Not Your Typical Teacher

In “I Just Wanna Be Average,” Mr. MacFarland is and interesting teacher. He doesn't look like one. He wears his tie weird and his pants were wrinkled. At first they though he slept in his car. After a while they realized he was a good teacher. He had them writing many essays and reading many books. He also cares about his student. He got Rose to want to read again. MacFarland inspired him. He made sure Rose got into college because he thought he was a good writer. It was obvious that MacFarland cared about his students.

In Dead Poets Society, Mr. Keating made his kids go outside of class for the first day. He also made them rip pages out of there books which I thought was very interesting. He wasn't like a normal teacher. He made the kids question him. I found it interesting when he talked about how everyone of them is “going to stop breathing, turn cold and die.” While we all know that one day we will cease to be alive, we do not talk about it especially at that age and with our teachers. I also think when tells his students to ripe out paged from their text book it makes them question him. He says he wants nothing left of it. He says that he wants them to think for themselves. I thought it was interesting the way he taught his class.

One of my teachers in high school, Mr. Shrank, reminds me of Them. He didn't act like a teacher much. He tried to act like a kid. He was the one teacher in the entire school, that even if you didn't have him you knew who he was. He just stuck out. He would take a bubble gun and shoot bubbles in front of people as they were walking down the hall. He would also wear masks and say random weird things.

Almost every day he would come into class doing something goofy. He had so many different hats and masks that he would wear. Even though he liked to goof of he was still a good teacher. The classes were easy “if you actually read the book,” he would say. It was true. The class was easy, but he really pushed you to do better. He made class more fun by not just talking to you about the chapter in a monotone. He would make things more relatable to us and he would have us do fun little activities. One time we did a blind fold activity around the school and it kind of reminded me of Mr. Keating when he had his students leave the room on the first day of class. Mr. Shrank really inspired me. Even though I have wanted to be a teacher my entire life, he made me want to be just like him and not have my students be bored out of there minds in class. I want to make class fun just like Mr. Shrank.