So Tired of something that I do not even know.

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#stress
#K-12
#INSET
#sembreak

Been in the seminar for three days, actually that should have been five days but I decided to help my Alma-matter BPCS (Brooke's Point Central School) in their School Encampment. What I had just learned is that I have been stuck in a field that is a million miles away from my comfort zone. Given the fact that I am a newly hired teacher and never had any k-12 training that made me land on an unfamiliar territory. I had just learned that teaching the grade three is not really about the content but of literacy. I have been killing my pupils not realizing that I am treating a headache with loperamide capsules. I remember I can't help being frustrated with my students because they can't cope up with me and I don't know how to start reaching down for them. I'm just thinking of why is the framers of this present curriculum put too much pain and burden in grades 1-3 if their main concern is literacy? The life of the pupils could have been easier and more effective if the subjects to be taught would concentrate on Reading, Writing, Listening  And Arithmetic? Reading plays a great role in formal learning. Those who read carries the skill to decode information in print and published anywhere.

What the framers couldn't see is our situation in remote areas where, pupils were not even aware that elevators, showers, and many other thing exist. What the curriculum designers doesn't understand is that many of our pupils in remote areas are children of illiterate parents. K-12 is asking for too much in us. I

I wish that I can have the teaching guides because I am starting to hate this job because of those materials that I can't even download even if I turn my computer upside down. I know that this could contribute great to my professional development but I can't just help it. My passion for early childhood education is the same as how I feel for dancing. What I hate in DEPED is they lack the materials that they want us to teach and they want us to to more than our pupils can carry and more than what we can manage to do.

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