A teacher’s second home
MANY people describe a classroom as a foursided room and just an assembly place for people who wants to learn but for a teacher, it serves as her second home.
It is a place where she spends her eight hours a day and five days a week and even more as required of her service.
As you look at her classroom, it is well decorated and arranged aesthetically for the convenience of her beloved students. Compared to her home sometimes she doesn’t even fix her things and wash dishes before leaving for the reason she will be late in school.
Many times a teacher buys many things in the store and what’s on her mind is for her classroom and not for home.
Some classrooms look alike a home because folded blankets are found in the cabinet mixed with books for the teacher’s baby to sleep on in case tons of paper works are to be done coz its due the next day. You can find there eating paraphernalia’s because the teacher can’t go home and eat with her own children. Inside slippers are under the table being use by the teacher to relieve her aching legs due to prolonged standing. And coffee mugs are always present for a fifteen minute break. A teacher’s cla ssroom gives therapy to burdens and heavy loads. Teachers sigh their reliefs to their coteachers and the walls of the classroom is many times a witness to their cry. A teacher who doesn’t enjoy being at home finds life in her own classroom. It is many times full of laughter and sometimes sadness but above all these, the love of God covers multitudes of misunderstandings and weaknesses among teachers.
The classroom is where the teacher demonstrates her talents, love and care to other people’s children and the worst thing is if she can’t even find time to check her child’s homework because she was exhausted in her second home.
The teacher’s second home is where she strategically plans and designs the blueprint of her lessons so that it is suitable to her learners. It is where she wholly molds and develops the intellect of the children.
It functions as her vineyard as well, the source of her bread and butter as they say, but that’s not what matters most. It is a place wherein when she sows kindness and love, she will surely reap sweet and quality grapes in return.
The medicine that gives healing and joy to a teachers unending sacrifice in her classroom is to see after sometime her students become successful engineers, educators, lawyers, doctors and even mayor of her own hometown. The feeling of thanksgiving when she rides in a jeepney and a former student says,” Bayad na po pamasahe nyo, Ma’am”.
As many people say “imbag pay piman dagita mamaistra ta uray nababa ti suweldo da ket napaadal da ti annak da”. (Good for those teachers because despite of their low income they have sent their children to school and became professionals).This is indeed another consolation as they say but for a teacher a big prize that completes her joy.
As it says in Matthew 6:21 “Where your treasure is, there your heart will also be”. The classroom, the second home of a teacher unveils her hidden treasures.