Being in school for as long as I have you will definitely have good and bad
teachers. Many teachers are set in their ways and will only teach in the
way they think is right. Students learn in so many different ways and a
good teacher will understand that and try to get to know their students in
order to find the most effective way everyone in their class learns. One of
my best teachers was in high school, Mr. Gonzalez my high school math
teacher, he was a very hands-on teacher and we used to do projects in
building things using mathematical equations, I will never forget his class
because I think I learn a lot in that class. Mr. Gonzalez used active
learning to help us understand the functionality of math. He was the
teacher that made me love math and until this day I still enjoy and
understand math very much because I was able to apply the practical
uses of math. Another basic principle Mr. Gonzales used in class was
encouraging cooperation among students, I have never liked working in
groups but with Mr. Gonzalez I truly did love it. He would place us in
groups for bigger projects, that is where I learned to not only work in
groups but that I was more of a leader, and it was easy for me to take-
charge and help with delegating. Mr. Gonzalez was and continues to be a
great teacher and I learned so much from him, his class seemed fun and
not at all boring and hard, he made math fun and easy. On the complete
other side of the spectrum was my Junior College English professor, she
would assign so much work and it always felt like just busy work, because
when we would turn it in it would take her weeks to grade and return to
us, there feedback was never given in a timely manner in order to be used
for improving future assignments. She had very high expectations,
however never verbalized them to the class, it was very covert. It was
very hard to try to meet her expectations as they seemed to change
daily. She was a very difficult teacher and hard to please person. I was
happy with the B+ that I received in her class but can truly say I learned
nothing in that class. This teacher could have worked more on giving
prompt feedback, especially when it was something like a rough draft that
we were going to use to improve our final drafts. She also could have
been more overt with her expectations in order to let us know what was
expected and give us a chance to ask questions and clarify what was
expected of us to get rid of any confusion. Knowledge is power and the
more knowledge I would have had in regard to her expectations and what
I could have done to increase learning and improve my grade in the class.
Ephesians 4:11-12 says, “The gifts he gave were that some would be . . .
teachers, . . . for building up the body of Christ”. Some are called to be
teachers by God. If more of us would allow God to take the wheel and
lead us to where we need to be, then we would all be better off.
Bernstein, D. A., Frantz, S., & Chew, S. (2019).Teaching Psychology: A
Step-by-Step Guide(3rd ed.). Routledge.
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