BSED-MAPEH: a Course with High Professional Duty

In most of the Universities all around the world, having a college degree is already something to look forward to. It is one of the privileges that will make a person acquire a job that will make what he/she is in his/her profession. In the Philippines, a bachelor’s degree is not something to look forward to. It is more of a requirement in order for a person to uphold himself/ herself where he/she will not be embarrassed due to not graduating in any course. Now-a-days, many Filipinos just pick any course for them to play with and make it a leisure time from them to spend the rest of their empty hours during the morning. It is sad to know that these people never thought of what things they could do with their course and graduate with no direction at all. Many end up with the so-called “professional misalignment” or in simple terms, employed to a job far-out from the original course of a specific person. This happens all throughout the country and brings much disappointment to the ancestors of each family experiencing this.

Due to embarrassment, many people will be choosing courses where many people are in. Business management is one of the many courses flooded with people that don’t even like to be business men. Although, through training and much business minded influence from the people that a person may encounter, that person may grow successful to his/her degree or more-so to the job employments he/she will be taking. This similar story is also abundant in the College of Education, which is rumoured to be the drop out course of the University. BSED-MAPEH is the specific major in the College of Education that is thought to be the easiest among all the majors and is enrolling more and more students that had been having a bad time with their respective courses.

BSED-MAPEH is a Bachelor of Secondary Education major in Music, Arts, Physical Education and Health. It is one of the courses that need a lot of training, disciplinary training even due to the leadership skills that should be acquired by a teacher. It is thought to be the easiest course all around the campus, but this course is definitely no joke and I can testify why. Among all the courses in the College of Education, the BSED-MAPEH is among the hardest ones because as majors, we need to master not only Physical Education (the focus of the course), but also Music, Arts and Health. It is tough to acquire because as the famous quote says, we are “jack of all traits” but are “masters of none”. Due to the many inclusions in our course, we need to deal with a lot of things, so that we may be able to teach in the proper and appropriate time and manner. When we go outside the classroom to make the students experience the different sports or other recreational activities, our responsibility of watching the students is one of the number one priority of the hour. Many accidents happen even with the simplest things that a student may do. It is with highest professional duty that a MAPEH teacher will be serving the students inside or outside the room and thus should maintain a high professional standard among students and among other professionals.

Going back to the issue in the Philippines of enrolling in any course and employing in the wrong jobs, I am in great fear of the next generation in the possibility of not doing their jobs as expected; especially with my own course that has to do with high professional duty. It is a disappointment in my part that loves my course so much and lives to the best of it, yet the ones I’m with are people who just pick the course for embarrassment or no-other-choice purposes. I’m just optimistic of the implementation of the K-12 curriculum which can develop our course into a much specific field and will be extending the minor years of students in order for them to think twice of what course they would like to have in pursuing a college degree.