MY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN

                 Teaching is a kind of profession that requires a lot of dedication and patience. Dealing with students is not an easy task for every aspiring to be a better teacher. Teaching is a work of heart because if you didn’t have a lot of patience, it is hard thing to deal with. As I enter to the big dome of teaching, I am aware to various possibilities that this profession includes day to day preparing for the lesson and various task outside the classroom such as doing some paper works and attending various seminars and trainings for continuous teaching development. As I had my practice teaching, I witnessed the responsibilities that every teacher laid in their shoulders. From teaching up to eight hours straight and dealing with the students that some are hard headed, I really thought that it is not easy profession. There’s a time that they need to attend seminar outside the school that last for a weeks and even month. Of course, even it is paid by the school, the expenses required for that was coming from their own pocket. But the deep consequences of this are they need to leave their family for doing their responsibilities as an educator. All of these things happen in every teacher that I know. For the sake of their job and profession, they do it because they believe that teaching is a God-given profession. It is a mission and at the same- a vocation. Changing every student’s lives is their primary purpose and these are the reason why they enter it. And all of this make me realized that I am also one of them. The day that I decided to be a teacher, it is the day that I accept all this realities and I am sure that I can. Since then in my elementary years up to high school, I want involving in some reporting and imparting knowledge to my classmate. When our teacher is not around, I am the one who will teach the subject. I am late to realize that teaching is my passion so I decided to be an educator. Someday I see myself as a successful teacher of Social Studies- the subject that I really like since then. Now I will return the favor to my students and I will teach them the lesson of this subject to all of my strength. I will try my very best to eliminate to their minds that Social Studies is a boring subject because I strongly believe that this subject is not boring. Only the teacher who teaches is the boring one because they just doing mere story telling (though this subject is history telling). Someday I will be a successful licensed professional teacher teaching the students in our community. And I will make them realize that Social Studies is everything that they can see and also want them to appreciate and love it. Nowadays, teacher also need to have continuous education to be familiarize to various trends in education and I see myself that I will also take my master’s degree and doctoral degree in order for me to become expert in my chosen profession. I will not every be a teacher that stick to traditional way (though I will implement it for sometimes) instead I will be a modern teacher that equip with various learning pedagogy in order for me to become a flexible teacher.