Teacher man

Some people think it is appealing to lead pupils to motivate for study, but I think it is more appealing to teach highly motivated pupils because I can focus on teaching. If given a choice, I would like to teach at Stuyvesant High School.

Most students at Stuyvesant High School are motivated and want to get higher education. I, as a teacher, can share same interest and have sympathy. In my opinion, it is easier to get along with people when you have sympathy.

On the other hand, at Vocational High School, you would have great difficulty with teaching. Most pupils at Vocational High School want to get a job soon after they graduate, so they don’t want to study impractical subjects.
For instance, Barbara Sadler, the pupil of Vocational High School, is given an advice to go to college. But she is confused because she thinks it’s unrealistic.

Therefore, I prefer to teach at Stuyvesant High School.


posted for Sari

Teacher Man

The story is deeply thinking about the job of teacher. I think it is one of the difficult job and worth job in the world. I thought the job in the teacher's side (not student's side) by the story. And I remembered some teachers who was my favorite. I like almost of all my teachers.

Q39. Imagine that you are Frank McCourt. White about your saddest and your happiest memories of teaching. Say why you have chosen them.

The saddest memory was a student Hector in Fashion High school. I hit him across the face with a magazine. In the morning of the day, I fight with my wife and I was not good temper for teaching. I must apologize him as soon as possible but I didn't. I left the school soon at the vacation.

The happiest memory was a student Serena in Seward Park High School. I took my twenty-nine girls to a movie and a play. It was an excited memory of my teacher's life. Serena was a girl who ignored me at first time but after the trips to the movie and play, she changed her mind. She moved her house and wrote a letter to her friend that she was going to finish the high school and go to college to teach a little kids. The letter made me very happy.

Takaaki

Teacher Man

I hate this book. This teacher is not standing in child's standpoint. He thinks only how he stands dominant in his class. I found many times such as “I couldn’t think of anything to say”. He didn’t help any students and made them lonely. I became irate and I did not want to read.

However, ACTIVITIES demands me to check a detailed action of each student, and it makes me to raise more irritation. Therefore, I read this book rough, and the answer of ACTIVITIES might be much wrong. My father and the elder brother are teachers at the high school.
Therefore, I might not to be able to permit such a teacher too far.

41. Write about your favorite teacher at school or college. Why will you always remember him/her?

My most favorite teacher is a teacher at the fourth grade in the elementary school. He is a fresh teacher only after he graduated from university at that March. The students had a sense of closeness in him, and came to love because he was cool and very young compared with other teachers. We played basketball when it was not PE lesson because he was defeated at our demand.

Unfortunately, I had to change my school at the next year, because my father was a teacher and he transferred other school. I couldn’t do anything though I loved that class. I didn’t know his news at all. I couldn’t contact with any friends of elementary school, because I changed my school twice afterwards.

Several years later, he appeared in the newspaper. The bee attacked the student of his class when going to the class trip, and the teacher was also taken to the hospital. I could catch his school by this newspaper, and, I wrote a letter to him, about my history after changing school, I got married, I had children, or more.

The reply came from him at once. It was written that he was very pleased the letter and he looked back on it with nostalgia. He told everyone of the class about me, and pasted the letter on the class board. We send the New Year's card each other even now.

The Teacher Man

Q41 Write about your favorite teacher at school or college. Why will you always remember him/her?

I remember an elementary school teacher named Ohkishima. She was my teacher when I was in five to six-grade at elementary school. She was very frank and like a man. She was around forty years old then. She was a good teacher for me. She had a lot of good experiences about how to teach students. I remember she often asked us difficult questions and she separated the students into two groups by their opinion. It was debate style. We discussed some topics enthusiastically so that I felt time flied sometimes. Thanks to her leading, I began to like studying.

I was often scolded by the teacher, because I was really a mischievous child at that time. When I played a trick, she sometimes smiled and overlooked my tricks. My final trick in the elementary school was that I left my fingerprints on some graduation diploma using red ink when I stolen into the principal's office. It was difficult to remove my fingerprints. I didn't understand why I did such a silly trick, but because of my fingerprints the teacher found the criminal, me soon. Usually she laughed away my tricks, but this time, I received her punches.

She give me a lot of influences and I really thank her. A few years ago, when my first baby was born, I went to her house after a long time to show my baby with my wife. We enjoyed talking about my tricks. She still remembered my final trick that I left my fingerprints on graduation diploma. She told us seriously that was really trouble. I really thank her and I believe her influence was so strong that I was able to be a functional adult.

Masao.K