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ESSAY WRITING SECOND PLACER WISDOM’S GOODNESS TO GREATNESS PROCESS I’m now one of the ABC360’s Top teachers, recognized with several awards being a model, an achiever and a leader yet I’m to- tally aware that the journey going to the place I’m supposed to be will never be that easy. For 11 years of being employed all I thought about was to earn money- a lot of money and then later I observed a cycle, check - pay work-pay bills- work…, transferred from one job to another yet less getting paid until such time that epiphany came to me searching for my purpose beyond not just merely existing but someone who could leave an impact on someone else’s life or even to the society. So a couple of years back, I applied in ABC360 without any clue of what lies ahead. I’m an undergrad-teacher by the way so at least all I know was it’s an online teaching job. “For a couple of years I have watched people teach. I have looked at the best and some of the worst. A colleague said to me one time “They don’t pay me to like the kids, they pay me to teach the lessons, the kids should learn the lessons. I should teach it! They should learn it! Case closed.” And then I said kids don’t learn to peo- ple they don’t like. "Can we stand having more relationship? Yes, Ab- solutely! Will you like all your students? Of course Not! And even if we don’t like them all, they can never ever know it, so teachers be- come great actors and great actresses and we come to work when we don’t feel like it and we listen to policies that doesn’t make sense and WE-TEACH-ANYWAY!...because that’s we do. Teaching and learning should bring joy. Every child deserves a champion! An adult who never gives up on them, who understands the power of connec- tion and insist that they can possibly be regardless of their economic status or cultural background” – wisdom from Ms. Rita Pierson. “I thought that teaching has to do with sense of humor, au- thority, respect, mastering the content of your classes. Of course teaching has to do with all these but for those kids who were lost so much of self-confidence, teaching as a leader shows an outstanding effect.” –by Mr. Azul Terronez an inspiring Ted Talk speaker and highly regarded teacher on his take of “What Makes a Good Teacher Great?” By: Gilbert O. Torcedo (Gibs, PBC01) One thing that I didn’t seriously do before is to “walk the talk”. Often times we tell our students to take care of our environment and yet they know for sure that we do not take that seriously until I took part- in an environmental conversa- tion activity named as “Tree Planting/ OPLAN HAWAN.” By setting an example, now we don’t just tell them to engage in saving our planet. That way it makes us more credible From being good to becoming a great teacher, I learned to humble myself before students.
