Filbert Bacus

With my life experience and education journey, I believe I can share learnings and inspire the young minds of our future generation. I was once asked, “How do I learn?” I still ask this to myself up to now, when presented with difficulties. As an educator, I continue to believe that learning is a personal journey and a choice. So back to how I learn, as someone with a recent diagnosis of High functioning ADHD, I learn new things by benchmarking where I am, looking at where I want to head, identify, and acquire the skills required in the journey and continuously re-aligning myself with my values and goal, and most of all I learn by doing. I hope to impart and create that same thinking for the learners around me. I believe that my responsibility goes beyond teaching students’ literacy, numeracy, and science. It is also about how to help students use their learning at school and become active members of society now and in the future. I am passionate about using technology as a tool in engaging students. I enjoy collaborating with the teaching staff, I like to contribute to the improvement of school community and development of the students’ life skills. I facilitate activities that are conducive to cooperative learning while affording students to reflect on the reason why w do what we do. I value and respect each student as an individual with great potential. The restorative behaviour approach is what I practice when difficult behaviors arise, so students have a better chance in rebuilding themselves and their relationships.