“FCC BEED IV joined RTESC” by LOUELLA MARIE T. ACEBES

“FCC BEED IV joined RTESC”

Regional Teacher Education Student Congress with a theme, “the 21^st Century Student Teachers, their Roles and Opportunities”. August 8, 2014, Friday at Capitol University Gymnatorium. This was incorporated by Philippine Association for Teacher Education Region X (PAFTE-10) and Association of Students in Teacher Education in Region X (ASTER-10) and Capitol University.

The program started at exactly 8:30 in the morning and around 1,500 student teachers from different schools inside Region 10 are participating in this event. Fourth-year students of Bachelor of Elementary Education in Fatima College of Camiguin are one of the participants in the said event in which they traveled from Mambajao, Camiguin Province to Cagayan de Oro City just to attend in this special event for Student Teachers. Each school is preparing an ice breaker like dance, song, and research papers to present.

Dr. Romeo Daligdig gives the introduction of the program and stated the mission and vision of the PAFTE and ASTER and its aim which is to acquire the Global Standards of the 21^st century teacher. This was followed by a Welcome remark which was given by Dr. Kampuno and the participants are entertained by the presentation of the yells of different schools.

The first guest speaker, Dr. Cherry Mae A. Limbaco Ph.D., gives his lectures about how to become an affective global teacher. She also stated the guidelines on how to apply as a Teacher-I in Department of Education.

“Good Teachers are costly, the bad teachers costs more”, this was uttered by the second guest speaker, Dr. Beatriz G. Torno, Ph.D. She gives lectures about the characteristics of the 21^st Century Teacher, Appreciative Inquiry (AI), and other important information about the millennial teacher.

The orientation ended at exactly 5:00 in the afternoon. The participants of the event are now inspired and enjoyed upon hearing all the lectures of different guest speakers. This may now being internalized and applied in pursuing their dreams, to become a teacher. PAFTE and ASTER lends giveaways to every participants of this event.