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Role- Leader/Role Model
Teacher #1- Mr.Davis +
Teacher #2- Ms.Ship -

Mr.Davis is a great example of the role above. Mr.Ship on the other hand is a negative example.
Examples-
Control of class,
Makes the class exciting
Knowledge of the material



  1.)     Mr.Davis has a great quality of being able to control his class. Whenever it's someone slacking off in the back, or a student who doesn't care. Mr. Davis can get their attention.

-In his class there used to be a group kids who would sit together, and talk the entire class period. He was able to stop the students from talking and somewhat pay attention without moving their seats.

-Not only can Mr.Davis keep control of talking students, but also when they leave for breaks in the middle of class. He didn't just use a bathroom pass to limit how many students could leave at once. He would literally unplug the vending machine outside his room and put a piece of paper saying "broken" on it.

-Mr.Davis was systematic, he had a certain order or ways in which he would preform actions. This helped him with being very organized. This organization helped him keep track if a paper was late or not, along with any students trying to slip late assignments into the pile.

2.)   Making the class exciting was a great attribute for Mr.Davis.


-Mr.Davis, is an enter teacher. Imagine the fellow from Gardening with Cisco and tone it down just a little. he always looked for humor in any situation, and would throw out the occasional joke.


-He always had some interesting and funny stories that he would tell to the class. An example would be that every year, during the winter he would take a week off of teaching to go helicopter skiing. Now keep in min that he is about 65 years old and is as wide as a twig. He also lighten the class up with a story about his time in the coast guard.


3.)  Knowing what you are teaching was an important factor for Mr.Davis. He taught three classes, but he knew more that the curriculum required for the class.

-An example, He taught Film studies for one class period. Now the average teach could just put on a bunch of movies and call it a day, but Mr.Davis would discuss with the class the different methods, techniques, and subtle elements in each movie. He also would research interesting facts about the production of the movie.

- Mr.Davis taught many different English and creative writing classes in a day. You could literally turn in a five page paper and the next day he would have it graded and edited. Now the impressive point was that he would have all of his English classes turn their papers in on the same day. Some teachers will read the first page, edit that page and grade the paper. Mr.Davis would read the whole paper, from page to page correcting every mark. The only time he wouldn't have done such detail would be for his 30 page screenplay assignment.


              
                      Mr. Ship, most days had some control over the class but never actually did anything with the control. He did have a good habit of keeping the class exciting and knew barely anything about the class.


1.)  Mr.Ship was a week long substitute for my automotive technology class in high school. The class would pay attention to him, be cause he only told stories.


-He would dedicate most of his time to passing the time with stories.


-He would tells us about past experiences.


2.)  Mr.Ship was great at making the class exciting and the students entertained.


-He would tell us about his view on politics, and who he liked. I remember him saying his opinion on President Obama as "Any man who calls Kayne west A jack*** on national television deserves to be president."


-Mr.Ship would openly tell us how he would watch Zombie Land On the projector during the passing periods, along with actually turning it off once all the students were seated. He did not seem to mind due to the location of the class.


-My favorite thing that Mr.Ship would do, is tell us stories of his past. He once told us a story about how he was subbing for a class on a second story, and the wall behind him was smoking. He was extremely hung over from the night before, and when the firemen came into his class room and asked "can't you see the smoke from the wall, there's a fire down stairs." He simply looked at the man and said "Oh, so you can see the smoke too!"
 
3.) Knowledge of the material, this was Mr.Ship's major weakness.


-Not to be condescending, but Mr.Ship didn't know anything about cars. He could drive one and that was about it. The only time we would learn something would be when he found a video from the back room about the "future of cars" He really was only there for the money, and he let us know. The reason he kept the class so entertaining was because that was all he could do. He couldn't teach the class so he just told stories.


 -He would admit his weakness in this quality, but decided to have as much fun as possible as opposed to putting in the extra effort and learning the material.

Conclusion: Mr.Davis and Mr.Ship were different in their ways of teaching.
They were both great at not only keeping the class's attention but also making the class exciting. No matter what day of the week it was. The deviance would lye in their approach to the knowledge of the class material. Mr.Davis and Mr.Ship feel quite differently about the curriculum that they teach. Mr. Davis would always have assignments graded by the next day, when Mr.Ship wouldn't even remember to give out any assignments. They were both good teachers in some respects, but overall Mr.Davis was a much better educator than Mr.Ship.