<p>The math teacher I've had for the past two (and now with senior year, it'll be three) years.</p>
<p>He barely counts homework as part of the final grade and the class basically consists of passing the tests. He's also super chill about us asking questions and gives us about 30 min. (out of an hour and a half of class) to work on the classwork, most of which we just use to talk whatever.</p>
<p>Rest of y'all?</p>
<p>I had a Spanish teacher that would dress up in different costumes on random days to help us learn the words. He would spray water on the people who fell asleep or weren’t listening. He made the class interesting, in that we would play games. For example, when we would learn new vocabulary, we would compete with someone else in guesing what the word was in Spanish. if we got it right we could shoot a ball into a box. In addition to that he dressed up as Frida Kahlo for Halloween, unibrow and all:)</p>
<p>My 11th grade physics teacher. We didn’t learn ANYTHING about what we were supposed to learn, but the exams here are pretty much copy-whatever’s-written-in-the-textbook.</p>
<p>The thing about him: he actually made physics fun. And when we had a test for something else (say applied maths), he’d actually take time to explain stuff to us. From what I’ve heard, he’s taught the seniors history and economics, he sometimes does maths. He’ll always turn something into a joke and give us random facts from almost every branch of physics or maths that somehow tie in with what we’re doing. He gave us a full class on the golden ratio along with some mathematical history, took the time to give us advice on college and NEVER gives us homework. NEVER. He wouldn’t remember even if he did.</p>
<p>I’ve had a ton of awesome teachers in high school! There was only one bad one and she was a complete and total bit–. Haha. I did have one teacher who was a total sweetheart like in your bff/grandma type of way (do those two even go together?). Anyways, at the end of the year she looked at the grades out of all of her classes and whoever got straight As, no A-s, including the midterm received an award at the junior awards with a $10 gift card to Borders attached to it. I just thought that was so awesome of her to spend her own money like that, especially since 10 kids got it. I mean 100 bucks for your students as a teacher is a lot. Then she’d always have hot cocoa for us and bought our entire class these expensive gourmet lollipops from a fundraiser that a student was selling and just stuff like that. Not to mention an EXCELLENT teacher despite being a really tough grader and she encouraged everyone’s opinions and supported them. Then even if you answer with something she wasn’t looking for, she’d always keep an open mind and be like, oh I see where you’re coming from, I never thought about it like that, excellent idea! etc etc. I love her.</p>
<p>My AP Euro teacher last year. </p>
<p>She was a great teacher & really funny. She always made class fun & even sometimes brought in snacks for us, likes brownies… at 8 in the morning. She supplied us with coffee too!! Besides the actual learning part of class, she always started great class discussions. For example, one day before class we spent 30 minutes talking about cats. I believe the first thing mentioned was Hitler… & that eventually led to cats. Now that I think of it I don’t see how that happened, but it was funny. Right now my schedule doesn’t have any of her classes, but I need to change that!</p>
<p>my instructor at math camp. halfway through the camp he told me i should relax and do math for fun, instead of doing it to impress him. and guess what? i did.</p>
<p>i don’t know where i’d be without david kelly. probably slaving my ass off instead of enjoying life. he’s certainly the reason i’m a math major. he convinced me to like proofs and arguments, and actually like them, not just say i did.</p>
<p>I had mostly ****ty teachers in high school.
