Here is another speech i made for this school year. Whenever i deliver the speech, I will always receive a big round of applause. hehehe! Read more and enjoy! Hope you will get something from this speech.
Here it goes...
Two school years had past… a new academic year is just right here.
Good morning/afternoon class!
This is my third time that I will do this first-day-of-class speech. This is not something new to you already. I guess you are waiting for this also.
Today is the start of another chapter of our lives, another part of us as a person will be grow, another leaf on our stem of experiences will soon emerge that will make us a better person.
Speaking of experiences, I gained a lot of them during the previous school year. Good and bad experiences, forget the bad but learn from it and cherish the good ones. Experiences of a teacher beyond being a teacher.
Contemplating on these experiences during the entire vacation, I encapsulated my thoughts on the following sentences.
Preparing students today for tomorrow's workforce has a lot to do with teaching about how to use and evaluate knowledge. The Internet is rapidly becoming the biggest repository of information we have ever known. The key will be in our ability to find, evaluate and use the information it provides. I need to teach analytical and organizational skills. Students must know how to evaluate data. Gone are then days when students spent their time memorizing facts that were readily available at their fingertips. Students need to learn communication and study skills. I must give them the type of tools that prepare them for lifelong learning, so they know how to study and how to evaluate the importance of what they learn.
Little by little, I am trying to do everything to teach my students on how life is, how life goes and how to live life and use everything to make life worthy to cherish.
There was one incident last year that I cannot forget. An experience you will never earn from just reading and memorizing facts. I even shared this story to my co-workers and it really touched my heart and my well being.
One morning, when I was proctoring an examination in a particular section, fourth year virtuous to be exact, I experienced the most memorable encounter I had with a student. On the midst of thinking if I am a good or a bad teacher, there was this young boy God touched to answer my prayer.
After the examination, its recess time. Most of the students left the classroom to go to the canteen for their snacks. One quiet boy suddenly walked towards the teachers table where I was seated. He suddenly bring out a Rebisco sandwich from his pocket and gave it to me saying “Sir, para po sa inyo, partner po sa kape nio.” My eyes begun to secrete water called tears. I was overwhelmed but I hid it. I don’t want other students to say that I was OA. But what can I do? It was a genuine feeling a human being can feel on a particular situation.
I was so delighted to realize how much I was happy to receive the biscuit. I never thought that boy would do such thing. It was an act of kindness and care of a student to his teacher. Right there and then, I said to my self that at least I am 50% good and 50% bad teacher…hehehe! But this student saw and appreciated the 50% of my goodness as a teacher.
Today is the start of another school year, another year of challenges, hardships, success and failure in your studies. Again, just like what I said last year, one thing is for sure; you will all be educated not only with facts and lessons but also will be filled with life’s greatest values and treasures.
Being a teacher is not all about knowing a lot, but being able to reach, motivate and inspire the other person (exactly what most teachers lack, including me).
Let me end this speech with these statements.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
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