Book Essay

The Types of Teachers In general, there are three different types of teachers encountered throughout the whole school career, from elementary, middle, and to high school. Most students know that the type of teacher that they are given can have great effects on their success in that class. The three most common types of teachers are the positive teachers, the negative teachers, and the neutral teachers. A positive teacher is the teacher who genuinely loves the subject that their teaching, someone that makes an effort to learn every student's name, and who will go to great lengths to help their students understand what they are teaching. When given a positive teacher, a student feels respected so they will give that same respect back. A positive teacher explains her subject in a way that every student understands. This type of teacher will check on her students while they are working to see if they have any questions and to make sure that they are on the right track. The positive type of teacher will not continue to move on to different subjects when half of her students still do not quite understand the subject that they are on. When dealing with a positive teacher a student will leave the class knowing that subject well and have good grades in the end. A negative teacher is a teacher who does not really care about what they are teaching. They are there simply because they are getting paid to be there. A negative teacher has little patience and could care less about the students he is teaching. This type of teacher will show favoritism and have a very bad attitude. The negative teacher will teach a lesson with very little detail and information, when they are done teaching they will make little effort to answer student's questions and assign them classwork and or homework, not caring if the student has retained the information or not. When dealing with this type of teacher a person will not be very successful in this class. Their test scores and grades will be low but it would be no fault of their own. A neutral teacher knows a few of their students but not all. The neutral teacher has very little interest in the subject that they are teaching. They will allow sometime for questions and discussion, but not enough time to be sure that the entire class gets the subject. The neutral teacher does not really care if the students understand their work or not as long as they know they have done their job by teaching the subject and passing out an assignment. This type of teacher will only care about their student's grades because they know that it looks bad on their part if the whole class failing. The neutral teacher does give their student's ways to contact them outside of school if they need help or do not understand something. When dealing with a neutral teacher a student will have neutral grades, they will make C's and D's. Teachers are a great part of a students school success. The way that they teach, their helpfulness, and passion about the subject that they are teaching all play a vital part in what type of teacher they are. If a student is struggling in a class, The teacher plays a big part of it. If a student is doing great in a class, I believe that teacher has something to do with it. Teachers are an important part of our learning process, whether it be academics or just life period.