my name is Viet anh and you may have
heard during the introduction earlier I
used to teach at the public school and
maybe to quickly run you through the
story as to how I ended up with this
career let’s get back to the time when I
was still a student parents at Catholic
school so in grade 6 I met an
exceptional teacher I had a Chinese
teacher who during that time had several
opportunities to work abroad she has
both a mathematical agree and she was
very good but instead of leaving she
opted to stay and teach and so I asked
her why and this is what he told me we
live in the Philippines and therefore it
is a Filipino children we must teach for
the record that’s the first time I ever
heard someone speak about giving back
but what really struck me during the
conversation was realizing that her
refusal to leave was deeply hurt on her
belief that since she is a foreigner
leave the Philippines then her loyalty
must belong to the Filipino people and
therefore get upon herself to do
everything that she can her own capacity
just to give back to no less than the
Filipino people of course I grew so much
hadn’t I got inspired with what the
teacher said ok told myself that I
wanted to do something that she was able
to first I wanted to give back to the
Philippines and second I wanted to be
relevant but it wasn’t until I graduated
from college when I started giving my
career options at first thought I didn’t
know if I would want to get into law
school get it take an MBA perhaps help
out with the family business maybe do a
corporate job I didn’t know so I was so
confused I went up to a friend and asked
her how did you know which job you would
choose and this is what she told me
go where you think you’re needed more
and go where you think you could do more
don’t assume San Pellegrino mesma
ramekin Maga Goa at sonken-san Thomas
Callahan but the problem now is this of
all the options I mentioned earlier none
of those things seem to fit in this
equation and I told my friend I wanted
to do something more meaningful and so
she made the follow-up question and told
me this why don’t you try working for
the government and I totally blanked
just because I never thought about it
but then my friend went on to tell me
that working for the government would be
a win-win situation and this is what she
told me if you work for the government
umigoggles muharram Daman the hell’s
afine aunty continental Mineta trabajo
para saber PR no at sadena me dominic
mama cows are penis tapa de moto lumen
chances are what you do will make a
difference if my friend were a meme I
imagined her to look this way because
she was really passionate about that and
she was pushing for it meanwhile I was
starting to consider it and I wanted to
get a good sense of how the people
around me would react should I push
through with this decision and this is
what I got and then I told my parents
about this but then it quickly escalated
to this okay so this is me trying to
explain okay – the tears this is me
trying to explain to my parents why I
wanted to do it I told them that it’s my
passion project
meaning that if I don’t do this now I’d
still want to do it later on in my life
but best if they will let me do it now
because I’m still young I still have the
energy all the time and that idealism me
so I have to do it now and so of course
they conceded and after that I accepted
the challenge
around that time I encounter obesity
from this organization called teacher
the Philippines or TFP so very quickly
what the speech are the Philippines it’s
a nonprofit organization that believes
that education is everybody’s
responsibility
so TFP works closely with the government
agencies
step add and contract certain
individuals to teach full-time in the
public school for two years so the
commitment is just her two years I
signed up and when I got in I really
felt that it was the right thing for me
because this seems to be the type of
giving back my Chinese teacher was
telling me about first it papers to the
Filipino people and second it’s
something relevant and I heard from the
friend Congress Amado
mallamma and Quentin Angley Boonen
Kalyan Anupama socks of public school
because they are a good representation
of the masses so he went in and I was
assigned to teach in apolonio Sampson
elementary school it’s a small
elementary school in Belinda wah and I
was tasked to teach grade three section
was Magana these are my students during
the first few days of class they
probably know I’m taking a picture
that’s why they sat down but under
normal circumstance Magoo Louanne okay
during that time a few weeks into school
I felt that I needed to get to know my
students more and then I discovered
later on that much can be revealed about
the personal lives of my students
through the homeworks and assignments
