There are many qualities that a good teacher and a great teacher share. For example, a good teacher can be interesting. While the great teacher takes it a step further and is interesting but is also engaging. Having the ability to create interesting lesson plans is good but being able to engage the students in the lesson is great. Being engaging will help the class not let their minds wonder off. An engaging teacher to me is a teacher that has the ability to hold a class's attention for a good portion of a lesson. I think being engaging is an important quality because in my past experience I will pay attention if I find something interesting but I will remember it long term if not only the topic was interesting but the teacher was also making it interesting by being engaging. The second important quality a great teacher can posses is fairness. If you are a generally fair teacher it just makes it easier to get along. Along with getting along, if you show fairness the class as whole will respect you. I know that if I like a teacher I am much more likely to try harder in the class. It sounds weird but if I think the teacher is unfair I'll just zone out. It may be different for other people but that is me personally. An example of not being fair is telling someone that they can't have their water bottle out but then letting another person keep theirs out. Engagement and fairness are two of the main qualities I think a great teacher has. On a more personal level, one thing you can do to support me this year is to be patient with me. It might take me awhile to get something and I don't want you to get frustrated. Some things I will get really quick but other things like getting used to doing everything electronically might take some time.
Electronic Classroom
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In a video John Green stated that he pays school taxes because he wants the kids to be educated when they grow up so they invent things to make his life easier. He believes that it is our duty to take our education and use it to give back to our community and I agree with him. We spend up to twelve years in school learning. Why would we not apply what we learned into something more useful? We have the chance to help others who possibly didn't have the chance to receive an education like we did. I think it is selfish to throw everything we did in school away when someone would do anything for the information we learned. This year I hope i can start to apply what I learn to the real world. Everyday we learn skills we need for the real world but it is up to us to apply them. I plan on doing this simply paying closer attention to my surroundings and thinking, "What did I learn today that can make that situation better?"
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