Analyze a specific challenge you face as an educator and explore one or

more options to address

During my first year as an educator, here are some challenges that I faced
while I am on my station:

Lack of Learning materials/Textbooks

The unavailability of learning materials is just one of the problems still

hounding the countrys new basic education program, K to 12. Under the K to
12 program, every graduate is expected to be equipped with information,
media and technology skill; learning and innovation skills; effective
communication skills; and life and career skills.
A classroom of 40-plus students without books is hardly a learning
environment. Many teachers, especially in urban schools, are working with
at-risk students with very few of the necessary resources to support them. I
teach Mathematics and Araling Panlipunan subjects and every time we had a
discussion, we refer only to the available books/learning modules in our
school. During examination, I was also only allowed a certain number of
photocopies. If I ran out of copies, I had to pay for more. I would play math
games in my head: If I made the font smaller and reduced the spacing and
margins, I could reduce the amount of copies per child to two pages instead.
No teacher should have to worry about not being able to provide the most
basic resources for their students. However, I do believe that increased
funding for high-quality resources, and continued teacher development
would absolutely improve urban education. As an educator, we need to
ensure that the level of competency of our students match those prescribed
in the curriculum. We are also given a free hand to implement out-of-the-box
strategies to convey the lesson to our students. Teachers are also flexible, if
there are no available resources, we need to sacrifice a little amount of our
salary just to provide students with relevant and applicable learning
materials to cater their needs.
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http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/specialreports/363734/lack-of-
materials-facilities-still-hound-k-to-12-
implementation/story/#sthash.EmkXSAEg.dpuf

Discuss whether or not poverty has an impact to the brain development and
learning