Favorite teachers

She sounds like a remarkable lady and very insightful. I went to catholic school and so Sister Gemma, was unusual nun for the time. She really did not live in judgement of others. There was one teacher, who since he had my sister for math just assumed I was bad at math. In actuality my sister was not bad at math until she had one truly terrible teacher. Anyway this other teacher assumed I would bad at math because my sister was. He taught the more advanced for fifth grade and Sister Gemma taught those who were not as advanced and needed a little more help. The problem was I was great at math. So while she had her class divided into two groups, those who could do math but needed to work at it, and those who were really struggling to get a c. I ended up in her class in a corner by myself, and tended to get about five or ten minutes a day with her for math one on one. Example was one group might be on page 10 the second group was on page 17 and I was on page 30. She realized with only a few explainations to my questions I could basically do most of the work in the book on my own. For this reason she allowed me to jump ahead and work at a pace that was natural to me. She was very good at adapting to the student rather than assuming that the students all fit the labels that many teachers might want to put on kids. One of the guys in our class was a lefty, since he sat next to me, I heard some of hoe she helped him. Rather than go with the idea that a left handed student should conform and either learn to use his right hand or that writing was the same with the left hand as it was with the right hand, Sister Gemma was ambidextrious she taught herself to use both hands and was able to then give tips to kids who wrote lefty rather than force them to use the other hand, How many teachers learn to develop other skills so they can help their students? She practiced what she preached, and despite being a catholic nun, she actually said the words "I don't care if you are a good catholic or not, I care if you are a good christian, do you follow the teachings and ideals of tolerance, compassion, caring, trying to help others, to not judge others, etc" Then she gave us a lesson on the first day of class, when we came back with our information she then made a point of showing us that the lesson wasn't so much about the topic, as it was that we saw that different wasn't right or wrong but just different. So that we could accept others for who they are even those of different religions. Then she shared within her history lesson another important lesson, showed us how to look at things from different perspectives, try to take issue in our life and then balance it by arguing the point as if you were arguing for rather than against the issue, so you can see if from someone elses point of view. So to some degree we were in the labels and pigeon holes that the system tried to use but she didn't stick with them when she thought her students needed more. And by example we learned to walk your talk live by what you say, that your actions speak for you, amazingly she remembered every one of her students, I had her when I was ten yrs old. I saw her again when I was a teen, and I was moving rather quickly to get where I was going yet just in passing she knew who I was. Even if she wasn't a teacher she was an amazingly remarkable woman, an example to anyone on what it is to be a great human being.

i had a couple of favorites in grade school. was real fond of my 4th & 5th grade teachers.after i got to hich school wasn' t too fond of any of them. typical teenager, i guess.

I really enjoyed my early grade teachers. I loved my Kindergarten teacher. She was patient and very supportive with all of us. I think all of her students really adored her. She was fun to be with and she really had us engage in really enjoyable things. My first grade teacher was fun but I can't really remember too many things that she did that stick out in my mind. My second grade teacher was OK. She wasn't terrible either. We liked her but she sometimes did have moments where she was 'mean'. I liked my third grade teacher a lot too. We had really fun lessons. We were able to have a show and tell week where we could do fun things. We also collected stickers every month for certain things and then were allowed to choose one thing from a box of items that she kept in her closet. As I got older, I started to care less and less for my teachers. They were harder to connect with and weren't as fun. School started becoming less fun the older I got.

Yes i had a couple of favorite teachers when i was in grade school..One of my favorites was Mr.Boyd, he was a guy but he was a very good teacher and i will always remember him......

It has been so long since I went to school, I am not sure if I had one or not.. I do remember a teacher in the third grade??, I think it was the third, she was trying to get us to learn to count to 5 in Spanish, we got ice cream if we did and if we counted to 10, we got strawberries on top of the ice cream.. Uno, Dos, Tres, Cuatro, Cinco, Seis, Siete, Ocho, Nueve, Diez, can you tell that I got my strawberries on my ice cream.. My son also had a few great teachers and I did love them dearly, he was home schooled for awhile because of having Tourettes Syndrome, but was in regular school most of the time and he had the most wonderful teachers in the world..

My favourtite teacher is a middle-aged man who taught Chinese when I was in a normal school. He was very intelligent, versatile and had a wide range of knowledge. I really apprecite his wits and his lecturing was so lively, philosophical and got the most attraction from us.

I had a favorite teacher too when I was in Grade 5. she was so understanding but she is firm with rules. That is what I like with teachers. The one who is kind but strict to the rules. Consistent and firm. I don't like teachers who will always give in to the wishes of the students. I don't learn from them. Kind and firm is what I like and I've seen that in my Grade 5 teacher.

Hello dfollin1 I have many favorite teachers. Well, I remember one teacher of mine in Elementary and she is Mrs. Anita Nieves. I love her because she is strict inside the classroom but when after the class, she treated us like her own children.