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Coley Mills
March 23, 2012
Porter
English Comp. I and II
Different Features for Different Teachers
Teachers are a different breed of human than the rest of us sometimes it seems. We have
a love/hate relationship mostly, with the love coming because you didn’t get any homework for
tonight, and the hate coming from the fact that he/she won’t let you use the bathroom at the
moment you feel like you cannot hold it anymore. With that being said, we should not be too
hard on teachers because if you really think about it, they have a tough job. They have to
monitor, sometimes mediate, and basically be responsible for all the students in the class, no
matter how annoying or obnoxious they are. And they have to do all of this while at the same
time trying to teach whatever lesson(s) they are teaching that day.
Most of us were students at least sometime in our lives, and when you are you learn how
to pick out the different types of teachers. You see the “unique” (crazy) teachers, the fun
teacher, the mean teacher, the professional teacher, and the good looking teacher. Once you
figure these teachers out you know who to mess with and who you can joke around with and of
course how much you can get away with. It helps to get to know your teachers, though, because
you can build a relationship that you did not know you had until you graduate or transfer and
finding yourself reminiscing about “that one time in class…”.

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The unique (crazy) teacher is the type of teacher that you never know what to expect
when you come to class. For most people the ideal unique (crazy) teacher is almost any teacher
in the science category. If you really think about it, though, they give good reason to believe that
they are indeed crazy. You sometimes dissect things that have a funny smell after a few days,
you watch the weirdest and sometimes most boring movies of your life, the classroom is usually
a mess and smells weird, and then you have the room with all the equipment and stuff that you
always wonder what is in there. You’ll find that you only think the teacher is crazy because he or
she is a mystery and you do not really want to find out why they don’t act the same as all your
other teachers. So they must be “unique”. Or crazy.
Next up is the fun teacher. Everyone loves the fun teacher. It’s the class you look forward
to all day because the atmosphere is so relaxed. Fun teachers are liked by all the students, and
typically have all their classes full because everyone knows they are fun and therefore want to
get into the class. The fun teachers pick the best movies and have the best learning games and the
tests are usually not the type of test that gets your heart racing because you think you are going
to fail it. The fun teachers rarely ever get mad, and they try to help you out occasionally because
they give out bonus points for almost anything. If you fail the fun teacher’s class you have to be
just plain lazy.
Since you have the fun teacher, you almost have to have the mean teacher. Mean teachers
usually have the least amount of fans, and when they do something fun the whole school it seems
is talking about it. Whether the teacher is mean because they have a hard class that has a lot of
material and the only way they know they can get it all offered to you is by getting down to
business or whether the teacher is mean because they have a bad class never crosses our minds.

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All we know is that teacher is mean and you are counting the minutes until you get out of there
so you can go on with your day.
The professional teacher has been in the teaching game a while and knows what to do to
get students to learn. Some might say that he or she is taking their job too seriously, but deep
down they know that they will learn something in the end. Sometimes they can be a bit of a bore
sometimes, though. They are usually the type of teacher that is a bit more organized than the
other teachers and you know if you really needed school assistance you could go to them.
Professional teachers are the type of teachers that will joke around with you outside of class time
and when you are not on an assignment in class, but when it’s time to work, you know not to
mess around because you know he or she can change in a split second to a whole different
person.
Hopefully we have all had or at least been aware of the teacher that you think is just the
most beautiful thing ever. It seems as if they are perfect, and you cannot seem to find anything
else better to do than to stare at them constantly during class, which usually ends when you
realize you just might want to fill that test out if you want a grade. It is the only class that you
enjoy asking for help in. If the teacher is a male, you have all the girls talking about him at lunch
when he walks by. If the teacher is a female, you have all the boys who never seem interested in
school until that class. The good looking teacher is frequently stopped in the hallways because
students want to ask questions about anything just so they can get a few minutes of joy between
classes. When you talk to the good looking teacher, you almost cannot help but to feel a little
accomplished.

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As I said earlier, teachers have a love/hate relationship. Not everyone is going to like the
same teachers and not everyone is going to dislike the same teachers. Each teacher has their own
method of teaching you what they know while at the same time trying to get to know their
students in their classes. Teaching can sometimes be difficult and frustrating, but it can also be
fun and filling. No matter what, you’ll hopefully have that one class that you remember because
of that one teacher. Hopefully you can remember that equation that you learned in math class or
a famous quote from English class or something from health class. No matter how cool or mean
or weird or beautiful a teacher is, their main job is to in fact teach and that’s it. But we are all
human, and we can’t help but form relationships with the people we see for weeks at a time for
four years or more. So remember that Pythagorean Theorem because to a teacher it might be
more than just a formula.