Hello. Awesome teachers!

To our beloved District supervisor Ma’am Merle Lopez, to our very

diligent and handsome ASDS Sir Magno Abueme
And to our very hardworking principal mam Dionicia c figura. A
wonderful day to all of you. I am presenting myself on behalf 90
teachers at Joaquin Guido Elementary School, to accept the challenge
given to us. With this midyear theme: In service training a confident
teacher. Which we successfully achieved our goals despite the fears
and confusions in our heart. It is the toughest time due to pandemic
that we are virtually educated and committed to learn and explore
things like this to be a new normal educator. Just a quick story behind
my appearance here. It was last Wednesday when mam bless chatted
me, she said if I am willing to do the task of accepting the challenge, I
said if there’s any other options before me. She said none with lol
emoticon. Kidding aside, I was trying to refuse at first to that idea
because I was too shy, I don’t have the courage to express myself.
They say less talk, less mistakes. I am afraid of making mistakes. But
I was WRONG. When I started drafting things, there’s a lot of emotions
and ideas came to my mind. But I will simply be pointing out one,
“making myself out on the box”. Indeed, this is true, lets imply this to
us, teachers. We must learn to accept the challenge, the challenge of
this new normal set-up. Most of our fellow teachers here are afraid of
technical terms but here’s my word of encouragement: Don’t say you
are too old of learning new things.
According to Thomas Henry Huxle “Try to learn something about
everything and everything about something.” We must be a risk-taker.
There’s no harm on trying and exploring, if we fail, there’s a second
chance. Every mistake is a new learning. Learning is a never-ending
process; every human being keeps on learning till the end of life.
Jean Piaget once said, “The principal goal of education is to
create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of
repeating what other generations have done – men who are creative,
inventive and discoverers.”
Let’s develop our mind, get new knowledge and skills like this
training, our inset. Only thus we will have the chance to become
extraordinary person. A strong and a confident one. Edward
Feigenbaum, who says, "We must be champions for our innovations.
"The challenge to bring about the beauty of education for the Filipino
learners. We are now 21st century teachers who are competent,
confident and empowered to fulfil our duty as educators. We must be
champions for the Standards and sometimes we must do so at a
personal level. Do not throw the Standards over the wall and hope that
the document will be picked up and used. We must reach out to
professional development—pre-service and in-service—and to the
systems into which the Standards will fit. We must be champions for
change and for the use of these Standards. We must look for ways to
broker the fit and cheerlead for the Standards. We must promote
excitement about the work that has gone on before us.
And with that, we say, CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!
Let me end this speech with a thought to remember from John Wesley.
“Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways you
can in all the places you can at all the times you can to all the people
you can As long as ever you can.” And that’s all, thank you and have a
great day everyone!