Interviewee: Sir. Allan Borja
Basics:
Interviewers: what is your undergraduate course?
Interviewee: BS in Computer Science, in UP Los Banos.
Interviewers: how did you get involved to teach?
Interviewers: how did you get involved to teach?
Interviewee: After a year of being a university research assistant, my first job as a assistant, developer or programmer. The project leader/ director back then who is Dr.Rachel rojas who was my adviser. she asked me if I would like to consider teaching while waiting for the approval of the next phase of the project. Which I agree.
Interviewers: do you enjoy teaching?
Interviewers: do you enjoy teaching?
Interviewee: yes, it’s been 13 years so I guess I’m still enjoying it.
Interviewers: how long have you been teaching?
Interviewers: how long have you been teaching?
Interviewee: 13 years.
Interviewers: do you find the teaching pay economically very good? Why?
Interviewers: do you find the teaching pay economically very good? Why?
Interviewee: no, for the same technical knowhow, my brother is earning 14,000 US dollars a month. So I can do the same, so that’s for the economy, economic point of view. So it’s not really economically rewarding.
Interviewers: how much teaching in terms of units do you do in a school year?
Interviewers: how much teaching in terms of units do you do in a school year?
Interviewee: the usual, 12. 12 units a term, so all in all 36 units a year.
Interviewers: have you had your personal video before where your teaching was recorded? Interviewee: yes.
Interviewers: how do you feel about the idea of recording the lecture or teaching delivery? Interviewee: it’s like an out of body experience, you see yourself in a third-person, so you see your gestures that you won’t normally notice. So those are the things that I discovered. Also it’s different when the voice is recorded.
On teaching Strategies:
Interviewers: what would you consider as your strengths in teaching? Interviewee: I think the command of language, that’s one. I can use Bisaya or even Illonggo.
Interviewers: how about your weaknesses?
Interviewers: have you had your personal video before where your teaching was recorded? Interviewee: yes.
Interviewers: how do you feel about the idea of recording the lecture or teaching delivery? Interviewee: it’s like an out of body experience, you see yourself in a third-person, so you see your gestures that you won’t normally notice. So those are the things that I discovered. Also it’s different when the voice is recorded.
On teaching Strategies:
Interviewers: what would you consider as your strengths in teaching? Interviewee: I think the command of language, that’s one. I can use Bisaya or even Illonggo.
Interviewers: how about your weaknesses?
Interviewee: weaknesses would be, ironically I do have a good command of the language but in terms of projection mahina yung boses ko. So I actually took up voice lessons for that, in order to address that problem.
Interviewers: do you think your students like you?
Interviewers: do you think your students like you?
Interviewee: I think so
Interviewers: in what way?
Interviewers: in what way?
Interviewee: because I do inject jokes every now and then.
Interviewers: what would you consider as your best teaching strategies?
Interviewers: what would you consider as your best teaching strategies?
Interviewee: I always reorient the students to the paradigm of Aristotle and Plato back then during their era, that education is about leisure. It’s not because of requirements or survival.
Interviewers: Can you enumerate your best teaching strategies?
Interviewers: Can you enumerate your best teaching strategies?
Interviewee: I’m very comfortable using any form of technology. One, making use of mind maps and PowerPoint’s. I do use technology in front of class. I use my cell phone to control my laptop. So the bottom line is I make use of technology basically to enhance the learning experience. Number two, I am really towards graphical application of the concepts I’m teaching. So I normally fashion my course outline or even my delivery in such a way that concepts would be realized to practical sense. So right now, my students are creating their own programming language. So aside from the concepts of teaching how a compiler does things, I also let them experience first hand what are the issues when it comes to creating your own compiler.
Interviewers: how long have you been doing these strategies?
Interviewers: how long have you been doing these strategies?
Interviewee: in terms of comfortable use of technology, ever since I have extra money to spare to buy these gadgets, so that’s the time I started using technology. In terms of paggamit ng project based learnin, I’ve been doing that ever since.
On Honesty:
Interviewers: have you ever encountered a student cheating? What happened?
Interviewee: yes, I didn’t know as to what extent yung cheating nya, but I saw him doing unnecessary movement during an exam, so I just marked the paper and then talked about it with the professor. But if I were the one handling the course, I would have to talk to the student. Normally I gauge the degree of honesty just by staring at him/her. I can really tell if someone is being dishonest or lying. Here’s my take on it, if you cheat and even if I caught you cheating and eventually you’ll pass the course even if you cheated. You effectively pursue you life, career, but the bottom line there is that there is always a nagging taught. You didn’t do thing as honestly as possible and number two, if you cheated your way in finishing a course, you didn’t actually learn a lot because you cheated your way up. So that’s my take on it.
On St. La Salle
Interviewers: do you know the life story of St. La Salle?
On Honesty:
Interviewers: have you ever encountered a student cheating? What happened?
Interviewee: yes, I didn’t know as to what extent yung cheating nya, but I saw him doing unnecessary movement during an exam, so I just marked the paper and then talked about it with the professor. But if I were the one handling the course, I would have to talk to the student. Normally I gauge the degree of honesty just by staring at him/her. I can really tell if someone is being dishonest or lying. Here’s my take on it, if you cheat and even if I caught you cheating and eventually you’ll pass the course even if you cheated. You effectively pursue you life, career, but the bottom line there is that there is always a nagging taught. You didn’t do thing as honestly as possible and number two, if you cheated your way in finishing a course, you didn’t actually learn a lot because you cheated your way up. So that’s my take on it.
On St. La Salle
Interviewers: do you know the life story of St. La Salle?
Interviewee: I know him as a teacher not a preacher. In terms of details of his life, no. I came from UP so I’m not familiar with his life.
Interviewers: do you know he is the patron saint of the teachers?
Interviewers: do you know he is the patron saint of the teachers?
Interviewee: yes.
Interviewers: do you follow some of his teaching principles?
Interviewers: do you follow some of his teaching principles?
Interviewee: not really but I follow and like the spiritual aspect that he teaches.
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