Re: Best & Worst School Teachers
The worst teachers I had was for PE. I was never any good at sports, but there was this culture which said that if anyone wasn't any good at anything, they would be ignored, shouted at and just told to 'run around' out of the way somewhere and only those who were in teams of sorts would get the benefit of thier attention. We were never asked to get involved with tennis, rugby or any track games.Re: Best & Worst School Teachers
At my school we had as separate lessons English history which was taught by a Mrs Rogers who I 'll never forget used to wear twin suits and one time she stood on a chair and while pretending to give a speech she raised her arm in the air to demonstrate a point and we all saw the huge safety pin in the side of her skirt, thought that was so funny,Re: Best & Worst School Teachers
The Best -- All my English teachers were wonderful - Mr. Bishop, who had been a conscientious objector during World War 1 and had joined the Canadian Army as an ambulance driver (so he could do his bit without killing anyone) and who had shared time as a POW with the US poet e e cummings (he of no capital letters or punctuation). Mr. Bishop made Chaucer exciting and I can still quote great chunks of his work; Tom Barnes - a handsome, saturnine figure who could reduce the hard cases to tears with a few well chosen words and who introduced me to the delights of Shakespeare and Conrad; and Alan Taylor who just instilled us with a hungry enthusiasm to learn - anything and everything.Re: Best & Worst School Teachers
Best ever was my art teacher, Ernie Tindale, for 5 years in high school. I went on to study at the Ontario College of Art thanks to his influence.Re: Best & Worst School Teachers
All that I can remember really are my last school, apart from my teacher in Dale in Pembrokeshire when I was 8, probably the happiest of my life as a child.Re: Best & Worst School Teachers
Teachers are so important but I wonder if they realise how much. The most important quality of a teacher for me is communication. I had an Irish lady teacher to teach English, she had the gift of the gab - I was enthralled listening to her as she mixed stories with the teaching, looked forward to the lessons. The others, were dull and unable to sum up enthusiasm....Re: Best & Worst School Teachers
My favorite was Mrs Grigg my English lit teacher ... she was fun encouraged to read out of my comfort zone and to write my own storiesRe: Best & Worst School Teachers
There ya go Bags, they have such influence on us and so they should - they 'are' important. Your English teacher sounds like mine, they bring the best out in you... For me it was the French teacher that was a negative influence, never took to French 'cos of her, she was also French.. Fortunately, never needed to - unlike yerself...Re: Best & Worst School Teachers
I think that I must have been quite lucky with teachers, most of them were good exept perhaps for one we called Min; she was a vicar's wife,a very nice person, taught (?) English was totally ineffectual and luckily we moved on.
|