THE HEART OF TEACHING

CLAUDETTE M. BONDOC

Teaching has been always been my passion, it reveals my inner desire to help others and impart my knowledge to them. Teaching is not easy at all, it is dealing with people with different moods and characters. You have to be extremely patient, understanding and tolerant to your learners.

As a teacher, it is quite expected for us to have a temperance that never tires. The society sees us as patient and kind, and we are looked up to by our learners – the pressure of not failing these anticipations sometimes burn us out, and make us want to quit our profession. My passion in teaching reminds me about searching for the reason why I have started in the first place. It tells me to go back to the core of my reasons and to reconnect with it. In my chosen field, I need to constantly have peace from within. It makes me see the lighter side of things and realize that there are hidden gifts even in difficulty. This is so cliché, but I am writing this anyway because it also compared life’s challenges that we must face and overcome in order for us to become stronger.

Teaching isn’t as easy as it sounds because we live in such a place and time where everything and everyone seems to be in a rush, but practicing it makes things simpler. Teaching can be a tiring profession, but it is always a fulfillment to find that one person’s life is better because of you. My life has been a constant challenge and I consistently try to be positive about change, but in times when I go through a dim phase, I make tie to find my passion and fall in love with what I have been choosing to do for as long as I remember – being a teacher.

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The author is Master Teacher I at Porac Elementary School, Porac East District