Being in school for as long as I have you will definitely have good and bad
teachers. f Many teachers are set in their ways and will only teach in the way they
think is right. f 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. f 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. f
Mr. Gonzalez used active learning to help us understand the functionality of
math. f 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. f 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. f 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. f 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. f She had very high expectations, however never verbalized
them to the class, it was very covert. f It was very hard to try to meet her
expectations as they seemed to change daily. f She was a very difficult teacher
and hard to please person. f I was happy with the B+ that I received in her class
but can truly say I learned nothing in that class. f 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. f 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. f 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. f Ephesians 4:11-12 says, “The gifts
he gave were that some would be . . . teachers, . . . for building up the body of
Christ”. f Some are called to be teachers by God. f 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.
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