!! CONTEST !! @ little shop of vapors !! Remember that teacher ? !! CONTEST !!

[BoomBoom65]

Did anyone have that one teacher who made a difference in your school days?
Made a good difference is what I mean.
Post about it.


(1) posts per member - any more than (1) causes disqualification
Please number your posts
Add a bit about why or how that teacher helped you in what way.

Please do not post about teachers who were negative in any way - just positive differences or experiences.

Contest runs to 100 posts.
Every 20th post receives a $10 coupon code from little shop of vapors.
Please do not share that code - it is for this contest only.
Thank you.

When the thread hits 100 posts - not one more - a random generator will chose a number from 1 to 100.

The poster with the post corresponding to that number wins a $50.00 gift certificate to little shop of vapors.

Good luck to all.

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[NancyR]

1. ok might as well help kick this off.

I had a 3rd grade teacher, that made a big difference in my life. One thing he was the type of teacher that he visited every students family to see what type of home life the kids all had with his own eyes.

Then he took time to work one on one with any of us if we needed help in something. He also found fun ways to teach us things, like the day we made the 10 foot long banana split, or showing us how to care for the plants in the class and teaching about how they cleaned the air we breath.

Another thing he did which I have never seen another teacher do, is once a week he would have us do some minor little assignment, that we had to write with our other hand. He didn't care if it looked pretty or neat, just that we put in the effort. His reasoning was you never knew when you might break a wrist and have to use your other hand.


edit to add: Thank you little shop of vapors!!! You guys are great.

 

[Jenavieves]

My Grandmother and Grandfather were teachers at Woodward. I would sit at the table doing homework while Mom(grandmother) cooked helping me do homework. The time and patience they had for everyone is amazing.

 

[lettucehead]

Thanks for another fun and interesting game!

My 10th grade English teacher was one of my hardest and most demanding teachers.
I actually had to WORK in his class - he would accept no less.

At the same time, he was encouraging and nurturing.
He sandwiched his criticisms with comments like, 'I know you can do this because you are so smart!'

I never really had been pushed before.

I adored him...

 

[davelog]

Mark Van Hughes, my 7th grade reading teacher. Mr. Hughes is the man who taught me to love reading. Before his class, reading was a chore - but he had such an infectious passion for the printed word that we all caught the bug from him. At the beginning of the year, he was assigning books to us to read. By the end of the year, we were assigning books to him.

I've had a ton of forgettable teachers, and a handful of memorable ones - but Mr. Hughes was my favorite, and many decades later I still think about things he said regularly. Thanks, Teach.

 

[Ratman]

5

Ms. Galusha, 10th grade competitive speech teacher. Taught me to love me for me instead of worrying what others thought about me. This was an invalubale lesson for a sophomore starting high school and all of the peer pressures involved with that environment. No one can truly love you unless you can love yourself. Life long lesson that helped me be the confident man I am today.

 

[Loveridden]

Well, I hope this counts, not actually my teacher but part of the school staff - he was a school counselor and he really helped me get through some big things during my teenage years - he was also very helpful with suggestions and resources when I got pregnant. I was in touch with him a little for awhile after high school but we got out of touch eventually. But last year he saw my half sister at a dance at another school and that asked if she was related to me because of her last name and they chatted for awhile. I will never forget him, he was so nice and helpful and I don't know if I could have made it through that high school without him!!

 

[sugismimi]

Oh Mr. Clark was the one for me.

I always wanted to be a writer, maybe a journalist, I grew up during the Vietnam War, and the older I got , the more disturbing it was for me.

let me back up a minute,

Mr Clark, was a bell bottom wearing, long hair, fu-manchu mustache, kinda guy. One that would not be accepted in todays standards or so called standards of what a teacher should look like.
He was short, which didn't bother me, because I was short also, and he didn't intimidate me, I was VERY SHY my first few years of high school,so his stature was a good thing.

All the classes from waayyyy bbaaackkk then, aren't as memorable as his English class is to me today.

He would still make us look words up in the dictionary, and write 3 sentences using that word, we all thought we were too old for that, but the words we had to learn how to use were words that would be important as we developed our adulthood.

Okay so that was history there,

There was a journalism contest, with in the school district for high schoolers, we could report on anything we wanted to.

only limitations we were given , It had to actually be current news.

I wrote about all the Vietnam War violence, but Mr. Clark asked me to participate in this contest. Remember i said i was shy, and knew I could noway in hell get on the stage to read my article..

He kept on me, just write something, lets see what you come up with.

After several drafts, He said he thought I had something worth sending in.

He proofed and asked questions, never letting me give up, taught me a lot about patience and self respect.

My article made it to the semi-finals, but I didn't go any further. I only had to submit and read to a small panel of judges.

I still to this day remeber the opening paragraph, it was moving and chilling in my descriptions. but that's what Mr.Clark said would make it good reading, dig down deep he said.


