Educator as a Learner

Entry #5 What does society expect of teachers as professionals? T - trustworthy E - efficient A - approachable C - courageous H - hardworking E - energetic R - righteous

Entry #4 Watch the following videos in Youtube: "Pilipino Ako: Teacher Sabrina Ongkiko" and Discovering your life's true calling - Lou Sabrina Ongkiko" Based on these videos, what is our life's true calling? How can you apply that in your calling to teach? Our life's true calling is to love. To love the students even if they are not so good, they are noisy, they make mistakes and they make mess most of the time. The mission of a teacher is to love the students and watch them grow with a dream. Taking up Bachelor of Elementary Education program is the first step in my calling to teach and this will serve as my experience to become an efficient and effective in educational practices. Learning my calling which is to love has a big impact to me as a future educator. I will use this to make my student become a better person, being an educator is not all about me but the student I will teach. I have the responsibility to make them not only a knowledgeable p...

Entry #3 To study the Historical Development of Teaching as a profession in the Philippines is a good lesson for us as a student and a future educator because by studying this, we are able to know how education started and we can understand why teaching profession is very important. The Presidential Decree 1006 (1976) issued by Pres. Ferdinand Marcos and the Philippines Teacher Professionalized Act of 1994 is very important to the teachers in Philippines because for the very long time that education started in the Philippines, they were known to be a professional. In the Pre-hispanic period, there was no established formal schooling in the country and also, there was no formal preparation for teachers so, parents and tribal leaders served as teachers at home and in the community and then, here comes the American and Spaniards who colonized our country, the development of education in the Philippines started as well as the teaching profession. The teaching profession today is v...

Entry #2 1. Does the teaching profession fullfill all the elements of a profession? Explain your answer. Profession has 9 elements, the initial professional education, accreditation, skills development, certification, licensing, professional development, professional societies, code of ethics and the organizational certification and all of these are part of a teaching profession. As a College student, I’m in the first element which is the initial professional education and I think that the teaching profession fulfill all the elements of a profession because these elements are needed to become an effective educator. 2. Why does the a profession like teaching require long years of initial professional education and continuing professional development after the long, arduous initial professional education? According to Merriam Webster, profession is a type of job that requires special education, training or skill. In other words, a profession like teaching require a long years...