Giving a Teacher His/Her Due

Teaching is a very rewarding experience. But like anything else that is rewarding, it also is very demanding.

A teacher is at fault if s/he does not do his/her best to help the student become all he is capable of becoming. The teacher's goal should be to become dispensable to the student. That is, the teacher should want to be outgrown by the student. The teacher should strive to provoke the student to think for himself!

The teacher's thoughts and presentations should be pertinent and applicable to the student. A lesson should be offered as stimulus to the students growth.

A true teacher is a very special person!

I was blessed by several great and special teachers over the years. In another posting later I will tell you about my first algebra teacher. Today I will simply mention my favorite, the one to whom I became the closest as I grew into adulthood. Her name was Edna Earle Tucker, I was in her class in fifth grade. But she taught me for years after that!

Who was your favorite Teacher? Why?

James 3:1 "Not many of you should act as teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly!"

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I had some truly inspiring teachers and also some real stinkers.

Submitted by Hatsrus on Thu, 2007-05-17 14:53.

A gifted teacher's work lives on long after them.

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that is true, hatsrus

Submitted by Familyfunandfaith on Thu, 2007-05-17 15:23.

and the reason many teachers went through the strains of teaching.

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I wonder why some schools

Submitted by imaauthor on Wed, 2007-05-16 18:06.

run off their best teachers. The High School where I llive has run off some of the best teachers I have ever known. One was a band director who always had at least 30 to 40 and sometimes more who placed in the conference band and all region band. The other was a historty teacher who actually made history come alive. Even the bad kids didn't act up in his class because it was so intersting, they listened!

The school ran both teachers off. The school hired another band director as lead director and his ideas were in direct conflict with the existing band director. As it turned out after they lost the old band director only 6 students made it to the conference band and less to all region. The history teacher was told he would have to change his teaching methods and teach for the Texas Exit Exam which meant teaching only long dry lists of dates and events......Gee....whatever happened to teaching?

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Educrats and school politics have nothing to do with

Submitted by Familyfunandfaith on Wed, 2007-05-16 20:43.

teaching children! Such things as you describe are so exasperating!

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A bit staggering

Submitted by Elly on Wed, 2007-05-16 19:28.

and short sighted.

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I wrote about my special teacher

Submitted by Elly on Wed, 2007-05-16 15:19.

in this post I do think a good teacher has an amazing affect on people, but sadly I think there have been more teachers who have left their students permanently scarred by the experience

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Elly, it is a shame when a bad one ruins all the work

Submitted by Familyfunandfaith on Wed, 2007-05-16 16:34.

on many good ones!

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Yes, in the end I had the last laugh

Submitted by Elly on Wed, 2007-05-16 17:30.

though.

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I'm not sure

Submitted by djbtol on Wed, 2007-05-16 14:57.

about who my favorite teacher is. Let me make a related comment. As you were describing the way a teacher needs to challenge and provoke the student to think, I was thinking how that takes energy and an active mind.

When a teacher has been around for awhile, starts to lose interest and energy, lives more aware of school politics and generally suffers bad moral - they are not so likely to be intellectually stimulating to the students. Am I right, or am I missing something?

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I think you mean "morale"

Submitted by Elly on Wed, 2007-05-16 17:29.

although some do have bad morals. I think it is a very hard profession and there needs to be incentives and rewards for doing well. Also they need to constantly upgrade their skills and do personal development. I think there was little of that in the "old" days.

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