Once upon a time almost at the end of 2022, I accidentally filled up a template wrongly sent by our superior in our district group chat of School Leaders. I found out that it was intended only for a particular person but not me. Fortunately, another issuance from the higher office was that they needed two (2) participants. So automatically our superior contacted me privately and told me to attend as a companion to the person assigned. At first, I was puzzled because I thought that all School Leaders would attend. So she explained to me the misunderstanding and I was the only one who filled up the form before she deleted it in our group chat. Therefore left with no choice I attended the workshop seminar at the division level on how to craft action research. Many months passed by our outputs were not checked and were not evaluated. So I thought no progress at all. Then another seminar workshop for action research was called by a new set of action research teams in our division. I declined this time because I felt I was not the right person to attend to. But what shocked me most was that before the end of 2023, I was included in the division memorandum to defend my action research proposal. I will have my pre-oral presentation this coming February 16, 2024. Therefore, my output was not in vain but I have mixed emotions, can I make it? Oh my God, I feel goosebumps already! Cross fingers 🤞! I hope and pray that I can pass my pre-oral presentation 🙏.
At Present
Before my pre-oral happens I am here now as one of the Speakers of the "Three-Day Workshop Seminar On Action Research for School Heads District Level".
I am the first speaker in this seminar workshop. I did not expect I would be chosen as the speaker because I was not able to attend the latest division seminar workshop. Anyway, I am grateful for the opportunity given to me. I am also very thankful to my co-speaker Dr. Aireen Romagos for allowing me to be the 1st speaker because I am not available for the 2nd day due to a conflict of schedule.
As the seminar-workshop continued I was assigned to check the title of the action research of all the participants as well as the problem together with my other co-speaker Ma'am @missjoycee. At first,t I was not confident to give comments and suggestions because I thought I was not worthy to do it. Along the way as I read what they submitted, I realized I could also share some of my ideas based on what I learned. Whoah, I feel incredible as I can't believe I did it.
I am very thankful for the trust given to me by our Public Schools District Supervisor Dr. Rowena L. Brian. Without her encouragement and trust, I never had this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Doing action research is the answer to the hidden problems in our workplace. This is not an easy task to do because it is a long process. We need to defend it into the highest rank then if it is accepted implementation will come next.
During the implementation phase, the highest rank will monitor and evaluate whether what we've done is effective. This is my first time doing this and also one of the first to defend in our district. They are looking at the progress of our work. Praying I will be successful in this field. I don't have the confidence, why? Because I have a traumatic experience during my Thesis defense in my Master's degree. How I wish it would not happen again, that scary panelist hehe. Well, I need to study my work diligently for me to have the confidence to answer all the questions they will throw at me.
We end our first session with a group picture because I will not be around for the next day. I was so happy that they understood my situation.
By the way, I was also grateful to my dear cousin Maam Nenita Lerio for being the host of this seminar. She prepared a lot that she would not allow me not to sit in front of where she prepared for the speakers. Because I just wanted to sit together with the participants for I was ashamed to sit in front. She gave me the courage later on 😁☺️.
That's all for my story and thank you for dropping by 🥰 😘♥️❣️.