Every year or semester, when a student walks into a class and meets the teacher for the first time, they think of them as any other teacher boring and talkative. But after awhile, that teacher may shock you in a way that most teacher never will. It will wake you up as if you have been hit in the face with a bucket of ice cold water. I never enjoyed school as much as the other kids. And because of this, I never paid attention to what the teacher was saying. But one teacher made learning social studies in an easy and different. Mr. Haase, my American Problems teacher during my senior year at Arrowhead, made learning about what’s going on in the world interesting, engaging and inspiring. He is also the head basketball coach here at Arrowhead. You can tell that he enjoys coaching basketball because he almost always his basketball coat on and in his room he had five basketball chairs.
He enjoyed teaching his classes too, but he had a totally different way of showing it. Because of his way of teaching, I became eager to learn what he taught us. I would finish my lunch in 10 minutes and walk down to his room and wait or if the door was i’d open it go in and wait see what he will teach us today. The way he taught me and other students about what was going on in the world was by doing very little in talking wise and more in vision wise.  For example, we watched a movie from 20/20 about why prisoners should or shouldn't be able to have fun and be allowed to lift weights.
Through the whole semester, I think we spent two or three weeks taking notes. The rest of the time was spent watching videos about people in the world, playing news ball for a grade, and talking about current events that we saw on the news. This made the class easier and more hands on. We also had tests and quizzes, and our exam was a topic we could pick from that we learned in class. We had to write our opinion and with a different story on that topic that we did not discuss in class. For my topic, I wrote about immigration and I am not proud of what I said on the topic because I was showing my true colors (about races) and why they shouldn’t stay in the United States, and what their staying has caused.
I was always energized, ready to learn, and willing to answer every question with deep thought. Mr. Haase taught me more about the world than I knew and I also learned things about him too-like every Thanksgiving, his family rolls a pumpkin down a hill into the woods in their backyard. It was something for the kids to do. The one year a pumpkin actually broke a tree in half. He shared something with us so we can learn things about each other as a class.
The thing that will stay with me forever would be his love for basketball and his opinions on the topics he taught us in class. Mr. Haase is a father, Mr. Hasse is a coach and most of all, Mr. Haase is a teacher. Every year or semester, when a student walks into a class and meets the teacher for the first time, you think of them as any other teacher--boring and talkative. But after awhile that teacher may shock you in a way that most teachers never will. different and he wakes me up, as if i had been hit in the face with a bucket of ice cold water. I never enjoyed school as much as other kids. And because of this, I never paid attention to what the teacher was saying. But Mr. Haase change all that because he is like Gandhi but without the Buddhist religion.