Teachers I Get Along With

Since we're reading Nothing But The Truth, which involves a boy who doesn't get along with a teacher, I want you to consider teacher-student relationships you've had in the past. Have you had teachers that you just got along with whether or not you did well in their class? Have you had teachers whose personality just didn't mesh with yours? Without naming names, expound upon these ideas and thoughtfully consider how personality differences or similarities have affected you in your classes.

I have had some teachers in the past who have just been really fun, and they've taught great, and it made me love their class. There also have been teachers who are fun and nice, but the way they teach just doesn't work for me. In Elementary school I had this really fun teacher, she was really nice, she made the learning fun, and it was a great year for me. Just the way she was understanding, and she didn't put herself above all of us third-graders, like she was better than us, but she had fun with us and tried to help us in a way that we enjoyed it.

I've also had horrible teachers that I just hated because I didn't understand the way they taught, or they were just plain mean, and they didn't care about any of the students. They basically just taught, to teach, not to enjoy helping and teaching people, like the good teachers do, but instead they did it maybe because there was nothing else better to do, or they just like to torture children. Whatever there reason for being there is, they were not a good teacher.