LAST WORD

Not the man of the world as a teacher, but I can discern differences between the one that is and the paradox of that all. So don’t come to me whining about students or brag about your spotless theories or underestimate what this little man can do.

Please, don’t!

It’s pointless!

Criticizing is neither the right vocabulary nor my intention for this article – this is but one last word - to encourage with joy, to remind with gladness, and to affirm with sincerity. This is for every educator who believes in the name of a selfless teaching.   

As I have said, not the expert on this thing because learning is lifetime. As we sit each day at the feet of Mr. Experience, the best teacher, we’ll all conceive that teaching undeniably involves constant learning and endless sharpening.

It is!

That is why list of events like these: workshop, training, seminar, assessment, evaluation, and development program are best remedies for a teacher’s improvement. It takes all these to achieve one’s desire to be called a genuine teacher.

Honestly, NEVER have I taken my class like a joke – I polished my craft in many ways maximizing it; I worked hard; I earnestly prayed for love and passion to grow in my heart; I embraced motivational approach creatively; I prioritized my students opposite to teacher-centered approach.

Please do the same, if you can.

  

And few more things...

I discovered and rediscovered my gift – it took hesitant years to finally admit my love for teaching. If I had to recall, I shaped a different destiny just to run away from this calling. Now, it’s the best decision I have ever made.

When I was on a denial stage, my dear teachers, my true friends, and my thoughtful mentors had spent a golden time just to affirm what I had – this little gift called ‘teaching’. And so I’m doing the same thing to you.   

So don’t take that gift deep within for granted – use it for the good of others, use it to bless the less-fortunate, use it to maximize potential leaders or even receptive learners, use it to bring changes to the world.

Teach your students with honesty, love, and dignity – like you’re treating your own self.

Encourage them to learn and be hungered for more – mediocrity should not be in their list of words. Purse excellence at all times.

Take this moment like there’s no other time, then this effort will last a lifetime.
    

Never ever take your class like a joke whether you’re a professor or an instructor or a mentor or an educator or simply a teacher. Teaching is the most delicate thing in the world – either you’ll destroy a future or you’ll make a bright one.

This was my last word to my teachers early today. Not that I am dying, but a hope to awaken them from complacency. I am leaving so soon and that no one will remind them about these things again.

May this last word will be a lasting impression in their day-to-day-journey as young educators until the end of time, I pray.