MY CREDO

             Teaching Social Studies in secondary is very hard thing to do. Simply, students are easily getting bored when always listening as the teacher discusses the everyday lesson. In this stage of their educational path, they are dealing with knowing the history of Asia where they are belong (Asean Studies), the history of the world (World History), how the economy works (Economics) and different issues happening nowadays (Contemporary Issues). Acquiring all of this is challenge for the students and also to the teachers. It is not easy to instill to the minds of every learner this knowledge. But as part of the completion of the learning process, it must teach very well to the students. Social studies as they always say is a boring subject. But the reality of life is in studying this subject matter. We can able to understand the present and the future by simply looking back to our distant past. Social Studies subject is everything. It is integrated in our daily life. It includes us-humans that create our own history and that’s the reason while we are unexceptional to the other creation of our Creator. So, the major role and goal of teacher like me is to impart knowledge to the students not only the content itself but also the lesson that we may retrieved in studying it. English subject will teach you how to speak English fluently. Mathematics will make you realize to love numbers that are very essential to humans. But Social Studies will teach you how to be humane by acquiring all the lessons teach by our distant past and the events happening nowadays.

            Every Social Studies teacher is quite problematic in teaching the subject because of its broad scope. As a teacher in the future, I will be a teacher not only relying in its content but also to the important lesson that can bring to my students that they can use in facing their daily lives. I may a hypocrite if I say that I can change my student perspective by studying it but I will try my very best to make this subject as their weapon to change the world. I will also improve their socialization aspect as I teach the subject by engaging them to various exciting activities that may bring knowledge to them and they can acquire important philosophy that they can use in their daily life. Being a teacher is both challenge and opportunity to be a better one because of the diversity of every learner inside the classroom setting. This diversity challenged me more to become a fair and just teacher in the future. I will become more sensitive in dealing and teaching the subject for me to become a teacher in heart. Every student has the ability to become someone in the future and it will only possible by letting them to appreciate the beauty of Social Studies.