Favorite high school teacher & why

[live4christp1]

My favorite high school teacher would have to be Coach Stewart.

Now when I was a freshman and had him for study hall (the teachers on break that block rotated study hall about every 4 weeks) I thought he had to be one of the meanest teachers I had ever encountered.

Then came 11th grade Economics which can be a very boring subject if that's not your thing. Coach Stewart made it interesting and he had this philosophy "I get paid to teach you while you are here, therefore, I do not assign homework". So for the most part aside from studying for tests we did no homework in Coach Stewarts class. We did everything in class and most of the time we reviewed enough over the test (he'd give us a study guide with exactly what would be on the test) that we didn't have to study at home. There was no excuse to fail Coach Stewarts Economics class.

So in 12th grade I took his Psychology class as an elective and it was one of my favorite classes from high school.

 

[lvanleer]

My favorite teacher in high school would have to be Mr Krafchik(I believe that was his name).....He was my bookkeeping/accounting teacher my senior year and had the policy that you could work through the book basically at your own pace....therefore by the time I graduated I had covered both years of bookkeeping that our high school offered and was helping the other students with their work and trying to study in a college level text just to see how I would do.....what's funny is about halfway through the second year course he either lost the answer key or just got tired of grading my work so of course I got straight As in his class.....There were several of us who did both years in one and got credit for both classes....It made me want to study accounting in college till I got into Intermediate Accounting and hated theory and GAAPs.....I preferred actual accounting to auditing and did well when I took a cost accounting course in my junior year of college because that was more practical than theory.....I ended up majoring in health management/personnel though I really never used my degree.

 

[monkey68]

My favorite high school teacher would have to be one of my band teachers, Mr. Perrone. He challenged you to play better and he truly loved music. If you wanted to be in his jazz band, you couldn't just sign up for it. You had to prove your worth.

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

Wally Lamb, yes the author.

He was my creative writing teacher in High School. Best teacher ever, well him and Mr. Driscoll the photography teacher.
Oops, for got the why. Mr Lamb because he didn't think what I wrote was stupid. It was an interpretation of a real life event that changed a friends family forever. It felt great to get the story out there.
Mr. Driscoll because he taught me the ins and out of the camera and made me the photographer that I am today. Granted all I take pics of now is my kids but I'm glad I have them.

 

[mamacatnv]

Mr. Garfolo - Freshman English, he had a great butt, drove a 280Z and shacked up most nights with his girlfriend Bonnie, he was a studmuffin and we were all gaga......Oh he was also a Greek Mythology guru, he was super tough and we all (especially us girls) aimed to please.

Best English teacher I ever had

 

[apirateslifeforme]

Mr. DePino, senior year physics. He was so much fun and got very excited about the class. While doing vectors, he said, "When you see this on the test, you do THIS!" raised his arms one up in the air, one out to the side - so when we actually got the test, even though it was usually quiet, we'd each yell out "Vectors!" and throw our arms up and out. He just laughed.

One time we flattened Gumby...made a Gumby out of green clay, then he dropped a bowling ball on it. It literally made a loud "splat" noise, and was so flattened that we had to borrow a putty knife from the art department in order to get it off the floor.

To do waves - we got to sit out in the hall and play with slinkies.

He'd built a hovercraft - we spent a couple of class periods testing it out in the hallways. He was nice enough to provide a helmet in the event of losing control and smashing into the wall.

And of course, there was "Physics Phun Day" at the local amusement park. My group did our paperwork on the bus on the way there, so we just spent the day having fun on the rides. He knew about it, since he sat in the seat in front of us on the bus, even turning around and smiling while we discussed our answers. He didn't seem to mind.

 

[MinnieMe87]

My favorite teacher was my Young Adult Novel Teacher. She taught other subjects as well, but this was the one class I had her for. We read controversial novels and talked about them. We had life lessons every Friday, where she would find a story or a lesson to read and we'd have to write about it. She taught me more about life then any other teacher I had did. I will always remember one assignment she gave us: We got a packet from her that had each students name that was in the class and a few blank lines after each name. We had to fill out at least one nice thing about each student in the class. When everyone turned in the packets, she took each person's "nice things" and wrote up a beautiful page with all of the nice things listed on it..but she didn't tell us who had said what comment. The whole project tied into a life lesson she gave us about random acts of kindness.

ETA: Her name is Mrs. Qualls

 

[starrzone]

My favorite high school teacher was my Grade 10 Advanced English Mr. Oulton. Now, I got good marks in junior high without really working too hard; I'm good in English, but I sort of had this blasé attitude. WELL, when I got my first essay back from Mr. Oulton, he basically said it was crap. He made us take English seriously, and not to see it as just reading and writing. He didn't put up with any "crap"; no one talked or goofed off in his class!