My favorite teacher of all time that sticks in my mind the most and that I remember the most would have to be one of my seventh through ninth grade teachers at Central Kitsap Alternative Junior High School. She was the best teacher in all my years of schooling because she was very understanding, she made learning fun, and because of her loving and caring ways.
Mrs. Faulkner was very understanding. She is one of the best teachers in the world. If students wouldn’t get their work done on time she wouldn’t just fail them she would give them extra time to get their stuff done correctly. If there was something going on in their life she would make the effort to try and get them to talk about it, to see if she could find a solution to try and help them and get them through it. She was so passionate about her relationship with her students and the other faculty at the school. It was like it was her only life and she was put on this earth to be the best teacher she could be.
Mrs. Faulkner had a tendency to make learning fun. She also kept the students occupied while doing so. It seemed like all the students at the school had their own issues and that’s why they were at an Alternative school. She would teach math by translating problems into problems about drugs. Now it seems very un cool of her to do such a thing but it got the students to pay attention and to keep them learning. Mrs. Faulkner made the learning experience a very nice time for the students. She would bring candy to do math problems with. They were in Junior High and candy should not have excited them the way it did but hey whatever gets them to learn right. This one day they were all so rowdy when she walked in and she couldn’t get them to chill out so she told all of them to go outside and she took them up to the field and made them run laps. There was no gym at the school and this was probably the cause of their rambunctiousness. When they got back to the class everybody was laid back and ready to start their school work. She was a very smart teacher and knew how to get the attention of the students without them even realizing what exactly she was doing. When they had to write papers and didn’t have any idea what to write about she would jot down a list of topics to write about and give it to the students to pick from them. A lot of students who probably wouldn’t have passed if they had not been in Mrs. Faulkner’s class did because she knows what it takes to get delinquents to want to learn or to be teachable.
Mrs. Faulkner was extremely loving and also very caring. It’s very obvious that she has had her heart broken by a few students who she has jumped through hoops for to get them to succeed and it just gets shoved back in her face but she does not give them a chance to break her. For the simple fact that she knows that there are more students to come into her line of teaching that she can also help and maybe not get it thrown back in her face. She doesn’t only teach students academics but she also teaches students how to love and let people in who are just trying to help them succeed. One time she had a very bad family tragedy happen in her life but she didn’t even take time out of her life to recover from it. She came to school the very next day and opened up to her students about what had happened. She wasn’t worried about what the students would say about it or what the teachers would think about her telling the students. Which also probably made her students open up to more and not worry about what they were going to tell their teacher.
I have no idea how I made it to tenth grade but I know it had something to do with Mrs. Faulkner. I still to this day go back and visit her and I can see when I tell her how my life is going today that it lightens her face. I love Mrs. Faulkner and give her a lot of credit for the person she has helped make me into.
I really like your essay. She sounds like a very passionate woman.
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