that they turn into me so what I did was
that I religiously checked all of the
homeworks and came up with the
conclusion and that is the giant echo my
pod Kapila suppor may pack Opilio
Parramatta tulino Scylla I’ll walk you
through some of their works to make you
understand what type of students I teach
okay so look at this question the
question is tomorrow male top assumes a
good Newman about that family as if
they’re gonna get a half point for doing
that right and then I asked this
question to see Raymond is on high up
inertia the answer expecting would be
remedies a dog is a man’s best friend
but you know instead the kid said
comes to Pomona is somehow your chassis
Doraemon and of course Raymond cried and
I felt really bad about it and then I
asked the class began more on island on
begin and accessible as there s and
there was this kid who enthusiastically
raised her hand and said mom sunshine
sunshine your pal
yeah and I fell off on the Apple and the
third one’s got to be my favorite good
black and best could you give me the
response it’s better okay if you ask
that to the top tier section they’d be
able to give you the correct answer but
then I was teaching a developing section
so all 50 students were just staring at
me blankly and they didn’t know the
answer I’m killed racist and then told
me mum so brung here up Clun along four
please and I said sig a good bear bear
bear and all fifty shout that very good
sabic oh my gosh what did I do wrong
vinegar onion good very good best so I
asked the kid
okay so yes again back at good very good
best Kasim aam aadmi Tata Tata when you
give us stamps it’s always good very
good and excellent and it’s never good
very good and best so note that Malaika
run okay moving on sandy at buna the
question is laggy Nexus honest I forgot
it so what would happen to her the
politically correct answer would be for
her to win the competition right but
then after the car said Natasha which is
also true so check I asked them to
illustrate dr. casseras on I gave this
kid and eight out of ten because he
admitted to asking the mother to doing
the assignment this kid a nine for
effort but out of the 250 students that
I teach that time I only gave one kid a
ten over ten and it’s the skin because
he’s so smart put a piece of paper on
top of the one peso point and shaded it
and told me that it’s a Saracen
so he’s very smart the back okay moving
on metaphors I’m Nana co-op I rang I was
expecting answers like alone and AHA
none but you know one kid told me and
Nana co-op I rang chin Ellis and I asked
why Synod no poo no sanity
enter something so personal about their
lives and I knew that I was up for
something I asked them I’m behind entire
iPad on Byron Barack ma’am I mean send
muhabba mean son makes it and at that
point I could not believe that I was
just talking to nine yards
I’ll make you feel even more emotional I
asked a question a new partner Sabu hi I
had to look at the drawing closely be
because it seems like I saw the mom dead
no did he want the mom dead and then I
read at the text closely yes I’m panara
possible hi I’m a big in London – Nellie
being and imma go Lanka so I realized
that my students were doing very
ordinary things but then somehow they
always put an extra extra effort extra
web and those ordinary things
no longer becomes ordinary it becomes
extraordinary because of all these
things I thought I was off to a good
start but then things escalated quickly
and from having a harmonious
relationship things turned sour
okay they started to become rowdy and
there came a point where Ian I no longer
knew how to quiet down a class so one
day I went inside the classroom and got
school a student apparently drew this on
the board and this is my picture angered
this is what’s written C Mon Bayer I got
my belly belly up calm Adamas is a young
Messiah so I ask the kid what am I going
to do with it and then he gave me a
piece of I told me mom cuckoo lion
Melanie and ganito political economy on
tapas kappa a rich man named toto papa
noona whoa ah Tina
so apparently that’s how it works and so
I ask the kid but the tapas kuma walk
out an entire and then he told me focus
on it mom
and in my mind a bussiness Aisha and so
I asked mother biglan my extra life and
the kid told me Cosima Capuchin Deacon
aggressed are indeed income Imahara
story meaning but Papa super young
billet bubas parent Pina Panguna Hannah
a will happen a man male no Maggie no
finiman paula pero de hill gali ganna
diamond a Makita yan
so at that point I tried to understand
what he was saying I took note of it but
I didn’t really understand because
sometimes when things get really tough
it’s hard for you to reconcile right I
would never forget the time I filled up
that Peter tank and it was because of
