... for the attendance and handouts. She realizes her handouts have not been copied so she sends one of the students to the office to make copies. "What a good first impression, this class is going to be a joke", you think to yourself. When a teacher shows up late and unprepared on the first day of class students lose respect for her. Respect is an immense factor when looking at what makes an effective and ineffective teacher. In Mike Roe's essay "I Just Wanna be Average" Rose analyzes many ineffective teachers with one or two very effective teachers. There are many characteristics that make a teacher effective or ineffective. But these characteristics are just how we as students see them. So we ask ourselves, what it means to be effective or ineffective? According to Dictionary.com, ineffective means, "inadequate; incompetent, lacking in power or forcefulness." Effective means, "Producing a strong impression ...

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