1st Reflection

“How can we consider ourselves as an effective teacher?” 

As a future teacher we always ask ourselves, “How?”. As I’ve watched Dr. Harry Wong’s video on how to become an effective teacher, some ideas comes to my mind. Dr. Wong stated the 4 stages of teaching and these are Fantasy, Survival, Mastery and especially the Impact.

We are not only tasked to teach our students the contents of their subject or teach knowledge, we are also hired because as a future teacher we’re going to be one of the people that will influence good things in their lives. We are the one who will guide and care for them aside from their family. We teachers have a very significant, lifelong impact on all of our students. We are playing a crucial role in the lives of our students so that they will become successful in their career after they graduate. So we need to give our very best as we enter their room and start our discussion.

To become an effective teacher we need to consider that we don’t only teach students because it is our job, we teach them to so that we’re going to be their way to encourage them to fulfill their potential and  make a huge difference on our society as well in our country. Because students that are inspired by their teachers can do amazing things. 

“Strive for progress, not perfection.”

“Strive for progress, not perfection.”

Keeping this quote in mind, we all have aspects of our lives that we would like to improve. As a future educator we need to let go of our ideal of perfect and conceive to honestly doing all of our best for ourselves, for other people and specially for our students and border our life closer and closer to wherever we would like to be and celebrate each success or failure on the means, as long as we rise and keep making an attempt, keep creating progress.

As a Teacher Ed Student we have selected an important profession requiring the very best standards. We must make contributions to the betterment of the future through providing each of our graduating class in the future with essential tools needed to “make a difference.”

Being a teacher is not that easy because I saw in my previous Field Study observations how the teacher engages in the different kind of learners.

And I would like to convey my gratefulness to my family, my friends and my professors for their generous support, for being patient and for their unending reminders that I’m going to be successful teacher someday.

Hi, I am Patricia Magtuloy Dizon, a teacher in the making. Fourth year student of Holy Angel University taking Bachelor of Secondary Education major in Biological Science. 19 years of age. Saying, what makes me unique as a person are; having an attentive mind, loving heart and just like the resilient weed that fights aggressively for survival.

Always remember that having perseverance and the urge to achieve your loving goal is the most satisfying thing that would happen to you. If today we lose our hope, still and all God is always reminding us that his plans are better than our expectations.

Laus Deo Semper!