this kid here’s my first ultimate test
of patience
normally true greatly would be 18 years
old he’s likely maybe 11 or 12
he’s a non-reader he cannot write he
cannot count
he was very rowdy he was very
disrespectful he despite and he was very
disruptive in class I tried to know why
and sometimes when I walked the students
home I asked them about things regarding
their personal lives no no you need some
bad that laugh at my below and he told
me ma’am
he doesn’t understand anything okay I’m
on Google in a long shot he doesn’t know
how to read doesn’t know how to write
doesn’t know how to count some uncle
good in a long shot
sure okay I’ll teach this kid how to
read I offered him my time Sam because
you get Totoro and Geeta and he often
told me that he would come but he never
showed up during my first year of
teaching I went to live in that
community and so I only have maybe week
weekends off I’d go home every weekend
and just because I’m offering this
special class to Bernard I could no luck
and normally when he would tell me that
he would come but doesn’t show up I
confront him and I asked him top
accessibility no Matta and oh my uncle
Johanna capito so one day I got fed up I
went up to him became confrontational
and told him Alamos must swear take a
pass a pin because you get to see your
family every day I sacrifice my
Saturday’s for you but it doesn’t seem
like you care
and I’m not even sure if you’re worth it
that person might have made or break the
kid the teachers told me that Bernard
has been in grade 3 for 3 times and he
never gets past the second week so I’m
quite nervous because behind the Cameo
my board so I prayed that he’d showed up
and I was lucky because he did and the
following day he told me ma’am but
beside nepata Amamiya many teachers
rallied behind me to help me put Bernard
at grade level and I was so proud to see
him write letter his first word the
first sentence up until he became a
proficient reader but that something was
missing if you’ve read the book wonder
by RJ Palacio there’s a code there that
says I think there should be a rule that
we one in the world should get a
standing ovation at least once in their
lives I knew that I wanted that so much
for Bernard I knew that I was going to
leave the public school and I want him
to be self-sufficient he needed to get
hold of something he can work on even if
I’m no longer around so one day I asked
him to come to school and the
instruction was merely for him to write
everything that I’ve been dictating I
asked a couple of kids to come along
that was too long and so let’s see
Bernard from one o’clock until 4 o’clock
soon at nonchalance Ulla and finally he
asked me ma’am who know Nabu Brian
Conybeare I asked him not to
instead I asked him to get to the back
most part of the room stand there just
look at everything he has repent from
left to right from top to bottom sabi ko
miss Bernard but Mustang mama bootay
Tegan more and then I threw in a
question NACA postulate can abandon
ganyan Karim is a balm Bahama and he
told me he deep a man named Balaam so
that was a very emotional moment for the
two of us because at that time I knew
that I was able to give Bernard his
standing ovation sometimes it takes an
emotional affair so I’ll bring it back
to the teacher meter and why it’s
important early on into the school year
the kid told me that I have to keep on
pushing the restart button
apparently this is what he meant when
things are already at their worst
there’s apparently no way to go but
better better I’d be very good okay and
finally I was able to see this come to
life through Bernard story we started
off really bad right
got it Magali up until Messiah Messiah I
realized that had I not pushed the
restart button over and over again I
would not have seen this happen these
are my first batch of kids in 2013 and I
was there in April 2017 to see every
graduate from good things but the most
important part was seeing Bernard
graduate finally after a long time that
was the reason why I went to the public
school I finally understood and maybe
three things for you to remember not
before we part ways to all the teachers
out there I think you have to remember
these three things first if you have to
keep on taking risks because the only
way to save our dreams is by being
generous with ourselves second is each
day one anxiety at the time because I
realized too while teaching that when
you overwork your strengths they too can
become your weaknesses and finally the
most important thing is take heart okay
do not be discouraged by situations
really you don’t get things you don’t
get to do things right the first time
because after all experience is what you
get when you do not get what you want so
that ends it thank you very much
[Applause]
you
