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.
It is heartening to know that Prince William of Wales expresses some jitters before April 29, 2011 wedding with Kate Middleton. Even more exciting to note is what this wedding will mean to the imagination of writers all over the world. Thanks to the internet and tv, people all over the world will see a beautiful ceremony amidst all crises that beset the world.
If for Prince William it is jitters, for the on-lookers, it is a much awaited love story about to come true not only for the two of them but to what love stories are made of. Jitters tell those who have loved and those who are in love that such a feeling is normal and ultimately is a sign of true love.
By now there is a countdown until April 29 comes. Teacher's teacher got the information that when the time comes that a baby comes along, a Filipino nanny might be invited to become one. We would like to believe that a Filipino is chosen as a possible nanny because she knows how to take care of a baby plus she can communicate well and is basically a good care giver.
May God bless the soon-to-be married Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton with the best gifts marriage brings. May their love give fruition to the overused ending of most love stories: . . .and they live happily ever after . . .
Just looking at the twin boys "blabbing" "talking" "communicating" gives us all the reason in the world to smile and know that the world is still worth living in. Children, indeed, make our day.
So let us see the video again and again. . . and smile again and again . . .
How do we make sense with loss of life other than natural death?
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 6:17 PMHow do we make sense with loss of life other than natural death is the question foremost in the minds of families who lost their loved ones through death penalty, heinous crimes and the like? How do we make sense with the loss which by itself is senseless and if ever has basis, the life of a human being should have ample strength to get more significant weight over all other issues at hand?
Due to the internet, especially Google, it is already one's ignorance if you cannot surf once in a while if only to update one's awareness. Part of this move however is to ask questions, one of which is the present one: How do we make sense with loss of life/lives other than natural death? We are all stuck right there in our living room or kitchen or internet cafes brooding, thinking and sighing why all these phenomena are still happening in 2011. Then we realize, for as long as every person refuses to go beyond instinct, materialism, egoism, cannibalism and plain sinful tendencies, man will go on answering the questions as long as it takes.
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