My favorite teacher is my grade three math teacher, Mr. Li. I moved to a new city when I was ten and I became a new student in his class while all the other children had known each other for two or three years. I thought I was good at math but very soon I found out that all my classmates were much better than me.
One day, after school, Mr. Li asked me what I had learned and what I hadn’t. The next day, he asked me to be his assistant to teach a new concept which I already knew. He explained to the whole class that there was this curriculum inconsistency between different schools and there was always something we could learn from other people. He really helped me establish my confidence in the very first week of my new school.
I learned fast and I was good at math, but there was one thing: I always made careless mistakes. For example, instead of writing ¾, I would write 30/40 as my final answer on my exam paper. What he did was to let me go through every mistake and to see whether it could be avoid if I were to be more careful. Then he let me calculate the total mark that I could save. This really shocked me after I found out that over 80% of my mistakes were due to my carelessness. Then he asked me to think about how to avoid those mistakes. So I told myself that I needed to slow down, to double check after I finished and to ask “is it the final answer?”
I really like the way that he let me teach myself instead of him telling me what to do. He tried to understand his students’ previous learning experience and he established an effective communication between his students and him. Therefore, his students respected, trusted and loved him.
Hong
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