A DEEPER PURPOSE

Contributed by Jessy Rae D. Licaroz – Teacher III, Sta. Rosa Elementary School, Pilar

“Reward for a teacher is to learn that he had a positive effect on one of his students“. Teaching with a heart has greater potential for encouraging deeper and more transformative learning.

A good teacher shares the same common denominator as a good second parent and that is hope which is fueled by compassion and determination. Hope is the magic ingredient that makes a good teacher shine so brightly that a child feels safe and blind to hardship. It keeps that child dreaming big and hope, the ability to have hope and never ever give up is a learned behavior from the best of the best teachers.

Life is not all roses. But there are always roses in life—they might be in the crayon box but they count. To teach is to embrace—to embrace it all- the good and the bad and to do so with grace. To teach is to actively demonstrate just how amazingly powerful hope is and could simply inspire students to strive for their success.

Teachers should be role models for students. Teachers are respected by society because they are viewed as knowledgeable about different subjects in school. Teachers have the qualities to be or become role models for students. Why? Because most teachers respect, love, care, instruct, and guide their students to become a successful person. Students view teachers as being wise therefore they look up for them. Students know that if they need something they just need to ask their teachers. Students learn from every lesson the teacher shares. Therefore, I believe that a teacher have an enormous responsibility on his actions. Students should concentrate in doing their work and being proud of the way they are.

Teaching with a heart is commitment to teaching and an astonishing capacity to articulate what teaching is all about, the meaning is deeper than we may ever know, because, the true meaning lies in the heart of each student.

Be happy knowing that every year has been written to student’s life and that the meaning will forever be processed in their minds.

References:

Chase Mielke and AffectiveLiving (2014). Retrieved from

http://affectiveliving.wordpress.com/2014/05/27/something-deeper-on-teaching-with-heart-and-the-poetry-of-teaching/

Public Education’s Deeper Purpose (2014) Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-cooper/public-educations-deeper_b_5758842.html