Weekend gone and school days are here again . . .
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 6:45 AM
For teachers who have been in the job for more than four decades,teaching is a vocation. Still a weekend is a reprieve from a week's activity-filled set of days. Like this weekend, it is gone so tomorrow, Monday is the first day of a week filled with varied sessions.
Yet every semester is never the same even if the subjects being taught are the same. Of course one reason is because the students are as unique one person is from the other. Another is the different time frame that makes all the other days in the past just that and another week of the present time is the time to reckon with. Then of course there is the teacher who comes in with a rejuvenated enthusiasm especially if she just came from a good summer vacation, like me!
How I wish teachers are given more opportunities to have vacations that not only pamper them but give them the time of their life - island-hopping, dinner at top Marco Polo, swimming in Maribago, coffee in Waterfront and church visits and in between shopping spree . . .
In the meantime, just for this weekend, it is gone and tomorrow, back to earth . . . back to school once again.
Every moment of our life is a teaching moment . . .
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 7:53 PM
Many moments transpire in a day or so. Multiply this in a day or week or month or year and the challenge becomes gargantuan. Recently, I went to Cebu, Philippines to spend few days of summer vacation with my son and daughter. Other than the good moments came the sad moments when "melancholia" became real for me. I even came to the realization again and again when in fact it is almost a given: Every moment of our life is a teaching moment. This melancholia I refer to points to this almost uncontrollable feeling of sadness and loneliness when loved ones are not with me. More and more I pray to overcome it and as I say, learn from this moment.
Jerry Sandusky, called a child predator, was convicted by a jury of his peers, 45 out of 48 sex counts; a priest accused of molesting an altar boy and many other related cases make us even sadder. May there be more moments that will make us smile and rejoice that life is good.
May this realization begin with our own families and ultimately with our own self. God bless!!!
June 13 is formal first day of classes: welcome guys!
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 10:58 PM
My teaching load consists of 3 Education 108 classes (Intro. to Guidance & Counseling including Special Education), 2 Education 137 classes (Values Education) and 2 English 134 classes (English for Specific Purposes). I met the two classes and the feeling of seeing young people is the same as ever: fresh faces, eager eyes and so truly I told them: Welcome guys!
Most of the students who take these subjects are in their third and fourth year levels but their attitude is basically the same: openness to new ideas which always reminds me why I am still teaching although physically and emotionally the desire is too strong to retire.
Expect pictures of these young minds who always make teachers young and ever energetic to communicate and hopefully share ideas that make these future mentors better equipped once they become teachers themselves!
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