TEACHERS IN NATION BUILDING

MARY AGATHA CLARE C. LUGUE

The role teachers play is vital. Teachers take an active and an instrumental part in nation-building – by nurturing the youth of today who shall be the leaders and shapers of tomorrow.

Teaching is beyond being a profession; it is far more a vocation. It doesn’t just take knowledge and skills to be a teacher; it also takes the heart – a heart filled with the passion to make a difference in the lives of each learner. This realization serves as an inspiration for teachers to endeavor and strive to be a better each day.

We live in a complex ang challenging world where change never ceases to take place. Hence, teachers are to envision their learners as functional, dynamic, and responsible citizens of the future amidst the complexities and challenges there is and there could be in life; and, all of these would be made possible if they will be led into good formation through good education.

Given that, teachers take it as their mission not only to find but more so to make ways to continuously and responsively improve the education of their learners. Hence, they also take the initiative of making ways on how to continuously and responsively improve themselves as teachers, professionally and personally.

By nurturing a strong and genuine passion toward the teaching profession and in the vocation that comes with it, teachers would be able to become a teacher of knowledge, skills, and heart. By being a better teacher each day, they would be able to inspire and path their learners to also strive to become better learners and persons each day.

-oOoThe author is a Teacher III at San Vicente Elementary School, Apalit District.