... setting fueling cooperation rather than competition. Cooperation includes building student-student relationships as well as student-teacher relationships. When observing my practicum classroom, I watched as my cooperating teacher assign a surprise quiz irrelevant to the subject matter covered. From this instance, I saw first hand how students expect teachers to be reasonable and how teachers can lose the respect and trust of their ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... became an addiction. We would sit for long periods of time discussing what I had read and what I learned from it. I would take notes as if there was going to be quiz on the text I had read. Mr. Guerra taught from his heart and from his soul. I never recall him once sounding like a robot who was reciting the only thing he knew ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School