Dr. E went back to the college that made him a teacher. At De La Salle University's Br. Andrew Gonzalez FSC College of Education — the campus where he earned his own teaching degree — he brought Teach It Like You Stream It to 75 education faculty and undergraduate students preparing to lead classrooms of their own across the Philippines.
A homecoming, not a guest lecture
Every speaking engagement has a room. This one had a history. DLSU is where Dr. E trained as an educator before the YouTube channel, before the flipped classroom work, before a single video went out to the students who would eventually find it. Standing at the front of a BAGCED lecture hall — this time as the speaker — turned a conference talk into something closer to a return.
BAGCED is one of the strongest teacher-education institutions in the country, and the practices Dr. E now teaches internationally started as habits formed in these hallways. Coming back to share them with the college that shaped them is the part that made this session different from any other stop.
Teaching the teachers who haven't started yet
Most Teach It Like You Stream It audiences are faculty with years of classrooms behind them. This one was mostly undergraduates — pre-service teachers who have not yet run a class of their own. That changes the assignment. Instead of asking experienced instructors to rethink a routine, the session handed future teachers a toolkit before their habits had hardened.
The framing came from the three things Dr. E does daily: content creation, the flipped classroom, and online teaching. For students who grew up learning from screens and who will teach the next generation on them, those aren't add-ons to the profession — they are the profession. The workshop treated broadcasting skills the way a teacher-education program treats lesson planning: as a core competency, learnable now.
You don't have to wait until you have a classroom to learn how to hold a room. The camera is a classroom too — and you can start practicing today.
The student who learned calculus from a screen
The moment that stayed with him came from the audience. One of the students said she had watched the Numberbender channel through the pandemic — her school and her math teacher had used the videos as part of her coursework, and she had learned calculus from them. Seeing Dr. E walk into her lecture hall in person, she said she could hardly believe he was real and not just someone on YouTube.
That is the full arc of the work in a single exchange: a lesson recorded in a home studio in California reaches a student in the Philippines during a school shutdown, and years later she is sitting in a college of education, training to teach. The screen was never a substitute for the teacher. It was how the teacher got there.
Key takeaways from the workshop
- Broadcasting is a teaching skill, not a tech skill. Scenes, layout, and camera presence are craft decisions — the same category as questioning technique or board work, and just as teachable.
- Start before the first classroom. Pre-service teachers who build these habits during training carry them into every course they will ever teach, instead of retrofitting them a decade in.
- Reach outlasts the room. A recorded lesson keeps teaching after the session ends — across time zones, school closures, and years, to students the teacher will never meet.
What people said
"A special thanks to Dr. Jasper Alontaga for hosting this insightful session in his PRETech class, and to our distinguished speaker, Dr. Peter Esperanza, for sharing his expertise and inspiring our students to innovate their teaching practice!"
What this session opened up
The workshop was hosted inside Dr. Jasper Alontaga's PRETech class, and the connection has continued past the session itself. As a leader in online learning at DLSU, Dr. Alontaga works on the same questions from the research and program-design side that Dr. E works on from the practitioner and creator side — and further collaboration between Numberbender and BAGCED is now underway.
For a framework built in a California classroom and refined on a YouTube channel, finding a home in a Philippine college of education is a meaningful next chapter — and one that puts the toolkit directly in the hands of the people who will teach Filipino students next.