Teamwork through Cooperation

Teamwork through cooperation and hard work is an absolute necessity for a targeted goal to be achieved. As an educator, it is my primary objective to make my students absorb the lessons they need to understand. I am required to teach each one of them the basic form of education – how to read, write,…


Teamwork through cooperation and hard work is an absolute necessity for a targeted goal to be achieved.

As an educator, it is my primary objective to make my students absorb the lessons they need to understand. I am required to teach each one of them the basic form of education – how to read, write, and count. I know that this willdemand me of my time and energy. It is a difficult task, it is my responsibility to face and to deal with this kind of work. However; it is not only my duty, it is also their parent’s duty. We all know that the parent stands as the child’s first teacher. They are the ones training them how to speak and how to socialize with other people. As the child grows and by the time he will turn to school- age, it is the parent who is obliged to guide and lead him in school. The teacher will educate the student and the parent will enhance that learning in their own houses. But what if the parent is not able to guide the child in his schooling? What if the parent can no longer supporthis study? What if the parent is not able to attend to the necessities of a child? What if the parent is not able to develop the learning that he acquired in school? What if the parent is illiterate? Quite frustrate, slightly depressive. How can I attain my highest aim for my students if their parents are incapable of helping them to enrich their knowledge?

The Philippines is a poor country. In fact, about ten percent of the total population here is composed of rich people while the remaining ninety percent encompasses that of poor family. This financial problem affects the life of every unprivileged Filipino individual especially those students who are struggling to pursue their studies. Unfortunate children tend to work at a very young age to help support their family. Sometimes they have don’t have any choice but to cease on attending class to take care of their younger siblings or to minimize the expenses. But there are still some who are determined to continue schooling despite of their financial conditions.

I have been teaching for sixteen years and what I observed is that poor children have a hard time of keeping in mind every single lesson that I have thought them. That’s why I manage to give homework so that they may be able to practice learning at home. But the problem is that the encouragement of the parent for their children to do the homework is not quite sufficient. I noticed that the parent does not know to read and write. So how come can they be able to enhance the capacity of a child to learn more?

The ability of a child to know and to learn does not depend fully on the teacher but also on the parent and the child as well. It is teamwork through cooperation that makes a student’s intellectual capacity be developed. As Dr. Jose P. Rizal said, the youth is the hope of our future. That’s why we need to mold them into a better individual, teaching them from time to time as long as they are still small and is capable of being developed. 

By: Simeona B. Suayan | Teacher II | St. Francis II Elementary School | Limay, Bataan