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Outstanding Professional Award 2015

Karina R. Bautista, Ph. D.

Graduated Doctor of Philosophy in Development Education A.Y. 2014
Master Teacher II in Lucena North 1 Elementary School, DepEd- Lucena City
Outstanding Employee S.Y. 2014-2015
Second Place as Outstanding Youth for Environment in Schools Organization (YES-O) Implementer 2015
2014 Regional Science and Technology Fair and Congress Awardee in SCI-FOLIO
Best Research Poster Presenter during the Conference of CALABARZON Basic Education Researchers (C2BER) 2014
Outstanding Alternative Learning System Stakeholder C.Y. 2012
Outstanding Teacher in Science S. Y. 2009-2010

sElFlEss CoMMitMEnt huMBlE BEginnings
“A teacher is like a candle which lights others while Her childhood years blossomed in a remote village in
consuming itself” Somagonsong, Mulanay, Quezon Province. Being poverty-
What has made her stay in the academe is her sheer love for stricken, her parents weren’t able to finish their studies so
teaching. Every year, Dr. Karina R. Bautista looks forward to they ended up being a farmer, doing buy and sell of the local
molding, transforming and inspiring new batch of individually products available in the community and even performing
diverse learners. Her efforts on increasing their learning efficacy housekeeping. She endured the same hard work as she grew up
have helped learners construct knowledge, intensify talents, and in order to help her parents make both ends meet.
heighten skills. Intangibly, these provide avenues for softening
hard heads, toughening faint hearts, and imbuing values. Orphaned at the early age of eleven, she didn’t think of it as a
hindrance in succeeding in life, but instead, just “spices of life” that
Teaching is tantamount to patience and compassion. everything happens for a reason – a test how she could perfectly pass.
Through the application of constant “prick and push”,
Dr. Bautista selflessly finds delight in guiding her pupils’ hEr strugglEs anD suCCEss
incomprehensible handwriting to become legible, their soft Completing her secondary and tertiary education was
voices to develop as highly audible, inarticulate tongues to not that easy. She wanted to finish her studies and helped
become articulate – the evidential manifestation of gradual her siblings out of poverty. She sought financial support from
change in behavior and personality of learners. She recalled, her parents’ relatives who truthfully were kindhearted and
“In the words of a demised well-respected teacher who said generous enough to help.
the continuous flow of humanity in my hands makes me enjoy
teaching despite the backbreaking work and low pay.” Yet more challenges came her way as she continued her
tertiary study in the city. She had hard time convincing her
languagE oF gEnErositY anD CoMPassion aunt to sponsor her college education in Southern Luzon
Teaching is a generous and compassionate act. Dr. Bautista State University (former SLPC) since it is known in producing
believes that a generous teacher gives ample time to the child quality graduates in teacher education. Valuing the virtue of
needing further assistance and coaching in lessons he/she finds determination, she passed the entrance examination and was
difficult to understand. Being a teacher in public school, this is able to enroll in the university.
the commitment she fulfills.
Growing up in a provincial area, her regional accent was
Dr. Bautista endeavors to befit a loving, compassionate quite evident. To avoid being laughed at during her college
teacher who understands and accepts the child as he is, by days, she tried improving her regional accent. She practiced
teaching according to his own pace and beginning from where reading English books and newspapers aloud in front of the
he is. It is definitely teaching the child, not the subject. mirror and watched English television shows.

Guided by the Holy Spirit, she believes that she will not She graduated Bachelor of Science in Elementary
fail. In more ways than one, she knows she is ready to renew Education with an Area of Specialization in Music, Arts
the face of her challenging career and her vocation as a teacher. and Physical Education. She believed in the importance of

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