What Mr. Tallman has done to be an awesome teacher would be that he likes history. And you can tell that he likes teaching, To be more specific, his approach to teaching is writing and discussion which is the best way to teach anything. His understanding to teaching and learning is that writing is a better indicator that you actually know what your talking about and allows you to ocncentrate and focus onw riting everything that you know down so that you can solidify the knowledge and teaching that happened prior. H This approach to teaching and being able to talk about history is one of the best ways to make anybody and everybody learn something and to speak their opinions and thoughts of history. That is what makes him a great teacher. Sincerely, Joel Simmons