The teacher’s enemy no. 1 becomes a teacher

I never dreamed that one day I’d go into teaching until now. It was the last thing on earth that someone of my (behavioral) character (C’s and D’s for that matter) would do. Yet, I will find myself in front of a class of ChE students come June 15. What?!?!? My professors in college would have uttered! Oh my!!! would probably be the reaction of my high school and (especially) elementary teachers. I would be very understanding of those reactions because I have always been the opposite of what a teacher’s pet is. I am very guilty of that but I suppose I couldn’t really help it during those days. And now, I will find myself in their shoes. Karma? Nope. A calling then? Yes.

I have just attended the second day of a two-day Faculty Development Seminar given by the Batangas State University as I write this entry. And what stuck in my mind was one Dean’s remark that teaching is a vocation. She said that as corny as it may sound, that’s what teaching really is. And I believe her. I am called to do this. Try as I may have done to develop a disguise of a bad student before, I will be a teacher after all.

June 15 will be the start of a very frightening yet exciting event of my life. I will teach. Frightening because I don’t know what lies ahead of me in this career. Exciting because I will get to explore the academe in a whole new perspective. I haven’t really absorbed the entirety of my decision to accept the offer to teach until now. The seminar was a big help indeed (even though I have slept some during the long hours of speeches by the speakers).

I am looking forward to the first day of class. I am excited to know what it feels like to be standing upfront this time. But most of all, I am highly anticipating the eagerness of these students to learn from what I have to teach them. So mote it be!