heard during the introduction earlier I
used to teach at the public school and
maybe to quickly run you through the
story as to how I ended up with this
career let’s get back to the time when I
was still a student parents at Catholic
school so in grade 6 I met an
exceptional teacher I had a Chinese
teacher who during that time had several
opportunities to work abroad she has
both a mathematical agree and she was
very good but instead of leaving she
opted to stay and teach and so I asked
her why and this is what he told me we
live in the Philippines and therefore it
is a Filipino children we must teach for
the record that’s the first time I ever
heard someone speak about giving back
but what really struck me during the
conversation was realizing that her
refusal to leave was deeply hurt on her
belief that since she is a foreigner
leave the Philippines then her loyalty
must belong to the Filipino people and
therefore get upon herself to do
everything that she can her own capacity
just to give back to no less than the
Filipino people of course I grew so much
hadn’t I got inspired with what the
teacher said ok told myself that I
wanted to do something that she was able
to first I wanted to give back to the
Philippines and second I wanted to be
relevant but it wasn’t until I graduated
from college when I started giving my
career options at first thought I didn’t
know if I would want to get into law
school get it take an MBA perhaps help
out with the family business maybe do a
corporate job I didn’t know so I was so
confused I went up to a friend and asked
her how did you know which job you would
choose and this is what she told me
go where you think you’re needed more
and go where you think you could do more
don’t assume San Pellegrino mesma
ramekin Maga Goa at sonken-san Thomas
Callahan but the problem now is this of
all the options I mentioned earlier none
of those things seem to fit in this
equation and I told my friend I wanted
to do something more meaningful and so
she made the follow-up question and told
me this why don’t you try working for
the government and I totally blanked
just because I never thought about it
but then my friend went on to tell me
that working for the government would be
a win-win situation and this is what she
told me if you work for the government
umigoggles muharram Daman the hell’s
afine aunty continental Mineta trabajo
para saber PR no at sadena me dominic
mama cows are penis tapa de moto lumen
chances are what you do will make a
difference if my friend were a meme I
imagined her to look this way because
she was really passionate about that and
she was pushing for it meanwhile I was
starting to consider it and I wanted to
get a good sense of how the people
around me would react should I push
through with this decision and this is
what I got and then I told my parents
about this but then it quickly escalated
to this okay so this is me trying to
explain okay – the tears this is me
trying to explain to my parents why I
wanted to do it I told them that it’s my
passion project
meaning that if I don’t do this now I’d
still want to do it later on in my life
but best if they will let me do it now
because I’m still young I still have the
energy all the time and that idealism me
so I have to do it now and so of course
they conceded and after that I accepted
the challenge
around that time I encounter obesity
from this organization called teacher
the Philippines or TFP so very quickly
what the speech are the Philippines it’s
a nonprofit organization that believes
that education is everybody’s
responsibility
so TFP works closely with the government
agencies
step add and contract certain
individuals to teach full-time in the
public school for two years so the
commitment is just her two years I
signed up and when I got in I really
felt that it was the right thing for me
because this seems to be the type of
giving back my Chinese teacher was
telling me about first it papers to the
Filipino people and second it’s
something relevant and I heard from the
friend Congress Amado
mallamma and Quentin Angley Boonen
Kalyan Anupama socks of public school
because they are a good representation
of the masses so he went in and I was
assigned to teach in apolonio Sampson
elementary school it’s a small
elementary school in Belinda wah and I
was tasked to teach grade three section
was Magana these are my students during
the first few days of class they
probably know I’m taking a picture
that’s why they sat down but under
normal circumstance Magoo Louanne okay
during that time a few weeks into school
I felt that I needed to get to know my
students more and then I discovered
later on that much can be revealed about
the personal lives of my students
through the homeworks and assignments
that they turn into me so what I did was
