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Internalization of the Philippine Education by: Michael Vallejos Zacarias As we face this globally-competitive era, every individual searches for commitment to justly advance the educational system towards producing a globally-competitive workforce like the European countries whose educational system is standardized wherein the students are becoming a competitive workers in their field of specialization or degrees obtained. Here in the Philippines, we are still in struggle to consign ourselves to produce globally-competitive graduates because our educational system is quite far-flung from those European institutions. And this year is a call for our government and its officials to assist our countrymen to create a rigid assurance towards implementing and mounting the educational system. It is further a call to benchmarking of preeminent educational practices through research and boosting the internalization of the Philippine education system wherein all schools (its ether primary, secondary and tertiary levels) will be prioritizing research activities in all academic activities which intends to give over helping human race crack the different problems of the community, the nation and of the world. Philippines should voluntarily to adhere the European countries to implement the Bologna (pronounced bo-LO-nya) Accord to shape a genuine education community. During elementary and high school years, students must be trained on the particular field wherein they will excel. For instance, if a student is excellent in acting he prefers to enroll in Arts and Theaters. Upon entering college level he may be geared up and premeditated to do well on his ability as on his degree to be taken. Skills should be well-enhanced through vocational courses may be if essential. In the academic, major subjects is subjected to be voluntarily prioritized and reforms to employ a more student-focused approach and new quality procedures to instruct. This is quite true that we have to put forth more efforts and time, and spending much money. But what is vital is that quality education will be obtained by our students. By the way it could be used to compete in this world of workplace for the future of individual. Government and its officials should coerce to partake and spend extensively the Bologna Accord for the sake of quality education and promoting the nation as its best through educational research program. The Philippine education system should take up the Bologna Accord which aims to assist mobility by providing universal tools to guarantee that periods of study abroad are recognized. We must bear in mind that “Education is a key to upward social mobility.” Our country in general should partake and make sizeable changes to our system in answer to Bologna Accord and required a terrific effort in assessing curricula. Curriculum should be enhanced extensively in order that the degree being obtained by our graduates will be acknowledged in European counties as we apply in their workplace. Many of our countrymen have planned to travel across the Atlantic to work, but the question is how can we work competitively if the degree we have been attained is not enough and not being recognized along the other nations in the world? Therefore, we Filipino people, especially those in higher ranks will make innovations that our Philippine schools could compete with the other graduates from the other nations and make our educational system be compatible with those countries that are participated in by the Bologna Accord. Our students here in the Philippines are spending more hours in school than the typical European students. Our students dedicate fewer hours to their major and do not take up major subjects to accomplish the requirements of the Bologna Accord. In the other words, assessing the curriculum is an imperative in addressing the future to produce globally-competitive graduates. Both local and global trends should be imparted in every student, especially research works as a pilot for making innovation to our Philippine educational system. This is the right time for us Filipino people to think what is to be internalized for our educational system for the future of everyone else. So, Anyone?

The Way We Were by Michael Vallejos Zacarias on Monday, January 10, 2011 at 5:16am

How funny time flies! Like a song, it started with a dramatic beat and it ends with a carrying great weight of thoughts and melodies. That was how our lives began as we claimed ourselves as unique individuals. As we hunt for our unlike destinations at Bohol Island State University- Candijay Campus, we’ve been encountered two major cherished things: laughers and tears that made us thirty-eight individuals grew matured and made us stronger than every torrent came into our lives- meaningful lives! We could barely count our ten fingers how we felt the joys and even the gloom we had met along the serious roads we took. We had even asked ourselves how amusing we were when we had our togetherness in such different spaces we’ve been together. We had even doubts as we tried to flee from those things we wouldn’t want to be. Sometimes, we never mind those advices given to us- that is why we had been reprimanded by our mentor and even by our parents. We tend to do the precise things but, sometimes we were driven to get away from it, until we’ve been called as the worst batch in our department. We don’t sense so if were that type of individuals because we kept insisted that we were not those people they had thought. Indeed we had realized that we were those dozens of people who claimed to be juvenile. Exactly, we’ve been those so called juvenile because we were still acted akin to a child at that time. Although some people thought of we were that, we still stood up and letting ourselves happy-go-lucky group. Then, friendship has drawn closer along the way we were! Our group had grown more vibrant from yesterdays we had togetherness. We had twisted different sizes; we had even propagated a seed into a little plant until it grew fast. It bore good flowers and its aroma has swelled away- that was how our camaraderie started. After class, we’ve spent our leisure time at “Matoy, Tarco and Tambo”, some were resort to what we called “Tagay” and drunk at last. Some had sung their favorite songs even we don’t have the angelic voices while others were dancing even we don’t know how to do the dance steps; felt like a superstar on a big crowd. With all those things, we’ve been realized how crazy we were! We’ve been intoxicated with all the words we heard from other people; we laughed and cried, and it made us realized how significant we were in their lives. With all those things we had experienced we found out how beautiful our lives were! Although there were times we failed, when some of our classmates were deloaded, some had stopped due to financial problems; still we were proud to say that we were “SURVIVORS”. We still live to tell the tale despite of all challenges we faced. Despite of all the sweats flowed in our foreheads we all overconfident to say that we made it – even our bests were not as best as what others saw in us. We could still vividly have down pats how we challenged by our dean-who made us stronger enough. How crazy we were when we were given “DEADLINES”- see the difference? How brave we were when deadlines had come! At last we were all confident when we had our research works and oral defense and the compilation of portfolio made us stronger than the wind that had blew furiously amidst the noise and haste world we lived. Opps! We were not yet done! We still have our student teaching practicum. Remember? How crazy we were with those days we had with the children of diverse behaviors. It seemed the most notable experience happened along the way. Exactly! That was really the most memorable where our patience, faculties and knowledge had been measured. We knew some of us were had its butterflies in the stomach, shaking knees and elbows! But, how lucky we were because we had been through a lot of things that taught us to be strong amidst the desolate tract we had passed by.

