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Humanize Teachers
I’m maybe in my pambahay, but I am in the middle of preparing my Unit Plans. You wouldn’t see this in this picture, the same way that we never really see the effort of most teachers.
Yet, I am knee-deep in designing classes that foster international-mindedness and humanity. Always, as I do these Unit Plans, I always try to design my classes in such a way that students will learn useful & practical skills that they can use to survive in the real world. Always, I try as best as I could, to make my students love themselves, no matter how much the society conditions them to think that they’re never good enough or they’re never pretty enough. Sometimes, in my decision to provide my students higher thinking skills, I have to go head-to-head with traditional-thinking leadership team. But if it empowers my students, I stubbornly do it anyway.
And I do that because I’m an educator; a facilitator of knowledge, of learning, of empowerment.
Often, being a teacher is a thankless job. We become the villain in a teenager’s life, the person who ruins their fun and chill time.
Pero mga iho at iha, perhaps there is a reason why your teachers are doing that. Perhaps, if you look at things and examine things well, perhaps what they’re doing are going to help you. And if there’s one educator that is violating the mandate of a teacher, single out that one person, negotiate with him/her, and tell him/her exactly why he or she is wrong.
But don’t generalize. There are some of us who put our heart and our life in our work, for you younger people. We fight, with all the fibre of our being, the traditional and boxed definition of learning and the very kind of educator mindset that you hated so much. Most of us are trying to be different and be better, to reach you where you are and to bring you where you need to be. Don’t degrade our dignity with senseless insults.
Educators are people, and we don’t deserve to be verbally abused.
Humanize your teachers. Don’t demonize.
Perhaps, if you do, we will arrive at something that will allow us to survive Covid-19 safe, intact, and more resilient than ever.
—— A response to that trending video, penned by an educator
August 9, 2020
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It was such an overwhelming as well as emotional moment were we could see their ups and downs through the frame of our heart. Each of their names where engraved on it.their journey through our life / our journey through their life , it may be love, anger, disappointment, frustrations, expectations , hope ….everything gone reel by reel … as every teacher feels so proud that they brought some changes in their life that could possibly help them in many ways .