Ten years from now as an Educator (Reflection #5)

Being into teaching is truly a calling. It requires qualities beyond the real you and indeed needs an open arm to embrace different students with different cultural background. For many, it’s a dream call because it requires patience most importantly. Reason that I made a shift from my business course to education. I know it is very hard for me because my patience is not that good. I took this as a very big challenge and eventually I can visualize myself as an educator who believes that teaching is not just an ordinary job, but a job to love for it can change our own society and even the world.

            Ten years from now, I know with confidence, that I will be a good educator even with human imperfection and yet I will try to do the best I can be. Future generation will truly be aggressive learners. It’s very hard to handle them especially that they are exposing much to the world through internet and even the wild society. Because my goal is to change them, a very challenging part, I should really have to start changing myself that leads me to totally be human. As the saying goes “You cannot give what you don’t have”. So, it is very impossible to impart learning to your students when even yourself you don’t have a very good learning. So, with that, I can be able to be an example to them. I would also want to stress out that in handling my students, I will not be the old school teacher who will just shout and spank their students who are doing inappropriate things. I will be calm in handling them. Be mindful about why such student is acting inappropriately or even check his/her background. After that, I will be pushing to what is the right procedure to change his/her way. I will not just be a teacher to them but also a friend. I believe that when you impart friendship to your students, they will build confidence in you and will not be ashamed to share whatever mishaps they have with their lives. I mean the friendship creating a very good learning environment and not friendship with monetary value especially towards the parents.

            With my studies, I know I will learn a lot but learning from the real world is the very practical way to evaluate yourself on who really you are and what kind of educator you are in the future. So, ten years from now, I am looking forward to teach and be a teacher with high values and is willing to change lives so they can be a very good help to our society.  J

My Philosophy of Education as a Grade School Teacher (Reflection #4)

I believe that every child

·         is a rational being.

·         is unique and should be given a chance to express himself freely.

·         has the right to practice his free will and choice.

·         is a developing body and thus be given a very good example for him to look at.

I believe that values are eternal and I am also responsible to the growth of some aspects of every child   and become effective citizens of our society.

I believe that my task as a teacher is to facilitate the development of every child holistically by:

·         doing good things and practicing values outside and inside the classroom, so I can serve as role model of every child.

·         teaching the basic skills to prepare my students to adult life.

·         helping every child appreciate their own selves and know their worth by giving them the freedom to express who really they are and what they want.

·         making the learning environment conducive to their learning by making it sure that everywhere is clean and well arranged.

·         helping the children use their reasoning ability through allowing them see situations before and after.

·         giving them appreciation to whatever achievements they might have and giving more patience to  children who cannot immediately cope my lessons.

·         giving students hands-on activities so they may see reality through self experimentation.

·         giving students mental, physical and spiritual activities.