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View Poll Results: Which teacher are you?
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Mr Escalante in "Stand and Deliver"?
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Mr Vernon in "Breakfast Club"?
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Mrs Fleming from "Heathers"?
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Mr Keating from "Dead Poets Society"?
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Mr Hundert from "The Emperor's Club"?
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5.56% |
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Mr Shale from "The Substitute"?
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27.78% |
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Prof Turner in "Back To School"?
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12-19-2009, 15:40
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Which teacher are you?
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=HEOzE...eature=related
Richard's $.02 
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12-19-2009, 16:23
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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....
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12-19-2009, 16:35
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Under my rock
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.
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12-19-2009, 16:38
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With the 75%
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12-19-2009, 16:49
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Back to School, but Professor Terguson.
TR
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12-19-2009, 16:55
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LMAO
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pete
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.
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I am worse off. I do not know who any of these characters are?
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12-19-2009, 18:42
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me neither - all I remember is "Bueller? Bueller?"
time for some Netflix!
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12-19-2009, 18:48
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I am worse off. I do not know who any of these characters are?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bfgrj_62-Y
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
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12-19-2009, 22:11
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Ah, classic! 
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12-20-2009, 07:12
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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.
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12-20-2009, 09:22
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Aloha.....I am Mr. Hand.
Please don't be wasting MY time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9huSs0g67c
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12-20-2009, 09:42
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Dewey Finn, School of Rock!
It's all about connections, and "stict-it-to-the-man-itosis!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EHg9...eature=related
Seriously the scene where Dewey explains the evolution and inter-connected-ness of musical styles is my favorite blackboard diagram of all time.
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12-20-2009, 10:14
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dozer523
Dewey Finn, School of Rock!
It's all about connections, and "stict-it-to-the-man-itosis!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EHg9...eature=related
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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."
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12-20-2009, 10:27
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Originally Posted by Sdiver
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."
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I think he hit it right on the head.........   
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12-20-2009, 10:28
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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)
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