Arguing Education (Rough Draft)

              Education is one of the most fundamental staples in life. Education starts at birth, you never stop learning; but your education really starts at age five. In school you learn how to read, write, arithmetic, science, and history. If you are good at one or all subjects you advance into higher classes, but if you are not good at any of the courses you just float through school not understanding or grasping the knowledge. Educators are supposed to educate you and make you understand, but with the classes overcrowding and standards being generalized there are many students being depraved of a quality education. In the United States has a very poor educational system. States officials elect people to boards who run lower boards and those boards are over the superintendents who are over the principles and the line continues all the way down to the parents of students. Who do you blame for the issues within your state, county, or district? Who is going to make changes to education? Who is going to stand up and hold all accountable for the low grades and school success rates? And last who is going to change the system to benefit the student not the test scores? Even though those are great but the best question is what could we do about it?

 

There are changes that can be made, small changes like the way students are taught on one curriculum and tested on another, abolish standardized tests. Teach students how to succeed in life not just school. Fewer students per classroom and more one on one learning. Take more focus on students and less on the money. These are just some things that our education boards need to focus on. When did education become this destructive mess? Most people will agree that it has been a mess since its creation and some may feel it’s the changing of time. We need to focus on the current and less on the past.

 

Education starts at home, when you are learning to crawl, talk, and walk, we are already being prepped for a life full of institution. Society is to blame for some problems in the education system, like if your child is hyper they may have a learning disability, or if your child is a slow learner they also may have a learning disability. As soon as children are labeled with these brands of ADD, OCD, a form of Autism, Dyslexia, Etc. the system automatically rules them out. “These kids slow down the class” as teachers tell parents and advise them to look at other alternative learning. This is where smaller classrooms come in handy, stop throwing these labeled students into special education classes that do not teach them at the class level they are. Educators grow intolerant of student behavior and ignore the signs for help; this is another change that needs to happen. Stop labeling students and start reinforcing there esteem. 

 

In preschool children learn the alphabet, to count, to match colors, and shapes. They learn words and how to use them. There should be education before preschool, when a child hits preschool they are already behind, most children have not been socialized with other children, they are slow to learn and interact. We should have earlier head start programs that teach our young children sign language to start forming communication skills, the benefits are outstanding. Children are more susceptible to learning and retaining knowledge when you start teaching them before they can talk.

 

Parents should be held accountable to for their children; it is their responsibility to teach them as well as teachers. Teachers cannot do it all. If parents would read to their children starting at a young age, children will have a higher reading comprehension when they hit kindergarten, most students who have been read to, tend to have at least two grades higher reading levels. If schools and educators pushed the issue of early communication and reading, learning comprehension would be higher in K-12 schools.

 

Education is just that EDUCATION; schools should be able to fulfill their dreams of fully educating the classes for life. Standardized tests set all students up to fail, there is no such test that can be accurate for each learner, why would we do this? Why would we make our children take tests that they are no way prepared for? Awe, yes because the schools need money, they higher the scores the more money the school receives. But what is that showing the students who cannot perform the standards of the test? We are showing them that according to these tests, they are not up to par and breaking their esteem. Making students perform at a “standard level” is what is crippling the education system, tests should not be a make or break situation.

 

 Grading the work is not creating potential, it is killing it. Students get graded on assignments, work, tests, and behavior. But what really happens when the grades are given? If a student is failing and warned about their work what happens next? Educator should be paying more attention, why is that student failing? Why do they not understand? These are the questions that the parents, teachers, and school counselors should be asking and getting answers, not looking past the issues. Education should be looking into the creativity of a child finding their strengths, and focus on strengthening the weaknesses.

 

In our schools we should be teaching about life, how to bank, how to fill out applications, how to do taxes, how to manage money, sexual education, how protect yourself after high school. We should not have to rely on the parents alone to teach their children about life, because they also don’t have the answers. When a student graduate’s high school the education system is pushing them into a world they have never had to experience before. Most students won’t have a job, won’t go to college, and won’t have a car. Wouldn’t you want them to be a bit more established leaving high school? Knowing how to get a job or fill out a college application knowing what you need to do before you can buy a car or sign an apartment lease. Our education system should prepare students for life. These are life goals that go with education. Accomplishing all of these and graduating high school bring more hope for a young person’s future.

