what are some good things you remember about a teacher?

[datasuspect]

mrs. phillips in first or second grade.

thinking back on it now, she was probably a hippie (this was 1975) at some point.

i remember her taking out a guitar and singing cat stevens songs to us. we'd sing along with her. peace train and shit like that.

i remember wanting to marry her.

[QMPMom]

1. Mr. Stansbury and Mr. Hopewell. High school English teachers.

Owensville Public School, Owensville, Indiana.

They were very supportive and encouraging in my efforts with creative writing. Those two men were (and are) wonderful teachers.

[Rabbit of Caerbannog]

2. Mrs. Winnick. She had a GREAT set of

globes - earth, mars, etc... I just couldn't keep my eyes off Mrs. Winnick's globes. (sigh...)

[crim son]

3. I had a great seventh grade teacher.

He was personally very interested in archeology and he had us spend half the school year creating our own miniature dig scenes. We literally spent afternoons making the tiny clay pots bits of jewelry, creating fire pits, utensils and what have you. Eventually we buried these items in layers in a shallow box, and then made the scene look like an untouched landscape. Then, we dug it all up, very slowly, learning about how this is done in the real world, etc. etc. It was fantastic! The second half of the year we spent recreating King Tut's tomb, including a life-size sarcophagus. I made one of the golden statues of Isis from paper mache... she was almost as big as I was.

That guy inspired in me an interest in ancient cultures that has never left me. What the heck was his name? He was something else.

[Kajsa]

4. Mrs. Hernandez and Mr. Dunn,

Two of my HS English teachers who opened up the
world of literature to me.

Mrs. Hernandez taught " The Bible as Literature".
This was back in 1968, I don't think that class
would fly now. But I could be wrong.

They were my biggest inspirations to study literature
and later become an English teacher.

[LaurenG]

5. Coach Ron Logback

He taught history and coached the varsity teams along with boys PE. A very good and fair person. He made us laugh and he made us work. We honored him for homecoming by decorating his old truck. He made us (4 friends and myself)wash it. He had us meet him at the school at 8:30 on Saturday morning.