Reflections on Teachers and Teaching

February 1, 2007

Dear Diary,

I really missed the Know Your School Day activity we had last week. I applied for being a Social Science teacher. Than God! I was accepted. Well actually I was just the only one who applied for this position. I really want to experience being a teacher. Since I was a kid, I really wanted to be a teacher because I want to share my knowledge to other people. But as time passes and as I grew, my ambition changed. Now I want to be a nurse so that I could treat the ill. And the other reason is that now, there are many teachers. Their population gets bigger. So, the salary they receive gets smaller and smaller. And now other countries are in need for nurses. If hopefully I could go abroad, I could earn dollars.

Back to the topic, it is very hard to teach students especially for those who don’t listen at all! I could even say to myself that at that time, I was wasting my voice and effort. But that was just for one day! I really tried my best to share my knowledge to my fellow classmates or students as well. I really want for the KYSD to be done again. Hopefully if I could still stay here in UP, I would apply as many positions I could. What could be next? Well, I’ll still continue for Social Science, but I will also try other subject so that I could test my knowledge for the other subjects. Well my effort in teaching was not wasted at all even though others did not mind to listen. At the end of the program which was the awarding ceremony, I received an award. Well this is just an experience for me on teaching. Receiving a certificate of recognition for me would be very okay. This would just acknowledge my job for being a substitute teacher for my specialty subject, Social Science. My classmates would even say that I could be the future Madam Sofia Aliño Logarta. So to ride their jokes, I would act as Madam Logarta’s long-lost and now found granddaughter. Well it is really very hard to be a Social Science teacher. Imagine, on my position I still need to recall what we had for the past few days and start for a new lesson. I even got a hard time on jutting down the current events happening to our society. At the night before the KYSD, I still need to borrow our neighbor’s newspaper, listen to the radio and hurriedly take down all about what the reporter says. Ouch! My hands really got hurt! And after listing down that information, I still need to summarize them and write on a clean piece of re-used paper. My mother got pity no e, so she offered me a helping hand but I didn’t accept her offer. I slept at already 11:45 at that night and it wasn’t even finished at all. So I set up my alarm clock to 3:00am. I almost got late for school at that time. Imagine I was the teacher and I will get late? My subject was scheduled for being the first matter of the period. I almost forgot to bring my visual aids that I gave effort and time the night before! Well thank God that before I went out of our gate, my mother ran after me bringing them. At school, thank God I finished my job without any errors.

Leslie ; )