The Teacher Who Builds Character

by. Vince Untalan

Curriculum is said to be dynamic, continuous and flexible. Variety of strategies must be appropriate to the different kinds of students, teachers as well as students should be adaptable to change. Let me show you my best and one of the most influential teacher way back in 4^th year high school.

Mr. Umali, a math teacher who brings to all his student the real application of mathematics in daily life.  Fun of sports especially in basketball, good in playing chess and heart whelming person. Year 2014, He was our teacher. He is a strict, serious, and frightening instructor as it said by the others. But this is not a hindrance for me to be afraid of him like others, instead I treat it as a challenge for me to be able to learn more in mathematics. For me, he is one of the most excellent and good teacher in mathematics. He only used meter stick, chalk, and eraser in teaching and he let his students to have a chance to answer on the board. You will experience the nervousness every time that you think you will make a mistake in front of him and being embarrassed in front of the class. He is good in questioning in a sense that you will hardly think of the answer. But I am thankful for him because he builds up my self-confidence to study hard and learn more in mathematics.

Quality of learning is very important to be able to cope up and to adopt the modern technology we have. Everything lies on our mentor and that is why I chose this person as one of the best teacher I've ever had in my high school life. Aside from the different teaching approaches and techniques that he had mastered, consideration of the fact that there was diversity of learners to be given much priority according to him. His daily lesson became more interesting because prior knowledge of students and putting the situation in real life situation makes a difference. Every student has a chance to express himself/herself ideas. Mr. Umali has the ability to make his lesson mastered by all and the daily result was based in above average percentage of the daily evaluation, quizzes, board work and monthly examination. According to him the new K to 12 curriculum to be implemented in a manner that student will not suffer, it may be done slowly, surely and seriously. Cooperative learning is one aspect of the new curriculum given focus and student centered may not be neglected because of diversity of learning to be considered. Not all schools can immediately provide everything for new curriculum. Lack of books, equipment’s and modern teaching equipment’s like computers considered as major problems especially in provinces remote areas.