Teachers who were awesome

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I had some really good teachers at times, that more than balance out the rotten ones.

My Kindergarten teacher was great. She was very nice and kept good control of the classroom without being harsh. She could speak with command authority but not in a mean way.

My Grade 2 teachers were cool too. One was a substitute because the regular teacher was in the hospital (She was really sick for months. I don't know if that had anything to do with it but it turns out she was infertile)

My grade 5 teacher loved my writing. She was an older lady, probably late 40s early fifties. I remember writing the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe fanfic and her saying how good it was.

My grade 6 teacher had also been a substitute while I was in Grade 4 and she was pretty good. Though I did get in trouble a few times due to ASish behavior that she interpreted as rudeness, she never held it against me. She invited myself and several of the other girls over for a sleepover which I know was in December because the very next day I had to go to a Christmas Concert practice. She's still friendly with myself and my mom, and although she's been to China for a while to teach, we still keep in touch.

My grade 7 PE teacher ended up marrying my Grade 6 teacher. He was very nice. The only thing I can fault him for was the one time only the boys played basketball while the girls sat around and did nothing. I wanted to play and the teacher said I could but the boys refused to allow it. Though I don't think the teacher knew that they refused. The rejection alone of not being able to play just made me wanna go sulk on the side of the stage.

my Grade 8 homeroom teacher, who was also my Grade 9 art teacher, was really cool. She was nearing retirement and she was very nice.

My Grade 8 Core English teacher was awesome. Unlike the b*tch from Enriched, he had an easygoing manner with an underlying no-nonsense attitude.

the Grade 9 Science teacher I had was cool as well and had a great sense of humor. It was in this grade class that I found I could actually hear slightly higher than the "normal" range of human hearing.

My grade 10 Social Studies Teacher was good, and he had a philosophy about grammar that I had to agree with. He said he loved to argue with the english teachers about the phrase "I ain't got no pencil" which is a double negative. He asked them, "Did you understand what that sentence means?" They said yes. So his response was "What's the Problem?"

My grade 10 English teacher, who I also had for Grade 12, was the best English Teacher EVER. He was of Ukranian extraction, though he had no accent, but he told the greatest most interesting bits of trivia you ever wanted to hear. This was a guy that made Julius Caesar, MacBeth, or whatever novel-of-the-month interesting. Some kids didn't like him but I found him fascinating. We even had Trivia contests and I usually won. When he found out what the kids in the class were doing to me when he was out of the room he blew up on them. I'm just sorry I wasn't there to see it. From all accounts he reamed em out real good. I have to wonder if he was AS or on the spectrum. I ran into him randomly a couple years ago but forgot to tell him of my diagnosis.

My Grade 11 Biology Teacher was also very cool. He has a scottish accent and listening to him talk about Planaria and Holothuroidians was music to my ears. And he managed to make it amusing as well. I got him again the second time around for Biology 12, the year after I SHOULD have graduated.

My Grade 11 French teacher was also cool and nice. Her class was always well-regulated and a delight to be in. The Grade 10 French teacher that I had, in contrast, was always pressuring the students that "we are blahblahblah pages behind the 'other class'. When I told the Grade 11 French teacher about this, she said with a smile, "We ARE the other class." Hehehehehe.

My Grade 11 English Teacher was awesome as well. A very patient man, he knew my uncle. He gave me a small plastic toy bull that I have to this day.

My Grade 12 Economics Teacher was also fun. He was friendly and had a great sense of humor, and would tell us things like "You can open your own little restaurant, call it the 'Greasy Spoon' XD He had a VCR TV setup in his room most days, and I'd bring videotapes of She-ra (recorded from YTV) to watch a bit of before class started. If I'd had videotapes of Transformers I definitely would have brought those too.

In High School (and I think Middle School too) there was a periodic Substitute teacher who was probably one of the best teachers I've ever seen in my life. He was an older man, properly retired, but who substituted very well. He always announced to the class in a matter of fact way that he was a former Army Drill Sergeant, so if any kids had any ideas about acting up in his class he could pretty much blow them out of the room (with his voice). I liked that guy right away. He'd tell amusing stories, like how in Manitoba they have the "Ukranian Stop Signs". There are a lot of Ukranians in Manitoba apparently, but the reference is to the bilingual stop signs. "Stop/Arret" (Arret is stop in French). SO it looks like the stop sign is saying "Stop already" with a Ukranian accent.

I had a nice form tutor in years 4 and 5. She didn't shout at me for things I couldn't help or make me go outside at breaktimes and she provided me with lots of good books to read.

