People have been complaining about their teachers a lot. But good ones do exist, and they make a huge difference. To give credit where credit is due, let’s hear about your favorites and what they’re doing right.
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mrs. bookbinder, mr simms-smith, and… i think thats it.
anyways, they totally rock.
Why? What do they do that makes them special?
oops-its ms bookbinder-she’s not married.
well, its the way they communicate with the students. and the way they also don’t give hordes of hw and yell at people.
I had this really great teacher in first in third grade. She’s so nice. We had popcorn parties and dressed up for Dr. Suess Day and it was just a really fun class. I learnt a lot. She’s actually my neighbor, too.
Mrs. Reiss
Featherstone. Dur. I ranted about him earlier, if you really feel like it go through the archives. I think it’s one of the monthly threads, or maybe school (the first one, the one spleled rong). What he does that makes him special-coffee. Coffee is the key to his success. Coffee turns him into a reasonably controlled ranting lunatic who knows a lot about history. (the interesting type, not the textbook stuff). All hail…FEATHERSTONE’S COFFEE!!!!
Schneids rocks too. Schneids teaches concert band, marching band, and jazz band. He’s short and funny in a rather lame way, and is a band teacher (band teachers usually rock. It’s pretty much in the job description, although there are some who don’t i guess…)
Doc is amazingly froody too, although i don’t actually have him. He teaches latin II, and he’s subbed a few times. He does more of the roman history type stuff…if you think featherstone tells interesting stories, wait until you hear doc. Besides, after pautsch you’d love any latin teacher.
That’s about it. Nolan’s cool, but he’s a librarian, not technically a teacher. The rest of them are reserved for less admiring rants.
Last year I had an awesome English teacher. They got everyone to participate in class discussions, and they made good editing comments. Unfortunatly, I didn’t appreciate them until this year when I have a less than great English teacher. My fifth grade teacher was pretty cool too. She was really funny and sarcastic, which is a quality I always enjoy in a person.
fourth grade- mrs. bevis….. when we were studying hawaii we had a hawaiin luau…. coolest day of my childhood life… lol
i still am a child…… sort of…… w/e….
me humanities teacher.
he= froodilishiously flambsmbously froody.
he nice, he allways explains everything, he acts like my class is eqally intelegent, he allows us to make up all homeworks for ful credit, he likes us and him to overanylyze everyhing. he also likes muse. in short he is like the GAPA. very muserish
(7) as your spiffy english tacher would tell you, th correct pronoun is he or she, not thy. yes, i am on the annoying kyboard with th sticking ‘e’ ky.
I only have one teacher: Ms. Jan, my speech coach. She’s pretty good. Sometimes she’ll go overboard and absolutely rip speeches aparty and hurt feelings, but she’s really nice. She really cares about all of us, she knows how to tell us what to do, and she really knows how to make the speeches work. We’re one of the best speech clubs in our region because of her. She might be tough, but she’s good. Sometimes she’ll go through a speech line by line and tell you exactly how to say it, what wording to change, where to look. It makes our speeches great. And she knows how to tell us what to do. And she’s a great leader.
my mostest favoritest teacher was my 6th grade social studies teacher.
Mr. Sims is the mostest cool person i’ve ever met. He has a a good sense of humer and is very sarcastic. if someone in one of his classes misbehaves he will threaten to toss them out the window or cut off a arm or leg with the rusty saw he keeps in the bottom of his filling cabinet. The one problem with the rusty saw is that it is not trusty.
He also has a realy cool skwirl called Skippy. Skippy is trying to take over the world.
He is also the Cheif of the Tech Crew and Master of the Computer Club.
all said. Mr. Sims is a really froody/cool guy.
My favorite teacher EVER is Ms. Kimbrough. She taught me science in 7th grade. What I liked about her, is that not only could she keep a class under control and teach really well, but she was a nice person too. On field trips, etc. we talked to eachother, etc, and she was REALLY nice. We shared similar interests, and she was a really cool person
Almost all of my teachers are awesome. I’m really lucky. I especially love my english, art, and history teachers, they’re all, well, as dark lord of darkness said, “froodilishiously flambsmbously froody”. You can talk to them about pretty much anything, and they’re clever/brilliant, funny, and good at their jobs.
Mrs. Dotzman, Mr. D’agusto, and Mr. McCulley, I bow to your froodish greatness.
my awesomeness social studies teachers!!!
