Hello everybody.
This is teacher Levi.
Today we'll be doing another slow English video.
This time we'll be talking about teaching and also teachers and everything related to this topic.
Related to this topic, of course, I teach, and It's not the only reason that we're doing this.
I've been talking about this with my students.
So some students might have already reviewed some of these questions, but I would like you to also work on answering these, perhaps during the video or after the video, or even for writing practice.
Of course I teach and I have lessons available through the link in my description on the channel and under the video.
Some of you have I've booked lessons and I've spoken with you.
So it has been a pleasure so far meeting people from YouTube.
Now this is one of the four pillars, speaking, reading, writing, listening.
I want to do the speaking part now and, like I said for writing, you can practice answering these questions as well.
So let's get started.
I will read the questions and then answer the questions and Share a little bit about my Perspective my experience okay so who was your favorite teacher and why my favorite teacher was remember a technique we could use when answering questions is ttqa which is turn the question around so who was your favorite teacher and why my favorite teacher was Mr. Somburg because.
So I'm turning the question around.
Mr. Somburg was my history teacher in middle school.
In middle school we had different groups, maybe three or four different groups, and we were divided by I think it was by rivers.
So one group was called Amazon.
One group was called something else.
I think it was river names.
So the school body, the students were divided into four, I think three or four different groups.
My group had Mr. Somburg.
This was eighth grade.
In middle school for the US, we have six, seven, and eight.
So sixth grade, seventh grade, eighth grade for middle school.
He was a great teacher because he combined multiple things correctly, in my opinion.
He had harmony.
Harmony or a good balance between entertainment, knowledge or material historical facts and a level of responsibility or discipline combined together into one package.
He wasn't overly strict, but when he, when we got in trouble, we understood what we did wrong and it wasn't it didn't feel unwarranted.
Unwarranted meaning there wasn't a just or a fair reason.
So we understood what we did wrong.
And the classes were entertaining enough where you looked forward to going to history class.
Even though some of the topics, I preferred history.
But even in history, some of the topics were a little, little?
Little.
They were a little boring, but he made the class in a way where we were all participating and we took part in different challenges.
I remember he kept a record of the top performing students for the end of the year test.
It was the final exam and he said the percentage of how many people got a's.
In the us, our grading system, we have a's at the top, then b's c's, d's and then F is failing.
And so he kept a record of who got A's, how many people got B's, and it turned into a challenge of let's see if we can compete in a friendly way and push ourselves to get a good grade at the final exam.
On the final exam and I think that was maybe the one test I studied a lot for up until that point, before that I didn't study so much, I did okay, but that test I studied, I remember, in my room more, a lot more than usual.
So That is why he was my favorite teacher.
I think after my year in middle school, I think he retired.
Maybe he did one more year and then he retired.
And my brother had the same teacher as me.
My sister didn't, so i think he retired after my class or a year after so, and he lived in the same town in connecticut.
Okay, what was your favorite subject in school and which one did you find the most difficult?
My favorite subject was history, and the most difficult subject was english, or science, maybe English.
English because it was so boring that I didn't want to pay attention.
And so it was difficult to pass the tests and to read some of the books that were required.
Funny enough, we will read next week.
On Tuesday we'll read um the old man and the sea by hemingway, and some people told me on the live stream on tuesday that they read this book already.
I think someone read it in college.
It was mandatory, so this is a classic.
We'll read this together for the book challenge.
But back in English class we had to read Shakespeare and different books that at the time I didn't find so exciting.
So that was a difficult class.
And science because I think in the teachers I didn't connect so well with.
But science, I think, has potential to be one of the exciting classes, or the most exciting classes, because you can do experiments and things like that.
But for me, it wasn't so much fun.
Do you remember your first day of school?
How did you feel?
My very first day of school.
In first grade we had an assembly and I didn't know anyone and I got lost during the assembly and there was a big group of people and I was looking for familiar faces.
I was looking for my mom and I think I started crying not very serious, crying just a little bit out of frustration or out of um fear or something.
So that was my first day.
Um, did you wear?
Did you have to wear a school uniform?
Did you like it or hate it?
I didn't.
But i remember during football season we had games on the weekends, and so fridays we would wear a shirt and a tie, a shirt like this, a button-down shirt and then a tie, a shirt and a tie, so all the players would wear it as a representation that we have a game coming up.
So we did do that.
I thought that was nice, we looked sharp And I thought it was a good tradition.
I like that.
So that was good.
Maybe that's part of the reason that now I wear the shirts a lot.
It's one of the reasons maybe.
So, but I liked it.
What is your funniest memory from your time as a student?
My funniest memory was we had.
The funniest memory at the time was probably joking around with my friends in class or having inside jokes.
Inside jokes when something happens you and your friends start laughing, so that's pretty funny.
But looking back, i think the funniest moment was we had these permission slips to leave class early.
And you could get a permission slip from a teacher, but you could also get a permission slip from a parent.
Parent.
A parent.
So they could write a small piece of paper and say oh, my student or my son won't be able to attend, won't be able to attend the last period.
Remember period is class.
We say seventh period or eighth period was the last period.
So eighth period, for example, my son or my student won't be able to attend because of something a doctor's appointment or maybe emergency or a religious reason.
And you would have to give this note or permission slip to the teacher or we would give it to the office.
We had a school office area where you could hand off, to hand off, to give these slips, these permission slips or notes, to someone working there, And they would then find the teacher and then notify the teacher so that they know you won't be attending class at that time.
Sometimes you could get these permission slips, but me and some other people, we wrote our own permission slips.
