Professionalization and the Nobility of Teaching: The Need for Humanized Education

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How noble is the teaching profession? It’s the noblest of all! Indeed, teaching is one of the highly regarded and respected professions in the world due to its integrity and dignity as a profession for humanity.
In the Philippines, one of the first steps undertaken to elevate the nobility of teaching as a profession is the Republic Act 7836 (Philippine Teachers Professionalization Act of 1994) that has been enacted primarily to strengthen the regulation and supervision of the practice of teaching in the Philippines and prescribing a licensure examination for teachers. Thus, it is also called the LET Law. Therefore, in becoming professional, teachers need to have exceptional teaching skills and license to be called the professional teacher.
As professionals, teachers mold someone’s life in the context of educating humans in conformity with the norms and standards set by society. They are entrusted to prepare the students for life and for work. Thus, it is a prerequisite for every teacher to foster morale, hard work, and excellence in realizing the goals of education as the clientele look up to every teacher with high regard and respect.
Aside from facilitating learning, teachers play as an opportunity-giver. An opportunity opens and widens students’ meaningful learning experiences. It typically triggers the real potentiality of learners that just needed to be discovered and be showcased. Students build confidence through people whom they deemed possessing ideal and good qualities to follow with.
Teachers are also catalysts of change. In their hands, the students become knowledgeable, equipped, and prepared for the world. Though teachers have the capacity to make and unmake students, their influences really fall on the positive and progressive change of the totality of the students as human beings.
Truly, teaching is both an investment and a fruit of labor. In this sense, a teacher really needs a big heart to accomplish and execute this huge task of humanizing people. 

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