What’s in your Toolbox?

 

“In the eyes of a child, there is joy, there is laughter,

There is hope, there is trust

For the lessons of life, there is no better teacher

Than the look in the eyes of a child.”

Credits to this Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI5kV69UxKg

With that child looking at you each day without you noticing much …

With that person whom you’re unmindfully getting acquaintances …

With those many or several insignificant glances you’ve made with one and all …

With those eyes you’ve never met and seen such speck of joy and laughter, hope and trust — YOU COULD HAVE HAD THE CHANCE TO SHAPE THE FUTURE!

Many stories could have been touching only if told and a lot of life’s long hidden meaning could have been explored!

Dreams should have been identified during youth and plans could have already been in progress even then — SHOULD YOU HAVE MATCHED THE HIDDEN FEELINGS with whatever it is that you have RIGHT THERE – just WITHIN YOUR REACH!

TEACHER as you are or even if NOT practicing AS OF YET, so long as you CARE ABOUT THE FUTURE and so long as you enjoy CONNECTIVITY THRU SOCIAL MEDIA & other means, you have all the opportunity to learn THE LESSONS OF LIFE from each look in the eye of a child!

Much more that you are enrolled in this course, what could be your edge?

What has PEDAGOGY to do with the raging technology which is generously giving us all the options to promote quality of performances both of the teacher and of the students … and even of their parents in collaboration?

ON PURPOSE, what should you do then to LIVE-UP to that “thrill to achieve” which lies and lives deep within you?

If you are to design your own life, what purpose will you be DRIVEN at — for you to  MAKE A DIFFERENCE in the future?

“You’ve found the place to walk the path you’ve chosen

You’ll never miss the world you left behind

When life gives life, it’s happiness unbroken

When you give love, it’s love you’ll find!”

Enrichment Activity on:                                                                                                                                                                                         Learning Through Design & Technology, Principles of Designing Educational Technology, Steps in Designing ICT-Based Instruction, Factors to Consider in Selecting Instructional Method, Matching Pedagogy with ICT, Modes of Using ICT, Evaluating the Results of Instruction.

SPARK A DREAM: PAY FORWARD!

Sometimes we just need to look somewhere deep within

— for us to see what there is to be thankful for.

” A lot of what we have right now” are not all because of our own effort alone; but many we’ve received because WE ARE LOVED!” — It is only when we realize this truth in all humility that we would eventually start striving to fulfil something for others too!

God have given us that much and He wants us to learn to be able to manage every bit of what we are receiving.  WHY? — because He wants us to LEAVE A LEGACY!

God’s love is like the rain — the amount of what we receive depends upon what we’re bringing to “go get some” of God’s blessings — but most importantly, WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT WE’RE GIVEN would matter a lot and would make a lot of difference!

SO, what am i actually insinuating? What are we doing with the little or the many that we are receiving? … GO, SPARK FOR A DREAM — THERE WITHIN YOUR HEART!

We determine the amount of love that we receive! When we start to give some, we will not be content with what we can still give — because WE FEEL that we want to FIND MEANING in LIFE!

We’re never too old not to grab as of yet this opportunity to dream! And so, since we are enrolled in this Course “School Plant and Property Management”, why not FIND MEANING and START BUILDING OUR LEGACY?

Years gone are but preparations which lead us to what we should do at the right time — how we respond now would be AN INSPIRATION IN SHAPING A FUTURE — all because we deep within us is that GRATITUDE that we want to GIVE BACK such LOVE!

Get some inspiration and learn the HOW,  through this LOVELY young lady’s blog: DreamBoard.

We surely would want to leave a legacy when people would eventually tell that God has been at the CORE of “our being” because we’ve responded to a certain God-given mission which is TO AFFECT HUMANITY and to STORE UP OUR WEALTH deep within somebody’s heart!

START DREAMING FOR YOUR OWN SCHOOL NOW! 

Blog Credits to: https://lovemcosio.wordpress.com/2015/07/12/dreamboard/

Credits to The Light of Jesus Family @ The Feast’s Talk Series: SIMPLIFY. Talk 1: Treasure

THE REAL ESSENCE OF BEING AN ENTREPRENEUR!

Pls Read God’s Silent Message: MARK 6:7-13

If you make LOVE your motivation,

YOU CAN make this world a better place!

