A DAY I WILL NEVER FORGET | Teacher Vlog 

My principal says every morning during morning announcements "If your mind can conceive it and your heart can believe it, you can achieve it."

I am currently in college studying education and I credit my passion for teaching to my first-grade teacher. She was such an amazing and caring person and I truly believe she has shaped who I am today. To begin, 1st grade was hard for me because my mother was sick and close to death (she died a year later) and my teacher was my rock. She was the most inspiring person for me and she retired when I graduated from the school in 5th grade. I have seen her many times since she retired and have gone to dinners and lunches with her and another previous student of her several times. I would never be where I am today without this teacher and I can only hope to be like her one day!

I have three of the best teachers ever right now- Ms. Mincher And Ms. Q, I never have felt so close to teachers. They make me feel like a friend, not a student. Ms.Gordineer opened my mind to mathematics, and I realized I want to be a math teacher myself, and that I am really pretty good at math. So, I started doing Calculus at 13, and It’s pretty easy. Recently, we had a tragedy at our school and I will never forget Ms.Q telling us how much she loved and cared for us. “I may be hard on you, but I love all of you so much. You all mean so much to me.” That folks, is a real teacher. A teacher who really does love her students, and her students definitely love her.

Once in 7th grade, I partnered up with an extremely quiet kid. I was always shy, but I had never even heard this kid talk. Our assignment was to each read a page aloud to the other and then complete a worksheet. When it was his turn to read, it was obvious that he had a speech impediment. I thought nothing of it and listened patiently. All of the other students were already finishing up their worksheets by the time he finished reading, and we didn't get to finish before the bell rang. After class I handed my worksheet to my teacher and explained that I didn't have a chance to finish, and she said that she had been watching the entire time. She told me that I had the "patience of a saint" and that it was such a good quality that I should never lose. I'm now a full time babysitter and I'm majoring in Education. Every time I feel my patience start to slip, I think of that teacher. She was just one of the many teachers who influenced me to become a teacher. 💗

A few months into my first year of college I was hired as an bilingual aide in a neighboring town. I was visiting my high school art teacher and shared that I had this job and I enjoyed it. He asked why I didn't therefore go into teaching. I skirted answering the question and then finally shared how I was turned off by hearing teachers complain so much about their jobs and students in the lounge. I wasn't interested in becoming bitter like that. He pointed out that people who complain like that would complain irregardless of what job they had. He said that he made it a point to not spend so much time around those who felt negatively about their job. It was the best advice I ever heard. I LOVE working with my pre-k students and can't imagine doing anything else. I feel blessed to often be the first teacher for the majority of my students. When they tell me they love school I know I'm doing something right.

I don't usually post this side of my life on social media but I felt the urge to share. I was on a team in middle school, and it was basically a gifted program but all of the 6-8 graders were integrated in the same 6-7 classes and we all loved eachother (and still do) to death. Two weeks after my 7th grade year ended, I was attacked and raped by a complete stranger. No one knew what had happened at all, but I started getting in trouble my 8th grade year (in my classes outside of the team). I actually found out a month before the first semester ended that I needed surgery on my spine from ny neck to butt basically. I was done with that year after that. I stopped caring about everything and was so angry at the world. Finally, my favorite teacher pulled me aside and said, "I don't know what's going on but something has happened to you that broke you. It's okay to be broken, but please remember that we are here to pick up the pieces, and we don't want to be pushed away, either." And I lost it. That was the day that has changed my life for forever. I still struggle with things sometimes, but from that day forward I tell myself everyday that I will not get anywhere in life by shutting out the world by rage and bitterness. I loved your video ❤️

I was a teen mom in 11th grade. There was this one teacher whom i saw as up tight and full of him self. When all my teachers found out they all stopped believing in me. It was the toughest part of my life. I was this "perfect" student who was always told to apply to all these top universities but once my belly started showing they all stopped. This one teacher, biology teacher, saw me alone during lunch one day and he told me to stay after class the following day. His words filled my heart with joy and hope! He said that nothing should stop be from reaching my dreams. He layed out how to value myself and how he valued me as a student. He said so many things and i could not help it and cried my heart out. He let me cry in silence but was there every step of my remaining high school experience. It was so beautiful to know thag someone believed in me when no one, not even myself did! Mr. Rivera is always in my heart and his words follow me every single day!!! #teachersdomakeadifference #onekidatatime

