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Danny KarrsDr. BlairEnglish 1103 01811 September 2013My Favorite TeacherI have gone to school for 13 plus years, I have been in school for approximately 18,720 hours and have had at least 50 teachers. With all that experience and all that time you would think I could name some of the best teachers I’ve had off the top of my head. Well it didn’t exactly work that way, this took some thinking and really all I could think about were my high school teachers. My middle and elementary school teachers could have been the best in the world but didn’t really have any affect on my future or me so they were pretty much ruled out. When I look back at my high school career no one teacher really stood out, I was never a teachers pet or one who interacted with the teacher a lot so I guess that’s why this is harder for me. But through all my thinking and flashbacks I choose Mr. Sabir, My high school pre-calculus and calculus teacher. He is by far my favorite teacher but this doesn’t mean he is the best, sometimes best and favorite come together but this is not an example of that. I feel best means every one of his students liked him. Favorite means he connected to one or two students but clashed with some too, this is why he is my favorite.Mr. Sabir was from Morocco and studied in France. He never really told us about himself but when he did everyone was listening. He speaks French, Arabic and Berber, so English is technically his 4th language. That in itself shows just how intelligent this man is. He was hard to understand at times or even know what he was talking about but luckily he taught math and that is a universal language. He was somewhat of a freedom fighter in morocco and ended up being a prisoner of war, he is completely deaf in one ear, and semi deaf in the other so he wears a hearing aid and still can barely hear. Half of his finger was cut off and he escaped to France where he said in his own words went to the “MIT of France”. I feel like he has taught so many people in different cultures that he basically refined his teaching technique to make sure everybody learned. His credibility is definitely there, everyone trusted what he was teaching and no one ever second-guessed him. Mr. Sabir believed everyone should give 100% effort and it wasn’t about the grade you got but about the knowledge you left the class with. I really like this idea, after a test he would let us stay after school and show him we know what to do on a certain problem and he would give us half credit back. For me this allowed for less pressure when taking a test and I feel I did better. I really think this is a good mindset for teachers. Even though some people took advantage of it its not that bad because knowledge is what will get you through life.He taught his class like a college class, he lectured for most of the class then gave us problems to do. I liked this a lot he really prepared me for higher-level schooling. More so in Calculus but in both classes he really knew what pace he had to be teaching at. During AP Calculus we went really fast, we had to prepare for an AP exam that was made for a yearlong course in only a semester. This made it that much more rigorous but now that I look back at it I learned a lot in there and this is why he is my favorite teacher, something about him got through to me and I learned better from him. I never take notes in any class, and that hasn’t hurt me to this day but in his class I caught my self writing notes down just to be sure I knew the information because I didn’t want to let Mr. Sabir down. I also took physics last year and I had a terrible teacher for that class, all the formulas we learned all year for that class was taught in maybe two days in calculus, they all had short cuts and Mr. Sabir made it so much easier. This just proves how better of a teacher he was.Some people didn’t view him as a very good teacher and some didn’t see him as very smart because of the language barrier and how much trouble he had with English, this always upset me because its not his fault English is his fourth language. He is the smartest math teacher I know. He always had some funny sayings or way he pronounced things. Like he called brackets broccoli and instead of infinity he said infinite. When he tried to say thirty-six he said dirty sex and everyone would always laugh, he caught on to it eventually. We eventually caught on and everyone could understand him pretty well, in fact we even caught our selves speaking in his accent on accident. I do feel that some people had trouble understanding him but not enough that you couldn’t learn. I had a lot of my friends in this class and I think that made me enjoy it even more but It’s the little things I will always remember about this class that makes me remember why I liked it so much. In all Mr. Sabir may have not been the best teacher or anyone else’s favorite but what really makes a teacher a good one is if the way they teach coincides with the way you learn. This is what happened here, the way he taught and everything he did helped me out in many ways and I am very grateful for what I learned in that class, both about math and about life. ................
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