Students And Crow Lake Essay

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Teachers have a very challenging job. The teachers in the texts being compared are very different people. The texts "Students" and "Crow Lake" illustrate the struggles certain teachers face. How they haddle these issues. Also, how teaching takes more then just intelligence.

Both "Students" and "Crow Lake" talk about the relationship between the students and the teachers. This relationship is crutial to the learning of the students. In "Students", the teacher finds it hard to relate to the students because of the age gap. He also struggles with their learning methods and wishes they would develop his. Similarly, in "Crow lake", the teacher sturggles to relate to her teachers. Alternitivley, she finds it difficult to make her lecture entertaining …show more content…

So much so, it bothers him that his students refuse to develop the same passion. He encourages his students to "Adopt the Kung Fu theory of Education". He explains "Learning as self defence. The more you understand about what's occuring around you the better prepared you are to deal with difficulties." On the other hand, in "Crow Lake" the teacher is laking passion for teaching. She doesn't enjoy being with her students, she "Doesn't [do not] understand them. They don't seen to take anything seriously." This shows that althought the teachers are struggling with similar issues, they have different styles of teaching. This passion the teachers have, or are lacking, effects the way they handle the struggles they face with their students. The teacher in "Crow Lake", is lacking passion and confidence. When faced with students that were not interested, she reacted by saying "I'm sorry. I've been boring you." then preceeded to pack up and leave. This shows that she was not willing to put a lot of effort into teaching and gave up fairly easily. On the contrary, in "Students", even thought Wayman's students were lacking interest, "with more intensity than anything else Wayman taught." This illustrates how Wayman has drive and won't give up on improving the educaiton of his

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