Hi! I'm in graduate school right now getting my masters in elementary education. I'm student teaching this fall in a first grade classroom and I absolutely love your videos. When I was 10 years old, my younger brother passed away. I had just finished the 4th grade and ended that school year with very few friends in my class. At his funeral, I decided I wanted to tell a story about my younger brother and read a poem. Afterwards, my elementary school principal, my 4th grade teacher, and a few of my classmates from that year came up to me and told me how great of a job I had done and how proud my brother would have been of me. I just think it is so sweet that my teacher and principal took the time to come to the funeral. Having them there really did make me feel so supported and loved.

I had a rough childhood and by high school, I was really ready to move on from that childhood. I went to a really small high school probably similar to yours (46 kids in my graduating class), and our school’s guidance counselor (also fill-in Teacher wherever she was needed (also, her husband was the history teacher)) found a way to always check on me randomly and gave me encouragement in what I wanted to do with my life. I decided I wanted to skip my junior year after I’d moved for the 10th time in three years (across states then back to the high school again) and with her guidance and encouragement, I was able to propose my plan to the school board. The school, as a team, then let me combine my junior and senior year to graduate early and move out at 17 on to College. Without my guidance counselors’ encouragement, I wouldn’t ever have thought I had the power to cause a change in my life’s direction.

I don't even remember a specific event, just the overwhelming belief in me, even when I did not believe in myself. Mr. Johnson was my science teacher and I was blessed to have him in Junior High and High School. I am 53 and I still see him today and always hug him and remind him how he changed my world. Years ago his wife had a stroke. I was the nurse that took care of her. It was such a small way to reward him and show him what he did for that lost girl. Now I am a college teacher and I have had the opportunity to see him and tell him I became a nurse and now a college professor because of him coming along beside me so many years ago. I am so thankful he was my science teacher.

I am probably one of the few that does not have a life changing impact story from my childhood or adolescence that pulled me out of a tailspin. I have been extremely blessed in my life to have grown up in a wonderfully loving home free from all the things so many kids are facing on a daily basis. My childhood really could not have been better, and yet there are a handful of teachers who always stand out in my mind because of the examples of love, compassion, and whole hearted teaching they provided to me. Not only were they always there as a living example of how I would some day model my own life, but I truly believe that they molded me. While I was growing up in my happy little world, blissfully unaware of the chaos and struggle from which I was spared, these teachers were shaping my future. They are why I am pursuing my teaching career, and I am even so blessed as to be able to work with several of my incredible high school teachers in the school where I graduated. I firmly believe that God has put these people into my life and I am eternally grateful for each and every one of them.

When I was growing up I became very self conscious about learning and truly believed that I was dumb and could never go to college. I eventually took the plunge and enrolled in college, I always wanted to be a teacher but I didn't think I was capable of it. I enrolled in my first early childhood education class, and I was so nervous that I would fail. Each assignment that I did I became more and more confident. My professor told me that she could see that I had a natural gift and "gut instinct" for being an educator and that she believed that I would get all my certifications and that I would keep going to go to graduate school because she could tell I had a hunger for knowledge. That meant so much to me because at that moment I finally believed that I really could accomplish anything and that I really wasn't dumb. I am so grateful for her, she gave me the motivation and confidence to keep going and believe in myself, because she did!

