: About Me

Name: Michael Hatcher Job: Mortgage Loan Counselor

Other professional experience: High school teacher, soldier, certified nurse aid

Bachelor of Science in Liberal Arts, Associates in Legal Assistance

Skills- Chess -1998 state of Wyoming Champion (reserve section) Languages- In addition to English, I'm pretty comfortable with French, I can usually stumble through Spanish haltingly. I have a vocabulary of about 50 words each in Arabic, German, and Swahili. Not enough to have a conversation, but usually enough to get me into trouble.

My passion - Geography and Ethnic studies. Military, Philosophy, and Politics.

Professional Writing Experience: Zero

My passion is ...

Geography and Ethnic Studies

I know too much about ...

Chess

My parents always told me ...

Clean your room

My childhood ambition ...

Prove Zeno's theory of motion

My favorite memory ...

high school winning one mile foot race

Why I write ...

easier to edit than speaking

My first job ...

bee keeping

My best moment ...

Hopefully a future event

Education > Educational Philosophy Teaching tips: How to develop a culture of mutual respect in the classroom

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Two tips that have been quite helpful in developing mutual respect between my students and myself are the explaining of roles and the right perspective on behavior. My experience has been with high school students and I'm not sure the following two points would translate to all age groups. However, I would argue that if you can foster respect in high school age students, you may be able to foster respect in any age group of students. First is what I call the "swimming pool model" of explaining roles. Most students have been to a swimming pool with one or more lifeguards that may be in thei...

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