REAP WHAT THEY HAVE SOWN

My education school journey was preceded by a cautionary tale. I had an idea of what it would be even before I actually enrolled. Our TVLED Department professors would often tell stories about it.

I was never clueless.

I was warned.

I was guided.

Notwithstanding, I pursued.

Everything too complex and daunting.

Education school is no easy. It is a tough task. It is a life. And when you take that life, you have to live it. You have to live with it and live for it. I have always believed that education school is only for the toughies, for the ones who do not have the courage to turn back on the things they engage themselves in. For the ones who do not withdraw from their commitment or abandon what they have started and established. It is no high school fantasies. It is not for the ones who act like giddy high schools in love, romanticizing everything.

Education school is a world. And when you enter in it, you have to live in it. You grow in it and in it where you learn about the real world. It is where you open your senses to the things you never thought are there, existing and waiting for attention, or at least a little of your interest. It is no perfect. You commit mistakes and learn from them. It is no easy-peasy. It was not happiness at all. It was not hardships, sleepless nights, anxiety or wounded feelings at all, either. You would see the difference between fantasies and realities, the borderline between the ideals and the sinister concepts of whatever that is there in life, law and society.

Education school is a playing field in which all of those involved have an equal footing and equal chance of getting the most sought-after title. It does not matter whether one is a professional, licensed or not. It doesn’t matter whether one is on top or the other finds comfort on the sidelines. Par in parem non habet imperium is the rule, not in the concept of international education, but instead in the concept of being a education student just like any other education student who share the same dream.

Education school is a place for those who are destined to be in it. It is a place full of mystifying mazes where education students run with the aim to finish the race and reap what they have sown.

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Last week, when we had our first observation, he requested us to do a demonstration for additional information about their topic which is Introduction to Bread and Pastry Production - mainly the focus here is the Introduction of the Various Tools, Materials, and Equipment in baking.

And so we did is team teaching demonstration with my fellow FS students. What we tackled was what are the different classifications of Baking Tools, Materials, and Equipment and their functions in baking.

In the morning session, we spearheaded the class of Grade 7 - Dahlia (7:30 - 8:30), Grade 7 - Rosal and Grade 7 - Orchid (8:30 - 9:30) and Grade 7 - Rose (9:55 - 10:55) consecutively.

Whereas in the afternoon session, we initiated the class of Grade 8 - Persimmon (1:00 - 2:00) and Grade 8 - Lanzones (3:00 - 4:00). Also, we were tasked with giving a grade for the outputs being submitted by the six sections that our resource teacher handles and tabulate some of the scores of the students from their previous quizzes, exams, and periodical exams.

During our spearheaded class demonstration with our students here are some of the observations we tremendously observed:

1. Not all students are listening to the class no matter how you catch their attention.

2. Some students tend to give their attention if you exert humor in class but eventually lose their interest if you only focus on your discussion.

3. Some students are active, participative, and appreciative.

4. Few students are willingly confident enough to perform in front of the class what is being asked of them, such as what is being discussed by the student teachers.

With the aforementioned team teaching experience among the five sections that our Resource teacher handles, the realization hits us that being a teacher requires a lot of courage, patience, and, most importantly, energy to teach. Honestly, after handling those classes, we felt drained and exhausted. However, it is rewarding knowing that behind all those pressures and exhaustion we felt, we have unlocked more room for improvement and gained more experience that will help us do more and better.

Our group consists of three members: Ana B. Longui, Sekinah R. Hosseini Azimi and yours truly, Homer Wayne P. Guzman. Attached above are the photos captured during our off-campus Field Study 2 participation and teaching assistantship at Ilocos Norte National High School, Senior High School.

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