Thank you so much for posting this! This video really inspired me and encouraged me. I believe that God had created me to be a teacher to reach broken children and to love them as if they were my own. I discovered this as I recently began healing from the things in my past. I am currently in college and I thought I wanted to go into psychology to become a counselor, but I began to work with kids and choosing to be a teacher has such a personal meaning for me. It was through remembering this experience that I realized that this is my purpose in life. I also came from a very broken home. I lived in fear all of my life. I was so afraid to go home from school. I let my fear and my circumstances define me to the point where I felt that I could not do anything right and that I was worthless and stupid. I always struggled with so many things because I was told and made to feel all of my life that I couldn't do certain things. I had such a low self-esteem. I never had really anyone at home to encourage me, nor to make me feel loved. But, my 4th-grade teacher worked with me and was so patient with me and this was something that I never knew before. This teacher loved all of his students as if they were his own. I will never forget how he made me feel. He changed my entire perspective on learning and how it shouldn't be dictated by fear. God put him in my life during that time for a reason. (It is kind of ironic how I now am his coworker during my summer job where he and I work with many troubled kids.) I thought that I had to be perfect or do so much just to measure up, but I realized that I was not perfect and that all of life is full of learning. God has done so much in my life and I give him all of the glory. God taught me through this experience, the most important lesson that I want to teach my future students: Love, and acceptance, rather than fear fuels learning as well as teaching from the heart. I also learned that I am no longer a slave to fear. For I am God's child and I am free and no longer am bound to the shackles of my past. It is with him that I can do all things if I remember who I am and whose I am.

I love that you still get so emotional just remembering that profound moment in your life. That teacher's words were no accident. She was placed in your path so that you would move in the direction of God's perfect plan for you. How proud she would be to see you now. Thanks for sharing. The one experience that comes to mind is having more than one teacher tell me I was brave. I never really thought of myself as someone with confidence and bravery, but after an incident during high school and my response to it, I was stopped and told by more than one staff member how proud they were of me for standing up and not giving up...that did wonders for me and how I viewed myself.

I really don't know how to preface this, but I'm going to give it a go! I'm a junior in high school and probably the most shy person you will ever meet. Most teachers see it as snooty, or rude, but I really just can't get myself to speak out to a class full of peers. I get asked by classmates all the time, "why don't you talk?", "can you even talk?", you ask it and I've heard it. Well, in 7th grade I had the most amazing history teacher, she was full of energy and had a way about her where you just felt comfortable with her as a person. I was lucky enough to get her again in 8th grade and after 2 years of seeing her everyday we had a bond that just made me feel safe. We never really talked much to each other because of how shy I am but I always knew that if I ever needed anything at school, she had my back. At the end of 8th grade I approached her after class and asked her to sign my yearbook( which is kind of a big thing because if you look at my freshman and sophomore years yearbooks there are no signatures because I'm soooo nonconfontational!). I will never ever forget the time and thought that she put into what she wrote. What I'll remember most from all of 8th grade is the tears that dripped down her face as she left me that message. I think for her and I both it was an ice breaker, a moment that she felt she had accomplished something and really gotten through to me that she was someone I could feel comfortable with. Thank you for sharing your story! I hope to be a teacher someday & love watching your videos!

It was a college soccer coach that lifted my spirits up when at the time I was trying to join the military. It was my dream to join the Army, but because I had lost my hearing when I was a little girl I was medically disqualified from joining. All my plans, hopes, and dreams seemed to have disappeared but the one thing she said that made me look at my circumstance another way was when she told me that there is more than one way to get to your dream. My long term dream was to become a Probation Officer and sure enough I got a degree and interned at a department in TX years later :) I chose to stay home with my kids and feel immensely blessed. Those words that day kept me motivated for years! :)

Great teachers like this create great teachers like you.

One day when I walked into school, my fourth grade teacher told me something so simple yet meaningful " You see Ashley(my name), she always walks in with a smile. That's what school is all about, positivity." I know it sounds stupid but I took it so deeply. Every day I try my best to enter class with a smile, even though it's even harder now that I'm starting sixth grade. Also, my fourth grade teacher was literally the best! Where I live, Miami, middle schoolers have early release days like twice a year. I can't wait for mine since I'm heading straight to my old elementary to give her a big hug and thank her for being such an amazing teacher😀

I grew up in a home without a lot of love and even less money. I was discluded from a lot because of it. My 7th grade ELA teacher was the most awesome lady I’d ever met and I loved her. When the school year was over, she called my mom one day and asked if she could take me to a waterpark. I got to go somewhere I’d NEVER have been able to otherwise, and I got to MATTER for a day. I will never forget it. I love you, Mrs. Delovich!! You’re a hero and I so hope you’re still teaching.

