1. ONE DAY IN MY LIFE AS A TEACHER
I prepare for tomorrow today.
It then follows that I've prepared for today
yesterday:
Intellectually, psychologically, physically,
spiritually.
I do not come to school on time.
I come to school ahead of time with the
right mental attitude,
with my learning activities clear, do-able,
enjoyable, and creative.
I begin my class, affirming that I am
divinely guided.
My presence fills my classroom.
I know I am the best visual aid.
Therefore, I look good and smell good.
I feel and act inspired.
I am an effective teacher in motion.
I facilitate. I motivate.
I relay. I relate.
I reach out to communicate.
I don't just talk: I impart a message.
I don't just hear: I listen.
I don't just pronounce: I enunciate.
I don't just deliver: I receive.
For I am both a radar and a radiator of
ideas.
I guide the underachievers with patience
and understanding.
I lead the good to be better.
I inspire the best to be better than their
best.
For each moment of truth that I have
performed better,
I humbly pause in recognition of the Spirit
of Knowledge and Wisdom
that awaits to express through me.
When in some situations my torelance runs
low, I stop to listen in.
Where I am, Divine Intelligence is.
If in more trying moments
I break my professional composure,
I shall be alert to change, not my students,
but my attitude towards my students.
I rise to the truth that though I have my
own limitations
I am not limited by my limitations.
I, therefore, choose to focus on the good
that I have and the good that I am.
At the end of that “one day” in my life as a
teacher
I pause to relax, to enjoy, to relish the good
that one day unfolds,
Until more “one days” add up to a week, a
month, a year, or perhaps a lifetime.
I now bow in grace and gratitude and say:
Thank you, Father, for that one day in my
life as a teacher.
(The author, Prof. Jose Mordeno is the
founder and president of Speechpower)