Mr. Ward is one of those guys that youll meet once in your lifetime and never find anyone else even remotely close to him in lifestyle, personality, or appearance.

　　He was the teacher, on a teachers salary, who owned a motorcycle, a big truck, and a boat. Youve already got a picture in your mind of this wild looking guy who lives for adventure and thrills in his life. A man with a thick biker beard, a bunch of earrings and nose rings, a tattoo of a dragon down his arm and wild looking hair, right?

　　Now think of the exact opposite of what you were just thinking. Think of a man in a shirt and tie everyday. A man wearing painstakingly ironed slacks whose color has to be on the non-flashy side. A man whose beard is either completely shaved or perfectly shaped, and you have Mr. Ward in a nutshell.

　　Clean cut, neat, and very orderly. Weird already? Thats only half of it. Math wise, he is probably the smartest person I have and will ever meet. Somebody said he used to work on a nuclear submarine. He even designed some of the parts on the submarine before he taught here. He is always full of surprises, but if you only look at him from the outside you would expect the most surprising thing he could show you is his shopping list.

　　The year that I had Mr. Ward, he had been teaching for eight years, and he had perfected his lesson plans. This way he always kept us busy because he had everything so well planned.

　　I have split the lesson plans of my teacherssintostwo distinct categories, radical and methodical.

　　The first style, radical, is what I like to call Winging it. Winging it is a popular slang phrase in English basically meaning, making it up as you go. When you wing a presentation, you have no prepared plans but know what you want to say and as you go along you make it up off the top of your head. Like the radical method Ill call the methodical type something else to better personify it. The methodical method shows a strong resemblance to a system or programmed approach, thus it is dubbed the robot method. Of course you know what a robot is. A robot operates in a pattern every day, every day, every week, every month of the year. Non-stop. Non-changing. If you can predict what your teacher will be doing a week from now, you can bet that he or she is a methodically styled teacher.