Saturday, May 3, 2008

Crazy things about your instructoR

My summer class is finally over. The month of May is here for the summer seminars. At my workplace, the entire month of May is spent for the staff development programs as stipulated by the school’s administration. While everyone is engrossed finishing their lesson plans for the succeeding school year, I’ll be spending this entire month savoring the last days of being 23 and the first few days of being 2 dozens young. Ha!


Last Friday, May 2, was the last day of my summer class. I gave a three-week refresher course for incoming grade six students in preparation for their high school entrance exams. We had our final Simulated Exam that day and I turn over to them their module for the said summer class. It is a compilation of all of the exams I gave them in the entire 12 sessions of the class. Plus, a bonus ‘autobiography’ of their instructor that intends to inspire them to pursue their future endeavors or maybe NOT.



Crazy things about your instructoR


Mr. R, otherwise known as T’cher R to his students, is a graduate of the University of the Philippines Diliman with a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education, Major in Science and Health. Aside from anticipating Ash’s adventures at GMA 7, 10 o’clock in the morning, every weekday, he is also the Immediate Past President of the Philippine Society of Youth Science Clubs (PSYSC) and currently a member of its Board of Trustees.

T’cher R had taken already a lot of entrance exams, including his licensure examination to become a full pledge teacher. He took the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) – Elementary Level in August 2006 and unexpectedly placed *th among its 17,377 successful passers out of 59,457 examinees. He received his medal for being the *th placer of the LET while suffering from sunburn caused by his snorkeling at Crocodile Island in Boracay.

The latest admission exam he took was the Master’s Admission Test in Education (MATE) of the College of Education of UP Diliman. He successfully passed the said exam but intentionally defer his enrollment to the College as a student of Master of Arts in Education, Major in General Science. Until now, he haven’t decided yet whether to pursue his post-graduate studies or rather just blog in front of his laptop named ‘Ace.’

During the month of August of the year when the entire world is restless about the ‘millennium bug,’ he took University of the Philippines College Admission Test or UPCAT at Legazpi City, Albay. Since he did not take any other college entrance exam aside from the one given by Bicol University, he surprisingly passed the UPCAT but very much flabbergasted after learning that he only got a grade of 79 in Reading Comprehension, and worst, 49 in Language Proficiency.

In the year you were born, he took the Philippine Science High School (PSHS) National Competitive Examination. To his Dad’s amazement, he topped the five passers of the First Screening out of the more than 200 grade six students from the province of Palawan who took the exam. Fatefully, he did not make it to the Diliman Campus after flunking the Second Screening.

Good thing he did not make it to Pisay. He could not have been awarded Valedictorian of the 767 graduates of Marcial O. RaƱola Memorial School, a public high school situated at the foot of his favorite stratovolcano—Mayon Volcano, in the year 2001.

T’cher R had experienced also administering a standardized test. In October 2006, he was able to administer the UPCAT at the National Institute of Physics in UP Diliman. He enjoyed watching senior high school students from all over Metro Manila agonized while taking the UPCAT.

After teaching one year at the UPIS, T’cher R found TLT or maybe TLT found him… But whatever it may be, he is currently teaching there his most dreaded subject—Science.

7 comments:

  1. wow, teach. this is nice. i enjoy teaching, too. i used to tutor when i was in undergraduate.
    i have great respect for teachers. more power to you. i hope you never tire of teaching.

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  2. boy, your fast! 25 minutes after ive poseted it? haha!

    thanks. im also crossing my fingers that i wont get tired of teaching... ha!

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  3. Mas na-pressure ata yung kids. Kidding. XD

    Wow, I want to have the same crazy instructor. Haha. Good luck with the teaching career! :)

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  4. why do i always commit typo errors? (i think i need glasses already or maybe it's because of the -OH)

    "25 minutes after ive posted it?"


    anyway, there's actually a high demand in maintaining such degree of sanity... =D

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  5. Hi there, would you like to exchange links?

    Florence

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  6. Na linked na po kita bro. Thank you.

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  7. please don't get tired of teaching, teacher r. :-) you are among my kid's favorite teachers. God bless you more!

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