It takes one person to be a light in someone’s life. It takes one person to be a helping hand. It takes one person to change an unmotivated, broken life, and make it brand new. Teachers are those people who motivate students to do their best, guide students to success when no one else will, and they are always available to listen. One teacher can change the lives of thousands of students. That is already a motivation.
The goal of teachers is to teach others about the importance of education so they too can prosper. Everything they are learning at school is important not only for teachers’ future career but most of all to their students.
Furthermore, every child deserves the best education available, and teachers should strive to be the best educators possible to provide that for them. When balancing academics, work, and social life, it can get challenging to keep going. But, with the future of children’s education in their teachers’ hands, the latter should always get back on track.
Moreover, it is good to break down students’ image of what a teacher is. For most of them, when they think teacher, they think of a square and serious person. However, by sharing knowledge with passion, teachers can break down this barrier and therefore they can see these as a human just like their children. This means that learners may feel that they can be themselves and come out of their shells. Teachers should know how to encourage their students to question everything and to give them the tools they need to challenge those that would limit them in any way… and this can be balanced by empathy, kindness and politeness which requires good listening and critical thinking skills… and an ability and willingness to become a positive part of the communities they belong to from the class and school to their local area, country and beyond. If everyone questioned, listened, and cared for others, everybody would live in a better society which is good for the students to have a happy, fulfilling adult in the future. If one student decides to achieve more…. then they will have lived out of their dreams.
By: Priscilla M. Dizon| Teacher III|Cataning Elementary School|Balanga, Bataan
