Document Type
Education Essay
Publication Date
2002
Excerpt
A woman stands in front of the students with a chalkboard overhead in the background and attempts to give more knowledge to the students in her class. Teachers come in many shapes and sizes; some are tall, some short. Others are graying on the top, while some were students themselves only a short while ago. Some are organized and some cannot remember where they put the exams. No matter what their appearance or temperament, good teachers always seem to have one idea in common: they all produce a "tennis shoe" environment. Mrs. Rosalie Naumann, in Lives on the Boundary, is an example of the this type of teacher both to her classroom full of young students and to Mike Rose, a man who will later eagerly attempt to teach actively.
Recommended Citation
Hoffman, Alisha, ""Teachers and Tennis Shoes" (2002)" (2002). The Valpo Core Reader. 138.
http://scholar.valpo.edu/core_reader/138