My third grade English teacher, Mrs. Hardy, is my main inspiration in wanting to pursue my teaching degree. I come from a large family that did not have the greatest family support in the educational side. I was the first to graduate from high school and college. (I have 17 aunts and uncles and 42 cousins.) I had a particularly difficult time in English with it being my second language. Mrs. Hardy would stay during her lunch break to help me with the concepts of the day. When I was in third grade the concept of ESL was going through some changes in our school system. At that time I was the only student in third grade who English was there second language. I was sadly placed in the mainstream and felt as I was swimming in a pool of syrup. Without Mrs. Hardy I would of probably stopped trying and of never succeeded in going to college. Learning those basic concepts helped decrease my frustration and showed me that if I ask questions I will advance my knowledge and my confidence. That piece of advice has helped me persevere in life.
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Mrs. Plot, one of the hardest English teachers in Murray County High School, was my teacher that year. She was a very determined and driven teacher that did not tolerate her students to fail her class, even if they were lazy. I had heard horror stories from her former students, but she was nothing like they said she was. She was the only teacher that I have connected with all throughout school. I looked forward to her class every morning because she always made learning fun. Mrs. Plot gave out good advice about English, but she also gave me personal advice and was more of a friend to me. She always knew what to say to me when I had problems. She motivated me to do better with my writing; we went to a journalism class together every week that year. Mrs. Plot deepened my love for reading and writing. Without her, I would not be the kind of student I am today. On every assignment in her class, I got the most feedback and it helped me out a lot. It took me a long time to become a decent writer, but with her help she sped up the process. I put all of my effort in every single paper I have written, especially for her
Over the years I have spent working on my education, I have encountered numerous teachers who have had a significant impact on who I am as a person and how I conduct myself. One such person was an English teacher of mine Mrs. Schwartz. She was my teacher for honors English 10 and advanced placement English 12. Mrs. Schwartz was always a very kind woman. She always encouraged us and pushed us to do our best. She was like a mother figure to those in her classroom; it was obvious she cared about each and every one of us and how to help us reach our educational potentials. I still remember when we were assigned our end of the year portfolio, I chose a short story by Neil Gaiman to analyze. Unbeknownst to me, Neil Gaiman was a favorite author of
I got the honor of being able to interview a great teacher. Her name is Ms. Edith Jeffrey. She is an amazing teacher at a charter school, Vanguard Preparatory School. In addition to being able to interview her, I got the chance to observe her in her setting of her everyday dream of being a teacher.
She was the most caring and dedicated teacher I ever had and she respected every student as an individual. On the other hand, she had a very negative influence on my life. She is the person who told me there was no Santa Clause, which ruined Christmas for me for a very long time. Another person who has had a great influence on my life is Mr. Robinson. He was my first band teacher. He is the person who convinced me to join band, which
In eight grade, my language arts teacher took the time to begin the remediation process with me for my dyslexia. She helped me to understand words better and to know that I could conquer my most difficult aspect of spelling and reading. It was then that I realized that I could do more and all it took was hard work and the desire to do it. This was a turning point for me going into high school. My English teacher in high school, for my freshman and senior year, was also someone who pushed me to do more. She encouraged me to creatively write and helped me to develop more understanding of the English language. She worked with me and other students to bring out the best of our abilities and to explore who we were as readers, writers, and to learn more about the structure of the English language. These two teachers were an amazing influence in my life
Education has always been an important piece in my family’s legacy. My grandmother was one of the first African American women to have a school named after her, and the majority of my uncles, aunts, and cousins all work within the education field. Naturally, I decided to write about two influential educators that have greatly impacted my life.
