<p>Hey guys im just really curious about who your best and worst teachers were (not names) and what made them do great or so bad?</p>
<p>Best - By far, the teacher I had for Principles of Engineering my junior year and will have for AP Physics and TA my senior year! </p>
<p>He helps me all the time with pretty much any class I need it in - Calc, Physics, Chem, even English and Spanish. He has absolutely no obligation to help me, he doesn’t teach these classes. But he gives up his time before/after school and even his plan periods to help me. The week before AP Calculus exam he stayed after school for two hours to help me practice. The day of the Calc test he brought me breakfast 
Seriously, no other teacher has helped me so much! </p>
<p>He explains things in a way that makes sense to me, especially with math. He doesn’t just rattle off a bunch of steps/formulas or solve the problem and tell me the answer. He asks me what I think I should do, explain WHY I do each step, shows exactly why the formula is useful, etc. I don’t have superficial knowledge of a topic. Unlike most students, I have a deep understanding of the stuff he teaches - I don’t study for a test and forget it all immediately after. </p>
<p>Also he is perfectly okay with me hanging out in his classroom whenever I want! I hate band, so most times I just go to his room instead and do crap on the computer. He’ll change my absence from unexcused to excused so I don’t get in trouble. It’s always a bonus to know you can skip class and not get in trouble, lol. </p>
<p>Worst teacher is probably my Algebra II teacher. The first day of the week was a strict no-teaching day. We would take a 1 or 2 question quiz so it didn’t look like he was neglecting his job completely, but the remaining 75 minutes of class was spent discussing his new hairstyle (he had his hair restyled every Sunday, he was obsessed with his hair). We actually got a participation grade for contributing to such discussions… Other days he would teach, but not very well. It was definitely an Algebra II Lite class. I did good on his tests but nearly failed the state assessments and struggled a lot in pre-calc/calc because we didn’t cover half the normal curriculum. He was just not very effective… at all.</p>
<p>I guess I’ll go. </p>
<p>I’ve liked every single one of my teachers so it’s really hard to choose: </p>
<p>Best-My Honors World History. She was a new teacher and was really crazy. Shes basically a 30 year old virgin and milks an invisible utter when no ones looking… But she was super cool and would have like Spaz attacks and gave so much extra credit. She gives you 20 points extra credit just for completing one worksheet and for her multiple choice she would give one obvious answer and 3 answers like, my dog started WWII. </p>
<p>Worst-Geometry Teacher: He just sat in the corner and tried to figure out his phone. He never taught us once and we had to read the book and figured it out. Everyone hated him. I ended up liking him because I talked to him everyday after school and found out he was really lonely and he basically promised me an A</p>
<p>Best: honors geometry
Worst: french</p>
<p>My Spanish teacher was also pretty cool, she hooked up with a new guy every week and was super young and into yoga. She loved to talk to us about her life but basically said were all idiots</p>
<p>Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuump</p>
<p>Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuump</p>
<p>My best teacher has to be my AP US History teacher. I’ve posted about him before, but he honestly is a fantastic teacher. His class is hard, mainly because he runs it on on a schedule and if we don’t explicitly cover it in class, tough toenails, the tests are on schedule. He also is the Key Club adviser as well as the gifted adviser, so I’ve become rather close to him–I can talk to him about nearly anything. I actually spend three hours of the Relay for Life (from 3 to 6 AM) just chatting with him while walking around the track with his kids and wife. I’m going to miss having him for class, but I’m editor of the Key Club, so I’ll probably be in his room a lot proofreading and editing every publication about the group or hanging up flyers announcing meetings.</p>
<p>Worst teacher…hmm…My 10th grade Honors English teacher wasn’t the best, but she’s such a nice person and I really feel bad when kids take advantage of her. She always told us about how bad her Journalism class was.
The teacher I had for Honors Algebra II and Honors Chem in 10th grade was interesting. He, especially in Algebra, didn’t do much actual teaching. We basically were to go over stuff in the textbook, do the homework sheets, and then ask him questions. He would give us pretests before each section that, if we did well enough, would give us 100% for the quiz grade and advance us to the next section by yourself. By the end of the year, there were 5 kids one section ahead of the rest of the class, and then me, two sections ahead. I was the only one who got to operations with logs. Did I mention the class was almost every single sophomore in the highest math track? 27 kids. I think that is the largest class I’ve ever been in.
