Ana Rhem C. Cortez
June 17, 2018
Hi! I am Ana Rhem Cortez, but I prefer to be called Ana or Nhem. I’ve been a resident of Earth for 19 years now, and I am a teacher-in-the-making! I have one year left of college ‘til I finally graduate and receive the diploma that I’ve been waiting for since the day I entered college as a freshman. The last three years have been very eventful. I could not think of one word that would sum up what had happened for the last six terms, but I could say that it was not a walk in the park. Well, it can probably be, but with instructional materials plus having Piaget, Gardner, Bloom and the other squad members beside me. Kidding aside, I always knew that choosing this profession will not be easy, but I can definitely say that every learning experience excites me to actually be in the field and have my very own set of students.
I remember the first time that our professor asked us to do a demo teaching, my nerves were all over the place. I may have seemed very relaxed and chill, but deep inside, my guts were wrestling. Now that I’ve done it a couple of times, I am now faced with the real challenge, and that is to make it a habit to get even better every time I teach. I hope I get to be the teacher that asks themselves all the time; “What have I not done yet?” Surely, Bloom’s Taxonomy isn’t written for us teachers to just read. Anyway, I still have one year of college and a whole lot more years after I graduate to grow and be the version of the teacher that I imagined myself to become!