Yet, if you are an Entrepreneur, as I’ve said “YOU ARE” during the earlier part of this Series, YOU SHOULDN’T FALL in LOVE!

Ironic, right?

We wouldn’t really understand unless we STRIVE TO FEEL BEYOND!

Today’s Gospel while we also end this Series, SHOULD BE A GREAT REMINDER of what makes JESUS, ENTREPRENEUR: THE GREATEST BUSINESS MODEL IN THE WORLD.  

Looking into Jesus’ BUSINESS STRATEGY:

1. He REACHED OUT when He sent the 12 Apostles to perform cleaning-up tasks to the 12 tribes of Ancient Israel for whom [towards the future: Rev 21.21, 25-26] He prepared 12 Gates in the Four-Walled Glass City of God which are always open to welcome the glory of all the nations into it.
2. He TRUSTED & WORKED WITH A PARTNER when ⁷ He summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over unclean spirits.
3. He GAVE ASSURANCE of His Presence with His Partners when ⁸ He instructed them to take nothing for the journey but a walking stick.
4. He WAS CONCERNED about HOW THEY WOULD FEEL along the way that’s why He told His Partners ⁹ to wear sandals but not a second tunic.
5. He PROVIDED MOTIVATION — for He was sure that there will be REJECTION all along. ¹¹ Whatever place does not welcome you or listen to you, leave there and shake the dust off your feet.
6. He OFFERED COMPROMISE & HEALING OF RELATIONSHIPs each time the Disciples anointed with oil those whose unclean spirits were cured.

NO ONE would ever find it easy to JUST GIVE-IN to somebody’s directives specially if along the way, we’re bringing with us the justifications of OUR PAST and the attitudes that we’ve already been used to, all the days of our life.

IN LOVE, we should STRIVE NOT TO FALL!

Falling in love is just an indication that we’re giving-in to that temptation of being impatient, stiff in understanding, EGO-CENTERED whose pride we protect against any insult because we are “in authority”, abusive, insensitive, unpredictable, hot headed, desirous of others’ approval in the midst several unrecognized pretenses which are at times at the expense of hurting another’s compromise.

IN LOVE, we should instead strive to GROW.

— no longer with our OLD SELF, no more of the baggage of the past

— enough of “doing our own thing” because we aren’t LONE-NOMADs!

God is SENDING US “TWO BY TWO” to train us TO THE REAL WORLD OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP – the LIFE that we’re ENTRUSTED WITH!

TWO-BY-TWO STARTS A FAMILY!

If WE CAN make LOVE our motivation,

WE CAN make this world a better place – but it SHOULD all begin @HOME!

— the perfect place to LEARN & EXPERIENCE that

THE REAL ESSENCE OF BEING AN ENTREPRENEUR

is to HUMBLY show that there is GROWTH IN OUR CHARACTER

and that WE are God’s presence to the people within OUR FAMILY!

Afterall, it’s never too late! WE STILL HAVE TODAY! Let’s MAXIMIZE TIME! #sunset

                                                                    If we make love our motivation!

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*published in The Feast SM Sta. Rosa Bulletin.Issue#26.12Juy2015

My Related Post: https://trendingprof47.wordpress.com/2015/07/09/god-sent-us-two-by-two/

God Sent us “Two by Two”!

Our paths had to meet for reasons we may not understand; and then  “Two by Two” — AS PARTNERS, God sent us TO FULFIL A MISSION and @ that, we need some alignments & compromise!

Gone should be the days when we “do things on our own, for our own”!

Gone should be the days when all that we consider is our own feelings and disregard what & how others would feel because we assert the “SELF” that we are. Normal as it usually is, along the journey, we’re bringing with us our BACK PACKS: fully loaded with reasons why we think, act & talk the way we do — some are our strengths; and some are our weaknesses which both make us Beautiful, endowed with the image and likeness of God.

Relationships matter! It could never be true that “lone nomads” never yearned to have somebody by their side! We may not be aware, but let’s be more ALERT of such “pretences” — for more often than not, we may just be too proud to make amends but the truth of the matter is that: we’re actually in unspeakable need of acceptance and concern and approval and praises and commendations and the likes — all of which would actually give us that sense of belongingness and worth as a person. Well, this is normal & there’s nothing to be ashamed of — BUT, we may tend to become egocentric if we would yearn to receive these favours “at the expense of”, or “in disregard of” the other’s equal needs like ours.

