It was my first day of sophomore year, and as I entered social studies teacher Chad Postal’s class, I was greeted with a big smile and a fist bump. Each day as I walked in and found my seat, I would look at the board to see a bad dad joke making everyone in the class laugh a bit. Postal is an expert in making everyone feel even more at ease.

“I like being present in the beginning of the class, in the halls, giving knuckles and to see how kids are doing. And obviously, some kids come to class and they’re just not having a good day, and I sense it, I know it, and I don’t want to make their day worse,” Postal said.

Postal always tries to make his students feel more at ease while in his class by keeping them all engaged in the lesson. Postal uses multiple strategies to do so with fun activities like Kahoot. He tries to make his class easier while also making sure students learn as much as possible, setting them up for success.

“I tried to use a lot of hands-on activities in class. We do a lot of the whiteboard activities. I do a lot of hook exercises, like our true/false statements to engage kids who are disengaged,” Postal said.

Postal has a unique style of teaching. Postal tries to really simplify it down but also make sure you learn and understand what he is teaching like kahoots and fun activities to engage students and make them more involved in the learning. He doesn’t try to make his class a boring one, he always tries to do something different, not the same thing over and over to try and keep students always engaged. 

“We’ll never do just one thing. I’ll never give a packet out of questions and then you just answer them the whole hour. I use a lot of scaffolding,” Postal said.

Postal is an amazing teacher that always tries to relate and engage his students to their full ability. However, he still tries to make school a lot easier for his students, always making sure their doing okay and helping them to enjoy their day.