A research in the making: CaseAnalysis of Left-Handed Students
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 7:16 AM
Introduction
It is without a doubt a source of wonder to right-handed persons how the left-handed ones go about their lives and vice-versa. Being right handed, the researchers take up this challenge to understand better the status of the left-handed especially since all of them are college students and are presently in Education.Through this research too, the university where the students are enrolled in have the responsibility to do their share to serve better the left-handed students in some way like making sure there are at least three to five chairs in every room. There should be more conscious effort to find out who are the left-handed and who are the right-handed by the Guidance Office. This information should be thoroughly considered and programs can be organized to respond to their needs.
It is coincidental that the researchers have children or relatives who are left-handed and admitted that they did not find any problem in dealing with them. This could be attributed to the fact that they were enrolled in private schools where every room has enough chairs reserved for left-handed students. Still it is an interesting decision to make a research about their case and what can be done to facilitate what they may be indicate in the questionnaire and in the interviews.
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Having expressed a portion of the introduction to the research, is there any author out there who has done research along these lines? Or are you writing something like this just as we are doing it? Do share and in the future, let us exchange notes.
HBO, as always, presents stories that make our life a little more bearable on one hand and more exciting on the other. Take the movie, Hachiko: A Dog Story with Richard Gere as the main actor, and of course the well-trained dog called Hachiko.
Like any movie it has details that if you really want to feel the incidents, you just have to take time to view it. In this instance for example, Hachiko has to be put up for adoption because the family of Gere does not want to take care of one now that their daughter is grown up. In the process, there was no one willing to take Hachiko because they have other pets,like a cat or has a business which does not encourage having a dog around.
The story progresses with Gere bringing the dog to the school where he teaches. Nicely hidden inside Gere's bag is Hachiko but like any other "active" animal it wants to bolt out of hiding and the plan to give it up has to be sooner rather than later.
Some touching scenes need to be highlighted: Gere found in Hachiko, which was revealed as having "royal" blood a friend. He talks to Hachi like a son, his child being a lady now and married. They watched baseball in the evening and ate popcorn. He slept in the sofa. All along the wife was just observing and soon would get the idea and the inevitable had to be entertained: Hachiko had to stay on. This was not so bad because the daughter liked Hachiko and the photo sessions were worth the time.
Nothing beats the scene though when Hachiko would make it to the train station by foot to be there to send off and welcome back his master everyday. Ahhh, how Hachiko only needed his loving pat and caress to make his day. This makes me warm all over because my family has a dog called Michael 2 (photo later), Michael 1 being our very first pet and died because of an irresponsible vet (details later).
Light moments: The master and the dog and their ordeal with the skunk! and those instances of training Hachiko to pick up the ball which never materialized for Hachi is not into this kind of treatment. Loyalty however is his cup of tea.
Then the saddest event came when the master had a heart attack and died. My heart bled for Hachiko for while the burial happened, Hachiko still felt his master was alive. No one, as in literally no one could stop him from waiting for the next nine years to be there when his master would come back. Hachi grew old lovingly waiting and waiting and waiting (Am about to cry all over again . . .like when I cried so painfully loud when Michael 1 died.)
According to the film, a statue was made in Hachiko's memory when he died but am sure Hachiko did not mind leaving this world when he was with his beloved master in that life after death somewhere.
Reflection proper: When you have a loyal friend your friend becomes a beautiful world to live in. When your family is there to love you and you have a pet which lives only for your coming and you believe in a God who has prepared a room for you in His house and you are yourself living a moral life then life is a story that may end but its imprint lives on. Thank you Hachi for making us reflect on what matters the most in life. May there be more Hachikos here in Malaybalay, the whole of our country, Philippines and the world out there.
Planting is a both a skill and an advocacy. It is a skill because others plant and whatever they plant, die, so those who have the skill to plant find the seedlings they planted, alive and healthy. It is an advocacy because tree planting is really a way to do a proactive role to take care of our Mother Earth which by now is declared ravished and abused, denuded and deforested.
So there is this executive order by the President of the Philippines which is envisioned to last for six years, Greening Project to see our watershed protected by trees, bring back timberland and rainforest for the sake of our health and the sustainability of our protection from typhoons, floods and the like. Will this really become a reality if we do not imbibe planting as both a skill and an advocacy? Que sera, sera . . .
As a teacher, we hope to begin our first steps with putting into action planting as a skill and an advocacy: as a faculty members and students of the College of Teacher Education.
There is a big chance we pray for after all, education is "lifting" up all those possibilities that make us better persons, more responsible members of society, proactive teachers and students.
We intend to prove our "salt: sooner rather than later. . .
The time to "retire" is becoming a very good idea nowadays . . .
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 1:00 PM
Teaching is a life-long misson, profession, vocation. We can almost say this like a mantra. After all, this blogger has begun teaching way back 1976 so the name Teacherallherlife. So also the idea of retiring is inevitable and welcome nowadays. Any retired, retirable, planning to retire out there? How are you coping with your newly-found niche? Did it come as an easy transition or a life "downhill"? I hope not! We will not let this defeatist attitude ever dominate for experience alone can overcome it notwithstanding the presence of family and friends. Rather, retirement can take on many forms of expression and this blogger will see to it she will do her share to be proactive as a "retirable" candidate herself.
There is this haunting thought though that creeps in whether we like it or not. This is the fear of mortality and the unknown. There is wisdom in the course of action to assess one's life story and make sure prayer life plays a more active role here and now.