Family is the most important relationship we should STRIVE TO WORK FOR!

Sometimes, a Husband may not understand why his wife would get mad at him when out of his anger, he already forgot to be considerate in his actuations toward their kids. In the same way, Kids may not be able to fully grasp or may resist the many things their parents want them to understand.  Sometimes too, parents may not perceive the intended meaning of where their kids are coming from with the reactions that they give.  MANY TIMES AMIDST ALL THE MISUNDERSTANDINGS, “a Wife and a Mother at the same time” could only absorb and tolerate and manage that much.  Without everybody being sensible enough, some hearts could STRIVE TO MEND  — but yearning for an answer: how would we ever BREAKTHROUGH?

“Two by two” HE MADE US “PARTNERS”! — but why You and why Me? — Only God knows!

It could never be anybody’s fault why it had to be us!

So TWO-GETHER, we should never be each other’s opponent!

Then He made us PARENTS!

It will never be easy! — it actually never is!

Individually, we both have our own PASTS. our own USED-TO-BEs. our own good and bad EXPERIENCES which explain “THE WHO THAT WE ARE TODAY!”

We may justify that HABITS & ATTITUDES throughout those years have already been something we can never do without. — But the thing is, while Jesus is sending us off at PRESENT TIME, He doesn’t want us to bring anything — not anything from our past — except A PIECE OF STICK: OUR FAITH — GOD’S ASSURANCE that He would be with us every step of the way.

God wants our YOKE to be easy as we deal “hearts-on” to the Mission that He wants us to accomplish in OUR PRESENT LIFETIME — for it’s not only us whom He declared “partners” — but the “two of us” as His partners!

HOPEFULLY, may we see eye to eye &  feel heart to heart with Him  in all HUMILITY for us to willingly GROW IN-LOVE: THE KEY that would make EACH HOME one of the DOORS OF GOD’S UNFAILING LOVE!

God’s Rescues are Aligned!

God’s timings are awesome!

Cor Dei 21. Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ :Corpus Christi

Pls Read God’s Silent Message: Mark 14: 12-16

“Go into the city and a man will meet you …”

 Sometimes, it’s not easy to understand why things are happening.

…’yong mga panahon na nangyayari na lang lahat nang sunod-sunod, di mo na namalayan “how it went” … basta, ‘don sa mga pangyayari na ‘yon, alam mong nandon ka, either ikaw ang bida, kontra-bida, or supporting actress/actor ka: taking the back seat pero ramdam mo sa sarili mo na napapagod ka din sa mga patung-patong na roles na ginagampanan mo.

Sometimes, you’d ask yourself: “how much could I give?” or “how much can I just give”? … kasi minsan, parang naibigay mo na lahat, sobrang na-drain ka na, at parang “all-out” ka na para sa lahat at windang ka na. As in, minsan gusto mo pang magampanan iba pang roles na binigay sa’yo pero kahit na gusto pa ng isip at puso mo, ‘yong katawan mo hihilahin ka sa pAHINGA as if telling you: “kulang pa ba ang 24 hours?”

Sacrifice. Forbearance. Commitment.

As always, we may not understand God’s “sending us off” at certain moments like what He told his disciples to do in today’s gospel:  “Go into the city and a man will meet you …”

— but as always, as long as we “give-in to God” and we fulfill tasks for His glory, true as it has always been, God’s alignment is great!

While we are striving to drive along “life’s city” to fulfill a mission which at times we don’t clearly understand, minsan di natin namamalayan “OVERHEAT” na pala tayo! The opponent could have its way to lead us to series of unfortunate events – but because we are wearing GOD’S ARMOUR, wala tayong magiging bukang-bibig kundi “GRABE, ANG GALING NI GOD!” … kasi God already sent His ADVANCERS kaya again and again, we are protected from further life-accidents. God’s provisions have been prepared even before our misfortune. His “offering of His Body & Blood” even before we say “buti na lang” have long SAVED US kasi even before we cried for help, ni-ready na ni God ‘yong mga “angels” who would come to our rescue. #sunset

published in The Feast Bulletin, Issue #21, 7 June 2015. “Ang galing ni GOD!”. by Gail Montero

ADVANCERS. BIG DAY @ The Feast Binan, Light of Jesus Family

How should we Strategize?

