Thesis statement: Because there are so many teaching styles, 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.
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The feeling of inconvenience and burden shouldn't be felt among the students to be a good teacher, a great 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 school, not only was he open minded and willing to help out with homework and reading, 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. If the students are asking questions to try to understand the topic in which they are learning then that is a result of a great teacher doing his job and getting the students involved in their need to learn. Other teachers act as if the students are burdening them by being inquisitive and asking
questions about the topics that are being taught, which is unfortunate and results in less students passing the course. Mr. Vader whom is very smart man with a Doctorate Degree, contrasts Mr. Baggins with most of the teaching styles that he teaches. His 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 fast 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, try being in their shoes and having to teach 40 adults one topic when they all have different styles of learning. 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. If you look at it from all different ways you can see it in many different perspectives. It seems that the feeling as if the student body is unimportant to most teachers and that they are
just trying to get us through the course and don't care if we pass or fail, is getting more common as we proceed through our schooling.
Here I will discuss each teacher whose
names I haven't given because of the small town we live in, I am going to talk
about each teachers teaching styles first in different paragraphs and then talk
more about how it helped prepare me for my future and helped me learn.
Mr. Anatomy & Physiology
Very blunt, expects you to read and
know all the material before the class period, talks down to students, not
necessarily makes fun of students for being wrong but embarrasses them in front
of the class while letting the class know how stupid that answer was, has a low
pass rate for students that take the class, dry sense of humor, doesn’t like
people asking questions even though he asks if we have questions, very
intelligent but narcissistic about his knowledge for the subject, 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?". For the test study guides
he would have us answer and learn all this information ON the
guide, but most of these things we would work so hard to study for... wouldn’t
even be on the test, it would be the little things that were hidden in the
chapters that didn’t have anything to do with the study guide. So really you
never knew exactly WHAT to study. He told us that the study
guide, is a GUIDE, and we should know that not all that
information would be on the test, we should know all the information in the
chapters like the back of our hands just like he does, yet he has about 30 more
years of experience. It was really hard to adjust to this type of teaching
style because I feel like if I hadn’t taken these classes before I wouldn’t
have passed. There would be no way on earth that I could have learned that much
information about the human body and immune system as well as all the bones in
the body and the muscles and everything down to the microscopic level, in that
amount of time. The thing is, after having him as a teacher for A&P 1 and
A&P 2 I understood his ways of teaching more. If you read the chapters beforehand
and took really in depth notes on it and understood it, you will have a better
understanding for what the teacher is talking about in class the next day and
can go over it twice to acquire a better knowledge of the topic, this way at
least you know what he will be talking about and if you are unsure about it you
can ask him in class without sounding like a complete moron. As for the testing
you really have to critically think about what could possibly be on the
test while reading and writing notes because all of his
tests were printed out the same day no one knew what was on them, the GREAT
part of the tests were that by doing the critical thinking sections after each
chapter for one extra credit point, he put critical thinking questions at the
end of each test to gain extra credit points, you didn’t have to do them but if
you tried and got some stuff correct it gained you some extra credit on your
test, as well as he gave you a chance to write down something you learned that
you studied very hard for that wasn’t on the test, if you can explain it you
get extra credit points. There were 15 available extra credit points on each
test. In a way I would say it’s bad teaching but if you understand that you are
here to learn and paying money to learn in a certain amount of time you better
be doing hard work to learn and study the material and dedicate all your time
to learning the subject.
Mr. Chemistry
Very outgoing, loves to get the class
involved in learning, immediately when class starts makes a list of things that
are going to be discussed during the class period, and follows that to do list
to the T. Finds ways to explain topics so that the students can understand
things better. This teacher reminds me a lot like Jaime Escalante from the
movie Stand and Deliver in that both the sense of humor and the need to have
his students succeed are very important to him. Hard grader but only because he
wants 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. As opposed to the other teacher where
if you miss a class you're screwed.
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