Ms. Mayorg An Influential Teacher

Throughout the duration of my lifetime, I have met an abundance of influential people. However, nobody had impacted my life like Ms. Mayorga, my former English teacher, and the best mentor I had.

I met Ms.Mayorga when I was in 7th grade. At first glance, her appearance intimidated me. She seemed to be strict and authoritative. However, throughout the year, I realized I was wrong. She held my hand and brought me into the sun with her love of the English Language. The first attractive quality she had was her ability to engage us in reading, so this made understanding the lessons easy. She often connected her lessons by giving real life scenarios, and sharing many personal stories to the classroom, so her students can take them as learning experiences.

Also, she used to make the classroom environment very welcoming by always smiling and being such a pleasant teacher. Furthermore, she encouraged me to use the vocabulary I learned in class and take it to another level. She influenced my academic goals by repeating everyday the same words “Do you want to clean windows and earn 10 dollar an hour or do you want to be a professional and earn a 100 dollars per hour?” “Do you want to anybody or someone that will make a difference?”. These very words inspired, influenced and encouraged me to do my very best and make her proud. Furthermore, she discovered that I had the potential to meet the common core standards and be outstanding. Everyday she used to give extra work so I could expand my knowledge and pass the ELA state test, despite the fact that I used to be an English Language Learner. As a result, my major goal was to pass the ELA state test , so I could be transfer to a monolingual class. Indeed, Ms. Mayorga helped to achieve my goal. One of the things that I like the most about Ms. Mayorga is that she always motivated me to do more and beyond and she always believed and me, when I didn’t believe in myself. The fact that as a hispanic