 

Society today puts a lot of pressure on the education system. It blames the schools for the bad apples and the welfare cases. But it’s not the schools fault. Schools and teachers can’t control how someone grows up, but they can try and make it a better place through learning. It’s not the schools fault your child is now a teenage parent, but the school can offer sexual education and condoms. It’s also not the schools fault that your child begins drug addiction, but the school can offer drug and alcohol awareness. Blaming the education system for examples like this is not going to fix the problems of society.

 

Technology is one factor in the problems with schools. It is a blessing and a curse. Requiring students to type out papers and do internet research as homework make people feel bad for not being able to afford a computer or internet service. When did penmanship leave the curriculum?  Why is it not important to spell without auto spell check anymore? In the five years the dictionary may be out of print. Writing teaches patients and willingness to learn. We should bring back penmanship as a standard. Technology makes it so easy for students to cheat and cause distraction.

 

Schools should try and eliminate as much of societies reliance on technology and bring focus back to learning not to Facebook. The education system is broken, it needs to be fixed. We need to find ways to fix it. Making changes to the current situations can have an outstanding effect on how students learn and teachers teach. Schools need to worry less about having the latest and greatest food, or track fields, or cafeterias. They need to focus on making school a better place for learning. Cutting down class sizes and removing standardize tests is a start, but to really fix it is to reevaluate the education structure and redefine what is truly important. It all needs to start at the top each person involved in education needs to be held accountable and bring our education system to a higher standard for the future generations.

Chalk

Chalk Notes

• Opening Scene shows that the students are not enthused about school
• Mr. Stroope is excited
• Coach Webb is enthusiastic
• Mr. Lowry is not sure what he is doing
• Mrs.Reddell is confused about what she needs to be doing as an AP 
• first day of class Mr. Lowry is having trouble getting to participate and respect
• Mrs. Reddell is a choir teacher who is now the high schools AP
• Mrs. Reddell has no Idea what she is in for
• Mr. Stroope wants to be the most popular teacher, he wants to be all the students friend.
• This is Mr. Lowry's first day ever of teaching
• Mr. Stoope only cares about popularity
• Coach Webb is a little apprehensive and takes school policy and roles very seriously, she feels that her friend will back her up all the way 
• Mr. Stroope has his appraisal and going over his goals and he hasn't created any lesson plans
• Mrs. Reddell does not handle conflicts well, not knowing how to handle the situation
• Coach Webb Constantly thinks about her self
• Mr. Lowry in the class room scene where the students aren't listening and throwing around someone's backpack he is almost losing it
• Mr.Stroope worries about the wrong things.
• Mr. Lowry Cannot get a handle on his students
• Mrs.Reddell is having a hard time adjusting to being an AP, it is taking a toll on her marriage
• The Principle tries to give Mrs.Reddell some very cryptic advice.
• Coach Webb confronts a teacher about the tardy policies and is very aggressive about it.
• Mr. Lowry is not good under pressure and is then ridiculed by his students
•  Coach Webb does not really have a very good outlook on teaching, but she tries to.
• Mr. Lowry is very embarrassed about having to ask for instruction book on classroom managment 
• Coach Webb confronts Mrs. Reddell on her lack of friendship and is very confrontational about it.
• Mr. Stroope confronts students about using big words and about being to smart.
• Mrs. Reddell shows her frustration while chasing after a student by calling him a bastard
• Coach Web during the yoga scene shows a sense of humor
• Mr. Stroope has a lot of over confidence about the election
• Mr. Lowry lost his cool with a student
• Mr. Lowry learns a lot from the students mother
• Mr. Stroope tries to bring the bright side to him losing the election and fails miserably by breaking down in front of his students
• Coach Webb attacks Mrs. Reddell over their friendship and how she feels that Reddell doesn't want to help her.
• Mrs. Reddell feels the pressure of her position
• all the teachers compete in a spelling bee about slang words. having fun with their students
• The Teachers all sit around and talk about their year and making big changes for the next year.
• Mr. Lowry has doubts about returning to teaching
• Mr. Lowry finally connects with his students the last day of class.

