EDUC 30023

The Teaching Profession

Name GARCIA, Juniel L.

Year & Section BSED EN 2-1
Professor Dr. Maura Magampon Umaclap

Reflection Paper from Lesson 1A:

Teaching as your vocation, Teaching as your mission, Teaching as a profession

According to Mark Smith, “Teaching is the process of attending to people’s

needs, experiences and feelings, and intervening so that they learn particular things,
and go beyond the given.”
Teaching was a tough profession since it shapes the heart, mind, and somehow
the ability of every learner. It was like you will become a role model for them, for real. At
some point, you may think that, “oh no I do not want to be like that in the near future
because you are actually studying bunch of books again after you graduate in college. It
will be a non-stop process of learning and learning such terms and ideologies and
theories and everything!” On the other hand, you can change your definition of teaching
in the positive side like “I want to motivate, encourage, aspire, and inspire learners to be
able to produce more competent, versatile, determined, and God-fearing students.”
As a future language educator, I have a mission, and that is to embrace the
responsibility of a quality teacher. I realized that I should strive for excellence. I should
not limit myself and think teacher as if I was like in a box. I should see the bigger picture
of it so that I can also motivate myself to improve and enhance my skills and
capabilities.
For sure, it will be a burdensome but it will be all worth it since we will see our
student’s success after a couple of years.