ACTIVITY B

Teaching as a Vocation and Mission

The Humanizing Mission of Teaching

1. Read this letter given by a private school principal to her teachers on the first
day of a new school year. It may make your humanizing mission in teaching
crystal clear:
Dear Teacher:
I am a survivor of a concentration camp.
My eyes saw what no man should witness:
 Gas chambers built by learned engineers.
 Children poisoned by educated physicians.
 Infants killed by trained nurses.
 Women and babies shot and burned by high school and college
graduates.
So I am suspicious of education.
My request is: Help your students become human
Your efforts must never produce learned monsters,
Skilled psychopaths, and * Eichmanns.
Reading, writing, arithmetic are important only if they serve to make our children
more human.

Explain your mission as a professional teacher by helping children become more

human.
As a teacher it is my mission to improve to provide and deliver a best quality
of education to my students. Help them to become knowledgeable and skillful. I
want to assure that they grow productive. For me, seeing them that reaching their
dream is such an overwhelming. I want them to become successful and build a
brighter future. That is my mission, for them to succeed.

2. Watch “Discovering Your Life’s True Calling – Lou Sabrina Ongkiko at

Youtube. Based on the video that you just watched, what is our life’s true
calling to teach? Share your answers with group.

Life true calling is to help and serve our purpose. Every profession is a life
calling and it is our choice and personal freedom to choose our calling. I believe
that this calling is based on our own prejudice and we are the one who are making
our own path to future. For me teaching is my calling. I want to teach and serve
other people, Educate and give them the right for correct information.
Read a research related to teaching as a vocation and mission then fill out the
matrix below.

Research Methodology
Problem The research used a written
The problem with teacher teainees questionnaire where students
need to deal. Young people do not evaluated factors for a choice of
choose to relate their career to teaching profession. The research
teachers vocation because a high respondents represented different
requirements pleced to teachers. year level.

Source:
Taluanan & Sales
(2016). Teaching
Vocation and the
Perception of
Education Students.

Findings
It found out that the most
significant influence on student's
choice is made in favor of teaching
profession. It means that there are a
lot of students who are highly
motivated tio study in teacher
training program.
Conclusion
They became aware that in this
profession it requires spiritual,
material and physical to change the
current situation. The ministry of
education and science put forwards a
more detailed processs of a selection
of students.