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Learning is fundamental. Where would you be without all of the great teachers who spent time helping you learn about yourself and the world? Who would clarify your confusion and curiousity?

That is why I interviewed two of the great teachers I've known. Aside from having the interview required in our subject, field study, it was also an advantage for me for I was able to boost my confidence on interviewing professionals and I was able to ask all the questions that keep on running on my mind. First, I interviewed Mrs. Marita F. Alvarro, a preschool teacher in Balite Sur Elementary School. She is teaching the preschoolers the numeracy and communication skills as well as the sensory. She is using games and stories as her teaching methods. Charts, blocks, cards and some toys are her instructional materials. Chalkboard activities, assignments and projects are her assessment tools. Another interviewee is Mrs. Maricar T. Munoz, a Chemistry teacher in Tandoc National High School. Her teaching strategies are games, experimentation, analysis, brainstorming and cooperative learning. She is using PowerPoint presentation, Modern Period Table, Laboratory apparatuses and the like as her instructional materials. Summative tests, lab experimentation, reporting using rubrics, assignment and such are her tools for assessment.

Being a future teacher, I was also advised by the teachers. They were able to put it in me that being a teacher is not that easy. I have to be understanding, patient and I have to become a role model for them. But the thing that bangs me the most is what Mrs. Munoz said. "You have to be the inspiration of your students. That's the role of having a teaching method though, you need to arouse the student's intersts , motivate them, because at the end of the day, all the hardworks you've done will be worth it."

The interview session with the teachers is indeed an enjoyable one.