I am listening now to a song of the same title as this entry. I am done writing the minimum competencies for 2nd and 3rd year high school. I am yet to write one for the 4th year. These minimum competencies will become the bases of the syllabus that we teachers are to design.
As I was writing the curriculum objectives, I was visited with an army of ideas on how to execute them in the classroom. I have learned so many techniques in my eight years of teaching. Yet, none of these technique is a sure fire in the classroom. Every child in the classroom is a new being I have to deal with. Every classroom is different to every other classroom I have handled before.
One prominent thought that visited me was a warning. Most of what are education today trained students on how to answer questions like WHAT IS THE CAPITAL OF Paris? or WHAT IS A VERB, A NOUN, AN ADJECTIVE, GALAXY, NEUTRON, MEAN, CHI SQUARE, OR ANYTHING? which if given just another short glance would amount to nothing. It has been a tradition of modern schools to let the students master the world outside of him without even nurturing the world inside him.
I have yet to hear again a teacher who tried to convince a child that he is a marvel, that no one is like him in huge expanse of the universe. Every child child in a classroom could be a Gandhi, a Rembrandt, a president of a country. We tell them of how the great people dress or talk but we don't tell them that they can be the great people we are talking in the classroom for the fiber that compose those great people is the same people that compose each and every child in the class.
The teachers low self-esteem is partly to blame. Most of the teachers in the classroom think that they are nothing compared to the great people, the makers and shakers of the world, they talked about in the classroom that it is easy for them to forget that they are actually dealing with the future great persons in the world. It is necessary to deal with them now for them to become the best that they can be.
By the way, I have now come into the conclusion that a teacher is root of all the great and notorious people in the world. The very good teacher is much better than a Gandhi or a Rembrandt. The nobleness of the teacher's profession is more than the sum of all the other professions combine. A teacher can be the most constructive/destructive force set into motion. I have my choice.
I want to be the positive change in the world of my students.
As I was writing the curriculum objectives, I was visited with an army of ideas on how to execute them in the classroom. I have learned so many techniques in my eight years of teaching. Yet, none of these technique is a sure fire in the classroom. Every child in the classroom is a new being I have to deal with. Every classroom is different to every other classroom I have handled before.
One prominent thought that visited me was a warning. Most of what are education today trained students on how to answer questions like WHAT IS THE CAPITAL OF Paris? or WHAT IS A VERB, A NOUN, AN ADJECTIVE, GALAXY, NEUTRON, MEAN, CHI SQUARE, OR ANYTHING? which if given just another short glance would amount to nothing. It has been a tradition of modern schools to let the students master the world outside of him without even nurturing the world inside him.
I have yet to hear again a teacher who tried to convince a child that he is a marvel, that no one is like him in huge expanse of the universe. Every child child in a classroom could be a Gandhi, a Rembrandt, a president of a country. We tell them of how the great people dress or talk but we don't tell them that they can be the great people we are talking in the classroom for the fiber that compose those great people is the same people that compose each and every child in the class.
The teachers low self-esteem is partly to blame. Most of the teachers in the classroom think that they are nothing compared to the great people, the makers and shakers of the world, they talked about in the classroom that it is easy for them to forget that they are actually dealing with the future great persons in the world. It is necessary to deal with them now for them to become the best that they can be.
By the way, I have now come into the conclusion that a teacher is root of all the great and notorious people in the world. The very good teacher is much better than a Gandhi or a Rembrandt. The nobleness of the teacher's profession is more than the sum of all the other professions combine. A teacher can be the most constructive/destructive force set into motion. I have my choice.
I want to be the positive change in the world of my students.
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