![]() ![]() Make Jan seeks new challenges into a request for parental support by changing it to read Please encourage Jan to seek new challenges. Sam cooperates consistently with others becomes Sam needs to cooperate more consistently with others, and Sally uses vivid language in writing may instead read With practice, Sally will learn to use vivid language in her writing. Turn the words around a bit, and you will transform each into a goal for a child to work toward. You can also use our statements to indicate a need for improvement. You've reached the end of another grading period, and what could be more daunting than the task of composing insightful, original, and unique comments about every child in your class? The following positive statements will help you tailor your comments to specific children and highlight their strengths. Struggling Students? Check out our Needs Improvement Report Card Comments for even more comments! Here are 125 positive report card comments for you to use and adapt! It's report card time and you face the prospect of writing constructive, insightful, and original comments on a couple dozen report cards or more. Indication that she saw each of us as unique and fascinating individuals who were destined to make her proud - if My favorite teacher was enthusiastic and involved, demanding and fair, interesting and interested. She didn't talk down to us we were expected to talk "up" to her, to meet her expectations, to seek her level. She didn't tell jokes or hang out in the halls or try to be our friend. Why don't I see you at the Great Books Club meetings?" This is your life. I expect to see every one of you at tryouts." "I'm the advisor for the school paper and I need a good sports writer." My favorite teacher was involved - and she bullied us into getting involved too. My favorite teacher demanded respect, treated us respectfully, and expected us to respect one another. The knowledge that she would protect and defend us with every ounce of her being, because we were "her students." Those of us who were her students encouraged the rumors and bolstered our reputations for bravery, secure in My favorite teacher was "scary and mean" - but only in the eyes of students who had never been in her classroom. Knew what our best was, and she never asked for more than that - or accepted less. But she never attacked us personally, she always To turn in an assignment or pay attention in class or do our best. She wasn't above a public dressing down if one of us failed My favorite teacher criticized us but never demeaned us. Real world and came back with knowledge and experiences to share - and so could we. She carried her love of the subject matter into the We were aware that she too had a life - a full, busy, complicated, interesting life.īut she came to class prepared - and so could we. ![]() "I got so interested in Chapter 6 that I didn't have time to read Chapter 7"Ĭould also be winner - provided you could justify the chapter's fascination. Her zero tolerance policy was tempered with common sense. "You didn't do your homework? Complete the assignment?įollow directions? Listen to the question? Study for the exam? Intolerable! You get a zero!" Hers was the original zero tolerance classroom. Her enthusiasm, her lectures, her assignments, even her test questions fairly screamed, "Isn't thisįascinating? Isn't this brilliant? Isn't this exciting? Don't you want to know more?"ĭemanding. She didn't teach us a subject she shared with usĪ wonderful secret. My favorite teacher was passionate about her subject matter. Starr is the curriculum and technology editor for Education World. Linda Starr, a former teacher and the mother of four children, has been an education writer for nearly two decades. ![]() Who was your favorite teacher? Share it on the StarrPoints message board. I do know, however, what it was that made my favorite teacher special. Was so nearly out of reach? I don't know. Wondered about that teacher that was different? What qualities did she have that allowed her to reach a child who The teacher, she said, "made me forget what was waiting for me at home." The other day a local newspaper columnist, the survivor of an abusive childhood, wrote about a teacher who had madeĪ difference in her life. That she would protect and defend us with every ounce of her being, because we were "her students." What kind of teacher Of us who were her students encouraged the rumors and bolstered our reputations for bravery, secure in the knowledge My favorite teacher was scary and mean - but only in the eyes of those who had never been in her classroom. ![]()
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