TEACHING

“Teaching might be an ordinary thing for somebody but for someone who learned from it, it means everything.”

            When I was a kid, I honestly idolized and looked up my teacher in elementary. In my eyes they are the most knowledgeable people that I could only trust aside from my parents. Teachers seemed to be the highest creature made by God! But that perception of my childhood days suddenly changed when I learned to open my eyes and witnessed the unethical behaviors that some of the teachers were doing. But then again, maybe I was meant to become a teacher because as you can clearly see it, I am now pursuing my degree in Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education, the course which is being degraded by many people. Yes, that’s true! Many people looked at our profession as the most inferior of all because they think that teaching is the easiest and the effortless profession that anyone could have.

            Honestly, I used to be one of those stupid individuals who looked down the profession of teaching. I used to believe that teachers are the most “easy-go-lucky” professionals but then as I stepped my foot at the College of Education, I absolutely prove myself wrong! I pity myself a lot, because it took me a long time before I realized that teaching is not a profession that anyone should degrade but a vocation that everyone must lift up!  Teaching is an art because it deals with significant human experiences. Teaching is a science for it deals with different strategies needed by the students for them to learn. Teaching is more than language, no words can provide satisfying explanation describing how hard yet fun it is to teach. Teaching is not just an ordinary action or profession that anyone should take for granted because as the saying goes, “there will be no such thing as professionals if there were no teachers!” if the Engineering students would say, “It is hard to become an engineer” then I am encouraging the educators to reply this way, “It has never been easy producing Engineers”.

            If you don’t have the love and passion of portraying the role of a teacher, then I must tell you that you missed half of your life because you don’t know the value and essence of beautifying the lives of individuals through TEACHING.