A Learner Forever

Hi My name is Toni and I'm 21 years old, and I used to have the blog “Music to My Ears: Life as an undergrad waiting for graduation” which used to be filled with my rants and emotions of my college life since I love writing and I found it to be very therapeutic. My ultimate goal there was to graduate with honors which I did and roughly after a few months from graduation, I ended up deciding to delete the blog (and not to keep it as a souvenir) as a sign of moving on.

I used to work at Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Company, an international company having a more so good paying job and a great head start for a fresh graduate. However after a few months, I felt that I was destined to do such more (yes at a very early stage in my fresh grad life) so I resigned. I took a rest which I have never done before after graduation (just for a month), applied for graduate school as a part-time student and took a part-time job as a tutor in Tutoring Club.

And because I really love writing I am blogging once again, inspired by my Principles in Learning Class (lesson in metacognition – thinking about thinking), Research Class (lesson in action research – doing, reflecting and documenting), and work in Tutoring Club (making tutoring achieve long term goals). But this time, I am viewing my blog in a whole new perspective. It’s learning how to be a learner forever. The purpose of this blog is also for scientific research purposes. By tracking down my reflections on how I teach in work, what I’ve learned in my graduate classes, and how I can apply it in real life situations and observing the changes and my improvements as a tutor/teacher. My discipline is to be able to reflect on each of my class meetings which happens to be twice a week, and to reflect on each of my tutoring days which happens on days I don’t have classes.

Hopefully I wouldn’t decide on deleting this blog in the future as it will eventually be a source of information for other learners, pre-service teachers and current teachers as well.

Besides, there’s no end to learning… each day we learn in all sorts of different contexts… we just don’t put in into writing… and my blog’s ultimate goal is to be: A Learning Forever. So I guess there will be no goodbyes for this blog –

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School: De La Salle University - Manila
Bachelor Degree: Bachelor in Science Major in Educational Psychology 2005-2008
School: De La Salle University - Manila
Masteral Degree: Masters of Art Major in Learning and Teaching 2009 – Present