Name the teacher or coach in high school who had an impact in the direction of your life.

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• disneysamurai

  September 1

  Sounds amazing!

  Had a lot of great teachers but one was one where I didn’t like her class when I was in it but then years later realized she was right all along. I took writing in 12th grade with a teacher who had been teaching for 40 years and this was her last year before retirement. Nothing in her class made sense and she had all these weird rules I’ve never heard of before. I later realized she was teaching me to be an EFFECTIVE writer instead of just using correct grammar, etc.
• 7gem

  September 1

  Francis Armstrong
• cuddlefaery

  September 1

  This thread may be of interest:
  https://www.cuddlecomfort.com/forum/discussion/23026/the-ones-who-made-a-difference
• Cuddlesofcuddle

  September 2

  Mrs. Alarcon. She was my 4th grade bilingual teacher. I was the only kid that didn't know a lick of Spanish and she was sure to always include me. 👏💓
• VibeSeeker

  September 2

  Jenna
• mauvefox

  September 2

  John, the social worker at my high school, made a place for an undiagnosed neurodivergent girl to find herself when she felt really lost.

  and not high school but my third grade teacher, for a girl who had just moved to a new town and a new school, she helped me get settled, seemed to naturally know what i needed for support.
• AntiqueWpatina

  September 2

  jonnyquest I like what you said.......I can relate.
• Bear

  September 2

  High school was a bit ago, lol. No one stands out that made a big impact. Especially coaches. I didn’t get into sports and the one coach or jim teacher I had I should say shouldn’t have really been a coach anymore, lol.

  I was trying to think of somebody that made it impact, but the teacher I had for Division was an awesome person. She was pretty cool. Every student had a counselor that you could go to if you needed it. I never requested an appointment but mine reached out to my mom because I had a teacher that was not being fair to me that I didn’t realize. The counselor couldn’t step in because she was staff, but she let my mother know.

  I do have one teacher that made an impact, lol. I had a teacher I kinda like that was in my Law class. Yet when I graduated and went across the stage, I raised my arm up that I had finally made it through. This teacher was also the one handing out diplomas and me and two other people who I don’t remember why got the signal that we could cross the stage. Because I raise my arm and I guess you could say triumph. I do remember there was a football player who did similar and got big chairs, but nothing happened.

  I got my diploma, but I didn’t get that picture crossing the stage.

  What I did get was a bunch of friends who supported me and one of them was in the drama class, which was part of the stage crew. And afterwards they did a recreation and handed me the diploma and let me cross the stage. At the time that was the biggest and most important thing. I guess you could say that supported me with high school.
• a_cactus

  September 2

  (Middle school) I had some type of gas problem when I was younger which caused my math teacher at the time to get me transfered to a different class, in the new class the teacher later got caught having her kid drive her on the highway while she was drunk, because she no longer taught the class we got many rotating substitute teachers who didnt really teach and I had no idea what I was doing, that is when I lost my love for math and didnt really try in school anymore.
• CSnMUS87

  September 2

  From High school? Probably the gym teacher/martial arts club coordinator Mr. Lee. Definitely was one of my favorites and was very encouraging to me. I remember one time there was an accident during sparring and for whatever stupid reason we weren't wearing protective head gear and I got kicked in the back of the head and blacked out for a few seconds and of course he was checking up on me and walking me to my next class and all. From then on I always put on the helmet if I sparred even though I didn't like how it felt on my then spiked up hair lol. But he definitely showed me a lot of different martial arts that I didn't know anything about and was a very kind, fair, and encouraging teacher. He's the only one I considered going back to visit a few years after I graduated but never ended up doing because of scheduling.

  In college there were a few that stood out: Mr. Clippert (didn't want to go by professor) was an awesome and patient and funny guitar teacher. I had him for multiple semesters of guitar classes and guitar ensemble. I remember he kept us in rhythm by squeezing his hands together to make fart noises to the tempo of the song or remembering a guitar part that had something to go with short and long (I can't remember what it was about) by humorously fusing the two words together and having us write it on our sheet music. It certainly worked to help me remember. Mr. Detloff the music theory teacher was a very nice guy and definitely helped me get through those classes, then showed us the infamous John Cage song 4'33" when talking about atonal music, and since he was retiring he took us all out for lunch and paid for us on the last day of class. These two were when I was in community college. Mr. Clippert wrote my letter of recommendation to get me into a music program at a 4 year college and I got in and went for a year until I changed majors but he helped for sure.

  When I finally settled at my last university and studied computer science there were three standouts. Professor Trana was exceptionally smart and good at teaching! Her syllabus and course rules seemed a little intimidating at first, but she just is a very organized person and was preparing us to act professional and learn programming. I only didn't take discrete math with her because I didn't want to have to deal with typing up math homework including all the different symbols that aren't normally on a keyboard (using alt + whatever combination for each symbol). Professor Porps was quite a character. She is intimidating at first as well but that's due more to her demeanor and wanting people to take things seriously. She did not want to pass people if they didn't earn or learn the material. She definitely was preparing her students for the future (both future classes that build upon her classes and in general). I ended up taking 3 different courses with her and getting As in all of them and learning a whole lot. She encourages people to try and will try to help you more if she sees you're putting in effort. I've never seen so much extra credit opportunity with other professors and I often tried to always take it. She later gave me a job as a Peer Leader (sort of like a student aide) where I was partnered up with someone and was giving extra practice problems to first year programming students and helping them out if they got stuck. I kept in touch after graduation and she has been encouraging me though I haven't heard from her in a while. I wished I could have had her for computer organization class instead of the professor that I got that barely made me retain anything. The last one was Professor Mohaisen. He was fairly new to the university but was the most patient and kindest professor I ever saw there. He also was helpful, understanding, sometimes would give extra time to get partial credit if someone fell behind, but also was very good at teaching. I was actually assigned to his programming 1 students when I did Peer leading. Definitely knew a lot about python and cybersecurity. Because one of my professors in another class didn't teach it well, I asked Professor Mohaisen for resources to learn more about the subject on my own time and he definitely gave me some useful ones. If I could have had every CS class with these three professors that would have been perfect.
• CSnMUS87

  September 2

  @cuddlefaery apparently I mentioned some of these before in that other thread and forgot that I already had 😂.