Teachers are good role models

Teachers teach more than they're paid to do
BrittanyTennant

     A cacophony of sound evades the silent room at the beginning of the day as the bell rings in the crowded halls. A teacher with a large smile on their face greets every student with such positivity that it diffuses throughout the entire room, making students smile at the merriment the teacher has every morning.

     A teacher is one instructs students in a given field. But the best teachers are those who do more than just instruct us in class but who help us become better people and help us through lives road blocks.

     My favorite teachers are those, who usually teach English, who smile all the time and are too chipper for their own goods. But that's what we students need, chipper ness.

     This world is full of so much heart ache and negative vibes that an overly happy person is relief to all the dreariness of everyday life.

     These happy-go-lucky instructors need to know when to be strict with the disruptive elements in the class room but be lax when everyone is stressed about finals to extend a deadline or two. But I do dislike when a teacher lets students waste class time and turn in all their late work the day grades are do. Yet teachers, who don't let a student turn in any late work, even if there is a real excuse, are not what I think a teacher should be like.

     My career goal is to be an English teacher and I observe how teachers here at Ike operate, from the strictest teachers to the most lax, I watch them all (well not all of them, but the one's I have had in my classes). My teachers have taught me so much more than simply what they're paid to teach.

     Almost every teacher I have had at one point has shared a personal story that is off topic yet is still teaching a moral. These stories have taught me how to deal with others, what to do and what not to do in a certain situation.

     On Oct. 30th Brad Demond told my class a story about that morning involving a "group of youths" blocking a doorway. When Demond asked them to move on individual, who was leaning against the wall, stood rigid. Demond than decided that if they weren't going to listen to English he would tell them to move aside in Japanese.

     I learned from that story how not to respond to someone who has asked you to move. The student said he had moved and called Demond "fo." That was disrespectful and Demond handled it like a good teacher should, tell the student what he did wrong, get his name and tell administration.

     All teachers should teach more than what they're being paid to do, they should teach life lessons.