My best teacher was my 8th grade Algebra teacher. He was awesome, I think without him my math skills would not be as strong as they are now.</p>
<p>My music teacher has to be one of the greatest people I know.</p>
<p>Debra LaFave. She gave me a “head start” before class every morning.</p>
<p>All 3 of my elementary school teachers were awesome. I had one bad one, but she sucked, so I left her class after a year and she doesn’t count.</p>
<p>I have 3 best HS teachers:
AP Art History: She’s amazing. I pretty much want to be her. She’s so organized and just the way she is, it’s so right. She’s very orderly, and yes, if you’re late 3 times you get a detention, but it never feels like a punishment. She’s not taking anything out on you and she never would. She wrote letters home to my parents pretty much every month saying what great work I was doing: “She’s a superstar,” “She’s my only student to ever get a 100% on this project,” “She earned A’s on all her tests this quarter,” “She got the highest grade in both classes on this.” She took a personal interest in our lives, asking us questions before the bell. She’s intelliggent - not that my other teachers aren’t, the very much are - but her intelligence, and eloquence is sort of striking. Ms. W is the nicest, basically most perfect person I’ve ever known.</p>
<p>Modern History 9 Honors: He was so much fun! Learning never seemed like work. Of course there were days, quite a few, where we actually didn’t do work, and played Trivial Pursuit for Extra Credit that was so minute as to be meaningless. He brought in sweets sometimes, just to be nice. He was really laid back, a modern hippie to some extent. And he was addicted to coffee, but made pots for all of us (and there were 80 of us). But mostly, he made us all love Modern History. When I first joined Facebook, all of my friends were the 80 people from Honors and nearly every one of them had Modern History under their interests or “I love Modern History” in their About Me’s. And quotes were always from the class. He was a really cool guy.</p>
<p>Chemistry AA and AP: I’m so happy that I get to have him for two years. He’s really funny, and everyone adores him, which I’m guessing doesn’t happen with every teacher of such a hard subject as AP Chem. I remember, for a while he was sick and all of us just kept begging him to stay home, not because we wanted to miss a day of chem, but because we wanted him to feel better. But he only misses Jewish holidays. I think we also like that he’s a middle aged Jewish man and his favorite type of music is hard '90s rap, like Tupac and Biggie. He’s really smart, double majored in Bio and Chem at WUStL (he’s secretly like half the reason I’m interested in the school), and took enough French to speak it fluently. And he knows Hebrew! So he’s just cool. He teaches everything without a textbook, just because he’s so great at it. He makes sure everyone really gets everything to the fullest of their ability, and is willing to help, after school, before school, lunch, like a lot of teachers aren’t. He also sponsors the Community Action Team and is basically the only teacher who comes to our events, so I feel like he’s a good person too.</p>
<p>You were 14 in 2004???</p>
<p>I always considered my first grade teacher to the best teacher I had, but in hindsight, I realize that my mom is the best teacher I’ve had. I’d been struggling as a reader in first grade, but my first grade teacher encouraged my mom to read with me which greatly improved my reading skills. :')</p>
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<p>No. I turned 12 in 2004. Where’d you get that idea?</p>
<p>^ Nah I was responding to Arachnotron, who referenced something that happened to a 14 year old in 2004.</p>
<p>my bio teacher that graduated from Columbia. I think he was a klutz, but i thought he was awesome. not only was he a great teacher but he had a secret life of his own that made us even more curious about his personal life. despite his nerdiness, he was really into rock music and i guess thats what i really liked about him.</p>
<p>sophomore chem teacher was amazing. I got 800 on the SAT II chem test without much external studying on my part. 'nuff said</p>
<p>Most, if not all, of my teachers were/are awesome. In the past year, most particularly my U.S. history and precalc teachers. Honors/AP history classes in my school are total btches, but you end up learning more than you do in other classes because they’re harder than other classes. My precalc teacher was hilarious (not in a way that you’d expect) and made things clear, so you can’t expect anything more from a teacher.</p>
<p>my algebra 2 teacher, he was really nice to the good students. I only saw the “bad” side of him when these students didn’t turn in their hw and whined to him about getting bad grades (when it was obviously their own fault). He told these cool stories and made jokes. He helped people understand things first before making us do homework. He did all of this so we could learn, not just to get a good score on SAT’s and whatnot. He believed in teaching us things for learning. So he is the best math teacher I ever had.</p>
<p>I had a Jamaican biology teacher with 12 fingers who was my favorite. I’ll never forget him and his dangling sixth finger on each hand – complete with a full nail. I used to get distracted in class staring at it.</p>
<p>He was awesome though, really funny and one of my favorite teachers.</p>