Descriptive Teacher

I believe the teacher that has the most impact on me was Mrs. Green. Mrs. Green taught public speaking and it was my hardest class. I had to push myself outside of my comfort zone and talk in front of a room full of people at least once a week. I hated talking in front of people. This class helped me to develop my ability to speak in front of people and become comfortable with who I am. I was not the kind of person who likes to have everyone watch me. For me to have 20 people actively listening to my ideas made me more than nervous, I was terrified of making mistakes. It was through this class that I learned that even if I made mistakes during my speech, the only one who knew that was me.

For example, I would not have been able to fulfill the pillar of scholarship if it had not been for my teachers at Mediapolis, Black Hawk, and West Burlington who taught me not only how to learn, but the value of learning. They taught that one has to work hard to get anywhere in life. Furthermore, Mrs. Henderson, my Talented and Gifted teacher at West Burlington, taught me that regardless of how smart I think I am there is always more to learn. Moreover, this was an important lesson for me to learn because when I was younger I thought that I was a genius. However, now that I am in high school I know better and am very grateful for her words of wisdom. Again, it is only thanks to my wonderful teachers that I learned the value of education

Of the many classes that I chose to take, my two favorites were an English course and Health course. I may want to be a K-9 Officer, and these have few things in common with that career goal, but they were my favorite courses because of the professors who taught the course. Janice (Meredith) Privott for the English course, and Matthew Harpold for the Health course. These two teachers helped push me to better myself in almost every way. Mrs.Privott helped me on a personal level with stress and trauma; from her support she made me a much stronger person. Mr.Harpold helped me with my self-esteem, he took the time to help me when I needed it, even when I wasn’t in his class, just as Mrs.Privott did.

The teacher and the course assignment that has impacted me the most have both come from my Psychology 2301 class. My teacher’s name was Professor Dalmolin, and I completed my final honors project with her. She was so full of energy and loved to teach. Any question you had, she almost always had an answer, and if she didn’t, she would make sure we didn’t leave the classroom until she looked up the answer and got back to us. This is why I made sure to end my honors journey with her, and I am glad I did. My project was on emotional Intelligence and it involved a lot of medical research (in which I have no interest), and she was very helpful and even found articles on her own time that she thought would be beneficial to my project. Professors that

Most people have or have had a teacher that has inspired them. For me, the teacher that comes to mind is Mr. Rod Edson. There are many great things that describe Mr. Edson, but a few stand out to me more than others. Mr. Edson has inspired me in many ways because he has a great sense of humor, he is laid-back, and he is motivational.

Do you have someone you know that is a great influence on you? Horace Mann was a great American educator. He felt like the kids who were there were his.

Describe a teacher or course assignment that has had the most impact on you and why.

Have you ever had someone who has greatly inspired you to be successful? In the movie “Stand and Deliver,” the teacher, Jaime Escalante, teaches math to his students at Garfield High School. In his class, there are gang members and some of students that drop out of school. Some of his students are not paying attention in class when he first teaches. He wants all his students to pass the math class. He tries to help them do better on an exam and succeed to be able to graduate. He believes that his students could learn if they have motivations. In the movies “Stand and Deliver,” Jaime Escalante influences his students is similar to my teacher, Mrs. Aguirre, who has positively influenced me by wanting me to pass the class, telling me to never

A unique person in my life would be my high school science teacher. Since I was homeschooled, she taught multiple science courses, including, biology, anatomy, marine biology, health, and physical science. I took almost all of the science courses she offered because of my love for her. Her teaching style was similar to my mother’s teaching style and since I had grown up with my mother teaching me, it was a comfortable transition into high school. My science teacher always encouraged her students to work hard, but was relaxed enough to understand when students could not turn in their weekly homework. Coming from an environment where I never had to sit in lectures, I was always entertained by her knowledge of

Over the summer I went to a Hopkins summer camp, where I had a biology teacher named Mrs. Cox. Mrs. Cox was one of the best teachers I had ever had. She was always so energetic and excited about every single project we did. One of the most memorable experiences was towards the end of the week, we did something I had never done before. We made DNA Necklaces.

For example, Hermione Granger taught me that an education is a girl’s best quality, even if it doesn’t make you many friends. Hermione had an extreme thirst for knowledge and always wanted to learn as much as she could. She was constantly being teased, mocked, and ridiculed for spending all of her free time in the library studying, but she always seemed to come to the rescue of Harry and Ron. She used her knowledge to help her best friends on multiple occasions. Actually, that’s an understatement. The whole series is basically her saving them. Hermione taught me that I am more than what people think of me.

To be an effective teacher you must understand that each student is different. They have different learning styles and motivations. As a student I love tests because I felt tests gave me the best evaluation of my hard work and I typically did well on tests. After studying learning styles I have determined that descriptive inquiry is the best method for assessing students. Descriptive inquiry looks at students as individuals (Kittaka 2016). A teacher should look at the strengths of each individual student and support his or her individual way of learning (Kittaka 2016). There are students who are not good test takers. To assume these students are bad students would be setting up an unhealthy learning environment. Behavior learning looks at each student as an individual and it is the teacher’s job to find what positive reinforcements work best for each student. This is a form of descriptive inquiry.

Through this video I saw that Rita Pierson was a big inspiration because she expressed the way a child should learn and the way a teacher should approach their students to achieve each child's educational needs. Rita Pierson delivered a very true an inspirational message about what is the true core of being a teacher and building great relationships with students in order to inspire them as well and watch them succeed in life. As I watched this video many teachers came to mind but only one really deserved to write about. When I was in high school I had one of the most amazing science teachers, Mrs. Mccown. She was my physics professor and as well another human being who I could call my mom. She had a very deep passion for teaching and always

My homeroom teacher at the time had the most impact on me than any other mentors I had. People say

I was very shy walking into the E room doors, after hours. Since I never participated in any extracurricular activities, it was kind of abnormal for me to be in the school past dark. It was 6 p.m thursday night, and all of the contestants sat on the floor anxiously awaiting for tryouts to begin. No one spoke, or moved, and for a while everyone just looked around, examining each other. Two men began to walk into the door, and I can hear my heart pounding a mile a minute, boom, boom, boom! However, to my surprise, the mood oddly began to shift as they stood in front of us. They were unlike anyone I ever met.