[EatRainbows]

(Original post by bahjat93)
Ooohh, she let you sit on her lap did she . Is there something else you want to tell us :P.

My favourite teacher is the one that never showed up to any of my classes in year 11

Ye as a 7 year old girl I just had this thing for 30 year old women

[geetar]

I've had two excellent teachers.

1) My teacher for AS and A2 English lang/lit. He was this bearded guy with a really amazing voice, and he was an absolutely brilliant teacher, both in terms of the knowledge of what we were studying and of the exam technique.
2) My Shakespeare lecturer in my second year of uni (Kiernan Ryan).

[Add!ction]

He let us watch the Vicar of Dibley to gain an insight into the running of a church.

[redwood_phoenix]

My favourite teacher was my GCSE Geography teacher. She was young and recently qualified. She really made lessons interesting, funny and engaging. To help explain things like attrition/abrasion/erosion etc of rivers she had a couple of volunteer roll across the classroom so we could see the movement of rocks etc. She was really approachable and spoke to us on the right level. In year 11 she set up a cake rota so once a week one of us would bring in cake and share it! We did a variety of types of work - it wasn't all just board and book type stuff - I remember one game/activity to do with human geography involving jelly babies... She also occasionally occurred to her recent travelling - can't remember if it was just Australia, or other places too, but it all seemed very cool and exciting!

At sixth form I really liked my A2 English Language teacher - she was interested in the subject and was always happy for us to hang back and ask her any questions about the subject/uni etc. I was a bit of an English Language geek and went on to study it at Uni...and am now doing a Masters. I also really liked my two film studies teachers - both clearly passionate about the subject and full of lots of good insight etc.

The teachers that stand out for me were the ones that were clearly interested in the subject, but also interested in teaching you and making you interested in it too (compare to one of my science teachers who was really enthusiastic about her area of Biology but not really bothered about teaching us).

[Jimmy Mullen]

(Original post by EatRainbows)
Ye as an 7 year old girl I just had this thing for 30 year old women

Stranger things have happened!

[Jimmy Mullen]

Note: in many of these cases below, they were not the best teacher by any means.

Mr Taffe - Science teacher who if i remember rightly, never got chance to teach anything. spent the first half hour trying to hand books out but pronouncing the names on the front incorrectly, so people didnt realise he was shouting their name. No practicals were ever possible due to the chaotic nature of the class, and after starting in September, He had such a gutful of the place, he left before the october half term. LEGEND.

Mr Edmunds - brought in as cover supervisor to temporarily replace the above, but this cover lasted from october well into the new year. Just turning up with a pen would earn you a credit from him. He couldn't decide if his surname was edmunds or edwards, and his monotonic voice and the fact he managed never to laugh at anything was enough to get him mentioned here.

Mr Kearsey - Finally a full time replacement for Mr Taffe. Only had one "lesson" with him, which consisted of him shouting: "I AM NOT IMPRESSED. THIS IS APPAULING!" to which the entire class was thrown out, leaving him with no pupils.

[Mr. Approachable]

These are great. Seems to be a common theme of either having a pastoral role or letting you all watch films all the time.

For me, I have had 4 teachers that have stood out, one was more of a friend than an actual teacher, but nonetheless I had the upmost respect for him. Perhaps the greatest teacher I have ever had though was my A2 English Language teacher.

He was strict, but not in the traditional sense- as he was HoD he spent most of his time in his office or wandering around the English Dept looking for the naughty pupils. But when he was teaching, he inspired everyone. He would have his classroom set out like a horseshoe and would act more like a comedian than a teacher, he had a routine. Most of our knowledge was gained from YouTube videos and then demonstrations he did after. One thing I do have to say though, was that he held extra consultations for work he had handed back because his handwriting was so atrocious. Still, a complete legend.

[Becca94]

My current psychology/partly biology teacher! She's absoutely crazy but a genuis

[HappygoLucky8]

my social care teacher. You could do whatever you wanted to in her lesson,shout ,scream mess about,sing dance she was all good about it.

[Coeusful]

D&T teacher at GCSE. Ex-military Scotsman with a complete repertoire of absurd stories, ranging from mundane daily life anecdotes to full-on epic tales. He's still around, and we exchange chats. He's as hilarious as ever, and still Scottish.

[flutegirl]

had a biology teacher once who gave us marks for writing our names and our sex chromosomes at the top of our tests!

[aeterno]

My old Latin teacher was a freaking legend!

He used to go off on tangents all the time and tell us amusing anecdotes - shockingly, he still managed to teach us everything we needed to know before exams! That's despite the fact that he'll start telling us something important to write down, walk out of the classroom (still talking) to get a book, come back in and say 'I hope you got all of that down because I've forgotten what I've just said...someone read it out' while we all stared at him in silence. He was quite eccentric, gave us back our homework months later when it would fall out of his briefcase, never stopped humming or fidgeting during class tests but a pure legend nonetheless

[bahjat93]

(Original post by EatRainbows)
Ye as a 7 year old girl I just had this thing for 30 year old women

I know how you feel . I was having to go to the toilet quite a lot too i was in year 2

[noodles!]