So I'm not encouraging other people to do this.
But we wrote, for example, a permission slip that we have to leave a few periods early and we would leave school and go get food, for example.
So I thought that was pretty funny.
Now, thinking about that, that is pretty funny.
So are you still in touch with any friends from primary or high school?
Primary school, or we can say elementary school, I'm in touch, but I am but very rarely.
I don't talk to friends from that time very frequently, so very rarely I do talk to them.
Okay, let's move on to qualities of a good teacher.
In your opinion, what are the three most important qualities of a great teacher?
We spoke about this with students about the qualities which represent or which a good teacher has.
And like I mentioned earlier about Mr. Somburg, I think there are a few qualities.
And now let me try to pick the main three for essentials.
I think patience, patience.
I think patience.
Also, you can think of some and write them in the comments.
So three most important qualities of a great teacher.
I think patience, understanding, and effectiveness.
Effectiveness is little vague.
What does it mean if some someone's effective?
Effective is efficiency, maybe someone who is able to best utilize the time, because in school we have 50 minutes or 45 minutes or something 55 minutes per class, and So the teachers need to make sure they're scheduling their time wisely so that after a few months the students would learn the material that's needed from the school directors or the school board.
So maybe those three patience and understanding, I think, because sometimes there are other issues that the students may have and in a group the teacher needs to sometimes have individual conversations with students or help the students who are more behind or they're slower than the other students.
So there's a level of patience and understanding.
Would you prefer to learn from a young teacher or an experienced older teacher and why?
It doesn't matter as long as the teacher is good.
I would prefer to learn from any teacher, whether old or young, As long as they're good at teaching, and they're good people.
So it doesn't matter for me.
Is it better for a teacher to be very strict or very friendly?
Someone said recently that being too friendly is not good.
I don't know.
I think being too strict is also not good.
So some... balance somewhere in the middle, maybe.
But efficiency is the most important aspect.
So I think it might depend on the students as well.
Some students you can be more strict or you have to be more strict with.
Some students you have to be more strict with.
And with others, you can be more lenient.
Remember, lenient is the opposite of strict or more friendly.
Do you think technology like AI or robots could ever fully replace human teachers?
I think that if AI or robots can understand emotions and they can look just like humans, then yes.
Almost 100%, I think.
Okay, let's move on to some debates or opinion questions.
Should homework be banned or is it necessary for learning?
I don't think homework should be banned.
Homework can be encouraged or should be encouraged.
Whether or not the students should have homework counting or counting as their grade at the end of the year, that's maybe a separate, separate question.
But homework, if it's done correctly, could be something that's not so tedious or not so annoying, and homework can be helpful, so i don't think it should be banned.
Do you think grades a b, c accurately reflect how smart a student is?
I don't think that they're grading exactly correctly.
But because we have this system where we have tests and quizzes and homework and we have specific topics that need to be covered by the school, the grading system is in place to make that process more efficient.
It's easier to assess, to assess what level a student is and how they are progressing.
But i just had a conversation with a girl who got into university or college to become a gym teacher or something similar, but she excelled or she performed well in math mathematics mathematics, and so she had a math class with a great professor, she told me, and one day the professor said we have this very difficult, difficult equation.
Equation is some kind of math problem And he said those people who can solve it can go to a math contest or math competition.
So people were trying to solve it because the professor said if the math competition, they have teams And every class there was a few students who go to the contest and you get a score.
And he said if you are top three in the contest, then you can get a good grade for the whole year.
You don't have to come to class.
But the first step is solving this equation.
And everybody was having trouble with it.
And she was also trying different ways to figure out the equation.
And then during a break, the teacher and everyone else they went out or they went to eat food or whatever, do something, as during the break, and she went to the teacher and she was asking him questions about the equation, for example like oh, i was try, you know, i was doing this, i was doing this method.
It doesn't work, and what about this?
She was asking him these questions and he's like oh, you're close and you know.
Eventually she went back up to class during the break or after and with those few tips or insights from asking the questions, she was able to figure out the answer correctly.
And she's not the smartest math student, Obviously in the whole school or even at the tournament.
The contest they scored, I think, third place.
But I think her ability to recognize that she needed to ask the teacher questions is a sign of intellect, intellect intelligence.
So that is not exactly measured on the systems of ABCD the ability to think outside the box or to ask questions or to do these problem-solving matters in in a conversation basis.
So hopefully that made sense.
I don't know if that was clear, but when i heard that i thought about that.
Um really was something to um to think about when they eventually passed or they scored third place and they didn't have to go to class anymore for the rest of the semester or year or something.
So, okay, I think that's where we'll stop.
So I appreciate those people who watched until the end.
Answer these questions as well by yourself.
If you feel comfortable You can speak out loud.
I'll put the questions in the description as well so that we can have them in one place.
If you feel more comfortable, then you can write your answers somewhere.
I'm still curious.
What do you think are the three qualities of a good teacher, the three most important, most important qualities of a good teacher?
So in the comments you can write your answers and maybe we'll do more of these.
These topics are good because they isolate a specific field or area and we can practice speaking about it.
A little bit more selective vocabulary.
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And like I said, we'll have the book challenge with The Old Man and the Sea on Tuesday.
Tuesday, maybe Thursday, now that I'm thinking about it.
It might be on Thursday, but next week I'll post on YouTube and also on Instagram.
So when exactly we'll have it, but next week.
So we're reading until page 40.
So until page 40, that will be what we'll discuss next week.
So thanks for joining.
Have a great day and talk to you next time bye.
