Teaching is a noble profession that shapes minds. The sculpting of minds signifies building meaningful lives and eliminating roadblocks. It is not the teacher’s decision to determine the students’ destinations. It is the teacher’s duty to guide them and to provide them the opportunities to make decisions on their chosen destinations.
As a mathematics teacher, simplifying and not complicating the teaching of mathematics is an ardent pursuit. Simplifying in this sense does not mean easy task without critical thinking. It is making the mathematics understandable by breaking up parts and synthesizing into a cohesive whole or vice-versa, establishing relevant connections, and realizing the purpose of mathematics in the students’ lives – why they have to study it.
Commitment, professionalism, and openness with a balanced combination of tradition and innovation are philosophies to teach both the convention of the past and the modernization of the present, which are essential to the lives of students now and tomorrow.