Compare and Contrast: Two Educators (Final)

 

Compare and Contrast: Two Educators

 In high school I had two teachers that stood out, one of them was Mrs. Heart, and she was a very enthusiastic and spirited teacher. The other was Mr. Football, he was unmotivated, ill prepared, and frustrating teacher. Mrs. Heart was a wonderful teacher who cared and loved her students; Mr. Football, on the other hand, was also a football coach for the school and only cared about his players. These are two very different teachers and how they interacted with and taught their students. They both exhibited very different characteristics, but both of these teachers are ones that I will always remember. They both went to school and had a passion for what they did. However they both had good teaching habits and bad teaching habits. Mrs. Heart and Mr. Football left me with higher expectations of teaching.

In Mrs. Heart’s classroom there were six large island sized workstations and three large pallets of clay. There were four pottery wheels in the back and a large adjoining room to the left of the class, which was the kiln room that was full of fired pottery. On the first day, she was wearing a giant yellow hat and bright orange coveralls, standing by the desk handing each student a number. She gave each student a number and directed each one towards their assigned seat with that number. All the students piled in, the bell rang meaning the class has begun. She turned to the board and writes her name and the class name on the board. When she finished she turned and said in a loud but welcoming voice good afternoon class I am Mrs. Heart and this is pottery. Mrs. Heart told the class about the numbering system and how the class will need to meet new people, after she went on to tell us about pottery and she was so enthusiastic and passionate about what she was saying, the whole room was captivated. As the semester went on she taught us about pottery and making art, making the art that we liked not what was expected from us. She allowed complete free artistic license with each project we did. She only had simple rules and guidelines for what was needed for the project to be complete, for example if it was a candle stick it needed to hold a candle, or a wall mask it needed to be hung on a wall. She was great about inspiring us to complete our work; if her students struggled they suffered from what she called artistic farts. If her students had an artistic fart she would come to each one who experienced this anomaly and help them find some light. She was a good teacher and a great inspiration to find our creative side. Mrs. Heart loved coming into class, she was always prepared for the day’s assignment. She was fun and charismatic. She was always encouraging; she never wanted her students to struggle with a project. Mrs. Heart made sure we not only learned but that they had fun doing it. Mrs. Heart was bubbly and full of enthusiasm. She felt that we could never fail. Mrs. Heart was a very good teacher, but she was also very strict about class rules and was not easily swayed. She made sure that all her students were accountable for their work. Mrs. Heart had good teaching qualities, she was always on time, always prepared, and motivated on the student’s success in the class.

Mr. Football taught US History, the classroom was located in the senior hallway of the main building. The classroom was moderately sized, full of desks, and the walls were covered with maps, and famous historical figures. There were large windows showing the garden and a very large whiteboard that wrapped around the two connecting walls. The bell rang and all of the class just sat there wondering if we were in the right class, as we sat confused and agitated, Mr. Football finally appeared, he was twenty minutes late and talking on his phone, and he would normally be completely captivated with something other than his class. After a few minutes finally he would speak to the class. On the first day he announced that he did not have a syllabus or a plan for the day’s work, He would always promise to have class assignments ready the next day, but they never happened. This was normal for Mr. Football, He pull out a DVD and put it on the TV for us to watch. It was usually a documentary of ancient Egypt or some movies about WWII. As the class work or movie started, Mr. Football would grab all of the returning football players that happened to be in his class and brought them to the back of the class by his desk. He then precedes to pull-up last year’s highlights and goes over stats and formation with them. As the rest of the week goes on every day is the same. Mr. Football was habitually late, and he would be very vague about class work and homework. Mr. Football seemed passionate about history when he did talk about it but he let his extra duties step in the way. Just Like every day he grabbed the football players and went to the back of the class and watched last week’s game, sometimes the head coach would join him in class and they would have a full on meeting about football. Our homework was always given back late and sometimes not even corrected. Projects were hard to understand and complicated, and he would never really answer your questions about homework. He was a bad teacher, a great football coach but a horrid teacher. Mr. Football was always late for class and unprepared. He never fully explained projects or homework, but expected it to be perfect to his standard. Mr. Football cared more about football than he did his history students. Mr. Football showed very bad teaching qualities, he was always late, never prepared, and not focused.

In conclusion, a good teacher is one who cares and wants their students to learn and succeed in school or another venture. A bad teacher is on who does the bare minimum and leaves their students a minimal understanding of the class subject. Both teachers worked for the same school, and were great teachers but in very different aspects. Mrs. Heart deeply cared about the success of her students while Mr. Football cared deeply about winning the next football game. If Mr. Football gave the same attention to his history class. Mr. Football was a great teacher. These teachers both had enthusiasm, passion, and they both loved their students. It’s just only one of them showed it to their actual class and the other did not. Mrs. Heart was a fun and knowledgeable teacher she loved teaching her students how to create their own art. She was an outstanding teacher. Mr. Football was a horrible teacher, he never answered questions and if he did they did not help. He was always late and ill prepared; it made him seem as if he did not care about his students.

