Teacher Interview

Having gone to Lake Norman High School, I am familiar with many of the teachers at the school. For this assignment I wanted to interview a teacher that I knew would have an interesting teaching philosophy. I have been in many different classrooms because of submitting and student teaching. One class I had the pleasure of substituting for is an English class, belonging to a first year teacher, Mr. Walton. He had a guitar in the corner and video game posters mixed among Shakespeare quotes. The sub in me cringed assuming this teacher had no classroom management plan and that this was going to be a long week. How wrong I had been. His classes were respectful and self-motivated. The students work hard. I was eager to meet this teacher. So when I chose him for my interview, I was looking forward to seeing him in action. He has the philosophy that his students are responsible for their progress and grades. He will not repairman them for not paying attention but mark down for his own records so if the student scores poorly the will know why. He has never given a worksheet to his students and his lessons are individualized and relate to the students lives. We need more teachers like this one. His students respect him and he actively collaborates with other teachers and isn't afraid to ask help.