Where should “planning” start?
photo credits to: http://www.uniadmissions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Choosing-a-University-270×265.jpg

#Master of Arts in Educational Management #EDM 505 #Educational Planning & Management

What makes education less exciting is that more often than not, we just keep on talking about FACTS & DETAILS!

When we talk about “planning” in education, as to some current experiences, we just mean another supposedly “pilot-testing” of a recent program  which suddenly turns out to be in “abrupt implementation”!

Yes, we’re on our way to Modernization of Times as well as to Global Alignments — but the usual Cycle of Plan-Do-Study-Act which remains to be considered Strategic by Educational Proponents should already be revisited, thus, should be revised & modified!

BUT the sad TRUTH: despite the Planning Process throughout  Implementation & Evaluation of a certain Program, ONE CERTAIN PROBLEM still EMERGE!

Stakeholders and Cohorts do not really succeed as they should because of several factors and excuses, aside from another sad truth that not really all, do understand what STRATEGIC QUALITY MANAGEMENT means.

Now, if i’ve got to ask you why we don’t succeed afterall those planning episodes? … then WHY?

Where and how should “planning” begin?

Where and how should “implementation” be triggered?s

What should actually be “evaluated” — for us to mean STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT not only in the field of Education but at a larger range of our ACCOUNTABILITY not only as a teacher — but as God’s Steward?

What will make education exciting is that we should TALK ABOUT US and OURSELVES!
You can make that difference wen you're already THERE! 
but DO NOW while you're still HERE!

Uso pa ba ang “Film Developing”?

A Negative Film.

It is processed in a so called dark room. The film is soaked in chemical, then soon, images appear more beautifully from negative to positive.

May mga pictures na minsan ipinipilit na ibigay sa atin pero minsan tinatanggihan natin kahit na sa totoo lang ay maganda naman ang ipinapakita nito.

Sometimes we want to live our own life and we want people to leave us alone, kasi we are annoyed by those who are there, offering the best that they have exerted their effort to.

We neglect them, we reject their offers, we mis-interpret their intentions until such times  when our reactions would put us to a test.

“I don’t need your service!, It doesn’t mean a thing to me!

You do not understand me at all, sayang lang time ko!

‘wag na lang kasi akong pakikialaman!”

These are our usual lines.   Without us being aware,  we are actually  resisting positive efforts which may not make us feel good just like being in that “dark room” — but if only we would allow ourselves to “enjoy the experience of being loved” just like that negative film soaked into chemical, we would soon become that beautifully printed picture ever captured because we responded “in cooperation” with that goal to “bring out the BEST in US”!

From negative to positive … Film Developing is Living Life to the Fullest!

#OMGinspired.11feb2015airtime

 

 

 

The Invisible Essential

Master of Arts in Early Childhood Education. 

ECE 111. Early Childhood Curriculum

Shall you have all the opportunity to CRAFT a Curriculum for the young generation, what would you be willing to GIVE?

It takes a happy heart to build a well-founded school
for our future generation.

The way we look at things are affected by the way we feel! …  Would you believe so?

‘Wanna try if such contention could be true?

What catches your attention first would determine how you feel at the moment!

Take a look at this picture … what then did you first see?; what element captured your attention at your first glance? … and doing some self-check of how you feel, what does your choice indicate?

Sometimes, we just can’t find enough motivation to find a spot for whatever emotion there is deep within us — thus, we need to identify: are we filled or drained? happy or sad? up or down? inspired or tired?

We may need to look around and find some sure identification of our state of emotion. Why? … because the way we feel would always affect the way we deal with others.  Our perspectives would more often than not be influenced by the kind of feeling that we have — and on the other hand, our emotion would moreso determine up to what extent we would work on the fulfilment of our Philosophy, Vision and Mission.

At a quite dangerous side, our undefined emotions may stagnate our supposedly  healthy perception of each child — to the point that we may misinterpret what we just see instead of appreciate and look into what we do not see.

What then is there to realize for us to be able to give the best that we could?

What then should we do to build a well-founded school for our future generation?

http://www.slideshare.net/GailMontero/m1-lesson-1-concepts-nature-purposes-of-curriculum

http://47inspired.blogspot.com/2014/01/what-can-happy-person-give.html

Waterproof Faith.

Yes #DearPopeFrancis, I am Personally ONE WITH YOU!

