EDHS Contemporary World Affairs

MrsCavalluzzi · Guru

If You Can Read this, Thank a Teacher. No Seriously, Thank a Teacher

MrsCavalluzzi · Guru

I am crazy thankful for my fourth grade teacher (from Sierra Vista! Go Eagles!), Mrs. Gleason. She made social science so interesting and really loved her students. When we studied the Gold Rush, she had us turn our classroom into a mining town! We traded off being the workers and the miners - when it was our mining day, we panned for gold, took our gold to the bank to exchange it for $$, and then spent the money in the town. I am now a social science teacher in no small part because Mrs. Gleason made me love the subject so much. And then at Tuffree, my seventh grade Geography teacher Mr. Perry was equally caring and equally enthusiastic and it made me love social science that much more. Every year, I hope in some small measure that I pay forward some fraction of the gifts that they gave to me :)

Kristen Lindner · Veteran Member

One of my favorite teachers that really inspired me is Ms. Ray, now Mrs. Worthington at Tuffree Middle School. I had her for both 7th and 8th grade science. She made me get excited about learning and that science just isn't boring. She was just a really nice person too, because my mom worked with her in the science department I got to know her really well. She has a heart for teaching and for dancing. You could tell she was always happy to be at worked and loved her job. I wish she taught in high school, I might have continued with more science. But she inspired me to never give up. And reminded me you have to work hard to acheive your dreams. I really miss her, and I'm excited she got married in the past couple of years and is still working at Tuffree!

-- Edited by Kristen Lindner on Wednesday 9th of October 2013 05:50:56 PM

Dane Ransom · Veteran Member

I would have to thank Herr Myers, the German Teacher here at El Dorado. He has taught me not only a brand new language to me, but he also taught me skills that I have already put to use in my other classes and life.

damaris_cgomez · Veteran Member

I am extremely thankful for Mrs Ross. I had the privilage of having her both freshman and sophmore year. Even though i don't even have an art class this year, i sometimes like to go sit in her 6th period to talk. She's known me for so long and i see her as someone to look up to for advice.

kyliemoore · Veteran Member

i would have to thank mrs.crays she was such a great teacher to me and helped me out alot in math. for the longest time i struggled and she always pushed me to do my best.

Lia_Love522 · Senior Member

I honestly cannot pick just one teacher because so many of my teachers have inspired me in many different ways. Though the one teacher who has probably inspired me the most in the most well rounded way would have to be Mrs. Amann. I had Mrs. Amann as one of my Academic Decathalon coaches my freshman through junior year and she made such a huge difference in my life. As an awkward geeky band-o freshman I was looking forward to the next four years being strictly band 24/7. I wasn't looking to join Academic Decathalon in the first place and only went to the informational meeting because my mom said that I should. It was Mrs. Amann who convinced me during that first meeting to join. She was so full of life, personality, and she showed that she truly cared about every single one of us even though she'd just met us. The best part is, it wasn't just a facade to get us to join, that's just who she is. Over the past 3 years she has coached, challenged, encouraged, and even gotten on down us during all our study sessions and even outside of them. I will always love her "love notes" that she would send us with reminders and words of encouragement and the occasional scolding (that still somehow managed to sound loving). She has challanged me to push myself in ways I never imagined through OCAD, particularly in speech. I see OCAD as just another family and she really helped keep us all together. She encouraged our craziness and need to have fun (even if that ment wearing football jerseys, war paint, and doing rally cheers at competition when all our other counterparts were nose deep in study materials). I know she is always there for a hello and one of her fantabulous smiles and even if I needed someone to talk to. Even though she isn't coaching this year *sad face* I know she will always be our biggest supporter and motivator. She is truly one amazing person and I'm so glad I joined Academic Decathalon or I probably never would have challenged myself academically or personally in the ways that she did. Mrs. Amann is truly amazing and there aren't enough words to describe how great she is and how everything she has done has made me a better student and person. I know this is my last year but I know as I go on a part of me will always keep Mrs. Amann with me, she is just that fantabulous.
-Sidenote- I think too many times students feel this great indebtedness about teachers, myself included, but we never manage to tell them so I love this opportunity to get to do so.