By Sharon Spikes
I had Ms. Lee for English I through IV. She didn’t believe in accepting less than your best and never gave out 100s on writing assignments.
I was friends with her youngest son and he told me that one night she spend four-and-a-half hours grading a one page paper I had summited to find a mistake so I could get my usual 99.
By Linda Jones
I was a Stokes County kid. I knew how to harvest tobacco and I knew how to drive a tractor. I had never heard an orchestra, only strings in a blue grass band.
When I went to high school, I took chorus for an elective subject. The teacher was cool, with hair down to his shoulders and a fast, peppy walk. Our chorus was large, with almost 90 members. He exposed us to music from different eras in history. We would sing a capella madrigals and songs in different languages. What was wrong with this guy? Did he not realize that he had a bunch of farmers in his class?
The crazy thing is, yes, he knew we were rural, and he knew that our musical experience was severely limited, but he opened up a world of history and beauty through that chorus class. He would take us to competitions and we would return with superior ratings. Amazing things were accomplished musically in our chorus.
By Danyse Solomons
I have always found joy in being with and helping young children. I have also had many wonderful and influential teachers during my elementary, primary, high school, and college years, and the first teacher to truly inspire me to become a teacher myself was my second grade teacher, Mrs. Laue.
Mrs. Laue was always excited to be at school. She taught us addition and subtraction using a real checkbook and introduced me to the fun, exciting world books can provide us.
By Jennifer Smith
Mrs. Williams was my middle school Latin teacher. Now, you would think that Latin was a hard and boring subject but in her capable hands it was not only learnable, but fun.
When eight of us wanted to continue Latin after our 8th grade year, we were told it wasn’t being offered and that we would have to take Spanish or French. Well, Mrs. Williams heard that we wanted to take her class and gave up one of her planning periods to keep teaching us. We, in turn, doubled up on language classes and took Latin in addition to Spanish.
By Kristin Johnson
I first decided that I wanted to be a teacher when I was in kindergarten in Mrs. Allen’s class, and I never changed my mind.
She was truly inspiring. She used to give us a shiny penny when she caught us doing a very good job in class. At the end of the day we could put the penny in the buble gum machine! She made learning exciting every day.
By Tasha Graff
Mrs. Peer was my fifth grade teacher in a very small public school in northern New Hampshire. Everyone knew everyone else, and my grade was infamously well known.
Mrs. Peer treated us with respect. She challenged us. She pushed us to be better students. Most importantly, she read aloud to us.
One of the books she read aloud, Goodnight Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian, is the first chapter book I remember re-reading over and over again. I had struggled with reading as a young child, and Mrs. Peer helped me learn to love stories. I read more, and my reading improved.
By Steve O.
Mr. Bob Weiss was perhaps the most influential person in my life. He taught science in a way that made it both amazing and fun for every student. He was also the funniest guy I had ever met up to that point in life.
Because of his warmth, and dedication to his students and profession, I decided then that I would become a biology teacher when I grew up.
Later, when I entered the profession, I had the great fortune to work with my idol for five years until he retired.
By Janice Swindell
When I took Geometry with Mr. Savage, I really struggled. The memorization of axioms, postulates, and theorums left me dizzy. I went to him after school and shared my problem with him. He was very compassionate and understanding.
His attitude emboldened me to make a request: ”If I can get the correct answer by proving it logically and not memorizing, would you mark it right?” He said he would, and I got through geometry with his help.
By Lena Deskins
Mr. Hocker was the fifth-grade teacher everybody wanted. He was the coolest man to walk the planet. He was excited to be there each day and made us excited, too.
I am currently 4 feet 10 inches tall, so I am, and always have been, really short. We got new desks that year in his class. I recall my feet dangling and feeling totally engulf by this desk. He took me around the whole school searching for a desk to fit me personally. We found it on the kindergarten hallway. It was old and wooden, but it was just for me.
By Barbara Bolich
Mrs. Boughton created a classroom where every child felt secure and loved. We actually envied the girl who had been retained! Learning multiplication facts was joyous, and I began to read every book in our library. She taught me to love learning for the sake of learning! I wish she was still alive so I could thank her.
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