From the article: My Best Teaching Experience
Teaching can sometimes seem like a thankless career. However, every once in awhile something will happen in a class or with a particular student that helps you remember why you began teaching in the first place. What teaching experience has inspired you? Share your experience so that others too might be inspired. Share Your Experience
Thank you
- I am 15 and in high school. I'm not a teacher yet, but I have wanted to be since I was in Kindergarden. This story just inspired me even more to become a teacher. Everyone always says "Why would you want to be a TEACHER?!" And I don't always have an answer. But now I know for sure that teaching is my calling. When my friends need help with math or english, I tutor them and they always say "You should be a teacher!" If I could help just one chid like you did, I feel like my life would be complete. So thank you for giving my self-esteem a boost and making me see exactly how much of an influence teachers have on students all over!
- —Guest Ms. Ebel
Very grateful to share!
- Teaching is a daily challenging work. It is a very demanding profession but it's worth being committed with it.It requires different attitudes necessary to improve one's life and help the learners' be fulfilled. As teachers, we need be responsible, hardworking, enthusiastic, creative, self-controlleed,organised, disciplined, collaborative, shrewd, devoted, fair, willing to interact! By feeling so, we are really able to share "many best teaching experiences", I believe. We have treasured many! That's why we keep reading & writing about it. Despite being retired (from classes), we try and keep updated with ICT and Education, which is fascinating! We also go on exchanging ideas with ex-learners, and want to know from each other. Sincere congratulations, dear Melissa Kelly, for your Blog. Keep up your good work!
- —Guest
a successful teacher
- a teacher must be hard working and must be patient
- —Guest braveheartgh95
Inspirational!
- I am a student-teacher at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. I found your story very inspirational as I often struggle to deal with defensive and sensitive children. Irealize that they have personal battles and are often products of dysfunctional families, but providing that one-on-one respect and communication with them can make all the difference. I thank you for sharing and motivating my teaching approach. All the luck for future lessons.
- —Guest Salz
my best teaching experience
- I am in teaching for 30 years and four years ago I started a new subject at school.My students were very excited and with the help of an organization they researched and produced a video which won a national award for environment.They were so highly motivated that this made all my years seemed so worthwhile
- —Guest Janice Richards
Teaching "Home Burial," by Robert Frost
- In my novel "Saving Miss Oliver's, I wanted to show the great skill good demands, the kind of sensitive decision fine teachers make, minute by minute, to engage their students. So I "stopped the plot" to show the main character, a master teacher, engaging a class of ninth graders with "Home Burial, by having them act it out. Francis, in a way, stands for all teachers, and this is one of his greatest days. If you are interested, you can find the passage on page 160 of the novel, which is set in an all girls' boarding school. www.savingmissolivers.com
- —Guest Stephen Davenport
Tyler
- You handed Tyler the permission and the strategy to control his own behavior. Suddenly he had control. No longer had to fight against you, the controller. Great example. Thanks
- —Guest Stephen Davenport
My 4th year class IV Bravery
- It all happened during my off campus teaching. I am placed to Victorino Mapa high School.I enjoy the time I teach my students because I see their willingness to learn and recognize the importance of the subject. I see the improvement in their scores because of the result and now they are in college. I hope that they will succeed in their own lives.
- —Guest Jayr L. Beterbo
