Our Hats Are Off to You!
Posted by Diane Badden on 11 May 2012 | Posted in: Drawings and Giveaways, Teachers and Teaching, The Mailbox Books
I love Fridays, and yet I’m sorry to see this Friday come! Here at The Mailbox, we’ve had oodles of fun reading your blog comments and celebrating Teacher Appreciation (TEAPP) Week right along with you! 
Here’s the final question of this week’s celebration. To be entered in today’s giveaway, post your comment at this blog by midnight (EDT) Sunday, May 13.
On the fifth day of TEAPP Week
The Mailbox offered me
An Ultimate surprise!
Four chocolate bars,
Three theme kits,
Two Mailbox books, and
A really cool calendar!
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To be entered in a drawing for a book |
Thank you for all you do!
Diane
PS: If you missed a giveaway from earlier in the week, you can still enter. Just be sure to leave your comment at that blog by midnight May 13. All winners will be announced on Monday, May 14.
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I became a teacher, because right from my early elementary years, it seemed like the perfect fit. When in school, I use to love the teachers asking me to help my classmates with their work and rejoicing with them when memory tricks we worked out helped them to succeed on assessments and assignments. In high school, when we were required to volunteer in an area of our choice, there was no doubt that I was going to be working with kids. Because I had been tutoring and assisting in classrooms so long, the teacher I approached for a volunteer spot actually let me have my own “class”– my job was to help accelerated math elementary students prepare of national competition!! In college, I loved every moment I spent in local classrooms– I actually requested that my work-study job be in an elementary school. To this day, those moments are still some of my fondest memories of college. Working in schools now as a certified teacher, my greatest days are not when all the kids behave or when everyone gets a passing grade on their quiz—although those are good days. My favorite days are when previous students see me and call my name, waving enthusiastically, or when older students come up to me and say “Hey, thanks for everything!” It may not sound like much, but every one of those moments, I cherish and consider them the greatest testimony to my teaching experience.
I always wanted to be a teacher, but my father wouldn’t allow it. I had to major in psychology, and I was expected to go to graduate school.
I refused graduate school because my heart just wasn’t in it. I still wanted to teach. I did go back to school — but it was to earn my teaching certificate! I have now been teaching 8 years. I love it!
I am a teacher because When I see the successes that my 2’s experience as they conquer their first “first’s” there is nothing more satisfying to me.
I come from a line of teachers and to be honest I wasn’t really sure I wanted to be one myself. I did some work with Special Olympics and really seemed to work well with the athletes. This changed my thinking and that is why I went into special education. I love helping the kids that most people, including some parents, have given up on. My students make incredible gains because I have high expectations for them. I love it.
Uh, the money. Just kidding! I become a teacher to hopefully change the future of this world for the better.
I started working with children at the age of 11! I had a calling to work with children. I am a teacher because I was meant to be one. Fulfilling one’s destiny is wonderful.
Teaching was what I always wanted to do but it took a lot of life before I was able to realize my dream. I love seeing that light bulb click on for the children. Thanks to you here at The Mailbox I get plenty of opportunities for that to happen.
I became a teacher to watch children grow into indiviuals who are our future. My passion and desire to help children is what keeps me motivated and wanting to help more children every year!
I became a teacher partly because of my brother’s First Grade Teacher. He had a speech problem and she made him repeatedly stand in front of the class to say the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag and let the entire class laugh and make fun of him. Many of my teachers inspired me as well. They loved teaching and nurturing their students. However, my band directors in elementary school, junior high school, and high school were AWESOME! Band is what helped me get through tough times in junior high and high school. I went to college and majored in instrumental music. After graduation, I was unable to get a job in my field. So, since I loved working with children, I worked as a teacher assistant. After my kids were older, I went back to school to study Early Childhood Education, then added a Preschool Handicapped Endorsement, and then a Master’s in Special Education. My heart explodes with love and happiness when the light bulb goes on in a child that I work with.
I became a teacher because it is who I am. I am a third generation teacher. You could say it is in my “blood”. As a little girl I always played “teacher”. I enjoyed decorating my bulletin boards, grading my “students” work, and writing their lessons on the chalk board. At the age of 19 I started working with children as a volunteer and I absolutely loved it! I loved watching their excitement in learning new things. I loved seeing the “lightbulb” come on when a concept was difficult to understand. I loved planning things out for the children to work on and watching a plan come together nicely. It was only natural for me to be trained to become a teacher.
I have ALWAYS wanted to be a teacher (since I was 8)and in 6th grade I had a fabulous teacher (Joe Capitano) who reinforced my desire.
I became a teacher because I just wanted to do something fun and exciting! Teaching allows me to interact with kids on a daily basis and help them learn all kinds of new things! I love my job!