Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Everyone as a Teacher and Life as a Classroom

For our movie day, we watched a film called Freedom Writers (2007). The film was about a true to life story of a new highschool teacher, Ms. G, challenged by her problematic gang students. Each of her students had their own individual experiences which influenced their morals despite their young age. They had different set of values that was also conflicting with the lessons Ms. G wanted to instill in them. 

The movie had strengthened my belief that when we consider everyone we meet as a teacher, we will then be able to stop, look, and truly listen to what other people have to say. We will be able to hear them and be heard in return. We then can empathize with one another's sentiments and values. This is important for us to come up with a teaching strategy that will work best for our future clients.  In doing so, it would take as a lot of hard work and patience but these would allow us build rapport.

Each one's learning does not only happen inside the classroom but most of our important learning are outside of it. It is also important for us to incorporate and translate our clients’ experiences and present condition on our teaching strategy. It could help in motivating the clients as they are applicable on the client's life. Each of our patients’ lives are important and worth documenting as we also learn from their experiences.


Learning and teaching successfully goes both ways. Involved parties must actively participate and make efforts for the relationship to effectively work. When something goes wrong, we must learn from it. When something goes well, we must learn from it.

We must also learn to love teaching as we all love learning. Our passion in our work as a physical therapists give us the spirit and inspiration to continue despite all the sacrifices we may have to make and the endless tiring and sleepless nights we may have to endure. Everything that we do is given worth and meaning as our future clients will benefit from it.

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