills in Virtual learnings. Teachers may also adopt and integrate different virtual tools and pedagogical approaches in teaching.

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