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The vital roles teachers obtain serve to prove that teaching education can be very challenging due to the amount of students who have different learning styles. One feels this way because there are so many teaching styles in an educator’s life, a positive learning experience plays a vital role in successful student/teacher relationships for our education, to better prepare us for our futures. In contrast to a negative role played by a teacher resulting in an unsuccessful experience and failed success rate for the students, a positive role played by a teacher helps the students become more interested in the subject with a higher passing rate. Mr. Baggins a chemistry teacher, and Mr. Vader an anatomy and physiology teacher, both played a vital role in my education, each one with a vastly different teaching style. Baggins, a great example of good teaching was very inspiring and dedicated to his work, while Vader was a dedicated and egotistical example of some good/bad teaching.

The feeling of inconvenience and burden shouldn't be felt among the students to be a good teacher, a good teacher is there to help the students gain a better understanding for what they're trying to learn. Walking into Mr. Baggins chemistry class in high school, not only was he open minded and willing to help out with homework and reading, but he always had a smile on his face and was really motivated to get work done. He was there to answer any questions that students had to ask, and didn't make them feel like a complete moron if they asked something ridiculous. While on another note Mr. Vader was very egotistical and never had a smile on his face, he would ask the students if they have questions, and then proceed to make them feel unintelligent for not fully understanding the information being learned. When you ask a question he doesn’t give you a straight answer he will ask you another question back, example; "is this the tibia?" his response, "do you think it's the tibia?" or, "why do you think it's the tibia?"  In a way that could be good teaching, most students ask questions not to be questioned back they would like to know the answer so that they can learn and memorize. Their teaching styles are similar in that they both require a lot of work and study to be successful in their classes and they both are strict, they just have different ways of showing it via facial expressions and motivation during class times.

Most of the students in my Anatomy and Physiology class would agree that Vader acted as if the students were burdening him when they would be inquisitive about the topics that are being taught, which is unfortunate and results in less students passing the course. Vader whom is very smart man with a Doctorate Degree, contrasts Mr. Baggins with most of the teaching styles that he teaches except few traits that are their strictness and their need to have the students do a great job. Vaders attitude portrayed to the students is very blunt, if you haven't had a previous course on the knowledge of the human body and anatomy, there is no way you could pass this class with how quickly he moves from one topic to another without looking back. The tests given out by Vader would be on completely different things than all the busy work the students had to do on the study guides, even if they read every chapter in the book very carefully, and took plenty of notes, there would still be something/ most things on the test that was hidden in the tiny text of the 20 pound text book. You can't really blame a professor for doing his job, if you really look at it and try being in their shoes, having to teach 40 adults one topic when they all have different styles of learning. One would feel that the whole point of school is to learn to adapt to many different kinds of teaching because when you grow up and get into the big world, you put your grown up pants on and learn new things every day in order to succeed. It's merely just a study pattern and how the students choose to study.

Baggins examples as a good teacher is that he always put the students first, he was very outgoing, loved to get the class involved in learning, immediately when class started he would say “ALRIGHT FOLKS, time to make a list of things to be discussed during the class.” We would make a list of things that are going to be discussed during the class period, as an outline. And go down that outline piece by piece until we finished the list for the day. He finds ways to explain topics so that the students can understand things better. Baggins reminds me a lot like the actor Jaime Escalante from the movie Stand and Deliver in that both the sense of humor and motivated in the success of his students. Yet, a very hard grader wanting only the best work out of each and every student, gives plenty of chances to gain extra credit on exams. Gets the class in activities to motivate them, does the study guide that flows with the tests so you’re not surprised with all the questions, gives homework. Does labs every week to work on the actual chemistry portion of the tests. Records all of his lectures and writes them down on a pen cast so that if you were to miss a class you have the notes and his recordings from the class to listen and write them down.

Vader wants the best out of each student but doesn’t necessarily help them gain a better understanding, basically going off the book word for word, the study guides were just a “guide… and not everything you study on the guide is going to be on the test.”  Yet never gave any homework, so we were left with never knowing what to study for our tests. Vader shows examples of good teaching by letting the students redeem some of their knowledge on the end of tests. Giving us students 15 points worth of extra credit, so that if we completely bombed the test we would have an available 15 extra points if we answered the critical questions correctly.. which was very hard for most people due to his hard grading.  Another great example of his teaching would be how after every chapter we read, he would actually give out a critical thinking question from the end of each chapter we went through and were worth 1 extra credit point if we turned it in on Monday, before class starts. Once class starts there are no more opportunities to turn in the extra credit question. Which would have something to do with the extra credit questions on the tests. and a shot to “inform him on something you learned from these chapters that we didn’t cover on the test and it needs to be correct in order to gain any points.”