My English teacher in year 7 was very cool and everyone liked her. She gave us a lot of interesting work and even allowed me to write about Pokémon. At one point we had to do creative writing homework and one of the options was to write a walkthrough for a made-up video game. Mine ended up being 22 pages long because I got so engrossed in it but the teacher didn't penalise me for that. (She accidentally gave me a "level 22" when marking it because she had been counting the pages)

My chemistry teacher in year 9 was good. She did a lot of practical demonstrations and made the subject seem exciting. She also gave extension work to people who were good at chemistry so that they wouldn't get bored. It's a shame she didn't teach me during my GCSE years because the teacher I had instead was mind-numbingly boring and the only reason I wasn't put off the subject was because I knew from experience that it could be much more interesting.

My science/physics teacher who I had from years 7-11 taught physics well (he wasn't so good at teaching biology or chemistry when he was our overall science teacher in years 7 and 8 but they weren't his specialist subjects). He did set unnecessarily massive amounts of homework every week, and he was ridiculously strict about people doing the "right amount", but in class he was a good teacher. He used a variety of techniques to suit visual, auditory and kinaesthetic learners and he asked questions which the whole class had to answer, preventing people from dozing off during lessons.

My computing teacher in years 10-11 acknowledged when people did well, unlike many teachers who were being overly politically correct to the struggling students. He also made sure everything was clear and often asked me if I fully understood what we were supposed to be doing because I'm not very good at following verbal instructions.

I had a different art teacher in year 11 to the one in year 10 because she retired. The new teacher was a 500% improvement on the last. She took a genuine interest in people's work and made suggestions on how people could improve their pictures, which is more than can be said of the teacher before her, who simply checked that the work was done and gave it a mark. She also gave everyone a lot of useful guidance for their coursework, so at the end of the year lots of people achieved the top grade. And she wasn't stingy about praising people, either.

My art teacher from high school, Mrs. Cowells.
She was very sweet and had a nice British accent. I was more of a friend to her than just a student.
Mrs. Cowells was the only teacher I was open enough with to talk to about my Asperger's. She was actually very interested in it and told me that if she hadn't become an art teacher, she would've wanted to be a teacher for Aspie children.

I have a few great teachers in my educational career. My high school US/VA teacher, Ms. Hill was one of my greatest teacher because I loved her teaching style and attitude towards teaching the subjects in class.

My year 4 maths teacher, she was amazing. I remember once I wasn't feeling that good and when I rung my mum she wouldn't let me go home so I went to maths and hugged the teacher because I was upset, she didn't hug me back and the class were shocked at that for some reason, oh well I didn't mind she was one of my favourites.
My year 6 teacher was pretty cool, Mr. Mayland, he was really nice. There was also a sort of retired teacher at junior school called Mr. Turner who did lessons sometimes and assemblies, everyone liked him and so did I. The thing I remember most about him was his thick eye brows that reminded me of an owl.
My nursery teacher Mrs. Rammel, she also used to take me to visits to the high school I was going to after year 6. And also used to talk to me alot out of lessons in year 6 too, she was nice and fun to be around.
Year 7 maths teacher, we didn't learn much but he was still awsome, he used to tell us loads of stories about his family and the children he fostered, sometimes his stories took up half of the lesson maybe more.
Year 8, 10 and 11 RE teacher, one of the reasons I decided to take up RE in college. He could control the class and wasn't to strict or nice and every one like him and he got loads of respect from the pupils and stuff, his lessons were always the best.
Year 10 and 11 English teacher, she was awsome and really opinionated which was really cool. And doesn't censor what she's saying and isn't scared of speaking her mind, and reading books in English was always fun because she had alot of insightful comments and made valid points. And she said everything with attitude and was really witty and always had the best comebacks when it came to the cheeky members of the class. Once she accidently said "tough s**t" to someone in my class, that just made her more badass for some reason lol.
One of the learning support staff in highschool, Mr Jones. He's popular with everyone and also acts like one of the kids. He also used to mentor people in lessons and stuff and people tended to enjoy his company. He used to tease me and my boy best friend saying we fancy eachother and stuff, he was funny though.

The best teachers evah!...


...Well, Mr. Baron was the BEST!! !! He might have been an Aspie himself (I'm not alone in my opinion on this). He had the wackiest (and therefore the best) sense of humor, he was obsessed to the max with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Monty Python, and Lord of the Rings more than ANYONE else I know ('cept maybe Zach, when it comes to the latter two). Though I'm not interested in Buffy or LOTR and I only occasionally like Monty Python, Mr. Baron's obsession with these things entertained me in such a way it made me laugh - in a good way!!

- The best Mr. Baron moment I remember is this - David, a guy in my class, brought in this newspaper ad for a "Fact or Opinion" assignment we had back in (I think) 8th grade, but Mr. Baron just saw the front of the ad and jokingly remarked, "David. This isn't a fact or opinion ad. This is an ad for women's underwear!" The whole class burst out laughing for what seemed like a full 10 minutes!! !" He loved messing with David - there was another time when David just couldn't keep himself together in class (he was often like this, actually), and Mr. Baron showed him a children's book called "David Gets In Trouble". This time, only David burst out laughing. I thought it was funny, too, but I only laughed for about a minute.

