I had an American History teacher in high school that everyone idolized because he acted like a gangsta.
My senior theology teacher everyone liked because he was just an awesome and super nice guy.
I had an Astronomy Professor that was weird and nerdy but he could teach and got the students involved.
In spite of the fact that my school was prettyty, we had an awesome faculty. One of my favourites was one of my French Immersion teachers who taught social studies in high school. He was just awesome and passionate about the subject. In my grade 11 class, World Issues, for the latter half we did a mock UN. Basically each person or group were assigned a country and we each had a topic related to that country. For your own topic you had to research your country's position as well as do a presentation to explain the scenario to the class and research everyone else's position. The topics covered varied from whaling to peace in the Middle East. It was quite interesting. With the same teacher the following year we did a similar type thing but in relation to Canada and the provinces.
Another favourite teacher was my grade 11 English teacher. She was amazing in so many ways, I really wished she did not retire so early so she could have taught my grade 12 year. She is the reason I can write essays so well. She was also crazy, in the good way, like throwing sponge apples at the class or getting a little too enthusiastic as she read a line of one the witches from Macbeth.
The final teacher that was awesome was my grade 11 and 12 math teacher. Though I never needed help in the subject he was always early to school to help anyone, especially before tests. He was approachable and always willing to help you. He even teased his students. Sometimes he would compare the work level we were doing to barn animals, saying that maybe a pig could do it but not the goose, or something nonsensical like that. He teased me too since I always answered the questions too fast to the annoyance of my friend sitting behind me, so he would always promise to get her a metre stick to flick my ear with.
Forgot to say, one of the characteristics of a couple of teachers I quite enjoyed was that they were totally hot. You've got that covered already, though, Cid. 8-)
Bow before the mighty Javoo!
Make sure you're hot. That way, students will look at you be interested in what you have to say.
My favorite teacher was from last year. He was my 7th grade language arts teacher. He was young (27), and he knew his stuff. Everyone could have a conversation with him. That was probably his best quality. It also helped that I am REALLY good in that sort of class, so I goofed off often.
she's the only one that thought i could be succsesful
Stalpho Slayer
I think the best teachers are organized and know what they are talking about. And they have a goal for what they are trying to teach through each lesson. If you teach history, have common themes that you use to tie together various parts of the syllabus.
Shout a lot and pound your fists on the podium. Also blame everything that goes wrong on a monkey. (name optional)
My 8th grade science teacher did stuff like that and you ask anyone in any of his classes about him, and to this day, they all remember Mr. Zittnan. What a man.
My favorite teachers loved what they did. They came in everyday loving it, even when it hurt them to love it. They treated all students as completely capable of understanding the content. They knew the content. They spoke instead of making us read. We didn't fill out worksheets. They made us think, and through thinking we were able to understand. And they pushed us.
I agree with Yams about not being your students friend all the time. Sometimes you need to be their friend, if they don't have anyone else. But don't make it a point to be all buddy buddy with them every day.
I've seen in LJ before. It seems like you're doing a pretty good job already.
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BOOBS! GET some!Originally Posted by Cid
Naw, My favorite teacher was down to earth and fun as hell to be around. He was older and really took a genuine interest in INDIVIDUAL Students, like myself. HE actually dualed as our computer science teacher as well. He recognized talent, guts, and motivations in a kid. Really put me on my right path. Really, a teacher that can make a single kid feel motivation - as motivation is more important than any prodigal trait.
It's been discussed in EoEo but it needs to be repeated again.
TEACHERS NEED TO WATCH FOR BULLIES AND TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION
When I hear stories of teachers being told bullying is happening and they shrug, I get sad.
One time I got strangled during recess. When I told the teacher he pulled the guy out of class and yelled at him for like 20 minutes in front of me. I was like O_o even though he deserved it.
its so cliche but make learning fun its that simple once you have that i mean you got em then but to be infamous is way easier than famous but fame is more satisfing (to me)
Harroldo
A young man that tells the story with his pen, and yet, with no words.
Being an effective teacher makes a difference. I taught my math-brain-dead brother how to calculate sales tax by:
- dividing the total by 10 (easy to do)
- adding half of that
- add the two values to the price
So with 20$, we have 7% and 8% sales tax (provincial and government, respectively) = 15% sales tax.
The answer we want is 23% because 3 = 15% of 20.
Anyway if you can't do that in your head, you do this:
10% of 20 = 2
1/2 of that is 1
20 + 2 + 1 = 23.
You can make 'learning' easier by finding easier heuristics or whatever method is easiest for children.
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