My Favorite Teacher Essay

two types of teachers: The really good teacher that made school interesting and fun and/or you remember the really “not so good” teacher, who was boring and talked in a monotone voice, the teacher that would make school so miserable that you would rather catch the flu to miss a few days of school, or the teacher who might have said something negative to you that has and will stick with you throughout your whole life. There are many of us that want to be remembered as the great teacher, however,…

have chosen to reflect upon instructional variety, teacher task orientation, using student ideas and contributions, questioning, and teacher affect. For each of these, I will explain the ways I have seen an educator be either effective or ineffective in their teaching. While I was a senior in high school, I was a part of a Pre-calculus class that was taught by a teacher who was very monotone and lacked instructional variety. He was a good teacher, but because of his lack of pitch variation,…

It cannot be the goal of the teacher to break and damage the will. Ellen White (1923) writes about this concept extensively, however this quote best expresses her point of view. “The will must be trained to obey the dictates of reason and conscience. A child may be so disciplined as to have, like the beat, no will of its own, his individuality being lost in that of his teacher. Such training is unwise, and its effect disastrous.” (p. 57). Her point is…

because I didn’t try hard enough. I was very scared to ask questions and very introverted as well. My shyness prohibited me from being successful in school particularly in middle school. In middle school it, was worse because I struggled a lot in math and again had introverted qualities. In, high school I realized I really liked history and reading it was very interesting to me. Additionally, I tried to do my best and to try new things. In college I will study, work hard, set goals, try new…

September 25, 2015, I returned to my hometown of Hugo, Minnesota to interview a teacher of the White Bear Lake Area School District, Mrs. Laura Bege. I know Mrs. Bege from volunteering in her class twice a week for a semester during my junior year of high school. She has become a person I admire, and would like to follow in her footsteps. I had the privilege to sit down and listen to her story about being a teacher. If you were to ask Mrs. Bege why she wanted to be a teacher, she would tell you…

watermelon was produced; therefore, I researched to find my answer. I was very curious about this because it is the perfect time for watermelon, but in my book, watermelon is a key factor of happiness. Watermelon is my all-time favorite food and I find it very interesting how a fruit can be produced having seeds and not having seeds, as well as, is it still considered a fruit without seeds? Being able to be curios and seek answers to my questions allows, “curious brains [to be] active brains,…

college, but having spent my entire life growing up in Valley I have truly come to appreciate all that it’s close knit community has had to offer me. Looking back at it now, I can remember all the times that people have gone out of their way to help me when it wasn’t required of them. I could never forget all that this town has done for me. I can only hope that through my actions over the years I have been able to pay a little bit of that kindness back. One of my favorite parts of attending a…

on that my brother liked came on, and I hated that show. So I asked him if he could change it to something we both liked, He said: “Oh no this is my favorite show, I can’t change the channel.” So then I grabbed the remote and pressed fifty-six so it would change to a news station. I then ran away with the remote and locked myself in the bathroom. A few minutes later , my dad comes to the door and tells me to give back the remote. I do so and realized how defiant I was being and I learned my…

There are three reasons to why I chose Tim Bedley to be my favorite. Here are the three reasons I will be presenting in my paper report: what the students did in class, teacher’s guidance and way of teaching, and the atmosphere of the classroom. When I was watching the videos, I was fascinated by how Mr. Bedley supervise the students in his class. Not only was the students were respectful towards him, Mr. Tim was respectful to them. In my opinion, that is one of the fundamental factors of being…

Matter," Jenson identifies seven critical factors of teaching which are engagement, repetition, input quantity, coherence, timing, error correction, and emotional states. My tutee's favorite subject was social studies and he loves hands on activities so it did not take much to get him engaged. I used repetition when working with my tutee as well as visual activities to keep him engaged. For example, one day I was helping him on a states and capitals worksheet. When he became very lost and could…