CatSU-CoED celebrates 5th Pinning, Torch Lighting Ceremony for pre-service teachers
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With flickering hope and
enthusiasm, hundreds of pre-service teachers marched together with their
parents and guardians on Wednesday, January 31, to celebrate their 5th Pinning
and Torch Lighting Ceremony, marking the start of their teaching internship
journey.
With the theme βSeedbed of
Globally Competitive Future Educators,β College of Education (COEd) Dean Dr.
Maria Sheila R. Gregorio, applauded the dedication and perseverance of the
pre-service teachers, including their parents, for reaching this milestone.
βI am grateful that you have chosen to be our next generation of
teachers because those seven semesters are no joke. You persevered to withstand
the weakening of academics despite the [many] adversities and difficulties in
this competitive education, and you made it this far with your parents,β
she exclaimed.
βTo our pre-service teachers, continue to grow, learn, and lead. You
are not just the future; you are the present, making a difference today that
will reverberate across generations,β Dr. Gregorio concluded.
Unfolding the reality in the
teaching profession, Catanduanes State University (CatSU) President Dr. Patrick
Alain T. Azanza expressed that the teaching profession requires βsacrificeβ as
difficulties co-existed in the profession.
βMinsan malakaw kamo sa baha, minsan may bagyo, maamay na mamata, all the
sacrifices, even stories of teachers crossing rivers and climbing mountains
whenever they are assigned to far-flung areas just to deliver the services to
our children,β he told the future educators as they convened inside the
university gymnasium.
βAng pagiging maestro buda maestra maagi sa pagsakripisyo," he
implored.
Echoing similar sentiment from an
official of the education department, Schools Division Superintendent of
Catanduanes Socorro V. Dela Rosa, CESO V, shared the various adversities in
teaching, including the βlow salaryβ, but these would βblurβ out with the
teachersβ commitment and determination to educate the future generation.
βI have understood that teaching entails a lot of sacrifices, the
distance that makes you apart from your family, the difficulty in traveling,
which will take you a day to reach the place, the low salary you have to
budget, let both ends meet, βyong paglalakad sa baha, βyong paggising nang
maaga, and a lot more. But again, commitment and strong determination blurred
all of these,β she stressed.
Describing the pre-service
teachers as βbearers of knowledgeβ, the superintendent also believed that they
are βnow prepared to become a teacher committed to solving the sins of learning
for every child, and light that will illuminate the dark world through teaching
and learning.β