Contentment: Truly Seen Inside the Heart By: Michael V. Zacarias by Michael Vallejos Zacarias on Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 10:44pm

From my experiences, I have learned that I always believed that life is a constant battle for survival. I thought whatever I do in life is an exceptional fashion that nobody could go beyond the way I am- and no one could ever transform that. And as I go along with the altering current of life, I constantly shaped myself just like writing- as my favorite hobby especially when am unaccompanied and with the aid of the pen- my genial companion I could simply grasp and change all the gaffes I had made. This became an indispensable to my life, as I made something wrong I could easily condemn and alter myself to craft life more meaningful. With that, life has been worked out fine. Tracing back the past memoirs in my life, I could still intensely hark back how life went through on my childhood days. My dad and mom were illegally separated due to the irresponsibility of my father. Wherein, until this very time (in my twenty year of existence) I haven’t seen the assurance of my father. I yearned for it even this time that I grew matured. I was then at seven years old when my mom went to Sta. Mesa, Metro Manila to search for a greener pasture. My mom left me at the hands of my very compassionate and adoring Lola. As days passed by-and eight months after I could no longer picture why life became more wretched compared those days when I was in the hands of my Lola. She had passed away at forty. All blissful days had disappeared and melted away. I couldn’t admit and hard to recuperate myself from pains that I had inside my heart. I could no longer sense the contentment that lingered inside my rejoicing heart when it happened to my life. I felt that the world turned to collapse and I’ve lost on the way where I stood. I never knew what I should do because it seemed that there is no one in my side. No shoulders to lean on. No arms to hug. Nothing at all. I’ve longed for a fatherly care. I missed my mom, especially my Lola who took good care of me when I was still a child. Days have deserted by. I continuously wanted life so dazzling. I made a change and then recovered. All the pains had vanished away as I tried to face another phases of life. All the emptiness has filled with great joy although I was not in my true family who cared and loved me with all their hearts. They have treated me as their real son and I felt that I was their youngest child among their ten children. I loved them without measuring how deep the love I had and in returned I also received the true love I yearned for. With the winked of an eye, so many years had passed by and packed another happiness and joy in my forlorn world. Life has marked with great delight the time when I celebrated my tenth birthday. With all the bitter memories I had encountered blessed with felicity as my mom went home from Manila. With her was my handsome and looked like a Japanese half-brother whom I treated the most as a truly brother that came with the same blood that runs through the same veins. From that time, we started another memory with love towards each other. With all the circumstances I had experienced in life. I was so grateful for I had the strength that gave me bravery to wrestle against all odds. Whatever and how excruciating it was, I could have my feet back on the ground to stand still where I fell. That was life by the way, according to some famous author that “Life is a constant battle for survival. It is more than anything else. This mutilated, yet defying tree teaches us faith and hope. Faith, that is in the midst of a disaster. We can fight back and win.” With these words, I constantly hoped that as I struggle for existence with the current of the ocean of life- that full of conflicts and pains, I could live in the harmony of life wherein I could feel the contentment despite of imperfections I have. Perfection- this is what people sought to be obtained as we live by our changing and challenging life. But, human as we are, we are born with discontentment because we find ourselves as imperfect. Some says that it is hard to hit upon happiness. Yet, it is true unless we love life no matter what it brings, truly we could find the word satisfaction. Life’s satisfaction cannot be measured by what we have and what we obtained. It is not the fact that we seek satisfaction because we take pleasure in every single day of our lives. But satisfaction can be truly seen within our hearts- that we could accept the imperfections we had. Our imperfection doesn’t mean that we’ve lost ourselves, but it shows how truly we are to ourselves in accepting what kind of life we had fetched.