What was it about your favourite school teacher that was so inspiring?
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Pedro was my drama teacher. The first class I took with him, I was scared of him. I was a really shy girl, I didn't have many friends and I never participated in school stuff. I was just scared. But that class in 8th grade helped me deal with so much, I changed. I took 4 more classes with him after that first one. I discoverd I coud talk and speak my mind, I learnd how not to let myself get pushed around, and I discoverd so much more in school than grades. In my senior year I was in 5 clubs including drama, student council, SADD, Oratory and National Art Honor Society. Now I'm in the bes university in all latin america and I'm studing comunications! Thanks to that teacher I discoverd my voice and that it can be heard if I let it.
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The best teacher is the one who find the way to teach everyone on the best way, easily and making things to look interesting and fun. The teacher who can make everyone to open their mind and look forward about what they supply like information and who can make their lessons to look also useful for the students life.
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I've been teaching for nearly 11 years.\n\nStudents generally like the fact that I'm willing to have an honest sense of humor with them on their level.  They also know that I am willing to allow them to have some space too.\n\nMy personality is a bit playful most of the time.  I guess this has a lot to do with the fact that I enjoy doing what I do, and the students know it.
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My hero is Thomas Alwa Edison.Because he has done many things for a better world.Electric blub, Gramophone,film projector and sound recording device are some of his great inventions done for the mankind.
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The person that inspires me the most is Dr.Kiran Bedi.\nShe is the 1st lady IPS of india she has done that which an indian can only dream of ,making world a little better
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I had an amazing english teacher who taught us Shakespeare.  He would make us read all the 'little parts' while he did the 'big parts' with this fantastic accent he made up depending on the role.  He really 'owned' the material and knew stories very well that he made a lasting impression on me and to this day I love Shakepeare.\n\nI think, though, that all the teachers who made lasting impressions on me had one thing in common - they all passionately loved the material they taugt, from history to math to english or art.  It was their love for the material that influenced me to learn more about it.  That kind of excitement for something is catchy.
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Keep it simple. Who do you want to thank? Do you have any words of humor or wisdom? Teachers usually are great people to thank, and they appreciate the recognition.
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My SCITT interview (6yrs ago) was no different from a regular interview for regular jobs to be honest.\n\nWhy do you want to be a teacher?\nWhat characteristics would you take to any school?\nStrengths/weaknesses?\nWhat motivates you?\nHow do you relax?\nThe favourite question of - where do you see yourself in 5 or 10yrs?\nTeam player?\nShare experience & skills?\nWhat in life do you enjoy?\nWhat would be a good lesson in your eyes?\nThe ability to 'PLAN' & manage your time.\n\nMore importantly for SCITT was that they were looking for 'real' experience that could give you the edge in the classroom - what could you give that a 'I've always been a teacher' might not be able to the classroom.\nMany pupils turn-off because they think that school has nothing to do with the real world - hopefully you'll be able to tell them that it does! (Many of the kids I teach find it wierd that I've had different jobs before being a teacher - from working at KFC to Managing a team of 80 & a budget of £00,000's)\n\nI hadn't had any 'teaching' experience before the interview but did play on my sport experience - team player, enthusiastic, energetic, winner, coach etc ...... even though it was an ICT SCITT.\n\nDress - It's an interview, so dress smartly/professionally! Many schools are now making an issue with not only the pupils uniform but the slothes the teachers wear!\n\nFinally. A lot of teachers that we have interviewed at my school recently and even a trainee teacher I supervised this year have failed to get their message across simly because they were so 'flat'. They showed no emotion, and this doesn't transmit well to kids (or observing folk). Animate yourself (not too much - don;t want you flapping your arms around and smiling like a loon) and look interested in what you are telling people!\n\nJust try and have fun, smile, look confident and don;t be afraid to ask question.\n\nI'm just about to finish my 5th year as a teacher. I'm no longer teaching ICT as my core subject & am now the Head of Business Studies.\n\nThe one thing I remember from my mentor as a trainee was 'don't lose who you are - remember you are nickthesurfer' ...... I've always been known to my friends as nickthesurfer & had an appropriate email address!  Sounds like an odd thing to say but he was right. School can be hard work but I make time to surf, mountain bike & have a lot of fun.That way I go back to school (usually) with enthusiasm, energy and a WANT to teach!\n\nAs a teacher you have two side - the teacher and 'you'!\n\nps. 5 years in & I still like teaching :)
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Because teachers are human beings and they don't always do the right thing. Teachers will have favorites, but a good teacher doesn't reveal who his/her favorite is.