(Original post by aeterno)
My old Latin teacher was a freaking legend!

He used to go off on tangents all the time and tell us amusing anecdotes - shockingly, he still managed to teach us everything we needed to know before exams! That's despite the fact that he'll start telling us something important to write down, walk out of the classroom (still talking) to get a book, come back in and say 'I hope you got all of that down because I've forgotten what I've just said...someone read it out' while we all stared at him in silence. He was quite eccentric, gave us back our homework months later when it would fall out of his briefcase, never stopped humming or fidgeting during class tests but a pure legend nonetheless

Not from the Midlands are you? Sounds like he could be a teacher from my old school.

[katyness]

(Original post by bobbycrisp)
TILF*

Can't rep. Bummer


Gosh, I have had so many good teachers. It's hard to pick one:
- year 8 a science and head teacher. She was so cool. She used to turn on the radio during tests/exams
- year 12 (in Portugal), a chemistry teacher. She was so awesome at explaining. She made me fall in love with chemistry.
- year 12 and 13, one of my BTEC teachers. OMG he was so awesome!! He used to make jokes and his Scottish accent was so great!! Made learning an adventure. Now I still remember the things he used to say more than the syllabus. Great examples as well.
- A-level maths teacher. What a great man. He made me love maths. There is no better maths teacher than him, I bet.
- one of my current lecturers. What a woman. Everyone loves her. She is more than fantastic.

I've been blessed with great teachers, I must say

[Prada16]

Primary school teacher:
Played games like splash all the time (you do the timestable thing on the clock and if youre too slow one of your mates gets to splash a tsp water at you lol was hilarious. He was amazing at art and always did step by step drawings and always made every lesson absolutely hilarious. Played all of the music at end of year parties/assemblys etc. Like the music man and stuff miss having him so much

[aeterno]

(Original post by noodles!)
Not from the Midlands are you? Sounds like he could be a teacher from my old school.

Yep, East Mids. All girls' school?

[jess-xo]

Miss Holness, I had her in year 8 for food technology. She was brilliant! We spent each written lesson eating Party Rings and doing pretend 'food evaluations' if the headmaster came in. When we did baking we just made cakes or pizza. I would've taken the subject if she was still there…


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[JollyGreenAtheist]

My year 8 history teacher. We only had him for about 6 months before he moved schools, but what a teacher.

He had a PhD and was the single most enthused person about history I have ever met. He absolutely loved teaching it and loved the subject, and was quite forthright with his enthusiasm. He controlled the class with the utmost of ease because he had a deafening roar, and because most people thought he was great. He had a habit of jumping up on tables and dancing to emphasise a point; this included a physical, one-man reenactment of the Spanish armada. This was also around the time when Cadbury's were running the Phil Collin's gorilla advert. He put the video on the interactive whiteboard at the end of the lesson and drummed incessantly in tune with the gorilla for 5 minutes whilst we did a plenary.

Unfortunately, he suffered from bipolar affective disorder. His enthusiasm was mingled with mania and he took his life a couple of years ago during a depressive spell. I'm just really grateful that I had the opportunity to be taught by him for 6 months. The students who he taught GCSE and A-level to must have been the luckiest in the school.

[SneakyDoug]

Mrs Harris - the most legendary english teacher on earth. Helped me get from borderline B/C at the beginning of the first year we had her to A by the final exam. Always got the best out of us and she fought for us if we were in trouble. No-one got in trouble in her class in 4 years we respected her that much. Helped our schools english grades skyrocket from 1 A (not her teaching) to 23 A's in one year. Did her lessons like a lecture she just read out things and commented on things in a book and we would write them down. We also did this thing where we would work really hard one week then do nothing for a few lessons. Occasionaly did life lessons and told us about how she survived cancer and different stories about husband number one (a football fanatic/alcoholic), husband number two (engineer who was too busy) and current husband Morris (a teacher who collects stamps). Demanded pupils get eye tests when they squinted to see as she told us about how it gives you wrinkles because she genuinely cared about us. She also worked too hard (which sadly led to her retirement) she would mark, by this I mean go over and over finding weakness', strengths and what you should do next to improve, like 60 essays a week it was rediculous. Also sadly as it is a state school there is no teachers to help her as they all have 6 classes of their own. Took us on loads of trips from authors to plays and random trips to the botanic gardens which she said was 'to get creative energy to help them with their folio's'. Had air fresheners of all smells and every period she would spray it. And one day I farted in class and she came over to me, as it smelled so bad, and sprayed me with the air freshener, in front of 28 others, - perhaps the most embarrasing moment ever. Also had the Websters which was the massive dictionary to use when she meant buisness. Had good banter with the class and knew who everyone went out with and who everyone fancied for some reason haha. And taught me two very important things - how to think outside the box and that in life change is the only constant.

Absolutely legendary teacher and I cannot describe how amazing she was as not only a teacher but as a person aswell.