Mrs. Schuette was the teacher who made me want to become a teacher. She showed me how much of a difference I could make in my students’ lives. She also helped me find opportunities to start my teaching career by helping with the kids in the special education program in my high school. This gave me the opportunity to be caring, warm, and become interested in the total well-being of the students I worked
There was my freshman year when I required extra help for grammar quite often, which frustrated and embarrassed me. I felt at times as though I was back to the worksheets of sixth grade ELA-X. Ms. Rossetti, though, gave us some amazing assignments. We had to create Holden Caulfield’s diary and film the extended scenes to Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet, for instance. Sophomore year is a blur, but Ms. Prestileo did keep my attention with letting us create original poetry summarizing pieces of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Junior year, though, is where everything swung towards English, and stayed. Mrs. Evers, who I always write about as my “best teacher ever,” transformed my English experience. She gave me freedom to write a novella about my family (this later became my college honors thesis that earned highest honors). Mrs. Evers introduced me to Herman Melville through “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” a literally life-altering experience (read that whole story here: www.theworcesterjournal.com/magazine/more-than-a-fish-story). She let me choose to write about loneliness in Frankenstein and always encouraged student choice in writing. My year with her, as well as my senior year with Mrs. Lambert, convinced me to go to Clark, to major in English, and to be a teacher. I felt “sure” for the first time with
Education is the most powerful weapon in which you can change the world and teachers have that power. In school I always had a hard time with math and I never really had any teachers that cared to help me. My freshman year of highschool I was put into an Algebra honors class. Mrs. Ahlbrand was the teacher that finally cared enough to help even though, she had a million other students. She is the one teacher that has helped me through my toughest subject. She’s also helped me with my future classes.
“Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.” - Henry Brooks Adams. Starting at an early age of four, I could always see that my teachers had an abundant amount of passion for their students. In the first grade, I was put into a resource class mainly for my inchoate reading ability. I was always a little embarrassed that I couldn't be in the classroom at the same time as the other students. This changed as the years went by due to the relationship that my resource teacher built with me. Not only did she teach me how to read, she helped me understand why being able to read was so important. Some of the lifelong lessons she taught me were based on building my confidence, and showing me that i should never be ashamed
Most parents believe that participation in extracurricular activities affects a child in a lot of good ways. My parents were no exception. After school, I was always being driven from piano to basketball to swimming and so on. At the time, I thought I was the world's busiest kid. But after all these years, I can easily see that I have gained some really important benefits from those activities. Playing the piano is probably the greatest benefit.
The English Teacher, by Indian novelist R. K. Narayan, tells the story of a young professor, Krishna, who must adapt first to family life with his wife and daughter and then to his wife's death. This short novel, written in simple prose, examines many large issues--love, death, loyalty, fate--but always with equanimity. Krishna teaches himself, and the novel tries to teach us, to be, as it is put by the novel's last words, "grateful to life and death."
When I was younger if you asked me what I want to be when I grow up becoming a teacher was the last thing on my list because I hated school and wasting my time learning things. I had a normal ghetto mindset that school wasn’t for me and I didn’t need it to be successful until I went into the sixth grade. I had a teacher that really showed me interest in my learning to make me a better individuals and a grandmother who never let me give up. From that year forwards but a few years later my grandmother past which was devastating me to the core just all of the lessons and the motivation for a time was drained right out me. Then on day my mother asked me “how would mama look at the way you’re going in life”. At that moment I told myself that I’m going to be better than everyone before me and lay the foundation of my education in my family. There was many less my grandmother instilled in me but the most important was her love for the intercity youth seeing the joy that she gained from showing the children love an teaching them she always said that all children can learn but only a special ...
When I was growing up, I remember attending elementary school, learning a new language seems to be difficult at first, but I was able to learn the English language because of the dedication of one of my teachers. Now, as I reflect on this experience, it is obvious that she was dedicated and enjoyed teaching her students to be successful. I know today that she made a difference in my life as I navigated through my education experience and high school years to present.
As I reflect upon my academic experiences and consider my “favorite teacher”, one person, in particular stands out in my mind. My high school math teacher, Amy Hoag, is by far one of the greatest instructors and sweetest person I have ever had the opportunity of knowing. She not only made math fun and easy to understand, she also invested herself into each and every student. Every single one of her students adored her because her love for us was so very eminent. She made a huge impact on my life in high school and I am very thankful for that.