Please read: Mark 1: 14-2

IaMPOSSIBLE!

¹⁷ Jesus said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.”

¹⁸ Then they abandoned their nets and followed him.

… sana ganito din ang response ng mga tinatawag para sumama at makinig!

Sa totoong buhay kasi, HINDI MADALIng magyaya ng mga taong pwedeng maki-isa sayo –

not evenwithin the family – to be with you in the same net!

Despite some changing of minds & discouragements against my desire TO BE THERE in Luneta Park-Quirino Grandstand last Sunday, the ONLY CHOICE I HAD was to tell myself: “I AM POSSIBLE!” … until all by myself @ past 3am, I had to walk-through the re-routes along Roxas Boulevard back to Maria Orosa then to Taft Avenue for main entrance and stand-still among the approximately 6M people who desired to have a PERSONAL ENCOUNTER with our Dear Pope Francis for the concluding part of His Pastoral Journey. I was supposed to meet-up my younger sister & bro in law amidst that emerging sea of believers but network signal was cut-off just before we succeeded being together in one quadrant.

Sa totoong buhay, scenarios like these may discourage us. Of course, who would want to be alone in the middle of such a very big crowd, and who would boldly wait for hours while you’re nowhere to hide from the non-stop rain which didn’t give you the choice to remain seated for you’ll get so wet all over? And so true, there may be some speck of wanting to just give up & just go back home to your family – BUT THEN NO! – for in His message during the Meeting with Families in MOA Arena, our Holy Father urged that since there are many threats within the family:

“We must rise from our slumber! We must get up and act!”

He wants a sheep against the wolves that are approaching, particularly our tendency to get trapped in materialism which is destructive of family life. True enough, we may unawaringly experience “isolation and divisions” within our famiy; and sometimes, human and vulnerable as we are, we may just feel too weak to just “let things be”!

BUT THEN AGAIN NO! Lolo Kiko said that “The future passes from the family” & today’s gospel could be an affirmation of our responsibility that the very first place “to fish” is within our family. However, if we find it difficult, there’s got to be somebody to take the initiative to make the family protected against ideological colonization which may eventually separate us.

Reason may not understand what the heart perceives. YES, I “persisted” to be there not to make history with the 6M crowd with “waterproof faith” but to LISTEN UPCLOSE to God’s message through His Holiness & “offer my presence from dawn to sunset as an ounce of sacrifice for my family’s intentions” – for in my heart ¹⁵ “This is the time of fulfillment. The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.” #sunset

Published in Light of Jesus’ “The Feast Bulletin CM Binan”

Cor Dei 03. 25 January 2015, Mark 1: 14-20, Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Series: BOLD! Dare To Ask God for The Impossible, Talk 2: Persistence

Waterproof Faith! by Gail Montero@TheFeastBulletin.

Plan Your Timeline

Just when will we open that “closed door” for relationships to get better?

Why do we have to start each year with a “JANUARY”

One cool answer I’ve got was that “because we ended with December” 😀 –still in a state of “inactivity” 🙂

This could actually be a tough time to start A NEW YEAR because this requires us to do a “sudden leap” from being hibernated in vacation mode to being mobile & active.

Good thing there is “Janus”, the god of doors & gates, openings & closings from Roman mythology. He is a “two-faced god” who has the ability to turn one face to the past “in reflection” and another face intently directed towards the present “in consideration of the future”.

January, having been named after Janus, gives us the “leeway”to softly shift from “being idle” to being rekindled!”– It gives us the opportunity to examine the doors both of our past whose opportunities could accumulate to the present & could even contemplate our future.

SO, How were your doors in 2014? Was it OPEN or CLOSED? & it it was open, was it slightly or widely OPEN?

As to Janus, many doors are surely to open as the NEW YEAR posts many opportunities for us.

What doors do you envision to open in 2015?

How do you see your DOORS?

Grab this chance to PLAN for your TIMELINE for the entire 2015 so as to install those doors where you are and will be most ready to position those doors.

Whether this year will be a promising one is all up to us!

Remember that no one will open that door for you expect for your WILL, willingness and determination to find the DIRECTION which God has destined for you.

Plan your timeline ahead so that you won’t have to plan to fail.

Live up to Steven Covey’s 1^st Habit of being Highly Effective Leader: BEGIN WITH AN END IN MIND