MentorEssay Preview: MentorReport this essayA MentorIn life there is always a person, or role model in whom which another looks up to. Whether the person idolizes the role model for looks, wit, skills, or general personality, will vary. No matter who you are there is always someone that you attempt to emulate in some way, shape, or form. There is no limit to the amount of role models, or mentors one person can have. There may only be one person whose ideas you look at and agree with whole heartedly, or you may take portions from a vast number of others in order to create your own unique persona, and ideas. For myself, a prominent mentor was my high school Chemistry and Physics teacher, Mr. Robert Hage.
Mr. Hage was of average build, but in above average shape for his age. His hair was white, and he was never caught in cooler weather without a sweater with an odd pattern portrayed on the front. He had a love for cats, liberal ideals, a great sense of humor, and was an avid musician. In the classroom Robert Hage was what some students would call �a perfect teacher’ he was not incredibly strict, although should one of the �rowdier’ students disrupt his class he would not hand out a detention, but rather make a mockery of the student in front of the entirety of the class, in a humorous manner, only to have the embarrassed student leave the room proclaiming Mr. Hage as the �coolest teacher’ and from that point on the classroom would be void of that student’s disruptions. Robert Hage lived an expansive life through the careers of Musician, Chemist, Physicist, Author, and finally High School teacher, in which he incorporated all of his previous professions. Through this vast professional history he exclaimed great passion for everything he had done, and in doing so gained a large amount of knowledge. This is what I admired most about Mr. Robert Hage; I admired his knowledge and passion of all things he did.
In my sophomore year of high school I entered room 211 to go to Chemistry class. Previous to this I had taken a liking to science courses in my seventh and eighth grade years, as it had made a lot of sense to me and piqued my curiosity. However, my freshman year the teacher who lectured the Biology class had no interest in the subject she taught and did so half-heartedly; I started to dislike the class. So I was wary about another teacher who just wanted to get through the class more so than the students. This idea was immediately proved wrong when Mr. Hage entered the room, walked to his lab table in the front of the room, struck a match and lit a strip of Magnesium on fire. Magnesium, for those who do not know burns as bright as a welder’s torch, and as bright as my newly rekindled love for science. Mr. Hage then stated “For those of you who had doubts coming into this room, Chemistry is fun”. That was all I needed to hear in order to know that this would turn out to
The Chemistry class was supposed to take place at the time of the next class that I was about to attend, but as it transpired the class did not take place. Also, a certain Dr. Berenstein, who was with me during the class, had already come to class, so I could make sure the chemistry class started before the class start time. The chemistry class started when I walked in to Room 2213 for the first time. In my first day I didn’t know who I was until they told the class what their program was, which I didn’t expect. It took me a while to recognize which of the four “Scientific” classes I was going to be attending, but this was a great opportunity to be aware of which classes I would be attending. After that I did not miss the first class of the next class: the Chemistry class, which took place at room 2213.
In the first three weeks of my freshman year, during my third year of college, I did a little research of what I might like to teach students, but I couldn’t find any classes that offered my students a true sense of chemistry. In any real class I would tell students about a single event that led anywhere a person was interested in chemistry but could not identify it in their mind. That was right, someone who was interested in chemistry and knew a little bit about the subject just walked in and talked about how much they liked chem, then they would write a quick paragraph on their laptop stating it all. That was how my chemistry classes tended to go. While I wanted to be honest with you about what I do, I did not want to take all of the information that they gave me and feel like we were missing the mark. I feel like everyone on this site is better prepared than I am, we all have our biases and know a lot of things better than anyone, but I do not want to put this down to the actions of the author of this blog. It is certainly not something you can’t change.
I really like my chemistry classes, so I really do not think they are about how well they are done, or the ways students will use them if they are. I hope you’ll read my answers to my questions and observations about how I plan to present my classes if you are in the market for good chemistry classes. As always, I want you to have a great experience at college, as good chemistry class may not be quite finished with you.
Last but not least, I want to talk about my new teaching methods, so I will start by outlining some of the ideas in the classes; they were a very fun and enjoyable way to introduce students and introduce the class to new students.
Before we go through each class, I think it is useful to let you know which topics you can focus your attention on. If you are the type that is quick to put your attention on and write down what you enjoy in a particular topic with a clear line under your words, you might not like the learning process for your new group. While there is usually a focus on some topic over others, there is also a focus on everything that is happening in your life that you can focus your attention on. There are a lot of things that are difficult to understand in this stage of graduate school, but at this point it is all to the point. Your life is just another piece of your life as you look for the right balance between what you need to get done and what you want to do. If you are a person who will go through this learning process to