Some others? Well there was Bart Edelman, my poetry and creative writing teacher at Glendale Community College. I suspect he might be an Aspie, too (though I don't know anyone else's opinion on the matter). He was an absolute eccentric and has made this impression on pretty much everyone he's met. When meeting my stepmom for the first time, she remarked that Mr. Edelman was like "a cartoon character". And that assessment isn't too far off, either - if anyone's ever seen the "Family Guy" episode with Peter's old teacher Mr. Fargas, Mr. Edelman is pretty much like that, only he doesn't have to take any medication to control his eccentricity - his eccentricity can ONLY do good...well, for me anyway. There was also this time I was walking out of a doctor's appointment or something, and Mr. Edelman JUST HAPPENED TO BE AT THE PARKING LOT THERE!! ! And he shouted my name REALLY loudly. At first I didn't know who this was, but lo and behold it was Mr. Edelman, and he couldn't have been happier to see me. My mom thinks its no wonder I like him so much!! !

Honorable mentions here go to Dr. Nivans (History of Rock) and Mr. Eberts (Mass Communications), both of whom were teachers at GCC, and they were pretty much like the two I mentioned above. Goofy and not afraid to show it!! Eberts, especially, he often used really lame puns to describe many of the things he taught for the day. Some students thought he was kinda loony for this, but I understood he was using a "so-bad-it's-good" technique to teach the class.

I thought I'd mention my female teachers I really like after I mentioned my male teachers I really like, 'cuz I tend to feel different connects to them than I do my male teachers. It's nothing to do with gender bias or anything, it's just that my male teachers I like the best are usually the ones who are complete and utter goofballs, whereas the female teachers I like the best are usually more warm-hearted and nurturing (EMOTIONALLY nurturing, in case those of you who are pervs thought it was the "other" kind of nurturing, lol ) Ms. Haywood was the first female teacher I remember really liking. I met her when I was in 10th grade. She always seemed to be more sympathetic to me than to the other students (in fact I'm thinking now that one guy in my class, Andrew, might have been jealous of the attention I got from her, 'cuz he didn't like her that much even though I saw nothing wrong with her). She was pretty, but maybe it was also the fact that she liked punk rock music and wore fishnet stockings that also attracted me to her She also wore glasses, which is a DEFINITE bonus as far as I'm concerned, and even her FIRST NAME was beautiful (Corrina, which apparently was named after a Bob Dylan song).

Ms. Malik was another female teacher I met in 10th grade. She had this exotic, curly red hair, a sweet, melodious voice kinda similar to my most recent teacher crush, and she loved a lot of the movies and music that I did! Heard she went to a Green Day concert once! (I know there are several haters of GD now, but I'm guessing that's due to their last two albums, the first of these two was brand new at the time I first met her). She was also a very loving, generous person and that just melted my heart (don't read too much into this, I'm merely using this as an expression for emotion - NOTHING more!!)

Ms. Guthrie (currently known as Mrs. Lazer, but I MUCH prefer her maiden name, lol ), was ALSO a female teacher I first met in 10th grade It kinda seemed like there were MANY guys at my school who had the hots for her. She often wore (slightly) more revealing outfits than a lot of the other female teachers at my school, and only looked about 5 to 10 years older than we were, so these might be major reasons why!! She was a very nice person, full of energy and humor, almost like a "perky cheerleader" type, only not conceited, and instead just generous and kindhearted

In college, a female teacher I've really come to know and like is Ms. Lott (or Professor/Doctor Lott, even calling her by her first name, Petra, seems fine with her). She teaches a lot of the linguistic subjects at my current college (which, BTW, is NOT Glendale Community College). She seems to have a lot of common interests with me regarding not only linguistics, but also music (she really liked my Elvis Costello T-shirt I've worn to class a couple times), and from what it seems like, I've given her more insight into Asperger's syndrome. It's WAAAAYYY cool that she seems to think that this aspect of me adds to my positive side of my personality!! ! I've sent her certain poems that I did in my Poetry and Creative Writing classes and she really liked them! She also has a great (and diverse) sense of humor, always a plus for me!! She's also one of the smartest people I know!!

I have had many, many teachers in my life. Some of them were horrible, some were fine, and some have been pretty great. But the all-time best? I have waited my entire academic life to have a teacher who encourages scientific thinking, thinking in general, and who is as excited about learning as I am. A human being who makes some sort of sense to me. I've got it now. An Aspie, you ask? You bet.

My eigth, biology and chemistry teachers were amazing. They are some of the smartest and brilliant people I will ever meet.

All of my college instructors, my grade 10 math teacher who was also the vice principal, my grade 11 physics teacher, my social studies teacher in grade 11, my grade eight math and science teacher, my grade seven teachers, my grade five teacher, my two grade four teachers...I repeated the fourth grade due to being away in the Philippines for months, and my grade three teacher.I had some bad teachers in my younger years, but overall the teachers were all pretty good...I went in the catholic school system.