Part of being a teacher these days, I think, is transcending the stereotype: being less like the teacher with frizzy hair, uncoordinated makeup and chipped nail polish, and being more like the one that faces each stressful day with grace and poise. Well, I’m sure we lose our poise at some point in the classroom,… Continue reading Fashion Fridays for Teachers #2
I have a few role models when it comes to teaching in basic education. I remember a teacher, Ms. Pramoso, who made me understand metaphors and poetry when she taught Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 to my third year high school class. She was probably the only one who wrote lengthy comments on my essays. I felt… Continue reading The Things My Teachers Did
I bought The Best Travel Writing 2011 for a discount, and now I’m savoring each story bit by bit. It’s interesting that I’ve been reading this while I’m riding the jeepney or the bus — during those short, bumpy, dusty journeys, in other words. Travel literature is a relatively new genre for me; I considered… Continue reading Friday Reads: The Best Travel Writing 2011
This year, for the first time ever, UPCAT exam takers were asked to answer an essay question. A student asked me the day before the exam if he should read about current events. “Huwag na,” I said, after a couple of seconds’ thought. I was thinking then that UP was probably going to ask a… Continue reading If I’d answered the UPCAT essay questions
The floods that have swamped most of Manila, with at least 11 people dead and a quarter-million having fled their homes, seem to have caused little public anger over further municipal dysfunction in the densely populated capital of more than 10 million. […] A “mood meter” on the Rappler news portal let people register their feelings. By… Continue reading Of Resignation and Frustration
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