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Most of us have taught at some point in our careers, a few rather extensively, so it might be of interest to this community to reflectively consider your personal teaching style and respond to the survey by selecting the teen movie teacher you think best personifies that teaching style.
Only vote once...and be honest with yourself. ;)
FWIW - I've been described as everything from Mr Shale to the Economics Teacher (Ben Stein) in Ferris Bueller - but I think those who know me best, were often the greatest challenges, and - ultimately - the most successful would most likely compare me to Mr Hundert...I would hope. ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGmK59lqRWo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEOzEJtdoOg&feature=related
Richard's $.02 :munchin
I'd like to think it was Keating from the Dead Poet's Society. However, one student used ratemyprofessors.com to describe me as "meaner than Shrek, and uglier.". So there seems to be some divergence between my perceptions and that of at least some of the students.... ;)
I'll have to crawl out from under my rock and watch some of those movies.
I did see part of the Poet movie once.
Red Flag 1
12-19-2009, 16:38
With the 75%
RF 1
The Reaper
12-19-2009, 16:49
Back to School, but Professor Terguson.
TR
alright4u
12-19-2009, 16:55
I'll have to crawl out from under my rock and watch some of those movies.
I did see part of the Poet movie once.
I am worse off. I do not know who any of these characters are?
me neither - all I remember is "Bueller? Bueller?"
time for some Netflix!
The Reaper
12-19-2009, 18:48
I am worse off. I do not know who any of these characters are?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bfgrj_62-Y
TR
TOMAHAWK9521
12-19-2009, 22:11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bfgrj_62-Y
TR
Ah, classic! :D
I don't know any of those characters or Movies. So someone can vote for me.
I am more the mentoring type. I tend not to chew peoples asses unless absolutely necessary. I always converse with the students away from the actual instructions. I try to give as much one on one instruction as I can.
Break down the barriers so the students will feel more comfortable talking to me. I usually find students are more likely to ask questions when they know you better.
Aloha.....I am Mr. Hand.
Please don't be wasting MY time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9huSs0g67c
Dozer523
12-20-2009, 09:42
Dewey Finn, School of Rock!
It's all about connections, and "stict-it-to-the-man-itosis!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EHg9HdnuD4&feature=related
Seriously the scene where Dewey explains the evolution and inter-connected-ness of musical styles is my favorite blackboard diagram of all time.
Dewey Finn, School of Rock!
It's all about connections, and "stict-it-to-the-man-itosis!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EHg9HdnuD4&feature=related
Seriously the scene where Dewey explains the evolution and inter-connected-ness of musical styles is my favorite blackboard diagram of all time.
I don't know Dozer.....
I see you as more of a Mr. Vargas type teacher....
"Take it easy on me, I just switched to Sanka so.....Have a heart."
greenberetTFS
12-20-2009, 10:27
I don't know Dozer.....
I see you as more of a Mr. Vargas type teacher....
"Take it easy on me, I just switched to Sanka so.....Have a heart."
I think he hit it right on the head.........:rolleyes::eek::p
Big Teddy :munchin
I was never any good teaching or leading, for that matter. Oh, I praised in public and told the dumb bastards how "disappointed I was" in private. If the whole gang needed an ass chewing I would tell them as a group such things as, "We need to do better than this! Whatever it takes, get the job done and get it done right. Don't make me turn into a bigger SOB than I already am! Questions?" When I taught creative writing part-time at a community college in NW Orgeon I would try and focus on "the improvements made since the last draft", or "how anxious I was to see the story develop more" (little ol' bitties (male and female bitties) with dreams of Pulitzers ... chris', it was like breastfeeding alligators).
I've never seen any of the students again, and all the sailors that ever worked for me whom I have seen from time to time I have apologized to with complete abandon.
"Lord, I plumb tuckered out lugging these hunks of pork up the lower slopes of Parnassus knowing all the time that as soon as I turn around, back they'll slip to blurbanity, inanity, and the dearest, dullest people in the world." (T. Roethke, The Last Class)
I would take a bullet for a good teacher or a good leader. I never was one, nor will I ever become one. That's OK, because I've learned from some of the best of both that all one can do in life is to excel at being themselves. As soon as I fnd out what the hell that is I'll have it made.
(sigh)
I'm probably hovering somewhere between Ms. Watson in Mona Lisa Smile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaFKC_QacrQ
and...
Ms. Farmer in Donnie Darko :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p20GYzCnfr0
I never was one, nor will I ever become one.
Don't be so sure. The very fact that you care sets you above many.
ZonieDiver
12-20-2009, 17:42
SDiver beat me to the punch in claiming "Mr. Hand!" Some days, I am more like either Richard Mulligan's "crazy substitute" in "Teachers" and other days I'm "Ditto" in the same movie! Of the ones listed, Jaime Escalante!
Dozer523
12-20-2009, 21:03
The best Substitute ever. Harry Calahan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq6OOMIpwNo&feature=related
alright4u
12-21-2009, 01:50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bfgrj_62-Y
TR
This is my kind of teacher. Give Dangerfield an A.