Mrs. Berna Dela Cruz, a math teacher for Geometry and Algebra 2, leaves school every day just to go back to school, as a learner. Mrs. Dela Cruz has gone back to school online this semester at Western Governors University, a school based in Utah. She is currently getting her masters in arts in mathematics and education.
“I am confident that getting my master’s will help me to become a better teacher as a whole,” says Dela Cruz.
As a teacher and a mother, Dela Cruz has to find time at night to work on pursuing her master’s degree. She usually takes about 2-3 hours per class after she is done with her household chores and checking her daughter’s homework.
Dela Cruz had been planning to get her master’s degree for a long time now. “Back in the Philippines, I had [completed] most of my units for my masters,” she says. “When I got pregnant, I had to put my career on hold to take care of my daughters.” She aims to get her degree in pursuit of self-growth and to learn new ways for students to love math just as much as she does.
