No More Boring Classes At Last!
“Learning should be fun, not forced. Learning should revolve around the needs and interest of the student, not the teacher.” Marikenya
Good news to public school students! I was browsing through Philippine Daily Inquirer when I stumbled upon this news about the introduction of “microLESSONS” in public schools in our country. Supposedly, these “easy-to-develop” student-centered instructional units was pioneered by Singapore’s National Institute of Education and will soon remedy boring lectures, stiffling chalk dusts and sleep-jerking activities in the classroom.
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“Teaching Is Not A Fallback”
A Tribute to the Teachers of the World Part 3
“Of all the professions in the world, the job of the teacher has the opportunity to touch lives the most.” marikenya
To Read the Part 1 and Part 2 of this article –
Last Part of the 3-part Series on “Teaching Is Not A Fallback.” A Tribute to the Teachers of the World.
We’re getting to the climax of this story. When Holland was in his 60s, the new principal (who was an asshole since the day Holland went teaching at Kennedy High) initiated a cost-cutting measure to comply with the school board which included… the total abolition of the department of drama, arts and music!
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“Teaching Is Not A Fallback”
A Tribute to the Teachers of the World Part 2
“Of all the professions in the world, the job of the teacher has the opportunity to touch lives the most.” marikenya
Part II of the 3-part Series on “Teaching Is Not A Fallback.” A Tribute to the Teachers of the World.
Another unforgettable scene for me was the conversation between Holland and his co-teacher and friend who was a P.E. teacher and a football coach. He was asking Holland a favor — to teach playing an instrument and making a band member one of his quarterback players whose grades are miserable so the school would still let him play for the team. Apparently, the boy was hopeless when it comes to playing any instrument and Holland rejectedly told this to his friend who said to him:
“You’re a lousy teacher if you can’t teach a willing student.”
“Teaching Is Not A Fallback”
A Tribute to the Teachers of the World
“Of all the professions in the world, the job of the teacher has opportunity to touch lives the most.” marikenya
In our guidance and counseling subject last night, Our professor Dr. Pasco made us choose between a lecture or watching a movie (with a reflection paper to be passed after). Of course, since we were all tired (coming to classes from our day jobs), we were happy for a movie breather so we chose the latter.
We bought our chichirya (junk foods) and c2 (ice trea) and settled to watch the night’s premier —Mr. Holland’s Opus — a story of a musician turned teacher who greatly affected lives of his students and made a notable impact in his community.
Richard Dreyfuss plays the role of Glenn Holland, the musician whose goal is to create his own composition so he took the job of a teacher thinking it would give him more free time to focus on making his song.
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The Schools of Thought and the Paradox of Life
Life is not to be wept over nor to be laughed at, but to be understood.
Last night, I was a reporter for our class in Educational Psychology. My preparation was kinda short because i was only given less than a week to report on the nature and scope of educ- psych which includes the school of thoughts in psychology. I actually volunteered to be the first reporter thinking it would be a zilch since I’m so used to reporting and standing in front of people. I was wrong though because I had to study very hard to understand the facets of the different school of thoughts.
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