Happy National Teacher's Day

[FHwku]

i wouldn't have known, if not for Google's holiday art. so thanks, Google.

and thanks Mrs. Johnson for teaching me that coke and saltines would settle a tummy ache in the 5th grade.

and Mrs. Don-Wooten for being a passionate history teacher.

[mmcat]

i'll remember the saltine trick. i had a sick one yesterday and we tried sprite and gum. didn't work.

[AOIIsilver]

Thanks to Mrs. Pop for teaching me how to make goo in chemistry class.
Thanks to Mrs. Shasteen for being so compassionate in 6th grade.
Thanks to Mrs. Knies for understanding my high school science project.
Thanks to Dr. Popsicle for being the best mentor that I could have ever wanted.
Silver

[honeychile]

Thank you to Mrs. Pedersen for teaching me think imaginatively and that creativity is the better part of intelligence.

Thank you to Mrs. Bridges, my sixth grade teacher, who insisted that we all learned the Greek alphabet backwards and forwards, "Especially for those who are going on to college".

Thank you to Mr. Bradley, who infused me with a love for language.

Thank you to Mrs. Schull, who daily said to me, "Procrastination never was a virtue of maturity."

Thank you to Dr. Taube, who continually believed in me and defended me when necessary.


And thanks to all of our GreekChat teachers, for instilling knowledge to the classes of tomorrow!

[smiley21]

I am a future high school English teacher!!


I want to thank Mrs. Dunne, my middle school English teacher, for being my friend

I want to thank Mrs Paxton, my 6th grade teacher, for being so awesome. I loved hanging out at your house and going to concerts with you!! I miss your cat

[AGDee]

Thank you Mrs. Butler for being so compassionate, nurturing and for fostering my ambition in first grade, especially on St. Patrick's Day when I came down with chicken pox and was so miserable. I was lucky to have you for both first and fourth grade!

Thank you Mrs. Given for supporting me in the writing contest even though they disqualified me for being too good and saying that a second grader couldn't have written that poem. I still have the bound book of that poem that you put together for me.

Thank you Mr. Masi for all that you gave to the Spanish program, the Spanish Club and the unforgettable trip to Mexico City in 11th grade. Thank you for always trusting us, treating us as adults, and giving us so many experiences like: skiing, horse back riding, canoeing and teaching us to make homecoming floats. I'm sorry the Anthropology class treated you like dirt. Your Spanish classes had so much respect for you and you never had to discipline us, but in that Anthropology class there were too many yahoos who took advantage of your kindness.

Thank you Mr. Anderson for not letting me drop Calculus my senior year because it was 'destroying' my GPA. So I had one B+ instead of all A's, but you were right, I had to learn how to study and think before I got to college. I hated you at the time, but appreciated it when I had anatomy and neuroanatomy in college.

To my son's teachers: Miss Slade (kindergarten) and Miss Edmonds (3rd grade, current). Thank you for understanding my son. Some teachers think he's just a smart aleck, but you understand that he's very logical and practical and doesn't mean to undermine you when he's just using his logic. Thank you for finding ways to challenge him academically and giving him individual attention.

Thanks to all teachers who are making a difference in our children's lives and preparing them to take care of us and take over our society in our retirement years! You face more challenges than teachers did in the past with school violence and unstable families on the rise. Don't give up!

Dee

Thank you Mrs. Edwards for teaching me how to write the bes research papers ever!
Thank you Dr. Myers for your fascinating views of political science and making it one of my passions in life.
Thank you Mrs. Thompson for being the best first grade teacher ever.

[ZTAMich]

We all got a letter from the NYC Schools Chancellor today. Big woop. But still nice to be appreciated.

Thanks to my Pre-K teachers (Aunt Evey, Nadine, Joanie Yup we called them "Aunt ---" not "Miss ---") , your creative ideas I "borrow" now in my own classroom! You taught an only child how to share and get along with others. You helped lay the academic foundations for the rest of my schooling.

Thanks to Mr. Durcan my 5th grade teacher who had our whole class learn how to touch-type. A skill I use every single day. You are missed.

Thanks to Mr. Loewing my 8th and 12th grade French teacher for all your support and patience. I will never forget your nomination letter for the 8th grade Good Character award.

My HS science teachers, Kusko, Reddy & Bott for never giving up on the blonde girl who can't remember an elemnt from the periodic table, law of motion or biological system to save her life! Yet, somehow I passed all three Regents exams!

Thanks to Mrs. Hempson my 12th grade Early Childhood teacher who helped me KNOW what I wanted to do when I grow up.

Professor Brown who during 3 different English classes at Moravian helped me really learn how to be a writer.

Thanks to me fellow teachers up in the Bronx...ya'll make coming to work fun!

[KSUViolet06]

*Thank you Dr. Winebrenner (Women's Lit) for helping me realize my potential in the English field and giving me the courage to switch over from education.

*Thank you Mrs. Williams for introducing me to Greek Life at age 5 and being the best kindergarten teacher ever.

*Thank you Mrs. Stone (AP English) for preparing me for college. Your class was probably harder than both my freshman English classes together.

*Thank you Mr. O' Neil (12th grade World History) for making me not hate history so much.

*Thank you to Mrs. Graichen (Geometry) for not failing me! Thank you to all the other people who ever taught me in math for being so patient with me.

*Thank you Ms. Halasa for believing in me and giving me a better grade in Bio than I probably deserved.

[citydogisu]

This is the list of teachers who influenced me to become a teacher:
Mrs. Eddy, 5th grade main teacher, Iowa History teacher, West Marshall Middle School
Mrs. Patton, teacher-aid, West Marshall Elementary & Middle School
Mrs. Quick, math teacher, West Marshall Middle School
Mrs. Anderson, history & geography teacher, West Marshall Middle School
Mr. Lease, science teacher, Northwood-Kensett Elementary School (was my Cross Country coach)
Mr. Peterson, science teacher, Northwood-Kensett Jr/Sr High School
Mr. Gaard, american history/american government teacher, Grinnell-Newburg High School
Mrs. Wagner, English teacher, Grinnell-Newburg High School
Mrs. Peterson, sociology/ancient history teacher Grinnell-Newburg High School

It's amazing how I cannot remember the names of the idiot teachers that hindered me in life. Like the math teacher at Northwood who wanted me to not take math my junior year so that she would not need to make a second-semester final exam when I took "Senior Math" (aka Advanced Algebra or Algebra 2) as a junior and everyone else in the class would be a senior.
Or the person who thought that when I was completing all my work quickly in 3rd grade that the solution was for me to go to the library 2 or 3 times a week to play computer games instead of either advancing me on to 4th grade for the subject area (social studies) or all areas, or giving me additional work to complete.