Blog Four

For this post I would like to comment on number 4. As a student for the past 14 years, I have come to realize that a lot of the time, the subject or material that is taught in a class isn’t normally what makes you learn the most or what makes you excited for the class. It’s the teacher that makes a class interesting. A teachers ability to enthrall the class and make them excited to learn is really what makes you like what you’re learning and gain a passion for it. If a teacher has a passion for the subject and is able to relay that to her students, so much more is learned. This is why I think that schools should spend more time on looking for good teacher as opposed to ones that might necessarily look best on paper. Just because a teacher has PhD in her field doesn’t mean that he or she is going to be able to teach kids and make them really learn something. A good example of this is my General Biology Professor. My professor is extremely qualified, she’s so knowledgeable and loves the field she works in, but she is completely incapable of teaching my class and relaying any information. This makes the class, a subject I would otherwise be very excited about, miserable and I have learned very little. I think that our schools need to search out professors that are great teachers and hire them instead of being sticklers for the qualifications they put on paper.