What No One Tells You About Teaching

What No One Tells You About Teaching

            "I don't teach to make my students better at math, I teach to make my students better humans in life," exclaims Mr. Yaracz, a high school math teacher at Mount Camel Area High School. High school student aren't particularly excited to go to their math classes, but Mr. Yaracz preaches standards in his class room and teaches every one of his students life lessons that they will never forget.

             Andrew Yaracz graduated from Bloomsburg University and has been teaching at Mount Carmel ever since. Andrew Yaracz, an average sized, dark haired, brown eyed male, loves what he does everyday. He can always be seen wearing a solid colored, button downed dress shirt, along with black or grey dress pants. He doesn't get paid as much as he would if he taught at surrounding schools, but stays at Mount Carmel because he feels that he owes them that much because they gave him his first opportunity coming out of college. He spends a lot of his free time helping his students at the school and never turns down a student who is in need of help. If one of his students is struggling in his class, he views it as his fault and that he isn't teaching to his full potential. His main priority is to make his students more rounded individuals. 

             As you walk into Mr. Yaracz's class room, the smell of chalk hits your nose. Not only does his colorful chalk line the chalkboards in the front of the room, and also on the left wall, but also stains his pants every single day. His old wooden desks scatter across the room on the checkerboard styled, green and white squared flooring tiles. There's two other doors in his room that connect his room to Mr. Wagner's room, another teacher who Mr. Yaracz grew up with. The best thing about his room though, is the back wall covered in baby animal pictures. He realizes how tough Mondays can be, so every Monday morning he lets one of his AP calculus students choose a picture of a baby animal, which he then proceeds to print out and post on the back wall all year long. 

         

          Mr. Yaracz's day is quite hectic after second period. He starts off his day with two planning periods, then finishes his morning with two periods of AP calculus and two periods of algebra and regular calculus. After his lunch period he has two more periods of algebra and calculus, and then offers his SAT prep class for anyone who needs help before taking the test during the last period of the school day. After school he stays to help any of his students who need help in his class, or if they have any problems that they need to talk about. He also holds his AP calc club once a week after school for about an hour where he buys pizza for the club and helps go over anything they need help with in school.

              Although Mr. Yaracz realizes that math isn't the most interesting subjects in school, he still finds a way to give all of his students everything he can that makes them better well-rounded people. He takes extra time out of his day to help the students who truly care and never fails to truly do so. His students should thank him any chance they have because they don't know how truly special, and unique of a teacher that they have.