Questions:
1. Why did you move from private to public school?
- I think that as a teacher, I always have to widen my horizon and I have to grow
not just professionally, but personally so I had to transition from a private school
to the public school. Public schools have professional development programs
that helped me become a better educator. These programs helped me to be at
par with the community and the region.
2. What's the difference between the class size of private and public schools
there? What's the biggest class size you ever have handled?
- By average, public schools have almost the same class size as the private
schools. Although at times, public schools can have as many as 65 students and
it's the largest number of students I have handled in my experience.
3. I have noticed in your resumè that you worked with *school* from 2016-
January 2022 then transferred to *school*. Tell me more about that. What
happened? What's your work as a Head Teacher?
- I was promoted in January 2022 as the department of education in PH
recognized my abilities in innovating education, research, speakership, and
performance as a teacher. My work now includes halfway teaching research to
12th graders and halfway mentoring, monitoring, supervising, and training the
English and SHS teachers to become better educators by giving them technical
assistance in research, instructional material development and validation,
lesson planning, teaching strategies and important pedagogies so they can
better serve their learners.
4. How do you make sure that reading is embedded inside your class?
- I am an advocate of reading. I am firm believer that reading is the foundation
of all skills and knowledge students should learn not just in English, but in all
learning areas because if students cannot read, they won't be able to learn.
I always embed reading in my teaching and I always employ reading strategies
such as noting details, getting the main idea, sequencing events, predicting
outcomes, and drawing conclusions in my teaching. I also tell my colleagues to
use 1-2 days of their 4-day load teaching reading. I monitor them and give them
assistance in teaching reading.
FOLLOW UP QUESTION: Is it based on your research or is it based on the
curriculum?
It's based on research. We actually profile students. Honestly, we have more
than 50 non-readers and more than 300 frustrated readers in our school so I
have to make sure to implement wonderful programs for them to learn how to
read.
5. What will you do if a student walks out or says "I don't want to do that stuff!"
- I always see classroom management practices in the point-of-view of concern
and authority. I always make sure that students will be asked not questioned
inside my class. If a student walks out, it is a perfect opportunity to understand
the student better by asking him or her his or her physiological and emotional
needs. Is he hungry? Frustrated? Bored? Or does he or she have problems and
burdens? When we understand our students, we can build better management
programs for them. In addition, we have to be firm with our rules. We have to
make sure that all the regulations set at the beginning of the school year are
met and I should be modelling such rules. I should follow them so students will
follow as well.
6. Where do you want to teach. Middle school, high school, or seniors?
- I probably want to teach the secondary school students.
FOLLOW UP: What if you'll be teaching the middle school students?
- I have an orientation in teaching 7th graders during my pre-service teaching.
So I think I can do it.
FOLLOW UP: So where do you want to teach? 12th grade, 10th grade, or 7th
grade?
- 10th grade. It'll be easier for me to transition if that's the level.
7. What are your weaknesses?
- I always think I am a work in progress. The top 2 weaknesses I have are (1) I
cannot say no to things and sometimes it affects my productivity (2) I overplan
at times. Sometimes I can't be spontaneous inside the class because I stick too
much on the plan. I am really working out to be more creative in such a way that
I do not overdo things and I hope your network can help me through some
trainings and programs for professional development.