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The Teacher and The Community
(Introduction and Overview)

ORGA, Ma. Ericca D.

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The Teacher

What do you do?

- “I’m a Teacher.”

What do you teach?

- “People.”

What do you teach them?

- “English”

You mean grammar, verbs, nouns, pronunciation, conjugation, articles & particles,
negatives & interrogatives…?

- “That too.”

What do you mean ‘that too’?

- “Well, I also try to teach them how to think, feel- show them inspiration,
aspiration, cooperation, participation, consolation, innovation…

- Help them to think about globalization, exploitation, confrontation,

incarceration, discrimination, degradation, subjugation …

- How inequality brings poverty, how intolerance brings violence, how need
is defined by greed, how ism-s become prisons, how thinking and feeling
can bring about healing…”

Well, I don’t know about that. Maybe you should stick to language, forget about anguish.
You can’t change the world.

- “But if I did that, I’d be a CHEATER not a

TEACHER.”

By: ALAN MALEY

 The dialogue that you had read is an excerpt introduction n the book of Alan
Maley and Nik Peachey.

So, based on what you had read what can you say about what a teacher really
is?

A teacher does not only teach lessons in the four walls of the classroom, a
teacher does not only teach the lessons in the book. As you can see in the dialogue that
you had read earlier, the person who is asking the teacher on what he is doing said that
he/she (the teacher) should just stick to the subject matter that he/ she is teaching. But
as teachers, it is our responsibility and duty to educate, to open the eyes and to
broaden the horizon of understanding of or students.

If teachers will not do it, might as well TEACHERS will become CHEATERS,
notice how the word jumbled up. We have become cheaters because we are corrupting
them from the knowledge and opportunity to know the real world. Where in fact, they
should know what is happening since they are the next in line of generations that will
make this world go around. Just think of how significant of our role to them. Some may
see that being a teacher is a tiring “job” but the impact you can give to people is very
rewarding and priceless. We may not change the world overnight, but we can educate
minds that can lead to development and change and that is what matters.

So, going back, what is a teacher?

• A teacher is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge & skills as

well as competence and moral virtues.

• A teacher’s job is to educate children, teens and other people that seeks to
expand their knowledge.

Teachers do not just educate children, we can educate adults too and we teach a wide
variety of ages, as long as these people need and want to learn. In the process, we do
not just teach people and student, we are teaching ourselves too. We are all life-long
learners and as long as we breathe, our heart is beating and as long as we perspire, we
have all the time in the world to learn and re-learn about a lot of things.

Now that we know what a teacher is, what is a community?

The Community is…

 a social group of any size whose members reside in specific locality, share
government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage.

 all the people who live in a area, or a group of people who are considered
as a unit.

 Communities are distinguished by the fact that they share a common

interest, background or purpose that gives them a sense of cohesion.
Although a collection of people can be a group, not all groups can be a
community.

Remember that a community should always have a common goal and they unite
for those goals. A group cannot simply just be a community because they are
collective. The individuals in a group still may have a different goal or plans but in a
community they all have this common and united viewpoint.

 Throughout history, groups of people have formed communities to

increase their chances of survival. They may have shared an interest in
providing food for their families, so they joined others to hunt or farm.

Surviving back then, say we go back to history about the Cavemen for example
Neanderthals, Homo Sapiens, etc. They need to hunt for food, gather and forage fruits
and in order to survive they worked together, and they all have the common goal, to
survive, after all, it is the survival of the fittest.
The Teacher and The Community

Teachers help shape the community and can direct students in positive directions
that they may not have pursued otherwise.

Teachers play such an essential role teaching different subjects and being a role
model, inspiration and coach to others that they can continue to do that outside the
classroom.