last day, day with tokens for the mentors, glad day, day of speeches and program

the teachers, one by one, appeared towards the classroom. Their voices were animated that I'm sure that the practicumers were a little anxious about when to start the program. Waving, Greeting, breaking some smiles. On the board splashed the text "Goodbye, Good teachers!"

We were like characters found inside a mall--inside a shopping mall--because they had this school uniform while we had our prescribed dress!

The student teachers, then, one by one, gave their speeches: Thank you, Sir/Maam...

I got the awesome buzz on that event from Sir Marlon where he said with all sincerity that, " If you're not tough, don't teach!"

My mentee and her co-mentees really listened and looked at Sir Marlon rivetingly!

Teaching demands your temper, not only your Grammar Skills and King of Syntax, but how to deal with impatient kid, spank-challenged kid, boisterous kid, and some ten million permutations of personality of urban and pseudo-urban schoolers! Toughness + Guts + Vitamins = dedicated teacher !

comment box: the mistake of MISS MUFFET

FACEBOOK REALITY # 1

one comment: ARE THIS CELLPHONE ALL YOURS?

the grammar, the subject-verb relations s just too mara and clara (fighting characters in philippine TV drama) that is why, my hackles raised and instantly i corrected the student (her name is _________) but not in the comment box but i sent some private letter. 
here's the excerpts--

  me(frets obviously): Ms Muffet pls change ur comment. ur grammar is wrong.

ms muffet: sori, sir!

me: dont say sorry. now, delete it...

ms muffet: OK.

me: change this (demonstrative pronoun, for singular form)to these BECAUSE there are soooo many celfones and pls, add s to ur celfones because there many celfones!

diagram to this lesson?

are all this these celfone celfones (with s, this time)yours?

                        
              

CLEARANCE FOR MY STUDENTS

if my niece's oft-repeated word is apple, because she officially loves that fruit, my student's oft-repeated word is: CLEARANCE!

I did not sign the clearances of the eleven students because I saw some "Jellyfish" in my name instead of the correct gunning of my German-inspired name(II-Guava tops in the Sections with Most Misspelled Name!) I poured my sentiments/thoughts in front: mygawd, I've memorized your names!Did I miss something? Do you want some WORD WAR for this? Are you mocking my name? Did I have some grave sin in my past life? How dare you?!! OK, I am just joking!

• my clearance is lost!
• maam ____ won't sign if your clearance is not placed in a yellow folder!
• compile your activity papers for your clearance
• i won't sign creased (gum-os) clearance!
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teacher's uniform

Who designed it? Vera Wang? Pitoy Moreno? I'm just telling some figure of speech. Not mocking or being sassy to the majority. I am hoping an icon or the best of the industry because teachers are heroes like Zorro, Ninoy, Sacajawea, and sim card ! Well, I did my research. Results from it? Loading... OK: so there is such a thing as National Uniform Committee or NUC. Wow, sort of Fashion Week Milan or some High fashion group in Tokyo or Manila. Here's the "cool" part: the textile materials come from Gretchen Barretto's stylist! Gotcha! I am just kidding your non-kiddable personality! OK. Serious, water please. The (ahem 2x) textile materials WERE TESTED BY the Philippine textile (that's capital T, you wango!) Research Institute of DOST or PTRI-DOST and found compliant to the Employees Uniform Quality Assurance Program or EUQAP. I am completely enlightened, reassured, floored, bagged, bloated, and, well, (kinda) secured by that technicality. I thought that teachers were, you know, in terms of uniform were just thrown to bubble wrappings. go to this: link for uniform

portfolio

First off, the color--the motif, theme shades: just to easily identify our department, which is...(THIS PART IS AN EXAMPLE of an appositive!) Great! My chosen color was lost; the other teacher rooted for RED because she likes red? Noooo. 'Cause she happened to buy Red Clearbook. She lost. "Grabe ra ba to ka mahal, Choi!" (Very expensive that was, Choi.)
I started to collect--compile (stack?) my certificates: from new curriculum to mentoring program to communicative language teaching. Breaking news: The certificate of participation regarding the Summer Reading Camp has just cooked up. Whoa, whoa, whoa!