My Insights: Teaching as a Profession

My passage to becoming a teacher started this semester when I started to

take the class, Teaching as a Profession with Professor Cristy Miclat. Even before
taking the units of Professional Education, I was so sure I really wanted to enter the
teaching profession. A year ago, I was inquisitive about the opportunities that I
could pursue with the profession, but then after Ive talked to a lot of teachers, I
have decided to take the course with the best intentions to succeed and get my foot
in the door into the teaching career.
The best way for someone to determine if they really would like to go into a
certain field is to observe and talk to others who are already in the discipline. This is
especially important for future, soon-to-be teachers because although you do not
realize it as a student, teaching is a very taxing job that requires patience and
determination. With a diverse classroom of students who have various levels of
knowledge on the subjects being taught and how they grasp those subjects a
teacher must be able to meet the needs of these pupils. To meet those
requirements the educator must be able to inspire students and have lesson plans
that reflects the learning styles of all students. This semester has been helpful in
providing me with various ideas for my own classroom and teaching methods.
Teaching is a very diverse job that requires many skills and a lot of patience.
It is important for a teacher to be able to maintain a healthy and professional
relationship with their pupils, develop lesson plans that keep the attention of a
majority of the students, make the atmosphere of the classroom inviting, and be a
welcoming person capable of standing up in front of the class to teach. All of these
become part of my goals for development as an educator over the next few years.
Looking back at the experience I had in observing, I am determined to inspire others
through a career in Science education.
My strengths include being very determined, goal driven, hard working,
learning, good people skills and trying to help motivate others. I will use these
strengths to the best of my ability when I have my own class in the future. I want to
continue with my teaching-learning process and obtain my teaching certification
this year and get my masters degree soon. After observing this past semester, I am
pretty sure that I like to work with high school students, because I think I'd respond
better to them. The observations were very interesting and helped me better
appreciate the teaching profession.

Paolo Xavier S. Co

Professional Education

March 14, 2015

My Insights: Teaching as a Profession

Instead of seeing my grade as an official judgment that I need to preemptively

defend, I want first focus on my grades for my assignments and testsand your
comments on the assignments and testsas an opportunity to help me improve.
Performance, Progress and Participation is correlated with the final grade. Grades
have the power to open certain doors in the future, and because of this, I am
hoping for an Average to Above Average grade. Maraming Salamat at
Magandang Buhay!

Paolo Xavier S. Co

Professional Education

March 14, 2015