6th grade Social Studies teacher- Mr. Marsilio- we played bingo we had awesomeness projects, and he’s really tall and easy going and awesome!!!
7th (current) grade teacher- Mr. Israel- cool neato, not a lot of homework, fun fun fun reviews, and easy going and awesome!!!!!
awesomeness…
my 7th/8th grade teacher was hilarious. see, back when i was in her class, she was still incredibly young, + i guess hadnt relly grown up yet. if it had been a good day, she would literally whip candy @ us (referring to the four other members of my class + myself-yes, it was a small skool), and usually a fight over it would follow. ok, i could not imagine this lady actually acting like an adult. i remember on the first day of 8th grade, she got a new desk chair, + it was the type w/ wheels. i was at my desk, + shes like, “hey, lets play bumper cars!”-then she starts crashing into ppls desks, + it was relly more hilarious than strange.
ha… oh + then there was my totally awesome PE teacher during those 2 years. he + my crazy reg. teacher took my class to this place which is like the cedar point of MI @ the end of the year, + the thing was…the principal wanted us to be back in town @ this ridiculous time, which would only give us like an hour @ the park(it was a 2.5 hr drive to the park). and she wanted to call us like every five minutes. but my teachers wanted us to hav a good time, so they turned off their cellphones, + we stayed until the park closed! but i kind of feel bad, b/c they could hav lost their jobs!
They exsist?
*GASPS*
i’ve had some bad expirience with theachers. But this is not the place for that story.
i had an amazing engilsh teacher in eighth grade. when we studied greek mythology, she had us act as greek godesses or gods or heroes in random situations (eg, argus, the titans, and cupid in a hoagie shop; cupid and aries selling matresses (sp?) to hades)
my chem teacher this year is really cool. she makes fun of pretty much everything, because most of the people in my class are total idiots.
my history teacher is funny, too. he’ll spontaneously yell about how much he hates bush. ‘t is great.
GAPA, maybe u should make an “EVIL TEACHERS THAT WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD AND BRAINWASH YOU, MWAHAHAHAHA!!!!” thread so we can rant about them too…
I’ve had some great history teachers, but mostly terrible english teachers. Science, on and off, same w/math. Gym teachers are always to be feared. Just general observations on teacherness. XD
I dont have any flambambabulous teachers this year but my social studies one is ok. See, most ot his students love him because he is funny and relates well to thi kids. And he tries to make us “think deep” as he puts it, but it bothers me because most of his “deep thoughts” are really… shallow. I dont want to sound like i think im smarter than everyone, but it bothers me. Plus he makes a lot of mistakes, or teaches things that come from unreliable sources. But he gets the kids to pay attention, and hes fun, and i have learned a lot, so I guess hes pretty good.
Plus Ive got a band teacher who seems like a pretty cool guy as a regular person but as a teacher sometimes I just want to wack him over the head with my bass clarinet.
ok, here goes
7th grade english: my teacher was, like, 21, and she was always telling us these crazy stories and giving us cool projects
7th grade science: crazy, don’t wanna know why his coffee machine was always blowing up… still, really fun labs + stuff.
Algerbra 2: head of the surf club, done such wacky and fun stuff as a parabola interpretive dance.
8th grade English: awesome debates, makes reading the odyssey fun, which i previously thought was imposible.
8th history: scary, yells at us like crazy sometimes, but goes into rants about the most random stuff, slaughtered the evil speaker in an impromtu debate and spent like, 15 minutes looking up stuff about tuva when i asked what the capital was.
my teacher is awesome. my science teacher is awesomest. yeah. o.o
Good teachers make their students feel like they want to be teaching them.
25- wow, i guess you’re right!
I have this really strict teacher that everybody hates, but I like her.
Once, we were watching a movie and a kid falls asleep and she comes over and closes a book I mean just slams it right in his face.
It was so funny
My other teacher has like (this is just a guess) ODC. We cant say killed If somone killed somone on purpose, its murdered.
But she is awsome. and gives the coolest progects
projects.
I have a really mean P.E. teacher. NOt so cool.
but this is a blog about cool teachers.
My science teacher is cool. Everyonce in a while, he lets us whatch a movie. Jurassic park, for it’s EVOLUTION. TEh day after tomorrow, for global warming. plus cool experiments.
