My classmate Maribel Ybanez shared her expertise on the topic School Based – Management. Through her discussion she pointed out that it is an approach to redesign and gives the local school participants --- educators, parents, students and the community – at – large – the power to improve the school. With this new set up of our educational system, it decentralizes the control from the central office to individual school. It is an advantage for the school constituents to have more control over what is happening in school.
The teacher is the one who molds a child into what he will be on the future. When a student is ready to pursue for a higher degree of education and specialization, it is still the teacher who is guiding the child to attain his dreams and expectations. Teachers facilitate student learning and with School – Based Management, the new role of the principal is redirected as a facilitator or manager of change. He needs to motivate and inspire the entire people involve in the teaching – learning process.
I want to focus on how a teacher can make School – Based Management successful. I started going to school when I was five years old, I can’t remember the exact lessons that I had in the past nor how our principal disciplined us, but as far as I know it helped me with who I am right now. It’s a funny thing to share that I can still remember my favorite and worst teachers since they have a big impact in my life. I always hear everybody’s saying that teaching is a profession. What is a profession? It simply refers to an occupation. So why am I here?
I never dreamed to become a teacher but now I feel so blessed to be part of the Graduate Studies of Capitol University because I saw the beauty and essence of being a teacher. I believe that there is no other profession greater than teaching. Without teacher, there will be no engineers, doctors, lawyers, politicians and a lot of profession will not exist without the teacher and the teaching process. As an aspiring teacher I should be able to deal with students with different abilities and should also be able to deal with learning disabilities. The increasing use of technology, specifically the rise of the internet over the past decade has begun to shape the way teachers approach their role in the classroom. But I believe that the best technology is still the teacher alone. I was given a chance to interview teachers who are in the teaching profession for many years. I am inspired with their stories and that motivated me to really push through. Sometimes I feel like giving up because of the many requirements that I have but still at the end of the day I smile because I feel happy knowing that after all these hardships and sacrifices I’ll be a great teacher someday.
Right now, my mind is set to work hard for my future students that I’ll be molding to become a productive individual. As early as now I should instill in my mind that my main focus is to help the students understand concept and go beyond the knowledge level to higher levels of thinking. Helping students to learn is the challenge for all teachers. Identifying effective teaching strategies, therefore it is my challenge as I will assess in the future the effectiveness of my current teaching style and consider an innovative ways to improve my teaching to match my students’ learning styles. Whether you’re a principal or a teacher, you’re one of the main factors that can affect the teaching – learning process. We need to encourage ourselves to be involved and make professional development an ongoing school – wide activity.
The success of the students is also the success of the parents, principal as well as the teacher. The main stakeholder of the school is the student, as an educational leader we need to meet their expectations and let them explore the beauty of education.
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