Professor McNair- Reflection 22

I have had the pleasure to take a second class with Professor McNair. The first time I took his class I was taking Introduction to Education in the fall semester of 2009. When I first told my sister that I was taking the course she asked with what professor. So I told her I was taking it with McNair and she said that she had taken the class but didn’t take any more classes with him because it was way too much work for her to do. I knew that I would love it after the first couple of classes so I stuck around. The fact is, I love a challenge. Honestly, this had been the first time in a very long time that I had felt like I was being challenged in the classroom. The first time in a while that I knew that I had to stay on top of my work because the professor was no walk in the park. By all means I mean no disrespect about that statement. My favorite teachers were always the ones who would assign work that had meaning. Not to assign work for the sake of assigning work. I had two teachers like this previously. One was Kathleen Serio who I had as an English teacher for grades six through eight because I was in the gifted program. She allowed me to discover my love for English. Not to mention that she had also taught two of my older brothers. We were reading books that were not meant for our grade and she coached us to our understanding of the material learned. Kind of like what Prof. McNair does in the classroom discussions. The second teacher that I had that made a great impression in the book of my life was Dr. Nerry Louis. She was my twelfth grade honors English teacher. The class revolved around literature and was interesting at all times to say the very least. Nerry had a reputation amongst the students to be the hardest English teach at my high school. If you earned a C in Ms. Louis’ class, you know that you would have warned an A in any other teacher’s class. She was that tough but I enjoyed it. She was a no nonsense type of teacher who still allowed room for her students to get comfortable. Now I have Prof. McNair to add to my list of favorite teachers. Favorite educators. They are a part of the reason I actually decided to become an English teacher. I want to be able to impact the lives of my students the same way that Prof McNair, Dr. Louis, and Ms. Serio had done in mine. I would also implement some of their teaching strategies that I’ve learned while being their student.
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