I Am Just Here For The Holy Grail

A teacher should be committed to the school for which she is employed. She should give an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay. She should show professionalism at all times. She should be respectful to her peers and always subject to authority. She should report for duty on time.

All teachers are hired with a principal objective at hand, to teach. Even though this may be the case, teachers cannot be the soul educator in the classroom. They are there to teach the information given and give the grade that is needed. Much like a college professor, they aren't going to hold a student's hand through each and every

One of the most commonly asked questions to a teacher is,“why do you want to be a teacher?”. Some myths about teaching is teachers are heroes, the pay is bad, students are brats, and you cannot just leave your classroom to use the bathroom. These are some of the common myths portrayed on television and in society that is not accurate.Not everything you hear or see on television about teaching is true. There may be times where you want to pull your hair out due to student behavior or wish the wage was higher, but the job is not about that. Teaching is about loving children and wanting to educate them so they can in return help us in the future by being doctors, lawyers, etc... Therefore, teachers get the wrong impression, because they are either looked at as a hero in someone's life or not knowing anything about their job.

While growing up and observing my teachers at school, I have learned that it isn’t always an easy job. Teachers do everything they can to teach their students’ academic, social and other formative skills. Plenty of my teachers have to deal with complications, most of them being minor, but it isn’t always an easy job helping children, teens and young adults. As a student myself, I know they can be stubborn, unwilling to learn, aggressive, and irresponsible. Sometimes, they simply don’t care. However, that is a teacher's purpose: to help and shape their students to become better learners, so that they have a clearer understanding regarding a variety of subject matters. Someday, I actually want to become an elementary art teacher, which is

Preconceptions about students and teachers tend to be unflattering. The general assumption is made that neither students nor teachers would choose to be in the classroom. Consequently the ideas persevere that children are likely to be unruly, lazy, disrespectful, or mischievous, when presented with a lesson. Teachers are worn down and frustrated by their work. Michael Moore, an Academy Award winning documentary filmmaker and social activist and commentator, highlights these presumptions. In his book Stupid White Men . . . Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! Moore details his own experience with education, and also discusses problems plaguing education. While he does make the concession that there are people who really should not be

In the Arthurian Legend, Sir Lancelot is viewed as the powerful and skilled “White Knight”, however, he is also considered as the “Sinful Adulterer” for his disobeyment to the knights’ code of chivalry. Despite his innocence, these corrupt sins led to his unsuccessful quest for the Holy Grail. Instead, Galahad, the illegitimate son of Sir Lancelot, is destined to achieve the Holy Grail, his devotional purity making him a greater warrior than even his prominent father.

Not all teachers are this way, but there are plenty who are only in it for the paycheck. These teachers make it difficult for a struggling student to succeed. When a teacher decided to belittle a student, due to there own personal struggles is when someone needs to step in and take that sence of power away from these people. There teachers, they deserve respect like anyone else, but the students do as well right? This is not how it is most of the time. “Treat people how you want to be treated” this quote is what many people have heard since they were young, if only it applied to everyone. Teachers have no idea how much they impact your lives, there only purpose is to teach. Inform you on how the world gravities, how to balance a checkbook and how to solve inequalities. If they lack care about there job, do you think you’ll get the full benefit of

I believe a teacher must acquire appropriate skills in order to be successful and effective while teaching her students. Teachers should be trustworthy, approachable, encouraging, respectable, and understanding. Teachers can create a safe learning environment which will allow for equal opportunities for students. By providing a safe learning environment, students have the ability to reach their full learning potential, and can go above and beyond the goals they have set for themselves. During my time as a pre-service teacher, I had the opportunity to observe a well-respected teacher who not only earns respect from her students but gives respect in return. It is evident that Mrs. Birdsong makes a point to develop a relationship with each of her students in order for them to be successful during their short time in her classroom. She has created an

Generally, these two texts are more practical than other texts written in the same spirit, such as the Quest for the Holy Grail, which expects every knights to stay virgin, or the Praise of the New Knighthood, in which Bernard de Clairvaux urges the new religious order of knighthood to be chased on the battlefield before striking a blow. However, these texts sometimes recommend acts that seem out of sync with the reality of knight. For instance, Charny encourages marriages for love, when both spouses are very young and will produce heirs, rather than alliances for wealth, lands and social status, which was yet the most common thing among the nobility. Expectations on knights ' behaviours always seem to high, as if it was impossible to

I believe that teachers need respect and trust in order to thrive. The two go together. Trust means giving teachers (appropriate) autonomy in their classrooms, but it also means giving them influence over policy—real influence, not a few token teachers on some committee—and it means giving them control over their own professional growth. We need to stop fixing teachers and create environments in which teachers themselves fix their own profession. We need to trust them to do

Teachers have to earn respect, I think, it cannot be demanded by them just because they want it. Another thing is that teachers should show love. They should not only show it towards the students but towards their work as well. Teachers

A teacher is one of the noblest professions there are. It is also very well one of the most criticized professions there are. If we are talking about a school teacher, then evaluating their effectiveness becomes, sadly, a fairly narrow scale. Because of standardization, the results of students test scores is the primary evaluation of the teacher’s effectiveness. It has also been said that test scores do not equal intelligence, so other more important characteristics

Some of you hate teachers. I am really bothered by this. Sure, some might have a teacher who does not deserve their business because they are not a dependable role model, but you also totally ignore those GOOD teachers. A good teacher cares about her students. And this teacher tries so hard to reach her students receive the best learning environment possible. The good teacher cares for her kids, gets to work at 6,30 in the morning and when she finally gets home, grades and plans the lessons for her next class.

On the other hand, some of my teachers were excellent. They cared about their students actually understanding the information. They had other interests besides whether or not the students had the grades to simply move onto the next level course like the teachers previously mentioned. These were the teachers that were passionate about what they were teaching. They might give us loads of work to do like the other teachers, but the difference is that they would take the time to give thorough explanations so that we would really learn the subject. They would allow us to ask questions and explained the topic until we understood it. If we asked a question they did not know the answer to, they would look it up and get back to us. For example, this past year I took an AP Biology II course. My teacher absolutely loved her job and was passionate about the material she was teaching us. She came to class everyday with Power Point presentations prepared, and she had charts and diagrams labeled for us to better understand the chapter focus. She also did labs and experiments with us so that we could get a hands-on look at what we were learning. She usually had an answer for every question we asked, but if she did not, she

In my opinion, a good teacher should be one who puts her heart into teaching. This is because only by doing so will the students feel their passion and hard work. When a teacher strives hard for the students, students will put in their effort as well. If a teacher dislikes her job, goes to classes in a bad mood, her teaching would also be affected and students would not be able to enjoy lessons as well.