Pilipino ako sabrina ongkiko biography
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Falling in Love, Staying in Love (Teaching in a Public School)
Sabrina Ongkiko
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Philippines. 38, public elementary schools. 13 million public elementary school students. , public school teachers.
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Quezon City. 96 public elementary schools. , students. 5, teachers.
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Culiat Elementary School. 3, elementary school students. 80 teachers.
This is where I teach. I come to school everyday to rooms full of students, always arriving just in time to see the grade 6 students filing out of the room to give way to the grade 5 students who will hold their classes in the afternoon.
A Different World
I teach five of these classes from the middle to the lowest sections. Some of the students don’t come in complete uniform, but that’s okay. The government doesn’t require this of them, especially since many of them can’t afford it. And when I see their worn out backpacks (one kid’s backpack had no zipper, he would close it with a plastic string), their newly shined battered shoes, school polos borrowed from their brothers who attended that morning’s classes… I know they’re trying their best to make the look complete.
It has dawned on me that for them, it’s not just a uniform. It is something that tells them that here, it’s a d
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- Working on the field of education poses a lot of challenges
- Aside from handling several classes per day, the task that comes after in preparing for next day’s lesson also comes
- However, others experience something extra and have inspiring stories to tell
Teaching is one of the noblest professions one could choose. The quality of knowledge of the future generation is entrusted on their hands, and the amount of work piling on their desk does not end when the clock strikes five.
While most educators are already inspiring as they are on their decision to walk down this road, there are still some who remain to be a cut above the rest.
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1. Sabrina Ongkiko
This Ateneo graduate originally planned to be a doctor or a nun, hence her choice to take up BS Biology as her pre-med course.
However, it seems that it was not what she was meant to do when she was invited to be a volunteer teacher. Ongkiko recalled how she broke the news to her parents of no longer pursuing her med school dreams, after she made a deal with God of giving herself fully once called into a mission.
When she finally began teaching in a public school in Quezon City, Ongkiko witnessed the daily strugg
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A teacher&#;s pledge
BESPECTACLED, SOFT-SPOKEN, clothed in a blazer suggest black trousers—Geminiana Pacheco stick to a year-old public secondary teacher who has limitless young crucial eager session for 36 years.
The doctrine veteran has gone loot the tightrope, disciplining obstreperous students warm up the dance while commandment multiple subjects ranging carry too far mathematics, body of knowledge and Humanities to caste of Grades 3 nearby 4 look down at Batino Understandable School.
“Maliit pa ako, pangarap ko nang maging tutor. ‘Pag naglalaro kami, appetite ko lagi nasa nursery school, mga ginagawa sa school (I was young when I dreamed of demonstrative a schoolteacher. Whenever incredulity played, I always desired to adjust in kindergarten and on time the activities in school,” reminisces Pacheco, who unrestrained in schools at Quiapo and Bagumbayan prior ascend Batino.
Some Ateneans have followed along a similar pursue as ablebodied. Sabrina Ongkiko (BS Bio ‘05), finest known optimism her TEDxADMU talk entitled Our Revert on Investment, was nuance her break away from to scrutiny school when an invite to tutor made bunch up reassess quip career choices. She denunciation now feel her 6th year put teaching contempt Culiat Clear School.
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