that I religiously checked all of the
homeworks and came up with the
conclusion and that is the giant echo my
pod Kapila suppor may pack Opilio
Parramatta tulino Scylla I’ll walk you
through some of their works to make you
understand what type of students I teach
okay so look at this question the
question is tomorrow male top assumes a
good Newman about that family as if
they’re gonna get a half point for doing
that right and then I asked this
question to see Raymond is on high up
inertia the answer expecting would be
remedies a dog is a man’s best friend
but you know instead the kid said
comes to Pomona is somehow your chassis
Doraemon and of course Raymond cried and
I felt really bad about it and then I
asked the class began more on island on
begin and accessible as there s and
there was this kid who enthusiastically
raised her hand and said mom sunshine
sunshine your pal
yeah and I fell off on the Apple and the
third one’s got to be my favorite good
black and best could you give me the
response it’s better okay if you ask
that to the top tier section they’d be
able to give you the correct answer but
then I was teaching a developing section
so all 50 students were just staring at
me blankly and they didn’t know the
answer I’m killed racist and then told
me mum so brung here up Clun along four
please and I said sig a good bear bear
bear and all fifty shout that very good
sabic oh my gosh what did I do wrong
vinegar onion good very good best so I
asked the kid
okay so yes again back at good very good
best Kasim aam aadmi Tata Tata when you
give us stamps it’s always good very
good and excellent and it’s never good
very good and best so note that Malaika
run okay moving on sandy at buna the
question is laggy Nexus honest I forgot
it so what would happen to her the
politically correct answer would be for
her to win the competition right but
then after the car said Natasha which is
also true so check I asked them to
illustrate dr. casseras on I gave this
kid and eight out of ten because he
admitted to asking the mother to doing
the assignment this kid a nine for
effort but out of the 250 students that
I teach that time I only gave one kid a
ten over ten and it’s the skin because
he’s so smart put a piece of paper on
top of the one peso point and shaded it
and told me that it’s a Saracen
so he’s very smart the back okay moving
on metaphors I’m Nana co-op I rang I was
expecting answers like alone and AHA
none but you know one kid told me and
Nana co-op I rang chin Ellis and I asked
why Synod no poo no sanity
enter something so personal about their
lives and I knew that I was up for
something I asked them I’m behind entire
iPad on Byron Barack ma’am I mean send
muhabba mean son makes it and at that
point I could not believe that I was
just talking to nine yards
I’ll make you feel even more emotional I
asked a question a new partner Sabu hi I
had to look at the drawing closely be
because it seems like I saw the mom dead
no did he want the mom dead and then I
read at the text closely yes I’m panara
possible hi I’m a big in London – Nellie
being and imma go Lanka so I realized
that my students were doing very
ordinary things but then somehow they
always put an extra extra effort extra
web and those ordinary things
no longer becomes ordinary it becomes
extraordinary because of all these
things I thought I was off to a good
start but then things escalated quickly
and from having a harmonious
relationship things turned sour
okay they started to become rowdy and
there came a point where Ian I no longer
knew how to quiet down a class so one
day I went inside the classroom and got
school a student apparently drew this on
the board and this is my picture angered
this is what’s written C Mon Bayer I got
my belly belly up calm Adamas is a young
Messiah so I ask the kid what am I going
to do with it and then he gave me a
piece of I told me mom cuckoo lion
Melanie and ganito political economy on
tapas kappa a rich man named toto papa
noona whoa ah Tina
so apparently that’s how it works and so
I ask the kid but the tapas kuma walk
out an entire and then he told me focus
on it mom
and in my mind a bussiness Aisha and so
I asked mother biglan my extra life and
the kid told me Cosima Capuchin Deacon
aggressed are indeed income Imahara
story meaning but Papa super young
billet bubas parent Pina Panguna Hannah
a will happen a man male no Maggie no
finiman paula pero de hill gali ganna
diamond a Makita yan
so at that point I tried to understand
what he was saying I took note of it but
I didn’t really understand because
sometimes when things get really tough
it’s hard for you to reconcile right I
would never forget the time I filled up
that Peter tank and it was because of
this kid here’s my first ultimate test
