Topic of the Month: September

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Barbara G. — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:58:21 GMT

The first year I had students graduate from high school, I had one student in particular come back and talk to the current 8th graders and tell them how special I was to him during the 8th grade. Still to this day it makes me smile.

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Queneesa A. — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:14:17 GMT

Another memorable moment I had as an educator was when I was teaching my students their alphabets and everyone in the class sang the ABC song and we all know that infamous letter LMNOP. I started to teach my students the ABC song in segments where they would clap on the letter G, N, Q, T, W, and Z so they would not run the letters together. The parents loved it when their children came home actually knowing how to say the letters L-P.

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Queneesa A. — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:46:55 GMT

My most memorable moment as an educator was when I had 5 students who were not able to read English at the beginning of the school year turned out to be 3 of my top readers by the end. What made it even more remarkable is that they have exceled in every grade since Kindergarten. What made it even better is that they were well behaved students and I had great parental support. Their parents were always at every meeting; I was speaking broken Spanish and they were speaking broken English, but we communicated well enough to teach their children English in one school year with comprehension.

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Brooke P. — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:33:17 GMT

Out of seven years of teaching you never know really how much your students care about you. Over the last three years I had many of the same students, so I really was able to do extra because of the relationships that I had built with my students and their parents. In May of last year I found out I was pregnant and one my students asked me what I should eat. One of the foods that I had been told by the doctor was mangoes. This past July I received a phone call from one of my student's sister to tell me that I needed to come over to their house because her brother had sneaked mangoes from the Dominican Republic in his suit case. Customs took all the other mangoes except the ones from my student's suitcase. He told the custom agent they were for his pregnant teacher. Not only was I so blessed by this it has turned out to be a story that will go down in my baby's baby book for all eternity.

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Elvira G. — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:34:20 GMT

My most memorable moment as an educator was when one of my retained student who came to me last year barely speaking English was able to read to me a whole story in English all by himself. I just knew right then and there that I made the right choice to become a teacher.

by Elvira G.

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Betsy S. — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:27:34 GMT

I am afraid to admit that my most memorable moment as a teacher was not a positive one. You guys know about brain compatible learning. Light a cinnamon candle, and your children will be able to better concentrate. Well, we all did it. I really couldn't tell a difference, but I was willing to try anything. One day, after dropping my students off at PE, I was checking my school mailbox when one of the secretaries screamed to pull the fire alarm. I did and immediately ran towards my room to help get students out of my hall. Guess whose room was on fire...MINE! Yes- I almost burned the school down. Come to find out- one of my students conveniently pushed the candle into my trashcan catching papers on fire, spreading the fire quickly. The back half of my room burned, and we had to have class in the library for over a month while repairs were made. However, this turned out to be a cool bonding experience for my class that year and one we all look back on and laugh even though it was really bad! What else can you do! Of course, I am well know in my county as the etacher who almost burned the school down- Literally! Hint to all teachers- NO CANDLES. Glade plug ins work great!!!

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Marilyn P. — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:22:46 GMT

I have lots of memorable moments as a teacher. Just recently, one of my past students went to the Olympics in Beijing for weightlifting. He could have easily gotten mixed up in the wrong crowd, dropped out of school, or worse. When he came back to visit me, he said,"You never gave up on me. You always made me believe in myself." It made all of the bad days worth it! As educators we cannot ever give up on even one student.

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Clare S. — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:43:57 GMT

As an early intervention teacher, I was working with a four year old boy with Down Syndrome, and we were playing with his favorite car and we also had been working on saying the word "car". As we were pushing our cars along the table top the little boy said "car", "me car". His mom who was close by began to cry and she said "You don't know how long I have waited for a two word sentence."

by Clare C.

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Jane A. — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:42:15 GMT

My most memorable teaching moment was bringing a Holocaust survivor to speak at my middle school. I try to make history come alive for my students and this was definitely one of those times. The students were amazing and their reflections so insightful.

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Angela K. — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:57:08 GMT

I believe in always being a helper.

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Rosemary D. — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:46:55 GMT

Realizing how hard the month of September is for my young learners to listen. Maxie

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Janet Eileen R. — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:09:59 GMT

My most memorable moement is when a student that I taught in her senior year came back to see me and tell me how my course helped her so much in her college class.

by ER

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Monica C. — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:44:14 GMT

My most memorable moment is when my students wrote letters to my unborn child about me. They made a book of the letters and gave it to me at a surprise baby shower. They wrote things about me they wanted her to know and that she would be able to read one day.

by Monica C.

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Charla H. — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:08:14 GMT

I have been in education for the last 14 years--7 years as a computer keyboarding/computer applications teacher and 7 years as a school counselor at the middle school level. One of my most rewarding moments was having a student who I had worked with regarding extreme school anxiety issues as a 6th grader make such progress that she had the confidence to try out and make the 8th grade girl's basketball team--what growth!

by Charla H.

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Michelle K. — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:43:12 GMT

One of my most (of many) memorable moments was the day my students who spoke only Spanish (my first and only, so far) said my name for the first time. It took him three weeks, but it was worth the wait.

Michelle K.