| F: |
Imagine that 10 years from now, you're all teachers at (SCHOOL NAME DELETED).
You love your school and you want to do a great job for the students. What will
your teaching be like? |
| 9: |
Mr. (NAME DELETED)'s. |
| __: |
Yeah. |
| __: |
Miss (NAME DELETED)'s. |
| __: |
Miss (NAME DELETED)'s. |
| __: |
Mr. (NAME DELETED)'s. (LAUGHTER) |
| F: |
Some of you've named a favorite teacher. What specifically do you like about
his or her class? |
| 9: |
Mr. (NAME DELETED), he'll do anything for you. He'll...he's flexible, he... |
| 10: |
He'll bend over backwards to help you. |
| __: |
Yeah. |
| 9: |
Yeah. If you need to stay after school, if it's not a tutoring day or anything,
he'll be there and he'll...do what it takes. |
| 11: |
And if they assign you a project and that project's hard, then they see
that you're working on it, trying your best, they give you another day or two
to work on it, and then some of them don't. Some of them just, that was that
deadline, that's it, no matter if you've tried your hardest or not, it should
be done. |
| 7: |
Well, Miss (NAME DELETED), she...she had deep insight into what she was teaching,
and she taught it well. She done what she done well. It was just a fantastic
teacher. You couldn't ask for anything more of a teacher when you had Miss (NAME
DELETED). |
| 9: |
You have to take pride in... (SIMULTANEOUS CONVERSATION) |
| __: |
In what you're teaching. |
| 9: |
...Most of your teachers take pride in what they're doing and their students,
and want them to pass and not fail the class. |
| __: |
I think there's some teachers up there who get a joy out of teaching, and
others who... |
| __: |
Up there to get a paycheck. (SOUNDS OF GENERAL AGREEMENT) |
| __: |
Yeah, they're there to get a paycheck. |
| 11: |
And then in class, there's a time for the joking out, and there's a time
to be serious and actually study and stuff. Some of them, it's serious all the
time, but there's no cutting up. Everybody's got...you can't sit there for an
hour and not, just sit in silence and not laugh and joke around a little bit. There's a time to bear down, there's
a time to joke around and everything. |
| F: |
Do any of you that are not speaking up as much as these other guys, is there
a favorite teacher you have that...that's influenced your life and you'd like
to be like? Or is there something specific that you'd like to do if you were
a teacher? |
| __: |
Oh, God. (LAUGHTER) |
| F: |
I noticed earlier that you responded to an underclassmen question. Having
only...being an underclassman, what are some of the...the good points, maybe,
of a teacher that you've had, or something that you've seen in just your couple
of years of high school that you'd like to change, and that you...or would like
to keep the same as you go, as you would be a teacher? |
| 8: |
Well, teachers like Miss (NAME DELETED) that...I like them because they just...they
go into everything that they're talking about and they know...they know more
about what they're doing, and they explain it to you. Like if you don't understand
it, like (NAME DELETED) said, they'll stay after school any time and they'll
help you as long as it takes, just to...they don't want to fail you, they just
want you to pass. |
| 1: |
Miss (NAME DELETED) makes it real fun. It's a fun class with her. |
| F: |
Is that something that you would all want to do, is make your class fun,
or would you prefer to have your class more than...a more...I hate to use the
word boring, but...you can see where I'm going and I - |
| 10: |
You answered your question right there. When you say boring, there's no
way you're going to be able to learn anything. Like (INAUDIBLE) was...him talking
about Miss (NAME DELETED), we've got...I've got her for Political Science, and
it's basically a discussion group. You go in there and it's mainly over current
events and stuff like that, and you sit there and you learn stuff. You learn
different points of view from different people in the class, and you learn to
respect their opinions, and whatever they have to say, instead of cutting people
down. And you...you learn a lot from her, because she...she does make it fun.
She's interesting, she's witty, she's funny, and you don't sit there...you barely...you
barely feel like the class has gone by when the bell rings. |
| __: |
You get involved in the class. |
