I want to thank my high school AP physics teacher. Thank you for always holding rigorous and high expectations of us as students and learners. Thank you for expecting nothing but the best. Thank you for requiring me to write extremely detailed and specific answers in complete sentences for every single homework assignment I turned in every single day.
Thank you for giving us the perfect balance between helping us out when we were having trouble and letting us figure it out on our own. I remember one time I worked literally all class on one problem and I could not figure it …show more content…
So I read this one essay in my English class of the second semester. It was written by Angela Maiers. She has been in the education field for approximate 25 years. She wrote an essay titled, “Habitudes in Classrooms”. In this essay, she explains some skills to be taught to 21st-century students in the classroom. These skills will not only help the students in the classroom but also outside of the school. She says students can learn perseverance by learning the skills of endurance, creativity, and strategic …show more content…
She says students will be able to evaluate and clear their goal site. I agree with Maiers, because being strategic is a skill that I learned in the physics classroom. I want to thank my physics teacher for teaching me how to set up a problem in physics. His method of problem-solving with the variable list on the right, equation and math on the left, and answer in a box was very helpful in solving problems. Believe me or not, his method of arranging information and answer helped me not just in class, but outside as well. I became more organized and strategic. This has been my personal experience. I made less mathematical mistakes after following his