of patience
normally true greatly would be 18 years
old he’s likely maybe 11 or 12
he’s a non-reader he cannot write he
cannot count
he was very rowdy he was very
disrespectful he despite and he was very
disruptive in class I tried to know why
and sometimes when I walked the students
home I asked them about things regarding
their personal lives no no you need some
bad that laugh at my below and he told
me ma’am
he doesn’t understand anything okay I’m
on Google in a long shot he doesn’t know
how to read doesn’t know how to write
doesn’t know how to count some uncle
good in a long shot
sure okay I’ll teach this kid how to
read I offered him my time Sam because
you get Totoro and Geeta and he often
told me that he would come but he never
showed up during my first year of
teaching I went to live in that
community and so I only have maybe week
weekends off I’d go home every weekend
and just because I’m offering this
special class to Bernard I could no luck
and normally when he would tell me that
he would come but doesn’t show up I
confront him and I asked him top
accessibility no Matta and oh my uncle
Johanna capito so one day I got fed up I
went up to him became confrontational
and told him Alamos must swear take a
pass a pin because you get to see your
family every day I sacrifice my
Saturday’s for you but it doesn’t seem
like you care
and I’m not even sure if you’re worth it
that person might have made or break the
kid the teachers told me that Bernard
has been in grade 3 for 3 times and he
never gets past the second week so I’m
quite nervous because behind the Cameo
my board so I prayed that he’d showed up
and I was lucky because he did and the
following day he told me ma’am but
beside nepata Amamiya many teachers
rallied behind me to help me put Bernard
at grade level and I was so proud to see
him write letter his first word the
first sentence up until he became a
proficient reader but that something was
missing if you’ve read the book wonder
by RJ Palacio there’s a code there that
says I think there should be a rule that
we one in the world should get a
standing ovation at least once in their
lives I knew that I wanted that so much
for Bernard I knew that I was going to
leave the public school and I want him
to be self-sufficient he needed to get
hold of something he can work on even if
I’m no longer around so one day I asked
him to come to school and the
instruction was merely for him to write
everything that I’ve been dictating I
asked a couple of kids to come along
that was too long and so let’s see
Bernard from one o’clock until 4 o’clock
soon at nonchalance Ulla and finally he
asked me ma’am who know Nabu Brian
Conybeare I asked him not to
instead I asked him to get to the back
most part of the room stand there just
look at everything he has repent from
left to right from top to bottom sabi ko
miss Bernard but Mustang mama bootay
Tegan more and then I threw in a
question NACA postulate can abandon
ganyan Karim is a balm Bahama and he
told me he deep a man named Balaam so
that was a very emotional moment for the
two of us because at that time I knew
that I was able to give Bernard his
standing ovation sometimes it takes an
emotional affair so I’ll bring it back
to the teacher meter and why it’s
important early on into the school year
the kid told me that I have to keep on
pushing the restart button
apparently this is what he meant when
things are already at their worst
there’s apparently no way to go but
better better I’d be very good okay and
finally I was able to see this come to
life through Bernard story we started
off really bad right
got it Magali up until Messiah Messiah I
realized that had I not pushed the
restart button over and over again I
would not have seen this happen these
are my first batch of kids in 2013 and I
was there in April 2017 to see every
graduate from good things but the most
important part was seeing Bernard
graduate finally after a long time that
was the reason why I went to the public
school I finally understood and maybe
three things for you to remember not
before we part ways to all the teachers
out there I think you have to remember
these three things first if you have to
keep on taking risks because the only
way to save our dreams is by being
generous with ourselves second is each
day one anxiety at the time because I
realized too while teaching that when
you overwork your strengths they too can
become your weaknesses and finally the
most important thing is take heart okay
do not be discouraged by situations
really you don’t get things you don’t
get to do things right the first time
because after all experience is what you
get when you do not get what you want so
that ends it thank you very much
[Applause]
you
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