OPEN MANY WINDOWS IN LEARNERS’ MINDS, MAKE THEM BETTER CITIZENS

The Department of Education (DepEd) has urged teachers to open new windows in the learners’minds – including financial literacy – and make them better citizens of the country and the world. Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones is reminding teachers to engage in activities that will further advance their knowledge and skills, which they can pass on to their learners in class:

She is challenging teachers to take new and exciting paths, know and love the country more, discover things never known before, and learn skills they never had before.

The Secretary mentioned that it is the mandate of DepEd to “ensure that economic and financial education becomes an integral part of formal learning,” as stated in Republic Act No. 10922, or the Economic and Financial Literacy Act.

She said one law is requiring that financial literacy should be taught to students. If we teach financial literacy to our students, she said, the teacher should be in a position to teach and to practice, in very practical ways, financial literacy.

Briones also underscored that the Department is and will always uphold the rights of the teachers and other employees, and shared the recent developments in the expansion of their welfare and benefits.

She also mentioned how teachers are loved and revered not only by their students, but also by the community, saying there’s something about the teaching profession which is beyond the salary. Teachers, she said, are not only loved, but are revered.

According to Briones, the greatest and the most revered political and religious leaders produced by the human race are teachers – Gautama Buddha, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and even Jesus Christ.

The author is Teacher

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III at M. Nepomuceno Elementary School