KYSD

A teacher's work is not as easy as teaching a b c d. Every night you need to think if what kind of treatment shall you use so that your students will get to understand the hard lesson easily. It hurts a teacher thinking that he have done his best but still others failed. It hurtsthe teacher to hear that his students hate him because he is cruel in their eyes where in fact he is just disciplining them.

UP high has its own way on how teachers let their students experience how it is to be a teacher and this is through "Know Your School Day" (KYSD). What do we do on that day? Simple, we apply to the teacher of the subject we wish to teach. I did not apply because I am afraid my classmatesmight bot learn from my lesson because I am not good in explaining things. Anyway I stayed as a student. KYSD was actually the time when I was not able to get good scores in the tests that our student teacher gave us. Was that expected? No,not really. It is just that we are so confident because it is just our classmate teaching in front of us and we are so sure that they wont have the full courage to give us a minus five or a zero. And so we did a lot of talking and less listening. But it is inevitable that our student teacher will eventually lose their temper and that will be the time when our concience work and so we are ready to listen. We are not so mean, right?

I salud the all the teachers for bringing us to where we are right now. Accept it, without our teachers, we wont be called as "iskolars ng bayan". Without them, we will not get to understand those mathematical equation, those diagrams etc. It is indeed a very big sacrifice, having much time in school and less time at home but still they were able to balance both.

I feel so proud for our student teachers especially in Math because they were able to teach the lesson to us well. And they deserve a certificate. Actually, during the last grading test, I was rattled because I dont have any notes on the discussed lesson during the KYSD. Obvious, I was talking during that time.

If teaching is your passion, you need not to have a masters degree in Math or in English to teach. But you need a masters degree when you want to earn money. Well money is another thing.