Field of Education

From the very start, her educational preparation was for teaching, and her life career was spent as a teacher, a teacher of teachers, and an administrative leader of teachers. The desire to be a teacher, early formed in her veins, was more clearly shaped and sharpened by her secondary studies in the East Visayan School of Arts and Trades in 1955-1959, and her Master of Arts in Education degree in Central Visayas Polytechnic College in 1987. Starting in 1963 as a high school and later college teacher at Foundation University, she moved to East Visayan School of Arts and Trades, first as a secondary school teacher in 1975 and then as a college instructor in 1983. Thereafter, her teaching career saw steady advance both in rank and in postgraduate training, her rapid progress being clearly marked by signposts of designation as Master Teacher I in 1979, Assistant Instructor VI in 1985, Associate Professor V in 1993, and eventually Professor IV by 1997. Concurrently, she ably served as Supervising Principal of the CVPC Laboratory Schools in 1992-1998 and Supervisor for Student Teaching in the College of Education in 1997-2003. Despite her demanding schedule, she found time to involve herself in various local, regional and national educational professional organizations, as well as in the International Council of Professional Educators. As a fitting crown to her educational career, she served as Vice President for Administration from 2002 till her retirement from NORSU in 2007. Knowing that the components of true personhood cover not only the physical and mental but also the spiritual and moral, she made it a mission of her life to devote much of her spare time to the religious instruction of children, youth and young adults, either as a catechist or pre-Cana seminar lecturer of the Cathedral Parish of St. Catherine of Alexandria in Dumaguete City. Beginning 1989 she took a lively and dynamic role in the Couples for Christ fellowship, in time serving in varied capacities as chapter head, cluster head, sector head, and provincial head or coordinator of its programs and activities. . As a teacher, she not only taught through words; she also demonstrated through action and inspired through example. As such, she became a teacher and teacher of teachers par excellence, thus concretizing in her person the highest ideals of her alma mater, rendering it great honor and immeasurably raising its prestige, while blazing a clear path for others to emulate.

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