TEACHING is a never ending learning. According to Howard Hendricks the author of the book Teaching to Change Lives, the law of the teacher is that, “if you stop growing today, you stop teaching tomorrow”. Indeed, every teacher must always striveto learn because knowledge is not static. Just like news something new today might be obsolescent tomorrow. Everybody is a teacher of sort. Parents are teachers to their children. We all know that parents are the first teachers to their children by training a good foundation of learning motivation and establishing the rules ofconduct. Other social and professional positions are sources of teaching and learning influence. Hence, everybody have to set a good example for others to follow.
In this regard, whatever place we occupy, it is just fitting to remind ourselves that we are teaching others informally. To quote the prodigious thinker Albert Einstein, “Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving”.
By this truth, teachers should be guided that they are dwelling in a very important level of social rank. Teachers are creating not only minds, but also hearts, lives and especially, future. That’s why, it is important to bear in minds that our success as an effective teacher depends not only on our knowledge of teaching principles and methods of teaching, but as a person, and tactically on our openness to the 21st century learning under the new umbrella of K-12 curriculum wherein progressive and innovative teaching are at stake because our learners today are even more assertive.
To conclude, whatever we bring in the teaching and learning environment is already part of their learning, and universally becomes an indelible mark. Again, Albert Einstein proposes, “I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn”.
By: Melanie I. Carlos | Teacher III – Mathematics | BATAAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL – SHS
