MY TEACHER , MY HERO

JOYCEL FRANCO DUNGCA

Teachers follow students through each pivotal stage of development. At six to eight hours a day, five days a week, you as a teacher are poised to become one of the most influential people in your students’ life.

After their parents, children will first learn from you.

Teachers who help us grow as people are responsible for imparting some of life’s most important lessons. As a teacher, you will show your students how to become independent and form their own relationships, you will carefully guide them and intervene when necessary.

Though a teacher’s influence on the social sphere of school lessens as students mature, those early lessons still have an effect on how they will interact with others in the future.

Teachers are founts of experience. They have already been where their students are going, undergone what they will go through and are in a position to pass along lessons, not only regarding subject matter, but lessons in life.

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The author is Teacher III at Rafael L. Lazatin Memorial Highschool