Teaching for a Living

As teachers, we want to be the best for our students. Through the years of my teaching experience, I’ve been wondering about the ingredients that are needed in order for me to be the great teacher that I want to be. As always mentioned, a teacher: needs to have mastery of the subject matter; establishes rapport with the students; has good classroom management skills; has a sense of humor; and the like. If we want our students to explicit good behavior, we need to be good on them. This idea coincides to the sayings “Love begets love” and “Do good unto others if you want them to do good unto you.” If the students are disciplined positively, with no prejudices and biases, goodness in them prevails no matter what wildness they have inside. Sometimes students misbehaved due to the way we approach and treat them. If we want to enforce good discipline practices, instilling responsibility with the sense of accountability. As Kerrigan (2013) explained, for students to have a successful yea...

Filipino, wikang panlahat Salamin ng lahing dakila’t matapat Panambitan ng lahing marikit Panaghoy ng mga pusong kumakandirit O wikang bida sa bayan ni Juan Tinuruan mo ang lahing lumaban Magka-boses, dumaing, sumalag, tumahan Pinagbuklod ang idelohiyang sangang-daan ‘Sang laksa ang tuwa ‘pag ika’y sinasalita Nagpapaalala kung gaano ka kadakila Ika’y produkto ng sama-samang paggawa Ng bayang bagama’t iba-iba, iyo namang pinag-isa Sa pagkakaisa’y mabisa kang instrumento Lundayan ka ng mga argumento Bigkasin ka’y hindi mapapako Narririnig ka saan man magtungo Nang masambit ka’y ano’ng tuwa Ang masaysay ka’y labis kong dinarakila Pagkatao ko’y tumataas kapag daka Pintakasi, Filipino kong minumutya

Being an adviser, at times taxing, tedious, and stressing. Aside from the challenges advising brings, being connected to your students and sharing the hardships and fruits of education with them are truly fulfilling. As a classroom teacher, we experienced to be their second parent, friend, buddy, role model, and protector. It's an experience that is incomparable and unmatched.   For a year and two months, I enjoyed the opportunity of being a parent and a friend. Those students that I handled brought the best in me. Though at times, they are causing troubles and mishaps, such petty things are just a natural part of the profession we are into. Apart from those negative things, advising makes us stronger and develop us as professional teachers. The emotional attachment and bonding that we had with those students make us humane and caring beings. That is why being apart to those students whom you cherished and treated as your own children are the most heart-aching thing that an a...

My conscience is crippling me right now. It's hard when you utter words toward students that you should have not said and you are only saying such as to reprimand them anyway. Anger sometimes makes you look and feel evil. That is why when it occurs and happens unintentionally, it really strikes hard. Though this should not be the last resort for the teacher, at times, we are saying harsh words to students as a way of disciplining them and signaling the weight of their misbehavior in the class. For some teachers, this method is quite working, but I do not adhere to it personally. No matter how good your intentions are as a teacher, the means should always be good and just even for those unruly students. As what Machiavelli apprehended “mean justifies the end." As a novice teacher, I admit that my patience is quite shorter as compared to those seasoned ones. But I'm not trying to make this as an excuse though. I know I’m a newbie in this field and I want to fill what...