I. Role: To open a student’s mind, to make them independent thinkers, critical thinkers and to make them want to learn more on any given subject.
Teacher #1 Rachael Biel- English
Teacher #2 Chris Smith- Humanities
One teacher would be a positive example while the other was a negative example.
Rachael really had a way of making her students question what they heard and even what they were seeing and she made them want to know more about everything.
II. Body of the paragraph
A. Rachael was an outstanding role model of an independent thinker.
1. When going to class we never knew what was in store for us on that particular day. Rachael might have us look at a painting and tell our own story of what the artist might have had in mind, as well as how the painting made us feel when looking at it, and then we would share our thoughts with the class.
2. Another example could be, sending her class out on a beautiful day to write about something, anything at all without telling our readers what we had chosen. It was up to the class to try and see the topic through different eyes.
3. A third example…
B. Rachael was also a critical thinker and questioned each and everything she saw and heard, and she pushed her students to do the same. Rachael enjoyed opening up the minds of her students, allowing them to see things in a different way.
1. One example, she might show us a controversial film to open a topic of discussion among the class, of course the class would be divided, but that was ok, it made for a very interesting learning environment to see where the other side might be coming from, and to show just how differently the same material could be perceived.
C. Rachael had a passion for teaching and a way of making us want to learn. There were days that I couldn’t wait to get to class, and days that I couldn’t wait to get home to share what I had learned.
D. Chris on the other hand just had a way of making you question him. What he was saying, was it based on fact? Was he even serious? Did it really happen the way that he explained it?
1. As one student in his class I found that he lacked credibility, I questioned the details of his stories and his explanations, even to the point of looking up certain events for myself just to be sure. Maybe that was his way of instructing me?
2. Students openly disagreed with Chris, almost to the point of argument. This however, I did find to be a learning experience.
3. He became rather amusing to many of my classmates; we wondered what he would do or say next but didn’t really feel that we were learning.
E. I and many of the other students felt that he used his authority as a way of hearing himself speak, he spent more time on personal stories than teaching any curriculum.
1. We feared that he was not actually preparing us for what we might face in the world.
2. A good example of this was his giving each of us a chapter in our textbooks and then having us do the presentation for the class on the chapter given; this was his way of instructing us. We felt cheated.
3. I was also surprised that in a year, he never took the time to know us by my name.
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