Why I love to teach

After that last post, it may be questionable about my love of teaching.  Then we have days like today, where all the classes come through to sign out, sign yearbooks and visit.  One of our requirements as teachers is to have the student's evaluate us.  I thought it would be fun to post some of the comments I got.  

Keep Doing

Drinking Diet Coke

Class Discussions

Magazine

Song Lyric Poetic Devices

Be Willing to Help One on One

Learned more in English this year than ever before

Random beginning of class conversations

Keep everything the same

Being sarcastic

Bellwork

Helping students

Pass along stories

Reading

Witty sense of humor

Fun writing activities

Love the magazine

Liked the selection of major writing assignments

Keep doing journals – helped me with my writing

Fun poetry games

Read The Chosen

Religion reports

Allow work in groups

Keep being a good teacher

Fun, creative projects

Hands-on learning

Being funny

Keep the nice chill atmosphere

Keep giving hints on how to do better on the ACT

Keep the mythology unit

Relating things in the world to what she is doing/teaching at the same time.

Being herself

Liked the “My Gang” stories

Change

Do different forms of poetry

Not a fan of journals

Learn more about genres, writing styles, eras, famous essays, authors, etc.

Do more read-alouds

Give out a syllabus at beginning of class with due dates and point values of assignments

More time to work in class

Didn’t like the magazine

Read fewer books

Read more books

Focus on specifics

More instruction prior to giving the assignment

More time to read in class

Less homework

More time for poetry unit

More time to do reading

Frequency of seat changes

More presentations

Fewer presentations

More choice in books to read

Amount of time between due dates of assignments

No negative energy toward her teaching

More lessons and fewer assignments

Charts and worksheets with books

Sometimes felt like random lesson plans

Less paperwork and more involvement work

A different way to let students know of due dates

Leniency for slacker readers

Never Do Again

Fredrick Douglass Unit

Poetry

Greek Gods/Goddesses

Make us read

Journals

Have only clock in classroom not work

Memorized poem

Huck Finn

Hang up a Denver Broncos calendar

Sonnets

Additional Comments

“She shouldn’t be cooler than her students, it makes us look bad.”

“She shouldn’t get mad at me…but…I am responsible for my own actions.”

“Mrs. Seegmiller rocks and she is my role model.”

“You are a good teacher and great at rhyming!”

“The magazines (although stressful) were fun.”

“Mrs. Seegmiller = perfection.”

“She should keep on doing everything.  This year I actually had the best time in this English class. I really understand

English and had a lot of fun with the projects we did.”

“You’re my favorite teacher.  I look forward to coming to your class.”

That's why teachers teach even when we get paid what we do :)