Republic of the Philippines

Sorsogon State College

Sorsogon City
A.Y. 2020-2021

Mariane B. Espiño
BTVTED-FSM 2A
The Teaching Profession
September 25, 2020

1. What significant points about teaching does Ms. Lee give us? To what extent do
those points connect with your own experience, and extend or challenge what you
already know, feel, or do?

To teach is not only giving and inputting knowledge to your learners, but also
receiving the same way. In a way that you do not only teach them but they also teach
you and made you realize the things that you've not yet known. Receiving new ideas
and wisdom from your learners through your experiences together with them. It is also
very connected on my experience when my younger sister teaches me those of her
daily routine or hacks that made me amazed and wonder about it.

2. What does it mean to be a teacher? The answer may seem obvious but you have to
think about your own identity and aspirations.

There is a line in Ms. Lee's speech that have stuck on my mind — "Great teacher
is the great artist.", it gives me a deeper understanding on how to be an effective
teacher in the future. To be a teacher is not only a job to disseminate knowledge and
facts to every learners, not only to do some demonstration for better understanding,
teaching is also having an attitude of an artist. An artist showing love and passion on
her work, that makes her more amazing and inspiring. An artist doing the best on every
masterpiece of her and every decisions she made have a significant meaning behind, it
makes her viewers think of it, touched by it and learned from it. An artist is very
imaginative, in a sense that she always want to create unique and incredible things to
make her audience happy and amazed about it. For me, to be a teacher is also like to
be an artist.
3.How does being a teacher make a difference in the world?

We all know that great teachers has a capacity to make a difference. According to
Ms. Lee, in order to acquire this ability to do change all we need to do is to have the so
called inner core. This inner core drives us to seek for a better change in our inner self
first, as well as acceptance and learning, and all of this starts with us. If we can do this
all, it is much easier for us to do the difference we want.