A New Year, A New Chapter "2015"

Everyone is excited to face new challenges, opportunities and adventures for a new year and a new chapter of their lives. 2014 is not bad after all for some and this year will be a different story again. Although it is just a new month, date and year, still everyone is waiting for what will happen with their lives engaging the Year of the Sheep. As my family celebrates the New Years Eve, I have realized what we have is still a blessing and a gift from God even though it is not that plenty but at least there are few rather than having nothing. I could say that we are still blessed that we are safe from harm and danger from last year and even though there were ups and downs that had happened, it didn't stopped us to continuously dreaming and making it come true, and even though there are lots of problems that passed by at least it did not turns us into a negative person rather it made us tough and accept the challenges that come along. I wish that this year will be a good one to all of us. Happy New Year to Everyone!

He

He

by: Lesly Rodas

In times of my troublesome moments,

Only one person used to comfort me,

Who gives me strength when I am weak,

Who gives me hope when I am down.

Who showed me the meaning of loving first thy self,

Who explained how lucky I am to be loved by everyone,

Who’s always there to give you chance,

Who never quits giving you care.

He who I really praise and adore,

All those times that he was there for me,

Now that I’m weak, feeling useless and restless,

Having nothing but only Him.

I do loved Him as He for me,

I do think of Him as He for me,

I do care of Him as He for me,

Just because that He is God the almighty.

Hidden Love

Hidden Love

by: Lesly Rodas

Ikaw ang pangarap na nais kong abutin,

But perhaps I think it will just be a dream,

Bawat minuto ikaw lang iisipin,

Though for you it is all nothing.

Ako ay seryoso sa nararamdaman sa iyo,

Even if you don’t know I still love you,

Sadyang kay hirap mabuhay sa mundong ito,

Especially that I know that you don’t love me too.

Hanggang kailan ako maghihintay,

Discovering my feelings by and by,

Sana naman makita mo sa aking direction,

That all I have for you is a pure intention.

Sapagkat ikaw ang pinakamahalagang tao,

Just say those words and I will say I do,

Dahil pangalan mo lang ang ibinubulong ng pusong ito,

For I have felt this love towards only you.

Should You Become A Special Education Teacher?

            Taking up a course like Special Education can be a personal choice or not. Some says they took up this course because their parents told them to do so or they really feel that their heart belongs in teaching special children or the normal ones. Whatever may be the reason behind these things, still the person is the one who is in charge into his/her decision making, only the persons surrounding him/her are the second decision maker if he/she don’t know what to decide of afterwards. Before or after schooling, I’m already prepared for what may be the kind of job that awaits me. I already undergone working before for about two years, and honestly, working is not really that simple especially that aside from that, I also go to school. It requires me to move and work faster than the normal thing. Maybe I can portray myself working on a different job before I will settle down in my beloved profession “teaching.” But whatever may be that job is, surely I will accept it wholeheartedly. 

         A kind of characteristics that a Special Education teacher must have in order to be effective in his/her job should be patient enough in times of understanding his/her special learners especially doing some activities that they can’t immediately cope up, enthusiastic so that even to the hardest point of dealing this children, he/she will not think of giving up his/her profession but will love it and will be devoted to it, creative enough so that teaching them some various basic lessons will not only be that simple but can look more beautiful and can really capture their attention, flexible whenever some unexpected circumstances when the lessons did not go in the way they were prepared, empathy on understanding the emotions and difficulties of some certain situations to help his/her students, and so on and so forth. If I were to ask, if do I have what it takes to be an effective and successful special education teacher, my answer will be that I do have some of those characteristics but compared to a child, my level of being good is still in the high school level, I still need to do more learning’s and sharpen my skills to produce a better and responsible teacher. 

          Going through the movie, “The Wild Child,” the teacher there portrays the characteristics of an effective special education teacher, maybe the kind of teaching that they have in their times is different today, still he is effective in his way to let an ordinary child be an extraordinary child afterwards. His empathy to the child is the number one key why he is really patient enough to change the child and show to the world that this child has the privilege to live like normal ones. The child there in the movie cannot walk, talk, read and write but when Doctor Itard as his teacher intervene him by educating him like some basic ones at first made him at the end as a normal child and will never been called as a wild child. Then Madam Guerin as a personal assistant of Doctor Itard in his house is really humble and patient especially when Victor as the child entered to their home to be educated for about countable months. 

      I learn from the movie that being a Special Education teacher is not really that simple in their times because not all learning materials are being given, it’s for you to find out. But despite the difficulty of assessing the child, Doctor Itard is patient enough because he believe that there is a miracle that will happen, it’s just for him to work patient and neglect the word quit especially that he knows that the child really needed his help even though without the child telling it to him. For me, just love your profession, so that your profession will also love you the way you want it to be.