A PROFESSION WITH INFINITE GRACE AND GRATITUDE

A profession that never loses its value is being a teacher. It melts my heart to be one of the brave individuals to be part of this intricate and challenging journey. I always feel valued and admired by the people around me. Teachers are indeed in the heart of education recovery. Educators are always ready to adapt the newest trends to make each lesson interactive and interesting to their students. Their keen observation of how students process learning make them irreplaceable. High-tech devices, artificial intelligence, and other innovative tools can never replace teachers. Those tools and innovations became add-ons that teachers combine with their conventional and contemporary techniques. Modern educators are willing to unlearn, relearn, reskill, and upskill their methodologies to reach out to growing number of diversified students in every community. Our community might have faced different challenges in the previous years, but our country's education warriors never even had any thoughts of giving up. For teachers, their jobs are infinite, everlasting, and motherly. It is likened to parenting a child. They are always more than ready to extend a hand and make us feel their unending compassion in touching the lives of our students, sharing their knowledge and expertise, and continuing a life full of compassion for the betterment of the educational system. Teachers are more than what they are called. They do not only teach; they also serve parents and become friends to all their students and everyone they are within the educational community. Teachers touch lives of many, and they can light up the candles for those who are darkness. I will always be grateful that I had been and will always be a teacher no matter how challenging and difficult the journey had been and would be. Teachers always manage to stand firm despite of life's challenges and no matter how rough work could turn out. We all possess the gems of an individual's strengths and weaknesses. Teachers may be naturally weak for they are human, but they become weak to be able to assist others and provide them the strength that they need. A teacher’s light lasts a lifetime, and it shines even more despite the adversities of time.

-oOoTHE AUTHOR IS SST I AT RAFAEL L. LAZATIN MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL