- The teacher teaches and the students are taught
- The teacher knows everything and the students know nothing
- The teacher thinks and the students are though about
- The teacher talks and the students listen
I do not agree with any of these. None of these benefit the student, which teaching should be about ultimately. I think people are always learning from each other and that teachers should also listen to their students. One thing that I learned from my chemistry professor is to love your job. Obviously, that is not something that a chemistry book was going to teach me. Everyday she showed us how happy she was to be there and she honestly changed my career path. I wanted to be a pharmacist for a very long time and then after I saw how much she loved her job and how excited she was to be there everyday I realized I was not that excited about being a pharmacist. I realized I wanted to be like her and to teach. I think that I also taught her something. I was a very good chemistry student and I would go to her for help and tell her things in the notes that were unclear. She said she was going to change them for next year. I think she also learned from me how much students studied for her class. She was not aware of the commitment people put in before I told her my studying schedule.
I loved my high school and I think it was because my teachers were very open and knew that being an educator was about teaching your students, but also learning from them. I never felt pressured into believing what they felt they always allowed us to form our own opinions. A lot of times they would not even put their input in and would present both sides of an issue equally. I hope to be a teacher that is viewed as open. I know in teaching chemistry it is going to be difficult to allow free judgement and expression, but I will make sure to learn from the students and improve my teaching technique from their evaluations.
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