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.