The teacher I had in second and 5th grade (meaninng I had the same teacher in 2nd and 5th grade) was really cool. She made friends with all her students and sang a lot and did fun activities. She took me out to lunch at the end of 5th grade and we talked about drawing and art and the rainforest and biology and botany and it was a lot of fun. I still go and see her sometimes, when my x-country team runs to the elementary school.
Cool teachers? I’m homeschooled, and most of my school is correspondence courses through out of state schools, so I don’t know any of my teachers. However, before 8th grade, I didn’t do correspondence classes–my mom taught me. So, I’d have to say my mom is my coolest teacher. Go Mom!!
Anyway, I do know which teacher was not my favorite, back when I was really little, like before preschool, I had to take speech class, ’cause I couldn’t speak right, I always left off the first consonant, or something like that. Anyway, all I really remember is I hated it. There were these little stick figure pictures, and you had to say what they were doing. It was really annoying, ’cause I’d say the guy was walking. And the teacher would tell me no, and make me say it fifty billion times. It was SO boring!
27- i absolutely HATE when people complain about strict teachers. you ende up learning the moste from them. but everyone loves the slacker teachers…who have the most boooooring classes. and i think you mean OCD? as in obsessive-complusive disorder? my one friend tells me i have it….(but i’m sure he’s the one who does…)
maybe we could also use this thread as an OMG-I-NEED-HELP-WITH-MY-HW section? though i suppose it’ll eventually go off topic anyway…
i took a college writing class in 8th grade, + i had the coolest teacher. actually, he didnt believe that the class should hav a real “teacher”. b/c it was creative writing + all that, so we called him by his nickname (“gooch”). ha. i think the class relly helped me (+ everyone else as well) kind of grow up, b/c here we were, a handful of naive 8th graders, + hes giving us permission to write college poetry (the type that makes english teachers bite their nails) + stories that dealt w/ mature topics.
#31: i relly concur w/ that?…hey, has anyone read All the King’s Men? hehe…i hav to read it for ap lang, + its so boring that i keep forgetting what happens in the book…+ the sparknotes arent helping
31- I totally agree! Lifes not gonna get any easier, so bite the bullet and deal with it. Slack teachers are fun and all but Id rather not waste my time having a class conversationn about something that I wont remember tomarrow (thats what haning out with friends is for).
YAY! I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO LIKES STRICT TEACHERS!!!! i hate when people get mad when you tell them so….
our theology teacher is strict like that, and i completely respect her for it, though i may not like her subject. everyone is moaning that they fail her tests because she is unclear, but i have gotten two hundreds this marking period (there are only three grades…yesss) and i don’t find the class hard at all. she does speak oddly, though. her pronunciation is weird. “trans-uh-lay-tion” and “blass-pheeeeem” are her two favourite words. i love it!
30- i wish i were homeschooled. i’m positively horrible in social situations.
To 35-
SOMETIMES strict teachers can be good…. if you get on their good list, because than you learn a lot
I’m homeschooled so my mom is my teacher and she is awsome
I’m going back to normal school for highschool though. It is going to be a big change 
Strict teachers are ok as long as they’re not evil. *coughlamuthcough* But yeah, i hate slack teachers. Especially if they’re slack only because of their complete incompetence *coughpautschcough* But we’re talking about COOL teachers here, so i’ll say yes, strict teachers are cool. To a point. In some cases. All depending.
oh, yeah. the goode list. all my teachers (except one) like me.
my spanish teacher just doesn’t because i don’t laugh at his jokes. (hey, he tells the same ones every day, and they aren’t even funny…)
but back to cool teachers.
my latin teacher was probably my favourite. he actually stopped people from cheating (w00t) and told jokes in latin. funny ones.
he also proctored our CAT exams, and when he read the instructions, he would add something like, “if you finish the test before the rest of the students, do not go to the next section. review your answers and have a smoke while you wait for the time to expire.”
‘t was excellent.
he also told us stories about how his pet rabbit thought it was human.
and how, when everyone else had normal CareBears, he bought his daughter BeerBear.
definately the coolest reverend ever. actually, he was a very reverend. which is even cooler.
and i would like to thank everyone for using “cool,” and most certainly not “kewl.”
