Art of Letting Go: The Fun and Pain of Classroom Advising
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...