“Teaching as a Vocation, Mission and Profession”

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               Some people say that teaching is a noble profession, others say that it is only for people who is knowledgeable enough to teach children and others say that it is done by someone who has an authority. So, this is what I say on what teaching is.

             Teaching is a Vocation. Every person is destined to be somebody in his own field. I can say that teaching is easy, but teaching with morals and molding humans for the future is not that simple as 1, 2 and 3. Like everyone can be a teacher but being an effective teacher needs someone with passion and devotion for teaching. Teachers became teachers not because of luck or misfortune, but because she/he is destined to be one. Being a teacher requires a lot of things to gain and even to sacrifice. Therefore, God will not put someone in this profession if he is not capable to do it or if his fate is not on teaching. God has always reasons for everything that happened to us and that is for the person to discover and realize someday.

              Teaching is a Mission. Every human being has a purpose or mission in this world and the main purpose of every human is to produce and protect life. As teachers, we always have goals in everything we teach and do to our students. Why? It is simply because we are teachers who have mission and that is to make each of our students competitive, equipped with the fundamental skills and knowledge and also to be a total human person for his society.

           We teachers are not only teaching to have students with brilliant minds we are also destined to produce human beings with heart and soul for everyone. A human that is capable to love and care for the other people. Teachers are like disciples of Jesus. We are expected to teach and cater the knowledge of our students. What kind of knowledge? Knowledge for subjects, for himself, for life, for morality, and for God and that is through teaching them the knowledge and the truth comes with it and God is the truth and that is the great assigned task of Him to us – to perform with excellence when doing our service.

               Teaching is a Profession. As what a popular saying goes like “You cannot give what you don’t have” just like for us teachers, we cannot fully transform our students to be somebody in this world if in the first place we do not have the mastery of our field or simply the knowledge, and care and love for them. We teachers are their models and considered as their second mother. We do affect them easily that much since they are spending most of their time in school and as being with them every day we have the great responsibility on taking care of our actions in or outside of our classroom. Therefore, we teachers should always have a guidance and that is through thinking that in everything we say and do must be done for the greater glory of GOD.

                Therefore, as a future teacher, we should be thankful that we are taking this noble course because it is only few who are destined to have the patience and knowledge to be shared on the large community. Teaching is a powerful profession. Teachers have the greatest influential duty in this world because they can make either a monster or a hero for the future of a society. Teachers affect and make characters out of their teaching. Teaching is a certified noble profession because it does what God and his disciples tried and trying to do – to teach and spread the truth to His people.

Teachers are Everywhere

Teachers are engineers,

who are builders of characters,

Teachers are accountants,

who are balancers of knowledge and manner that makes it more significant,

Teachers are agriculturists,

who are planters of the seeds of wisdom to become futurists,

Teachers are nurses,

who assist student’s studies,

A teacher is a programmer,

who put codes on lessons to remember,

A teacher is a philosopher,

who is a thinker of things to make it clearer,

 Teachers are teachers who can be anywhere to mold future leaders.

Every Teacher Must Have His Own Personal Philosophy of Education

"Every Teacher Must Have His Own Personal Philosophy of Education"

In this passage, I strongly believed that a teacher must have his own personal philosophy so that he will have a guide on how he will teach the learners. Having a philosophy will set as a guideline or a goal for a teacher. Through setting a philosophy, a teacher will be guided on how and what approach he will instill on his learners therefore the philosophy of a teacher must bring goodness to her learners; a philosophy that will impact her learners in a positive way to become a good and productive citizens in our country.

A teacher is seen by his learners as their model and bring influence on their being therefore he must show what a firm person takes to be. One of it is that he must show that he is an organized person; a person with goals and that is, for teachers, through having his educational philosophy and free from any form of biases so that he will be guided all throughout his teachings because his philosophy will serve as his grounds when the time of confusion comes and he will be aid on what decisions to make. When students see their teacher is firm when it comes in decision making they tend to do their best in coming up a good quality works and outputs.

