Title: Mother Tongue-Based Multi-Lingual Education:
Now and Beyond?
Author: Modesta B. Enriquez
Source: The Modern Teacher Volume 62, August 2013
No.03
Summary and Gist
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes
to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. “
This saying is one of the quotations in the article that I have
read. For me, this quotation summarizes the whole article. It gives all
the information that is mentioned in the article. In this quotation, it only
shows that language is a very important knowledge of a man. If you
talk to a man with the language that he understands it will be only
remembered by the person, but if you talk to a man with this own
language it will be felt and kept by his heart.
In the article, it is mentioned that the Mother Tongue-Based
Multi-Lingual Education (MTB-MLE) is fully implemented by the
different schools in our country. In my opinion, this project is one of
the relevant projects in the field of education. If I will relate the
quotation to the article, the students can easily learn when they are
using their own language. Even the teachers should be using their
own language, but not at all times. Teachers can use their own
language when explaining or having a deeper meaning of their
lessons. Students also should be allowed to use the languages that
they understand but they should be allowed to use their own
language when they need to learn quickly with their lessons.
Title: Beating Burnout
Author: Calvin Hennick
Source: Scholastic, Instructor 2015
Summary and Gist
The article is all about beating burnouts in work. Burnout is
defined in the article as the stressors that the employees experience
when it comes to their relationship with their co-employees and their
work.
In the article, there are 4 burnout tips that are mentioned. The
first one is about “The Toxic Team”. It is mentioned in the first tip that
whenever your co-workers are having a hard time getting along with
each other, try to talk to one of your co-workers and try to have a
positive vibes so that the issue within your other co-workers will be
lessen. Next, the second tip is all about “The Rigid Role” wherein you
don’t feel like your job allows you to be creative and make your own
decisions. The third tip is all about the nonstop work thoughts. This tip
is all about thinking too much of work, even though you leave the
school you still think of the things that needs to be done. Lastly, the
fourth tip is all about the initiative fatigue. The last tip is all about
adding workload every year.
All the tips that are mentioned can help not only teachers but
also other people who are working. And for me, I choose this article
because as I read it, I can relate with most of the situations that are
mentioned. As a new teacher, this article helped me in some ways.
Especially in handling work and stress at the same time.
Title: The School’s Surrogate Parents and the DepEd Child
Protection Policy
Author: Fermin G. Esapallardo, Jr.
Source: Modern Teacher Volume 64, October 2015
Summary and Gist
The article is all about the teachers responsibilities of
becoming the second parents of the students when they are in
school. The relationship of teachers to their students is one of the
important aspects of schooling. Teachers are mandated to be the
surrogate parents of the students while they are in the classroom.
There are many responsibilities becoming the surrogate
parents of the students that are mentioned in the article. For me, one
of the responsibilities that is the most important is to give them love
and affection, advice and counsel, companionship and understanding.
I think this is the most important responsibilities of a teacher as a
second parent because some students are in need of love. Some
students go to school without feeling wanted and loved. And
sometimes, some students feel that their parents or their guardian
doesn’t even care about them.
As a teacher, I can say that this is one of the articles that I will
remember reading. Because in this article, the things that teachers
do is being highlighted. Not only by teaching their subject, but also
touching the lives of their students. It is not only important to know
that your students learned from your lessons or pass your exams, but
it is important to know that you have taught them the values that is
related from your lessons. Because this kind of lessons are the ones
they remember the most. It is the lesson that they will treasure for a
lifetime.
Title: Women in the 21st Century: Moving Forward in
Educational and Occupational Attainment
Author: Elmer Z. Ventura
Source: The Modern Teacher Volume 64 (March 2016 No.
10)
Summary and Gist
The article is all about the role of women in our society. As stated in
the article, there are many job opportunities in the country and
worldwide not only for men but also for women. But nowadays,
Filipino men and most especially women had found its way to be
globally competitive when it comes to their profession.
As I have read in the article, different movements have been
taken to improve the career of men and women. And one example of
this movement is the K-12 curriculum because in this curriculum, it
makes education more equitable for both men and women. Another
activity that is incorporated in the curriculum is to eliminate sex
stereotyping in occupational selections.
After reading the whole article, I can say that it made me
realize that even in or country gender equality is important
predominantly in selecting occupations. Especially for me as a
teacher, it is one of the most stereotyped occupations. Before others
say that teaching or being a teacher is more appropriate for girls. And
others say that most of the teachers are women or girls. But in today’s
generation, you can choose any occupation you desire regardless of
your gender.
