Sustained commitment and preparedness toward academic excellence

THE just concluded Mid-Year Review (InService Training) for teachers both in the Secondary and Elementary level this last week of October was undertaken purposely to determine where the teachers, individually and collectively, have come so far; assess students’ performance and progress and; elevate teachers’ consciousness and commitment to the vocation and the students.

There is indeed an imperative need that we keep on going with systematized effort that we might be able to fully impart the highest degree of fineness and development to the students and the academe.

It is also noteworthy that where we failed (which we should readily recognize), there we learn to become stronger and have new vistas of opportunities and hope in the educational community.

A line from English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge suggests the connection between work and real value. He wrote, “Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live.” Our work, he suggests, must have hope to maintain its value.

This hope is strengthened with the realization that the holding of the In-Service Training (Inset) is an indispensable part of the work we entrusted with. Teaching gives a real purpose in life.

According to Colossians 3:23, we should work “as to the Lord” because he is the one who will reward us (v.24). We are to be known as good teachers who never grow weary in doing good (2 Thessalonians 3:6-15).

It is part of our conviction that we become even better teachers if we continually seek for enhanced methods in teaching and living.

Eventually, with the unselfish sharing of our time, efforts and Godgiven talents we will become a person whose role in this life will be crystallized in myriad forms. What we envision for a bright and better tomorrow for our self and our students will slowly unfold. Precila L. Mayanggao