A Teacher in My Eyes
By Najuan Zhang
The teacher I am writing about is
Ms. Sarah Mitteholzer, who teaches
ESL level 7 classes. I was deeply impressed by her charm and kindness
when the first time I met her on the
registration day last year. Although I
heard of a little negative voice about
her class before I became her student,
the longer I take her class, the more I
like her. It is because she always has
many flexible teaching methods, and
she is a dedicated, kind teacher.
The most essential reason that
her class is attractive is she always has
many kinds of interesting teaching
methods. I don‟t know where she has
learned those methods and how she redesigns them to fit our class, but the
fact is we can learn new knowledge happily and excitedly. For instance, in order
to improve our ability of communication
and socialization, she let us pretend to
attend a cocktail party. Several students volunteered to be the persons
who seemed in trouble. Other students
needed to meet these people with problems and give some practical advice to
console them. This kind of activity is so
useful and helpful that I enjoy it very
much. Another example, we have had
two debates this semester. During the
debates, the court cases that Ms. Mittelholzer chose were easy topics, but
both have complex situations. The stu-
dents were divided
into judge, prosecution, defense, and
jury. The process included opening argument, rebutting argument, and closing argument. In order to
win, we must do a lot
of preparative work,
list as many as possible supportive viewpoints, assume other
side‟s possible points of view, and refute effectively and reasonably. This
lively form of studying is quite challenging for us, but we can benefit a lot from
it.
The most admirable virtue of Ms.
Mittelholzer‟s character is her dedication and hard work. First, no matter
what time the students come to school,
she always enters into our classroom
very early and prepares everything.
Second, she usually lays stress on
teaching us how to write good essays.
Only several days after we submit our
assignments, we can get our essays back
with her very detailed corrections and
comments. Sometimes, she would like to
spend three hours or more to prepare
some cards or material for our in-class
activities of the next day. Because of
it, my heart is filled with thanks for
her.
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