My 5 New Year’s Resolution as a Teacher

Another new year has just began and we all make resolutions year after year. This year, I have listed down some resolutions to do as a teacher and here are 5 of them. I will stay positive.  In 2018, I’ve had my own share of stress and disappointments from all the work that I do.

Women are techmakers. How can you become one?

This is a long overdue post. I’m still writing this though because people must know that women in the tech industry are growing and that they are empowered to make a career in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). I recently attended my second WomenTechmakers Event. My first one was way back 2015 and I’m

Are you renewing your PRC license? What is CPD all about?

    As per guidelines of the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC), professionals are to take continuous professional development (CPD). For professional teachers, we are required 45 credit units in order to be able to renew our licenses. These 45 credit units need to be accumulated in  3 years. (Click photo below to enlarge) Personally, I think this

Of Death. Of Our Roles. Of Teaching.

Just this morning, a teacher was stabbed by a student right in their classroom with classmates having to witness such horrifying event. And even if this is a rare, horrible case happened to where I live, there are already some similar cases which happened in different parts of the world such as this case of

How much of your daily lessons have been filled with inspiration that you went beyond the curricular requirement and gave your students an extraordinary gift?

  How much of your daily lessons have been filled with inspiration that you went beyond the curricular requirement and gave your students an extraordinary gift? One of my mentors, Ms. Marvz Trinidad, posted a very striking question on Facebook a couple of weeks back and the moment I read the question, I knew I

Why do parents need to be involved?

I found this photo (see below) on Facebook and I’m reminded that as teachers, we need to constantly tell the parents of our students to follow-up and guide their children in making/doing their assignments or homeworks. Our students, especially the younger ones, need guidance and supervision in accomplishing their requirements to avoid what happened in the picture

With the resources that you have right now, what will you do to help yourself achieve your goals?

With the resources that you have right now, what will you do to help yourself achieve your goals? That was the question given to us during the Division Level Table Topics contest earlier. We were only given 1-2 minutes to answer the question so I tried to be as concise and direct to the point

3 Characteristics Every Special Education Teacher Must Have (Esp. in Public Schools)

I recently attended a training on Special Education Mainstreaming and Inclusion and as a teacher, I realized that there are characteristics we need to possess in order for us to effectively handle children with special needs either in a Mainstreaming or inclusion program. During one of the talks in the training, the speaker presented these

3 Things I learned about Empathy Education and Bullying Prevention

Recently, I joined an International Conference on Empathy Education and Preventing Bullying in Schools. It was organized by Move This World, Inc.,  “a global nonprofit that uses creative expression as a vehicle to transform conflict, violence and bullying in communities”. On this three-day conference, many ideas and campaigns on Anti-Bullying were discussed and the participants were able

Technology makes a good teacher become better and a bad teacher become worse

Technology makes a good teacher become better and a bad teacher become worse 4 Things I learned from the STEP Conference   Society for Technology in Education (STEP) Philippines Conference 2015 was a 2-day Ed Tech forum that aims participants to learn, to exchange ideas and to survey the field of education technology. This event attracted