I WILL NOT Be Just Another Teacher

Throughout my years of school I've noticed that students will avoid or insist on taking your class based on what other students have to say about you. I do plan on teaching at the high school level and possibly at the college level one day. I DO NOT want to the teacher that students warn their friends about. I want teenagers, young adults, or adults (whatever the case may be) to look forward to having me as an instructor.

My great uncle owns Seaman's Cove in Escatawpa, Mississippi. It is a great seafood restaurant and he gets plenty of business and people love to eat there. Unlike most chain restaurants, he does not advertise his business. He relies on what I call "word of mouth". If people go there and love the food and the experience, then they tell a friend and that friend tells another. It is a successful domino affect that costs nothing but time, effort, and a love for what you are doing.

I believe the same principles apply when teaching high school or college. Your a good or bad teacher depending on how your students feel about their experience in your class. Your class is either fun and exciting or boring and pointless based on students opinions. Grant it, if I'm teaching at a school I will have a class, even if it's a class full of kids that were trying to avoid me and just got last picks on teachers. I do not want a class of kids that are there only because they have to be. I would like to have students that desire me specifically to be their teacher. I want to be the pick of the litter!