In reading this paper "Is the Great American Teacher Dead?" I have considered how I originally viewed teachers and how I now believe teaching could be done better. I also have thought about my own teaching style and why it matters to teach well. I'm an enthusiastic learner. Since middle school, I have been able to enjoy a variety of teaching styles including ones that made many of my classmates disinterested, furious, sleep, complain, etc. I have sat through classes where students went around the room reading from a textbook one paragraph a piece. If we were quick we would do our homework worksheet until class ended. There were no projects, no group work, and little-to-no feedback from our teacher. When we finished a unit we would take a multiple choice test and go to the next section. I'm certain I learned the least from this class than from any other in my life, but I didn't hate it. I had other teachers with similar styles though they were more interactive an...