"Reflections of Teachers and Teachings"

Have you ever experienced teaching your classmates in just a span of time or in short, have you experienced teaching? And if you are teaching in front of your students, which are your classmates, what are the common expressions you will intuit?

What I mostly like in UP is that there are many activities that surely you will enjoy and entice with. One of the most anticipated activities here in UP is the KYSD or Know Your School Day program where in a student is given a privilege of becoming a teacher within just a limited time or if I’m not wrong, it is a three-day experience of being a teacher.

But before the activity, I apply first for the position and subject I like or I’m accordant with. Then afterwards, I was interviewed and I felt tense, the same as what do other applicants feel. Unfortunately, I was not qualified as one of the subject teachers we applied. Thus, I did not yield, I continued what I have started then I applied to a certain position and subject and providentially I was chosen to be one of the teachers of that certain subject.

I’m happy to become the teacher of Filipino and the same with my fellow teachers. Then together with my co-teachers in Filipino we started the class punctually/ earlier than expected. I and my fellow teachers asked them to get their books and I called someone to read a certain paragraph in the book and vice versa. My fellow teachers also called someone to read or not just one but everyone was also asked to do so. After all the discussions we gave them some questions to answer about what we have discussed.

It is been a nice experience, we started the discussion full of efforts and ended with an activity, just a sort of fulfillment during our class. We asked them to stand up and let them sing and perform some of the nursery rhymes they learned by their teachers during their kindergarten years. When the bell rang, before they went to their next class we told them to sit down first and thanked them for their cooperation and hard work and lastly prayed for the success of our teaching.

Our experienced shows only how the teachers tried their best to teach us so that we can learned more about our society and to use what we learned in good things so that a bright future will be too near for us to reach. One aspect also shows how hard and difficult to be a teacher and so on students because their avowal is not that easy to get, they should release more effort to succeed although some of us will have a good or even better profession they suffer first from the challenges and trials that brought about changes to their lives and ability. So being a teacher although it was limited is already a wide experience for me and once in a lifetime opportunity.