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Title: For More Effective Teaching
Author: RechildaRamiso-Cioco
Source: The Modern Teacher Volume 64, October 2014
No.05
Summary and Gist
The article “For More Effective Teaching” is about the needs or
demands of the modern teachers to become better and prepared
teachers in school. In the article, there are different factors that have
been mentioned. But among those factors, I can relate the most with
only three factors.
The first one is to know how to become a successful teacher. I
can relate with this factor because up to this date I still have a lot of
adjustments, improvements and acceptance to face for the coming
years that I would be teaching. But for now I am focusing with my
attitudes, habits and needs for me to discover the things that I should
be improving.
Second, I can also relate with the factor professional habits.
Honestly, I can relate with this factor because at this time I am having a
hard time adjusting with the habits or the routine of a teacher. As a new
teacher, I am still practicing the routines that should be done.
And the last factor is about the relationship with the students,
other teachers and the community of the school. I believe that the best
way to enjoy what you are doing is to have a harmonious relationship
with the people that you are working with.
For me, all the factors that I can relate with will help me in
improving not only my skills and competencies as a teacher, but also,
these factors will help me to become a better person in the future.
Title: Why Do Teachers Experience Burn Out and Stress
Author: Gabriel L. Luna
Source: Modern Teacher Volume 60, September 2011
Summary and Gist
The article is all about the stress that teachers nowadays
experience. It talks about everyday work and sacrifices of teachers. It
is also about the different ways on how teachers deal with the stress
that they go through every day.
In the article, there are 3 major reasons why professionals
get burned out and stressed. The first one is about heavy workload.
Too much workload can cause teachers to be burned out especially if
they are required to beat deadlines and work overtime. Working
overtime results to stress particularly when teachers doesn’t have
control over their working habits. Teachers also tend to work beyond
what their minds and bodies can handle. The second reason is about
role conflict. Most of the time teachers are given special task aside
from their teaching loads. This teaching-related works sometimes is
one of the major stressors of teachers. Because of this, some
teachers get confused in what to do first. This happens when two task
needs to be done simultaneously, making it harder to comply and fulfil
the two at the same time. While doing these things teachers feel
mentally and physically burned out. And the last major reason that is
mentioned in the article is about role ambiguity. Role ambiguity is
about the teacher’s uncertainty regarding different phases of the job.
Example of this are schedules, work methods, performance criteria,
expectations from the school heads or co-teachers and sometimes
parents and students can also cause burn outs.
 Title: Teacher job satisfaction and motivation to leave the
teaching profession: Relations with school context, feeling
of belonging, and emotional exhaustion
Author: Einar M. Skaalvik | Sidsel Skaalvik
Source: Journal Metrics Volume 27, Issue 6, August 2011,
Pages 1029-1038
Summary and Gist
This study examines the relations between school context
variables and teachers' feeling of belonging, emotional exhaustion,
job satisfaction, and motivation to leave the teaching profession. Six
aspects of the school context were measured: value consonance,
supervisory support, relations with colleagues, and relations with
parents, time pressure, and discipline problems.  Residing within this environment, we as teacher educators
Job satisfaction has been linked to productivity, motivation,
absenteeism/tardiness, accidents, mental/physical health, and
general life satisfaction. A common idea within the research has been
that, to some extent, the emotional state of an individual is affected by
interactions with their work environment. People identify themselves
by their profession, such as a doctor, lawyer, or teacher. A person’s
individual well-being at work, therefore, is a very significant aspect of
research.
Title: Beyond “Tinkering” Enacting the Imperative for
Change in Teacher Education in a Climate of Standards
and Accountability
Source: Journal of Teacher Education
Summary and Gist
In this editorial, we consider how the current emphasis on
content-focused standards and accountability—from individual
teachers’ classrooms to entire states and the federal government and
even the global community—is positioned within broader socio-
political contexts such that it is far too easy to lose sight of the ways
that teaching and learning are affected by knowledge, skills, and
practices that may not be measured by these standards.
find ourselves struggling with the tension between resisting
accountability pressures and preparing our teacher candidates for the
realities of schools today. For example, this tension may appear when
we attempt to strike a delicate balance between focusing on big
picture ideas in our methods courses, while also feeling responsible
for introducing candidates to factual information that will be tested on
certification exams and to evaluation tools that they will face once
they obtain teaching positions. In essence, teacher educators must
search for the equilibrium between the world that currently exists and
the world that we wish existed, between the world of neoliberal
accountability pressures and the world that recognizes the importance
of coursework on justice, equity, diversity, and socio-cultural contexts
of teaching and learning.