John Holt once said, ‘learning is not the product of teaching but learning is the product of the activity of learners’ and along with this line it affixes with the theory of education from John Dewey that ‘learning is by doing’ that means it is a hands on approach to learning that learners/students must interact with their environment in order to experience real-life situations and to adapt also to learn.
I believed that teachers are there to inspire and should realize that there will always be rocks in the road ahead. There will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones and it’s all depends on how we use them. Teachers dare to teach must progressively discover his own ignorance. In classroom, don’t just have to deliver knowledge but to enable students to understand and address complexities of modern life. The dynamism in knowledge and explosion of newer information poses a challenge of continuous up gradation of your competency by acquiring, maintaining and demonstrating highest values and characters.
As a graduating student, we have been deployed and assigned in different year levels in Junior High School and Laboratory Schools in the University of Northern Philippines that was started on the month of March as pre service teachers. Preservice teaching is a period of guided and supervised teaching. It is gradually introduced into the teaching role for a particular class by a mentor or a cooperating teacher.
As a practice teacher intern I’ve been actively participated in conceptualizing and constructing learning through university-based coursework and experiences in the field-based setting.
To know more about me and my teaching experiences, this student teaching portfolio presents and reveals my undertakings, my proficiency, my growth in teaching and other forms I accomplished from my teaching internship.