My science teacher Doc, is a reverend. We get to light things on fire in the end of class. One time, my friends backpack caught on fire. Doc is a pretty good teacher, but he’s not strict enough, because today during class, he brought in cookies (Chips Ahoy) and then people spent the rest of the class throwing them at each other. Either Doc didn’t notice or he didn’t care, but he didn’t do anything. At first it was funny, but then it just got annoying. Plus he made the whole classroom boarded up, so it was like a giant pinhole camera.
YES!!! I love strict teachers ( mostly teachers who can keep a class under control ) because if they can’t keep a class under control, you don’t learn anything. I especially like teachers who have a lot of respect, so they don’t have to yell to keep a class under control.
I tend to pick a favorite teacher per year so here they are since 7th grade:
7th grade English: He really helped me improve my writing and he told me interesting riddles and gave me good sugestions for books to read. I lent him two Muses. He also plays the banjo.
8th grade geometry: He told lots of funny jokes and explained geometry really well. He gave us pie on pi day.
9th grade English: She led really interesting disscusions and kept the class interesting.
10th grade world history: He would tell stories and explain history well. He had interesting lesson plans. He would be light hearted and not overly strict but not overly unstrict either. I lent him a lot of Muses and he says that when his kids get old enough he’ll buy them a subscription.
OLD ENOUGH???
All my English teachers end up hating me by the end of the year.
My Geometry teacher, Mr. Admiraal, is awesome! He explains everything to everyone, and he never lets anyone fall behind. He offers after-school help atleast once a week (usually more) and you can come in to his classroom during lunch to finish up quizes, retake a quiz a card marking if you don’t like your grade on the original, or get help with notes and homework from either him or other kids who stay come in. You can also retake quizes after school on certain days. Even though he’s a math teacher, and they tend to give more homework, he only assigns enough to make sure that his students are learning the information. You are only allowed two hall passes a card marking, but if you don’t use those hall passes they turn into extra credit on your report card. He also happens to be our schools NJHS offical, so being one of four kids currently in NJHS that go to my school, we work together closely.
43- olde enough? do they not read yet? because as soon as one can read, one is ready for muse.
ready. strange word. at mathcounts one year, the announcer said ray-dee. random.
Mrs Lane is so evil
mrs baden is boring
my science teacher miss dukette is so nice and awesome
mr hewitt is gay!
hey draMaQueen!
(again)
im still a child also have to agree there
im inmature
My cool teachers:
Mrs. Bohs–L.A.–the first thing she said to us at the beginning of th eyear was, “I’m gay. Go look it up.” Then the people who know what gay means, tecnically, started to crack up. As you can tell, she hates slang.
Mr. Wise–maths–he is just plain, simple, awesome! For Purim he dressed up a punk rap person, with a big fake gold chain around his neck that said MATH. It was really funny.
Rabbi Price–Oral Law–he is just really really cool.
Evil teachers:
Mrs. Reiser–Social Studies–she always complains that I don’t do my homework, doodle in class, call out, et cetra. This would not be such a problem if she didn’t do it in front of the entire class and my MOTHER.
Morah Glaser–Hebrew Language–she hates me and I have never once done well in her class. ‘Nuff said.
my chem teacher, againe. yesterday, in class, she started screaming at us about choosing majors and said(something very close to), “and i don’t want to hear all this bull about doing anything you want to do! if you’re a complete potatoe-head [yes, she calls people, “potatoe-heads”], you are NOT going to be a neurologist!”
My teacher last year called us “Ladyheads”, or would say things like “Hello, Otzihead” or “Awesome job, moocowhead”, or “cool shoes, hotstuff trinityhead!” you get the idea.
Old enough?!?!?
I have no cool teachers to speak of. They are prety sadistic, and not in the awesome satanic sense, no. They do not deserve the title of evil as in satanism. Satanism is too good for them.(If you don’t like satan, then sorry. It’s the emo goth in me speaking. and the fact that I like metal which really is supposed to be the devils music.)
You mean Rosetta? Rosetta was awesome, it’s our sadistic writing teacher that is NOT.
and what about “pixiecorpsehead”?
Im back in a Skipper mood yay…
I have an alternat ego named Lemon Curry.
My dad calls me a potatoehead, but in an affectionate way.
I had a good writing and lit teacher last year. Her class was a lot of fun and I learned a lot.
HA! That Skipper has fallen asleep now the computer is MINE!!!! MWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!!!!
Ermmmm
What now?
