A-Day-and-Two-Years Journey in the Life of ABM
How does it feel to be an ABM teacher? How about an ABM student? Let me guide you to a-day-and-two-years journey of this challenging yet engaging track in Senior High School and explore what it has to offer.
ABM or Accounting Business and Management is a track offered in Senior High School, and as the name entails, focuses on developing learners in the field of accounting and business. Ohhhh… sounds like a world for the rich and wealthy? Let’s find out.
Year 1, Semester 1
Two specialized subjects were introduced to showcase what ABM has to offer. A glimpse and a taste in the small world of accounting, business and management. Organization and Management teach well the basic foundation found in the track. An eye opener of whether you would still wish to continue the chosen path. Introduced the P-O-L-C (Planning, Organizing, Leading, and Controlling) of management, which you will certainly use in your everyday life style. Business Math will teach you to love numbers and digits, for the world of business will not be without them. How I love to see more numbers in my paycheck and bank accounts. Such a lovely scenery.
Year 1, Semester 2
And the track just gets more exciting and thrilling as we indulge into the second semester of year one. Ready? Principles of Marketing, showcasing on how marvelous inventions and innovations were given birth to provide better products and services to the world. Here you will learn to be more sensitive and cautious with your customers concerns, and learn to listen to their cries and nags, for in those cries and nags lies the best product/ service that might just give you the break to change the game. Debit, credit, double rule, assets, liabilities, owner’s equity, liquidity, cash flow, balance sheets, income, revenue, withdrawal. Those were just some of the terms you will encounter in Fundamentals of Accountancy, Business and Management 1, as you little by little see yourself understanding the numbers in the balance sheets and income statements report of business companies.
Year 2, Semester 1
And so I told you that it is just the beginning, for Fundamentals of Accountancy, Business and Management 2 will say “hi” to you once more. But his time around learners are more adept in the craft they are doing. That’s not all, say “hello” also to Applied Economics as you get to explore how the economy grows, how it moves, and how we as individuals are being affected by its movement and on how we can use it to our advantage.
Year 2, Semester 2
Almost there, aren’t we?
We will never get rid of numbers, money, and computation of everything else in a business world as Business Finance continuously showers our mind with mind blowing knowledge in this arena. Business Ethics and Social Responsibility can never be taken lightly too, for it is considered as the soul and conscience in the world of business.
So you see, ABM is indeed a holistic preparation for aspiring accountants, business enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, managers, and the like. A track full of thrilling subjects, challenging performance task, yet a fulfilling journey all in all. This will never be enough to described everything of what it has to offer. For a lot more is in store in the everyday life of a teacher and a student. Regardless of the track that a learner may choose to take, it will definitely be a unique journey for each to cherish.
As we venture inside the classroom on a day-to-day basis, we face people with varied characters and dispositions. We somewhat deal with them with the most pleasing personality we could flaunt. But sometimes, it is not always the case. We tend to go beyond our limitations in dealing with others sometimes because of some inevitable circumstances brought by the nature of our work.
Teaching is about managing relationships in an intense, public arena all day. Some emotions will be overwhelming and difficult to manage. They will not be helpful for teaching and learning. In such cases like this, it is just a matter of personality. Pupils in school are very aware of the mental and physical state of their teachers. They seem to recognize the importance of well-being and stress management in learning.
Personality doesn’t mean just the characteristics and appearance of a person which grows and develops as age proceeds instead it needs constant selfdirection towards sincerity, personal integrity, sociability, courtesy, morality, wisdom and others. These characteristics should be part of one’s teacher life. They are the necessary ingredients of a successful teacher.
Teachers, being a vital part of the educative process, must always consider displaying positive traits when dealing with students and classroom issues despite the pressure and stress brought by varied reasons. Teachers must embody great traits that students can emulate. In here, teachers’personality is challenged due to the fact that we know how handle professionally issues and concerns in the school without being so negative or rude in a way. This entails maintaining the balance between efficiency and effectiveness in teaching and proper handling our problems in the class. All these boil down to personality development.
The effectiveness of managing a classroom greatly depends on the personality of the teacher which determines the teacher’s level of organization, charisma and unique adjustment to classroom processes. Teachers may have the same professional qualities but they differ in their personality characteristics which makes their approach to classroom management also different. This sets one teacher from the rest.
Personality is the totality of one’s behavior towards oneself as well as others. It includes everything about the person, his physical, emotional, social, mental and spiritual factors. This affects the educative process of teaching and learning. The major determinant of success in the classroom is the value which the students attach to the teacher. The worth of a teacher’s personality naturally yields obedience, respect and esteem from students. A worthy personality places the teacher on an advantage to have a better control of his students and manage the class effectively.