In the other hand, some teachers do not have their own philosophy and some are having two or more philosophy that they apply to their teachings so that their learner take some wisdom of life while they are still learning but then teachers too have life and so they also learn from their students and learning is constantly evolving therefore teacher must re-invent their philosophy when it is needed to fit their learners. Though teachers have the superior authority in the classroom they should still give chance or freedom to their learners to think, make and share their ideas. Teachers must not over rule their students when it comes to decision making instead he must help them to be a rational thinking person so that someday the learner can create her own philosophy that bring justice and goodness to others as well; a philosophy that does not violates any law in this world.

Teachers are guide of the students in their development, they spend most of their time in school and so teachers do greatly impact and influence the learner’s life. Teachers must give importance on each of their students because they come to school to be educate and learn new things from people they call teachers. Therefore teachers must do their best in teaching for that is the student’s purpose why they are in school. Giving various activities and opportunities for them to acquire and develop their skills and mental, physical and emotional abilities that will form them holistically as human beings, with such capabilities, these will help them someday to be successful and living their life as individual with principles.

To sum it up, us teachers must be well directed on our teaching no matter what problem strikes us, we must still stand firm and be professional on it and that is with the help of having our philosophy in life and in teaching because if we have it we have a clear and strong path that is constructed and cemented on us.

My Personal Philosophy of Education

I believe that every child needs to educate and undergo a process of discipline in able to survive living in this world. A teacher must recognized first how her job affects the child, the community and the future generation of the society – that teaching is a vocation, a mission and a profession.

I believe that every child who goes in school deserve to be given the right education that a teacher can give. Supplying intellectual activities and opportunities for them to learn and develop their skills and talents. I believe that every child should be respected and be talked like adults but cared like a fragile vase. Children are like miniature adults, they should learn how to talk and speak words accurately and not baby talk them since they are still young and their brain is like a sponge that absorb whatever information they get from adults they trust. In able to teach them the right one, a teacher must do, act and say what is right for they saw their teacher as their model.

I believe that children’s suggestions must be listened and heard to have an open and equal learning environment for both teacher and children. Teaching is a continuous learning and it evolves regularly, the teacher must seek and open for new learning and information that the society is giving. Flexible, approachable, patient and open minded are the attributes that will really help a teacher in adopting changes in her classroom and society. In resolving conflicts in the class and setting up rules, children must be part of it since the policies are for them and it will be easy for them to remember the rules if they are the once who made and agreed on it.

Children must not be forced nor threatened for learning because they have different pace of acquiring knowledge; the interests of the pupil must be the center for learning. Every individual is unique in different ways, we have our own likes and dislikes and we have our own reasons why and so as well as when a child is learning, they have their own way of learning best and so they should not be forced if they are not ready to learn something because it will just be wasted. It will not strongly remain in their heads what the teacher have taught on them if they are not ready and interested to learn. Patience is working best in this situation. Wait for the child to be ready to listen and learn and expect effective learning from it.

Pupil’s outputs should be evaluated well through setting criteria and for giving well assessed questionnaires and examinations to give justice on their efforts in listening and studying their lessons. Letting the children know your standard is also important so that they know how you will grade them and know what they will do. Having appropriate strategies in discussion is also important so that the pupils will have a better understanding about the topic. Providing tactile materials rather than providing black and white pictures in the discussion will make the learning more real since the child will not have a hard time in imagining the things that the teacher is describing.

A teacher must be a good role model of positivity, good morals and has the unbeatable energy when discussing her lessons. Teaching good values to the children is also important so that they will have grounds in doing what is good and right for them and for everybody. Producing a student that is intelligent with good values is what the most fulfilling for teachers. A teacher must not forget that children saw them as their knight in the shining armor aside from their parents and there are times that they tend to believe and take the side of their teachers rather than their parents so it only shows that teachers has a great impact on the lives of his/her children. A teacher must be cautious on his/her actions because the young ones might do what she/he sees regardless if it is wrong.

 I believe that a teacher must always be a teacher whether inside or outside of the school; she keeps on teaching, inspiring and guiding one’s life to a brighter side of living through his/her actions and words and with this a teacher will never fails the experience of his/her students every single day.