What have you realized about what enables your passion for Teaching?

How have these factors affected

you as an educator?

Every educator is unique. Everyone has his own set of beliefs, Philosophies, and principles which govern
his practice of profession. Each One is understood to have come from differing socio-cultural and socio-
economic backgrounds. Above all has a great behavior on his being a teacher.

All teachers are unique, but they are one in purpose. Needless to say, all teachers no matter how
different they are both personally and professionally, work together on one ultimate reason that is to
transform the lives of the students so they would become functioning and participating members of the
society. This is done by providing them with necessary knowledge across subject areas, by tapping their
skills and offering various avenues for improvement and by placing them in situations that call for the
development of their holistic beings. As such, students would be better equipped as they face the world
on their own. This is our mandate and at the same time, the reason for our existence.

As an educator, I have come to know that the goals we have for our learner's take deep roots on our
personal experience of failures and successes. At times, this goal may be fuelled by an undesirable
situation at present. For instance, a teacher who was once economically challenged but was able to
succeed in life through hardwork and perseverance would use that experience to inspire learner's to
also aim for success despite their present condition or situation. On the same note, a teacher who was
once believed to be a total failure because he has an airhead but was able to attain success by using this
as an inspiration would likely inspire his learner's through his life story. But sometimes what drives a
teacher to really exert more passion and love for teaching is the present situation of the learner's. Truly,
nothing can be more heartbreaking than seeing your learner's worst experiences when they are
supposed to be enjoying life at their age. As a teacher, you know how that feels especially if you have
been that situations. That, Therefore, leads you to exhaust every possible way just to uplift them and
take them out of that curse. There are instances, also when a teacher inspires his learner's not because
of his previous experiences but because of how positive his views on life is, given the fact that life itself
is a roller coaster ride. This goes without saying that, indeed, we teachers are the best visual aids. That is
students learn from what they see in us from what we exude to them.

To sum it up, all teachers are unique in that they have different experiences and stories of failures and
success. They likewise have different beliefs and principles in life. But one thing is sure these different
experiences, beliefs and principles in life help teachers to kindle the passion within them in order to
attain this country's mission and vision for education to turn out graduates who are capable of making a
difference.