 

Compare and Contrast: Two Educators (edited)

 

Compare and Contrast: Two Educators

When I was in high school I had two teachers that stood out, one of them was Mrs. Heart and the other was Mr. Football. Mrs. Heart was a wonderful teacher who cared and loved her students; Mr. Football on the other hand was also a football coach for the school and only cared about his players. These are two very different teachers and how they interacted with and taught their students. They both exhibited very different characteristics. Both of these teachers are ones that I will always remember. They both went to school and had a passion for what they did. The following paper will point of the good teaching habits and bad teaching habits. In high school I felt that I knew it all and never had to listen, I was seventeen and this was my senior year. This was my year; at the end I was free. I had two teachers that stood out above them all in that year of high school.

Mrs. Heart and Mr. Football left me with higher expectations of teaching, and what I truly needed as a student. I remember the first encounters with both teachers, walking up the road from the main school from the admin building to the arts building on Hostmark Street. It was third period after lunch when I first met Mrs. Heart. In Mrs. Heart’s classroom there were six large island sixed workstations and three large pallets of clay. There were four pottery wheels in the back and a large adjoining room to the left of the class, which was the kiln room that was full of fired pottery. When I walked in, I saw a lady wearing a giant yellow hat and bright orange coveralls, standing by the desk handing each student a number. When I received my number she said that I will find my seat with that number and that will be my home. We all piled in, and then found our new homes. The bell rang meaning the class has begun. She turned to the board and writes her name and the class name on the board. When she finished she turned and said in a loud but welcoming voice good afternoon class I am Mrs. Heart and this is pottery. She went on to tell us about pottery and she was so enthusiastic and passionate about what she was saying, the whole room was captivated. As the semester went on she taught us about pottery and making art, making the art that we liked not what was expected from us. She allowed complete free artistic license with each project we did, the only guideline was it needed to serve the project function, for example if it was a candle stick it needed to hold a candle, or a wall mask it needed to be hung on a wall. She was great about inspiring us to complete our work; if we struggled we suffered from what she called artistic farts. If we had an artistic fart she would come to each one who experienced this anomaly and help us find some light. She was a good teacher and a great inspiration to find our creative bone. Mrs. Heart loved coming into class, she was always prepared for the day’s assignment. She was fun and charismatic. She was always encouraging; she never wanted us to struggle with a project. Mrs. Heart made sure we not only learned but that we had fun doing it. Mrs. Heart was bubbly and full of enthusiasm. She felt that we could never fail, she also was not a push over we were all accountable for our work.

 I met Mr. Football fifth period history class; this class was located in the senior hallway of the main building. My first encounter with Mr. Football was not in high school, it was in junior high. It was a miserable failure, not only had I not realized I had him as a teacher before but he never changed. We walked into class and took a seat; Mr. Football was nowhere to be seen. The bell rang and all of the class just sat there wondering if we even had class. As we sat confused and agitated, Mr. Football finally appeared he was twenty minutes late on the first day of school. To make things worse he did not have a syllabus or a plan for the day’s work. He pulled out a DVD and put it on the TV for us to watch. It was a documentary of ancient Egypt. While he tells us about how he will have a syllabus completed by the following day that now will just watch this documentary and have no homework. As the documentary started I knew what would happen next, and it did. Mr. Football grabbed all of the returning football players that happened to be in his class fifth period and brought them to the back of the class by his desk. He then precedes to pull-up last year’s highlights and goes over stats and formation with them. As the rest of the week goes on every day is the same. But now he actually talked to us for the first fifteen minutes of class or the fifteen minutes after he was  ten minutes late. He would give a rough run through of what he wanted us to do that day or a project that that was due by the end of the week and never fully explain. Mr. Football seemed passionate about history when he did talk about it but he let his extra duties step in the way. Just Like every day he grabbed the football players and went to the back of the class and watched last week’s game, sometimes the head coach would join him in class and they would have a full on meeting about football. Our homework was always given back late and sometimes not even corrected. Projects were hard to understand and complicated, and he would never really answer your questions about homework. Like I said this is the second time I had Mr. Football as a teacher, and nothing about his teaching style changed. He was a bad teacher, a great football coach but a horrid teacher. Mr. Football was always late for class and unprepared. He never fully explained projects or homework, but expected it to be perfect to his standard. Mr. Football cared more about football than he did his history students.