That experience taught me so much, and gave me some real security in who I was and who I was able to become.

 

[ogredog]

I had a real cool physics teacher he made learning fun. He wasn't Bill Bye but he brought school to life Mr. Mcdougall.

Always made exploding stuff lol

 

[Bad Wolf]

post number 10

My high-school English teacher Ms Hacket made my life entertaining while at school. She was a Dr Who and Red Dwarf fan like I was and it was always a blast to actually chill with a teacher. Even went to her house on many occasions to relax. Needless to say my mother always thought something else was up

 

[windy33]

Mr Smith my french teacher for 3 years in high school he was pretty old at the time and he had so much patience with everyone also why I still love toblerone chocolate!!

 

[thehangdude]

I had a good swim coach and a good music teacher, but the one I liked best was my senior year psychology teacher. He may have been a little odd, but it was in a good way.

 

[BonnyC]

# 13

Hmm, I've had a lot of great teachers in my time. The ones that stick out most in my mind were my English/Literature teachers.

In my senior year in high school, my English teacher was Mrs. Thomas. I'll admit, I was probably a little full of myself. It was a college level class and I always excelled in that subject.

She was a teacher who always taught by the book, so to speak. So she would claim that this short story or that poem meant or taught whatever the textbook said. I challenged her a lot and always thought she hated me.

At the end of the year, she took me to the side and told me to never stop challenging people if I don't see things the way they did. That has always stuck with me

Sent from my A100 using Tapatalk 2 in the ballroom with the candlestick

 

[ZooKansas]

Had a teacher from 3rd to 5th grade who was just awesome. She made sure we had at least two pencils everyday. Well, I forgot it once and was genuinely disappointed. She didn't single me out though, and instead provided some encouragement for it to not happen again. Flash forward, and I find myself to be very thorough with my belongings before I leave the house, etc. Especially useful now that I have so much vape gear to pack with me. Thx

 

[dcav]

Ms. Fairchild, my seventh grade science teacher. She was so open minded and interesting. She ventured far from the boring textbook lessons and taught us some useful or just mind bending stuff like the way color and light work. She was never judgmental or talked down to us. I learned so much from her.

 

[Hillbillie]

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Loved Mr. Ahre. He was just great fun! Used to bring his guitar in to class (we're talking elementary school here) and would sing and teach us John Denver songs and the like...

When I was an itty-bitty boy
Just up off the flo'
We used to go down to Grandma's house
Ev'ry month end or so....

Come on now...you sing it!

 

[AutumnWolf]

What a great idea for a contest! I had a teacher in 8th grade - her name was Mrs. Mueller. One of our assignments that year was to write an autobiography - not just fluff, either - she would not accept that. It had to be a true, in depth story of my life. She made me realize a lot of things about myself that would have taken me way longer to figure out. She was an amazing strong woman and helped me to believe that I could be an amazing and strong woman too!! Thanks Mrs. Mueller - wherever you are!!

 

[Racehorse]

#1 I had an art teacher in college who told us that by the time we were in 5th grade, children have already been "told" that they are artistic or not. This, based on how realistically they could paint, draw, i.e. horse looks exactly like a horse, etc. Also that children who "color outside the lines" were also told they were not artists.

Well, she wanted to throw that whole idea out. One of her rules was that you can *never* throw anything away that you did in her class, that everyone had artistry.

I had never drawn or painted anything. I took the class due to a heavy schedule and figured it'd be an easy credit, since my courseload was all heavy political science stuff.

Of course, I tried to paint something, but knowing nothing about color theory, when I placed paint over other paint, I got some kind of brown. It was awful. And since I can't draw, my painting had to be modern art, i.e. nothing conformed to reality.

I rolled it up and hid in the garbage can on the way out.

Several weeks later, figuring I had not been "caught", the teacher, who showed her work in many art galleries in the area, called me out in front of the class. I thought: uh-oh.

As it turns out, she had taken my ghastly painting out of the garbage can, had it framed and mounted, and threw it in with her own work in an exhibition. She presented me with a $200 check, because AT&T Corporate office in the area had bought it for their conference room.

Indeed, she DID teach us that we are all "artists". And brought it home to me for sure!

I hope it is still hanging.

 

[grandmato5]

Mrs. Smith, my high school business teacher will always be one of my favorites She was a hard teacher but you left her class knowing that you had learned something and once out in the real work world you really appreciated everything she did to prepare you for real life after high school.

 

[Odium]

Mrs Clarkson had just bought a new bedroom set for her son but he didn't like the waterbed so she playfully said she should just give it away and buy him one he chose for himself.... I said I wanted it and she later asked her husband and then called my dad to have us go pick the queen size waterbed up along with matching dresser and everything else! Was a cool little memory from 9'th grade : )