Chem was just, ugh. I don’t even remember much, just the one time I had a 33% because I was at Regional Band and he forgot to put something in I turned in and I couldn’t remind him. I almost got a C that quarter, but extra credit bumped it up to an 83: A B minus.</p>
<p>I guess he was the worst teacher I’ve had.</p>
<p>Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuump</p>
<p>Best Teacher: My Math Analysis teacher from 10th grade. She was amazing. She explained everything so well and she’d always give you extra help if you needed it.</p>
<p>Worst Teacher: My World History I teacher from 9th grade. He basically just taught us to how to pass the Virginia SOL. He didn’t prepare us for the next year’s AP World History class. All we did in his class was watch movies he said was “educational” but they were just total crap.</p>
<p>Best teacher would be my modern world/gender studies teacher. She was (well, she still is!) absolutely incredible. Spot-on sense of humor (always snarky, never sarcastic, except sometimes), very knowledgeable and dedicated. You have an obscure question about X event in history we barely mentioned in class? Well, she’d sit you down at any time outside of class and explain it to you, and if she didn’t know the answer she’d do her best to find it for you. She was full of incredible stories, and loved talking about the years she studied abroad in London and Prague (she brought in photo albums!). In Gender Studies she let us have a lot of control of the class and no topic was off-limits. She was very honest, always giving us her opinion with the disclaimer that her opinion/thoughts weren’t always the right one, and our class felt very safe (to express your opinion). We got to bring up our own topics/news stories and talk about them, and she would lend anyone books, movies, etc…she introduced me to some incredible topics I might not’ve found on my own.</p>
<p>On a more personal level, she was my hero/role model/guidance counselor/friend all rolled into one. Always available to talk before school (although i’d tease her because she was always late), after school, during free periods, etc…she would let me stay in her room until 2 or 3 hours after school talking about things I was stressed about, doing my homework, just chatting, stuff like that. She was never able to help me with my math homework because she wasn’t very good at it (I did simple addition for her 
) but she was always willing to look over my writing for other classes and help me with my college apps, and send me to the right person when she couldn’t (this is one of the things I respected about her the most - she didn’t give us BS answers if she didn’t know but she would find someone/somewhere that did). I can remember tons of times where I’d be in her room, freaking out about a test or a quiz or OH GOD A GUY JUST ASKED ME OUT! WHAT DO I DO??? or talking about my serious family problems/stresses. She was also really open about her own life which was surprising because she didn’t share a lot of info with us in class. Pretty much, we had a strong bond.</p>
<p>She’s pretty much the reason why I’m going to college (going to her alma mater, haha). I hadn’t done well at the start of high school because I was too busy worrying about my family life and blowing off my homework. I couldn’t get myself motivated, but she was patient and gave me chances to make up work and helped me get my thoughts together. I used to procrastinate on writing assignments in particular because I would get awful writer’s block and get stuck on prompts. Even for my midterm paper in gender studies I had the same problem, but she’d snap me out of it and get me to look at the “big picture” if you will. She helped me feel confident, like I was capable of doing the world, and developed my passion for school and history…got straight 100’s in almost all of my history terms until the end of high school. I love her like I love my own mother.</p>
<p>The short of it is, now I’m giving back and I’m majoring in history and ESL education. She’s going to a college down the road to become a social worker. She’ll be absolutely fantastic. Thanks to her, i’ll be fantastic too. We talk all the time and i’ll definitely be turning to her for teaching advice. :)</p>
<p>Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuump</p>
<p>My best teacher is probably my AP Stats/Honors Precal/AP Calculus BC teacher (yes he teaches all three, and I’ve done really well in all of those classes). </p>
<p>My worst teacher is probably my AP Physics C teacher. I haven’t learned anything new all year, and have basically resorted to self studying (which I suck at). Only 2 people out of my entire class of 20 is planning on taking the AP test, which is pretty pitiful for a AP class. (Note everyone in my BC class is taking the test, and almost everyone in my stats class took the AP test).</p>