Inspirational Speech For New Teachers

By: Mercy Preligera Ros EDFD221_TM !

Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Graduates and board passers, Congratulations! I am here before you not as motivational speaker. For, what is there to motivate, if all of you were obviously well-motivated to pass the previous licensure e ams. !ow, it becomes apparent from the looks of everybody that each one is still in high spirit. "ather, I am here to ask you a very important #uestion$ %re you ready to be an e cellent teacher& I, myself, am not a graduate of education. I accept that. 'ut fate has led me to this vocation for reasons I still need to fonder for days to come. 'eing a non-education graduate, I groped in the dark. It was my guts that made me enter this profession. I was simply confident that I could give (ustice to it. I told myself that I may not be totally e#uipped with knowledge of a teacher, but my passion for teaching would eventually led me to the right and useful knowledge I needed to ac#uire. %las, that confidence made me stay in this vocation for almost ) years now. !otwithstanding that ) long years, I would say that I am still not an e cellent teacher. !or would I consider myself as a good one. *ven if students+ evaluation would reveal otherwise, I would still prefer not to think that I am a better one. I want to think that I am still a novice in the profession. I want to think that this is my first (ob which I don+t have knowledge about. ,his is because I still want to e cel. ,his is because I want to grow. I still want to be corrected. It is because I am not perfect. -ence, from time to time, I have submerged myself in educating myself thru reading books and the net. In my readings, I have encountered lessons which helped me in my teaching profession. I have learned that students are of different types. -ence, different teaching styles and methods should also be used by the teacher. It is a challenge to a teacher if he can make use of the different learning styles in a class with different learners. I have also learned that a teacher should be global. 'eing global means that he is up-todate with what is going on with the world. -e should always welcome changes even if these changes would affect his point-of-view. -is opinion should give way to the ma(ority opinion. It therefore calls for ob(ectivity. !o biases and pre(udices. Indeed, my role as educator is to provide a rich environment that empowers learners to find and e press their own voice. .uch voice has been silenced for #uite sometime. It becomes a challenge now to teachers on how to let that voice be heard once again. It becomes a challenge now for you inductees on how you will create that voice - the voice of the youth. ,he voice which we all long to e cel. In this regard, I post another #uestion$ %re you up for that challenge teachers&

%s compared to the /hilippines, where education has budget allocation more than other branch of government but receives the least priority of the government, Ireland and Finland, has promoted science and education, making them their national development priorities. ,ransition imposes new demands on population$ people have to master new skills, the skills that will #ualify them for a successful coping in a competitive society of rapid changes. *uropean Commission states that education has to contribute to three most important ob(ectives$ to the development of an individual, development of a society and It is the students that gave me inspiration to do the (ob to the best I can. It is there comments that inspire me. ,hey are priceless. development of economy, in such a way that skills of people on the labour market correspond to the needs of enterprises and employees.