In conclusion both teachers worked for the same school, and were great teachers but in very different aspects. Mrs. Heart deeply cared about the success of her students while Mr. Football cared deeply about winning the next football game. If Mr. Football gave the same attention to his history class I would probably write about what a great teacher he was, or if I was a football player I would write about that. I did not find that he was a great teacher at all for me. These teachers both had enthusiasm, passion, and they both loved their students. It’s just only one of them showed it to their actual class and the other did not. Mrs. Heart was a fun and knowledgeable teacher she loved teaching us how to create our own art. She was in my opinion an outstanding teacher, which is why I chose her for my paper. Mr. Football was a horrible teacher, he never answered questions and if he did they did not help. He was always late and ill prepared; it made him seem as if he did not care about his students.  I hope that you take from this paper is the degree of teaching that works for me. I do not expect all my teachers to wear bright colored clothes or big hats and have funny names for not doing your work, but I do expect my teachers to care about what they are teaching and that their actually succeed.

               

 

Compare and Contrast: Two Educators (Rough Draft)

 

Compare and Contrast: Two Educators

When I was in high school I had two teachers that stood out, one of them was Mrs. Heart and the other was Mr. Football. Mrs. Heart was a wonderful teacher who cared and loved her students, Mr. Football on the other hand was also a football couch for the school and only cared about his players. This compare and contrast paper is about these two very different teachers and how they interacted with and taught their students. I will point out their good characteristics and their flawed ones. Both of these teachers are ones that I will always remember. They both went to school and had a passion for what they did. The following paper will point of the good teaching habits and the bad teaching habits of Mrs. Heart and Mr. Football. In high school I felt that I knew it all and never had to listen, I was seventeen and this was my senior year. This was my year; at the end I was free. I had two teachers that stood out above them all in that year of high school.

Mrs. Heart and Mr. Football, these two teachers left me with higher expectations of teaching, and what I truly needed as a student. I remember the first encounters with both teachers, walking up the road from the main school from the admin building to the arts building on Hostmark Street. It was third period after lunch when I first met Mrs. Heart. In Mrs. Hearts Classroom there were six large island sixed workstations and three large pallets of clay. There were four pottery wheels in the back and a large adjoining room to the left of the class this was the kiln room that was full of fired pottery. When I walked in, I saw a lady wearing a giant yellow hat and bright orange coveralls, she was standing by the desk handing each student a number. When I received my number she said that I will find my seat with that number and that will be my home. We all piled in, and then found our new homes. The bell rang meaning the class has begun. She turns to the board and writes her name and the class name on the board. When she finished she turned and said in a loud but welcoming voice good afternoon class I am Mrs. Heart and this is pottery. She went on to tell us about pottery and she was so enthusiastic and passionate about what she was saying, the whole room was captivated. As the semester went on she taught us about pottery and making art, making the art that we liked not what was expected from us. She allowed complete free artistic license with each project we did, the only guideline was it needed to serve the project function like if it was a candle stick it needed to hold a candle, or a wall mask it needed to be hung on a wall. She was great about inspiring us to complete our work; if we struggled we suffered from what she called artistic farts. If we had an artistic fart she would come to each one who experienced this anomaly and help us find some light. She was a good teacher and a great inspiration to find our creative bone.

Mrs. Heart loved coming into class, she was always prepared for the day’s assignment. She was fun and charismatic.

She was always encouraging, she never wanted us to struggle with a project. Mrs. Heart made sure we not only learned but that we had fun doing it.

Mrs. Heart was bubbly and full of enthusiasm. She felt that we could never fail, she also was not a push over we were all accountable for our work.

