谁是最具影响力的老师你哈d? Why? by Jenna

谁是最具影响力的老师你哈d? Why? by Jenna - June 2021 Scholarship Essay

We are fortunate when someone comes into our lives and causes us to get excited about learning. For me, that person came into my life when I was a high school freshman. Her name was Ms. Sandley, and she taught me Advanced Placement American Government. I would like to say that I made an "A" in that class. I did not. I would like to say that the Social Sciences are my favorite classes. They are not. So, why is Ms. Sandley so special to me, and how did her classroom practices and demeanor make such a positive impact in my life?

There are several reasons why she has caused me to want to pursue education beyond high school. For one thing, the way she talked in class caused me to want to read news stories, watch television news, think about political candidates, and more. Never before in my life had I taken any interest or notice of those kinds of things. She was not assigning me these activities, I simply found myself wanting to do them so that I might be able to contribute more to her classroom discussions and to fill in gaps that lingered in my mind after each day of school was over.

Another reason is that I felt I had to rise to a certain level because she fully expected me to do so. I found myself being magnetized to her school-day "bonus" period help sessions. There was no mandate for attending these. I could go to her room, or visit one of my more favorite classes, yet I almost always chose to visit her. It is funny now that I think of it. She was never surprised to see me. It was like she knew I would be there. I was like she would have been shocked if I had not attended.

第三个原因,女士Sandley影响我的教育ional journey is that she was very entertaining. The things she would do and say in class were typically off-beat. They were unexpected. They were off the wall at times. I never knew what she was going to crank out next. I suppose that her zany approach to what could have been a very dry, dull, and boring subject caused me to remember and understand the content better.

Lastly, I learned the value of keeping up. The worst thing you could do in Ms. Sandley's class was to get behind. I learned this lesson the hard way in our first semester together. None of my teachers, before or since Ms. Sandley, has ever given me so much work to cover on my own- work that I had to do outside of class. Failure to do this work always meant that my grade would sag. I figured it out quickly (we all did) that she was not going to stop or even slow her pace for those of us who wanted the flow of the class to chill out.

I was in Ms. Sandley's last class of her career. She plowed ahead full steam right until the last day of school. I admired that trait in her then. I still do. There is no doubt in my mind that she unlocked some part of my mind and heart that now wants to achieve great things during the remainder of my high school days and even into my college experience. Before Ms. Sandley, I always knew I would be going to college, but I never imagined myself achieving there. Now I do.