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How can we help you if we know nothing about the teacher?  Would it help you to know why I liked my favorites?  OK:\n\nI had a history teacher in junior high who had us act out little scenarios from history, to make the whole thing seem real.  That was very good.  One of my math teachers used to give use wonderful little math puzzles, including some that were extremely funny, like those based on the works of Lewis Carroll.  My favorite French teacher gave us little gifts for spelling bees, and I won a package of five tiny (sample size) bottles of real French perfume!  My Latin teacher had us reading the "naughty bits" in the old bawdy Latin plays, but that was in college, and we were all very mature.\n\nGenerally, the teachers who put some creativity into the classroom, and who draw creativity out of their students, get the best ratings and teach the most.  But the other thing is the teacher to expects a lot, but plays fair.  My sixth grade teacher gave us lots of homework, and graded exams very uncompromisingly.  But she always answered the questions we had, and never played favorites.  She just imperiously assumed we all had the ability to learn, and would not accept laziness.  The lazy students hated her, but the ones who wanted to learn, learned a lot.  She was also very systematic, did the same pattern of exercises every day, so we always knew what to expect.  We had ten questions on the blackboard to write down in our notebook to answer in history and social studies; we had 20 vocabulary words in spelling, ten sentences to diagram in English . . . does anybody diagram sentences anymore?  Sometimes a very old-fashioned teacher is the one from whom you learn the most.  (Not "the one you learn the most from," because a preposition is a bad thing to end a sentence with!)
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you know what, it is good for a teacher to praise his or her student because they can motivate there student to do well. However, its unethical for your teacher to show to her student that she or he has a favorite. Because it so unfair to the others who are much dedicated to their studies.
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I'm a teacher myself, and my role-model was one of my elementary school teachers. \nShe was kind and compassionate, but strict - no sympathy when homework wasn't done (without a valid excuse). On providing an excuse, she'll go to the trouble of helping you catch up on late homework.\nShe had all the time in the world for the "not so intelligent" student who tried hard. Lazy ones often got a talking to - not an angry talk, just one to explain why students had to do homework/study for tests (to get ahead in life). And most often it worked!\nShe lived for her students. She'd make house calls on sick students, bring extra sandwiches for the hungry ones, listen to the sad ones' woes, and know each child's ability and potential as if she had godly insight.\nI'm trying my best to be like her. It's hard, but not impossible. But isn't that what role-models areall about -  show you it's possible with hard work.
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I believe, given a school with good art teachers, that one can aspire to great opportunities in the creative field. I have certainly seen this to be the case during my time teaching. I taught Mathematics which is an important subject for much of ones aspirations of higher education which is why it is considered a vital part of the curriculum. Equally creativity is encouraged where a child shows promise in that field. I was also qualified to teach art, science, design, technology and many other subjects and found huge satisfaction in developing knowledge but with art it is a matter of encouraging and developing skills which is quite a difficult process as I believe true art comes from the soul. Hence I had immense admiration for those art teachers who were able to encourage the youngsters to perform to a high standard.
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Someone who went to school and listened to what his teachers said.
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I HAD A CRUSH ON MY TEACHER WHEN I WAS IN THE SIXTH GRADE OMG TEE-HEE I STILL REMEMBER THAT TEE-HEE
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Mrs Evans was my Senior English teacher. She was funny and tough and inspirational. She set her expectations of us high, and in trying to reach them we accomplished far more than we ordinarily would have.
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Schools that  have good teachers and also attentive students