How is your health fellow blogger? Tips that you can share to this blogger? Some signs of pain here and there; an itch here and there seem to trouble the elderly and this blogger is no exception. Ah, to "retire" is indeed becoming a very good idea nowadays only to accept the twin challenge to hold on to what ore life has to offer.
"Teachers like leaves everywhere abound; effective teachers. like fruits are rarely found."
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 7:05 AM
Try to dig deeper into this saying: "Teachers, like leaves, everywhere abound; effective teachers, like fruits, are rarely found." Perhaps the analogy is a little exaggerated for there are effective teachers as many as the leaves but teachers who really walk their talk all the time are rarely found like the fruits of trees which rarely produce fruit.
This was one saying that my students felt had much substance and gave them inspiration to strive and become an effective teacher even if it means a quest for a lifetime. Many in fact, opted to begin as mere teachers and as years give them the experience and the wisdom find themselves becoming effective as their own colleagues superiors and students confirm in their remarks and evaluations.
Yet it just hits me: does it really matter? Aren't there more important things to pursue like becoming better spouses or parents or friends? But then why not all these plus become an effective teacher as well? Fellow mentors, pause for a while and give it some thought - and someday - let teaching be the way to a much better future, for the young minds and the whole of humanity.
Teacher, what can you say about all the countless issues and concerns?
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 10:03 AM
You just have to be so calloused if you still find yourself unaware or uncaring about all the litany of issues and concerns here in Malaybalay specifically and the Philippines generally and the world globally speaking. In fact we can only look at a few if some reflection has to be in depth enough and doable soon enough.
Let us begin with the plan to implement K plus 12. If parents have enough time to listen to the pros and cons, they might see the wisdom behind the pressing need for it. If the experts cite the observation that the Philippines is one of the two(2) remaining countries which has not kept pace with the international standard of offering a total of twelve (12) years before tertiary training. Teacher's teacher does find the new move untimely for everyone is financially challenged. This topic is going to be dealt with for a long time to come. This blog will not be the last about it.
Did you not ask yourself why the world is beset by all kind of disasters sometimes one cannot but help entertain the idea of "Eschaton" or "End Time"? All you have to do is to give some time to viewing cable tv. Chin is always experiencing flush flood; many places in the Philippines wake up with waters already inside and outside their homes; then these floods have substitutes like earthquakes here and there or killings which are beyond comprehension why it happens. Imagine a son "hammered to death" his parents because they did not agre immediately with his plan to hold a party. So the son went on with the party while the dead bodies of his parents were left lifeless in their rooms.
(To be continued . . . just fell asleep due to over fatigue . . .)
Teacher's teacher says thanks to eblogger for the new look!
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 8:47 AM
Looking at the new set-up of e blogger tells me loud and clear what is the tone of this blogspot's contents. Nowadays, one day seems to roll by and all the events seem to get cramped and remain unreflected.
Take the landslide in Bukidnon, Philippines where there were victims. My own son experienced the pain of his friend who lost his wife in that dreadful event. This friend has two children so the tragedy leaves him the inevitable responsibility of taking care of the children.
Inside the classroom, the sad plight of students continue. One class for example, all the students failed in a long test because they were reckless in answering, over and above they never took the time to read the notes thoroughly. One scenario is tainted by death while the other is tainted by loss of interest. Where does that leave the onlooker? the teacher who is worried over any condition that destroys the good future?
This coming Friday, July 15, some 300 freshman students taking Education will compose the audience of an orientation. Teacher's teacher who happens to be the chairperson of the Program committee posted the theme for the said activity: "Freshman year well lived makes every college life worth the wait." Do you agree? Any freshman anyone? Teacher's teacher would like to hear from you. Do write your own analysis of the theme.
A blogger at sixty and soon onJuly 1 - 61 yrs. young - Expect a contest and prizes!
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 11:12 PMThis is my invitation to visitor of this blogspot. Share your original poem about your father. See http:// www. Malaybalayan. blogspot.com to know the mechanics. Feel free to write it in this blog if you so decide. The contest runs from June 19 to July 7 when on July 1 Teacher's teacher turns 61 and on July 7, her son celebrates his birthday.
See your poems soon?
Expect to see excerpts of Teacher's teacher "book" about Peace. In fact its title is "Shalom My Fellow Sojourner". Hopefully,other authors can comment a thing or two.May this zest to share hold.
You see, the news that bombards us day in and day out sometimes negates the very root of our being. This being said, there seems to be some power over and above and beyond us that keeps pushing the remnants of the fire to hold on to the humaneness and goodness that is latent in the core so let it be.
If there comes a moment of despair
There comes too, a moment of repair
Life seems to paint so many patterns
There are those that catch one's chagrin
But more that makes us grin
So we go the mile Fellow Sojourner
We nod with all that confirms life firmer
Am for it, I pray, you too!
The travel bug that brightens and sharpens your outlook in life . . .
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 6:17 PM
Other travel agencies also loosened their air fares but not as record breaking as Cebu Pacific's. At least it is no longer unreachable to see our neighboring Asian countries. The next stop will have to be New York or if Oprah reads this blog: Chicago.
So travel before you reach 70 while your feet can still get you where your companions are rushing to go. Just to think Metro Railway Train is so much to anybody who can not walk briskly to enter the train before its door closes and leave it soon enough before it again closes. Also be ready to stand if there are no more "gentlemen" around who will offer their seats for you. You have to hold on to the railing or remain standing with your feet apart ready for a balanced stance so you will not fall if there are sudden brakes.
At the end of the day, travel bug is one good bug that can happen to you.
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