 I met Mr. Football fifth period history class; this class was located in the senior hallway of the main building. My first encounter with Mr. Football was not in high school, it was in junior high. It was a miserable failure, not only had I not realized I had him as a teacher before but he never changed. We walked into class and took a seat; Mr. Football was nowhere to be seen. The bell rang and all of the class just sat there wondering if we even had class. As we sat confused and agitated, Mr. Football finally appeared he was Twenty minutes late on the first day of school. To make things worse he did not have a syllabus or a plan for the day’s work (This was fifth period the first day of school). He pulled out a DVD and put it on the TV for us to watch. It was a documentary of ancient Egypt. While he tells us about how he will have a syllabus completed by the following day that now will just watch this documentary and have no homework. As the documentary started I knew what would happen next, and it did. Mr. Football grabbed all of the returning football players that happened to be in his class fifth period and brought them to the back of the class by his desk. He then proceeds to pull-up last year’s highlights and go over stats and formation with them. As the rest of the week goes on every day is the same. But now he actually talked to us for the first fifteen minutes of class or the fifteen minutes after he was  ten minutes late. He would give a rough run through of what he wanted us to do that day or a project that that was due by the end of the week and never fully explain. Mr. Football seemed passionate about history when he did talk about it but he let his extra duties step in the way. Just Like every day he grabbed the football players and went to the back of the class and watched last week’s game, sometimes the head couch would join him in class and they would have a full on meeting about football. Our homework was always given back late and sometimes not even corrected. Projects were hard to understand and complicated, and he would never really answer your questions about homework. Like I said this is the second time I had Mr. Football as a teacher, and nothing about his teaching style changed. He was a bad teacher, a great football couch but a horrid teacher.

Mr. Football was always late for class and unprepared.

He never fully explained projects or homework, but expected it to be perfect to his standard.

Mr. Football cared more about football than he did his history students.

In conclusion both teachers worked for the same school, they both were great teachers but in very different aspects. Mrs. Heart deeply cared about the success of her students while Mr. Football cared deeply about winning the next football game. If Mr. Football gave the same attention to his history class I would probably write about what a great teacher he was, or if I was a football player I would write about that. I did not find that he was a great teacher at all. These teachers both had enthusiasm, both had passion, and they both loved their students. It’s just only one of them showed it to their actual class and the other did not. Mrs. Heart was a fun and knowledgeable teacher she loved teaching us how to create our own art. She was in my opinion an outstanding teacher, which is why I chose her for my paper. Mr. Football was a horrible teacher, he never answered questions and if he did they did not help. He was always late and ill prepared; he did not care about his students. That is why I chose him as a bad teacher in the paper.  I hope that you take from this paper is the degree of teaching that works for me. I do not expect all my teachers to wear bright colored clothes or big hats and have funny names for not doing your work, but I do expect my teachers to care about what they are teaching and that we/I actually succeed.

Stand and Deliver (Part 2) notes

Christmas dinner scene Mr. Escalante is very dedicated to his teaching. while the family suffers

Class room scene Mr. Escalanteworks so much that his health takes a toll.

Class room scene the class room suffers without him as Angle and Pancho fight.

Hospital Mr. Escalante goes against doctor wishes and goes back to teaching.

Teaching scene post hospital Mr. Escalante makes his student study in unconventional situations like standing in a line to answer questions

post Test the education system is investigating the AP Students stating that they cheated on the tests

pre test Mr. Escalantebrought his students closer.

post news of investigation Angel gets destructive after the news of the board investigation

interrogation of student by Dr. Pierson and Dr. Ramirez, Mr. Mallino is not sure about Mr.escalantes class.

during interrogation Angel Stands and makes a joke about the investigation at the expense of the investigators

post investigation everyone at the school thinks that Mr. escalantes class cheated on the test.

post confrontation Mr. Escalanteis starting to think they cheated as well.

Mr. escalante confronts the investigators about the tests and test scores

Mr. escalante pushes the racial issue on the matter of the investigation

the students elect to retake the test with only 24 hours to study

Second paper Homework

We as students spend a maximum of 20 years in school, we go through many teachers this is my perception of Good Teaching vs. Bad Teaching:  A good teacher is one that cares about your education, one that really wants you to succeed. A bad teacher is one who only does the bare minimum, the one who really could care less about your education.  Teaching students is a hard job and only certain people can teach and teach well. But there are the ones who at first loved teaching, but now could care less about the future of his/her students.

 I have had many teachers; most of them have been great teachers. A good teacher is someone who will guide you through your educational life and answer any question you could ever have. one of my favorite teachers was in junior high school, she was the most enthusiastic teacher ever. She would come into class and immediately engage the class in the day’s assignment.