29: hmm, well, out to lunch sounds fantastic, but I don’t think my blasted school would allow that. *sniff*
59 my nowadays school wouldnt either but that was back in the happy days of elementary school. Ah, the memories..
Last year I had an amazingly awesome geometry teacher by the name of Moses. Sadly, he moved and is no longer teaching at my school.
But we still have an incredible history teacher named Rachel who also directs Shakespeare Ensemble.
~Luna
I like my social studies teacher
59- i used to be able to go out to lunch at my olde school. but the smart people just ordered in…
My science teacher and my math teacher totally rock the socks of the world. Mrs.Dantzler is my science teacher, and she actually cares about the students, and gives us really superbly incredible projects. Like right now, we’re working on this thing called “The Black Hole”. It’s a program for all of the little kids from elementary schools in my district. The whole thing was started by Mrs. Dantzler 20 years ago (when I wasn’t even a fetus yet. my parents were still in college, too.) with some second graders. Now, as a result of “The Black Hole”, my science classroom has black cloth all over the walls, a huge mobile of flourescent paper mache` planets that really orbit, and a black light system is rigged up. My math teacher, Mrs. Gadson, is just really aware of society and doesn’t sugarcoat controversy. Plus she likes Muse. They rock the socks of the world, as stated above.
really good teachers don’t need to be strict as long as they keep the class under control… like ms helvie. kids call out in her class and stuff, but not so much that it dissovles into chaos.
Mr. Bohnet (Bow-neigh. like a horse. anyway….)
He’s my History teacher, and he’s always taking sides of the people who aren’t Americans, and it’s great becuse the books all make us sound really good and he gives us all 6 sides of the story! Bonus: his tests are really easy.
Yeah I agree that teachers dont have to strict in order to be good, but it bugs me when kids dont like teachers just because they are strict.
At my school in France we were allowed to go home for lunch. My mom and I walked home everyday and ate at my house and then walked back. It was fun. (63)
Jadestone and I both had Mrs. Ezel, who was great, for third and fourth grade LA and Math. And I had a really good one for second grade, Mrs. Hampel, because she understood that everything was too easy for me and gave me extra, harder, work. And Ms. Hankey, whom we also both had, was nice too. WE did two really fun simulations for SS. One was about the California gold rush, another about the Civil War. They were both fun. In the Civil War one, we were divided into teams, the North and the South, and then into squads of four people, plus a general for each side. The teams got points based on answering questions, doing stuff, and acting army-like. I was on the North, and we won, but that doesn’t always happen.
My side didnt win. The south did.
I don’t have good teachers. Mine seem to hate me, the class, the school (don’t blame them on any of these, frankly), or life in general. They also, collectively, have about the intelligence of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal and the Prophet Brutha’s love child. Tut, tut. I live on the North Shore, which is now the North Snore. You are all v. lucky to have sane adults in your life. Present company excluded, of course. I’m going back to Auschwi-I mean, school-on Monday. Back in the jug agane.
Sane? Don’t you mean insane? Sane people are boring.
What’s Auschwi-?
Auschwi- as in she was about to say Auschwitz, which was a concentration camp during the Holocaust. Pretty clever really . Bravo, Queenie. Sucks to be you though. (Umm, yeah that was meant to be sympathy but…)
(69) I did that simulation too! I had completely forgotten about it until you mentioned it. Funny. Yeah I was on the North and we won.
Queenie J., I like you and admire you, but that joke was in REALLY bad taste. Stick with ‘gulag’ or summat.
That was the POINT, Phoenix. “Gulag” doesn’t have the same punch. And besides, you noticed it. That was all I meant to really achieve. Nil combustibus profumo.
i had this teacher and this kid tried tu turn his face purple but fainted. the teacher walked over and said o @#$%&
it was ms. gervasi
My school is a K-8 school, and has 200 people. Everyone knows everyone…
Last year Ihad an awesome teacher. His name was Mr. Petersberger, but e/o called him Mr. P. I was really impressed that he put up with my class actually… Some ppl. in it kept trying to find out who his girlfriend was. When he wouldn’t tell, they decided to refer to her as Bertha.
Miss Suel ROXS
Ms/ Griffin was awesome. She gaves us ice-cream sundaes just because we got a science test right!
my teacher is the best!!!!!!!!!!
my teacher mrs.koblet is the best!she never yells or anything! i love it and i love my teacher when i groww up iwant to be just like her!