On Jim Cooper: "Theaching English"

        In this script Jim was talking about the hard time he had teaching English tom Puertorrican students at the "Colegio". First I have always asked myself, why are professors at college so different from teachers in high school? Teachers did all they could to help you learn and get a good grade. In contrast professors they just do the minimum effort they are required to and don't care much if you pass the class or not. The difference between the two relies in that, teachers want to teach it is their vocation but professors don't want to teach, they are investigators. A teacher goes to college to learn how to teach he learns the skills and methods about teaching in contrast a professor goes to college to learn a specific subject and becomes and expert in it. Even if they continue on graduated studies a teacher will study the subject of how to teach a professor will study the subject of his interest to a more profound length. This is important because this is probably the most determining factor that affects student in their transition from high school to college.

       Most professors in college or at least in my faculty, the faculty of natural sciences are scientist they are investigators that is what they like to do. They are hired by the university with the condition that their investigations will bring funds to the institution.Thus the institution provides the facilities for the professor to do his investigation but he has to give a mini mun of credits hours per semester. This is why most professors could care less about their students because they just give lectures that are on such a basic level for their understanding that they get bored and just don't want to do it because it is interfering with the time they could be investing in their investigation. I think i went in a little bit of a rant there but I guess that's what blogs are for.

        In high school I had a PROFESSOR, he was the only one who did int study pedagogy, he studied mathematics and he went on to getting a masters Segre im no sure if he got a PhD, well probably he did because prior to giving class in the high school he was a professor in UPR-Cayey and at "La Politecnica". I remember when i got to 11 grade were he teached pre-calculus, every body was telling me "he is the worst","you are going to fail","he is the demon". But i did not listen to them because i though it could not be that hard. So as the semester went on I recognize that the course was had and that he wanted to push us to our limits he wanted to get us out of our comfort zone. He was more of a trainer or a coach than a teacher. But I at the end of the year I got A in the two semesters and was one of the two students that were excuse from the final test. During the semester I got to know him better and I talked to him on a daily basis and to this day he is one of the only teachers that i go and visit once in a while when i go to pick up my siblings.

This is Mirabal "The Profesor" from highschool and me at the graduation ceremony.