Reflection: Why did I choose Teaching?

Name: RVQ

Course and Year: Bachelor of Arts in Language and Literature/ 4^th year

Date: October 31, 2008

Why did you choose teaching?

Who are some of the people who affect your decision of becoming a teacher?

How did they affect your decision?

Who was your favorite teacher and why?

Who are the teacher you least like?

What are the roles of a teacher?

        With my interview with the five teachers in St. Paul University I found out that they share different reasons and passion of becoming one; and of course they have been influenced by the society, successful and goal oriented people.

According to Mrs. Mariles Aquino a faculty member of the School of Arts and Sciences; she have chosen teaching because its innate in her to talk as she talks she’s able to share her knowledge to others, and teaching for her is a passion. “You cannot just say- I will teach, rather as you go along you’ll find out that this profession entitles you to love, to have patience and to care.  You’ll soon become a teacher and its in you to find out why am I telling al this things”

Dr. Wilma Lagitao shares almost the same thing she loves teaching and it’s a great passion for her to do so, it’s also a way for her to have an access to share God’s Love. Ms. Kristne Romero a faculty from the School of Accountancy and Business; said that she had chosen teaching because she wants to grow professionally; it helps her develop her skills in communicating and developed her personality at the same time. Ms. Glyvee Gay Panganinban, RND. Also a faculty from The School of Accountancy and Business said that she have chosen this profession because she felt the divine call for her to do so, she added that she loves teaching and why is she in this struggles because she wants to affect lives. Their answers may somehow affect our perception of the profession we call “teaching” but neither it gave us a wider and ultimate understanding of how is to teach as they said it’s a passion.

Sometime in our lives we find people who in a way or two affects our decisions and eventually turn our world upside down; some polish us and makes us a better person  but sometimes there are people who totally change us from the field of misery to the world of paradise like happiness to success . These people no matter how short is their existence in our lives remain to live and grow in our hearts through the pieces of advice and mother like ways of dealing with us, their voices echo in our entirety, someone who helps us shape ourselves and their memories remain as we live. Some of the influential people Mrs. Aquino shared is  Dr. Concepcion Doyugan; who she felt has a great belief on her ability. Second her husband; who pushes her to do intellectual things. Third is her sister who is also a faculty from SAS, who supports her in all aspects. Dr. Lagitao faithfully said that it was her mother who had been a teacher in a Sunday class, her brother who is a teacher by profession and her Filipino teacher when she was in Elementary. Ms. Romero was also influenced by the different people Dr. Pamittan is one, her Co- Teachers and The students. “ their willingness to impart and handling the Job, their effort on creating a good working atmosphere and their ways of mentoring people”. While according to Ms. Panganiban it was her mother as she is a teacher by profession too, the SPC sisters who inspired her, and most of all JESUS; she believes HE is a great teacher. “ I just felt the calling” she shared.

As we Enter a particular School or University we find another environment to feed our selves, we find new delicacies of people some may be salty, others are spicy while many are sweet it’s in us how are we going to approach and deal with them. As we separate or depart from these people we’ll find ourselves living the same ways we did as we are in their care. The most influential person in these days is our teacher, we find her the best person because she knows a lot, she was respected by others and she remains to be a hero; someone who will protect us no matter. We find ourselves crying in her lap as we’ve been hurt. And as we arrive home our parents notices that what we learned from her are the same things we are applying at home- funny right but it is true.

Mrs. Aquino said that it was Dr. Concepcion Doyugan because she continuously supports he, she taught her to teach with a smile, give patience to studentry of SPUP. And all because she was her mentor; someone who listens with all her ups and downs.  Dr. Laguitao humbly answered it was her mother because she had been a model for her. Ms. Romero proudly answered that it was Dr. Mercedita Pamittan because she had been a mother to her whose support and understanding gave her a hint to continue and serves as challenge for her to continue. “What and who I am today were all because of her” she added. While Ms. Panganiban loyally answered that it was the SPC sisters because they had been her teachers before.  “They teach patiently and more on values”.

       

        Teachers are mostly loved by their students, why? Ask yourselves. The answer would be in the deepest recess of your memory that you would never want to lose, that for sure you would even want to share to your future grandchildren. Teachers are loved and remembered simply because eighty percent of our daily lives had been with them especially in our Elementary and Secondary years. Somehow we better able to share our feelings, pains, and “Kilig moments” with them because we feel at ease telling them everything knowing they wouldn’t get angry at the end instead gives us pieces of advice and tolerating our feelings in the mode we most wanted. On the other way there are times we can’t forget teachers who had mark a negative things in us. The first teacher who cause tears flow, and the teacher who had put us into shame. In anyway the teacher’s intention must have been good, but since we had taken it negatively anger and dismay grew in our hearts. Mrs. Aquino said she doesn’t like teachers who are lazy and teachers who treat students inhumanely. Dr. Laguitao specified her grade three teacher who’s a paulinian herself who also became very strict that she doesn’t treat everyone fairly. “She punishes the whole class by whipping us” she said remembering the moments she spent with that teacher. Ms. Panganiban bitterly answered that she really doesn’t want teachers who are lazy justifying her answer she said “I can’t see any effort with these types of people, unapproachable, brutal, and putting students in shame during classes. She also doesn’t want authoritative teachers who believe they know everything.

        Going out of your classrooms we are expected to perform what we learned. We, at the same time given the chance to see the roles of our teacher in our lives. Mrs. Aquino said that “a teacher is also a mother, a friend, a role model in which at the end of the session the students learned and able to apply it in what we call LIFE.”

Dr. Laguitao answered that a teacher is a role model of GOD’s Love, one who is with high in righteousness and who have all the traits at the book of Galatians 5:19-12.

While Ms. Romero said a teacher is an Educator, a mentor, a shepherd, and a secondary parents. And last but not the least Ms. Panganiban answered a teacher is someone who teaches, guides, supports, learns and listens to the students and the needy.

Our experiences in life especially in school greatly affects our perceptions, we find good and not so good teachers, we were better able to distinguished terror and humble teachers, some could either be found as approachable and many are not. With all this experiences we sometime find ourselves bulliying this types of teachers we tend to name them according to how we see them, somehow because we hate them. All this things contribute to our satisfaction