MY VISION, MY CAREER, MY LIFE
ROSEMARIE S. BONDOC
When I was a child, I used to ask my grandmother to buy me a small board, pieces of chalk and a board eraser. As I received the materials from her, I quickly went to my friends, gathered them as my students and taught them some concepts which I knew that time. I began showing to them how I wrote the letters and numbers on the small green board which they copied on papers. My friends and I happily accomplished this activity. I never knew that I would be a teacher then. I was just enjoying doing it.
Years passed by and I reached high school, I started to understand that I liked to impart what I know to children. I volunteered to teach children in our community. I had a that best feeling of performing the task. I never knew then that it would be a great chance to me of becoming an educator. I just loved what I was doing that time.
I started meditating if I would be taking education as my course when I graduated from high school. I began thinking if I could take the struggle of communicating vital learning to students. I mirrored if I could nourish the minds of the learners with significant ideas and if I could seal their hearts with values worthy of emulation. After careful examination of myself, I already expected that I would be taking education as my course for I saw my future holding a piece of chalk in front of students.
I realized that I was ready with the profession I chose when I finished college. I was ready with what it would require me. I was already prepared with the needed skills to make learning in the classroom possible. I already had the values I need to wear at all times to encourage students do their best and excel in the subject I would be teaching.
As I entered to the world of teaching first in a private school and now in a public school, I started telling myself that the job I chose was not only my vision. I began realizing that more than a vision and a career, teaching was my life. I absolutely loved what I was doing that is, marking to the minds of students what they need to learn for them to face the challenges as they pursue their journey called life. I was certain that I could bring a change in the society as I shared with people the values they have to live with as they continue in their life encounters.
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The author is Teacher III at Pampanga High School