Good Teacher

I have to say that my favorite and the best teacher I ever had was my junior and senior high school English teacher. She is actually part of the reason I want to become a teacher in the first place. The content that we covered in that class was daunting to say the least for high school students but she made it fun. By doing different activities and having a more interactive classroom everyone seemed to enjoy the class that most others would find daunting. Her out-going personality and love for what she was teaching also helped us become more immersed in her teaching as well as making references to more modern day characters to make relations and characterizations easier for everyone in class.

The activities and exercises we attacked in class were fun and interesting. We read Shakespeare and then were able to re-write lines and create a more modern version of some scenes and performed them. When we moved into poetic analysis we listened to songs and analyzed the lyrics. Also as presentations on poetic analysis we chose 5 of our favorite songs and analyzed one stanza from each song while playing the verses for the class. This was one of the times that we were able to have fun and guide our own presentations, unlike most other teacher's where we are given what we have to present over and that is the end of it. By giving us some creative freedom in projects and having a more interactive classroom this made a what would have been daunting learning experience a lot more fun and the grades in the class reflected that.