It was a professor at university...I was always known as being sensitive, or toooo sensitive as my family would say. We were asked to write about our biggest weakness/ obstacle or what we felt our biggest weakness was that was holding us back. I wrote about being too sensitive and that because of that I was seen as a pushover, an easy target to take advantage of and so on. He told me that what I saw as my biggest weakness was in fact my best quality. That my sensitivity made me the kind of person he would want to see as an educator. Kind, generous, thoughtful and empathetic. Yes it still irks me that people say I'm too sensitive but I honestly took what that professor said to heart and see it as a strength. I also remember my Grade One teacher telling me I was very smart and asking me to read aloud. I felt like the smartest person on the planet at that moment-I'll never forget it. Thank you for sharing. You seem like an amazing person. I am enjoying your blogs :) I teach Kindergarten as well- I have a K-1 this year so have been checking out blogs and things to wrap my head around the combination. Stumbles across you and so happy I did! Take care :)

Once I had a teacher, my senior year who really changed me. I have a learning disability and although I had accommodations with the school my teachers never really talked to me about it. And this specific teacher one day saw me crying in class because we had a test and the students around me were distracting me and making it hard for me to focus. He then asked me what was wrong and I explained my disability. Meanwhile I was crying due to the fact that I was embarrassed to tell him about it. He then started to cry with me, and asked me to explain to him how I felt when the class was too loud, or how it made me feel when I wasn't given enough time to complete assignments. It was really hard to be honest about it, but I was. After about 15 minutes of talking and crying he told me that he felt awful I had to go weeks without what I needed to succeed. He was the first teacher who saw that my disability was holding me back in some ways, but my determination was still there. He then did everything he could to help me, and had meetings with me every week to discuss how I was doing. As someone who had gone thru all of school without someone who seems to care and understand, having this teacher talk to me and work with me really touched me. We still keep in touch to this day, and I will always be grateful for him

THIS is the reason why I want to become a teacher!! 2 years ago just when I started high school, my life changed completely. I had a really hard time finding new friends. With all that was going on at home I had no energy in school to get to know new people. But my teachers were SO accepting! They new I didn't have any friends in my class and they new that I wasn't comfortable speaking in the class, I didn't raise my hand for 2 years. But my teachers accepted that and never forced me to talk, they let me be and let me hand in assignments instead of having presentations... and those times I had to have presentations they let me have it alone with the teacher. They new how uncomfortable I was in my class and they accepted me for who I was. Last year my life turned in to a huge mess and I couldn't focus in school and nothing worked. Still my teachers where there for me and wanted to help me as much as they could. They never forced me to do anything. If I was late with an assignment they didn't care, I could turn it in half a year later, cause they knew I did my best for the moment and they trusted me cause they know I'm responsible. And I'm just so thankful for them for letting me be and letting me do it my own way that worked best for me. This is exactly why I want to become a teacher! I may not have had the best social life in school but my teachers has always been there to support me and kept me continuing liking school despite not having friends. I just want to be able to do the same for other kids as my teachers has done to me! Because it really has a big impact on someone's life and can help the person see the light in the dark!!❤️

In high school I was really struggling with anxiety, but wasn't aware of it yet. I had three teachers in particular who noticed this and started doing small things to calm me down and help me on a day to day basis. One emailed my parents wth his concern, another took me aside to work on breathing techniques, and the last offered me the most supportive and comfortable outlet to let my emotions out. This was so incredibly eye opening for me, and since then I have gone to therapy and finally made the bold move to go on medication. My life is more bright than it has ever been, and I am so excited to see what the future holds. I begin my student teaching journey in just a week, and I feel so ready and confident. I spend my free time researching and filling my mind with everything education. It is my passion and I can not wait to have my own (hopefully kindergarten) classroom in just a year.

Ms. Hayes was my fourth grade teacher and she made me feel like I was the smartest kid ever and that I could do anything! I was blessed with several good teachers who had a positive impact on my life and encouraged. Thanks for sharing your story and be so transparent and vulnerable.

I would have never thought that you had a bad life! I admire you! Thank God for that teacher Bc now you are blessing many other kids. I pray my baby has teachers like you! The teacher that made me feel the best about myself actually wasn't even my teacher. She taught all of my brothers but then we moved away when I was 2 and didn't move back til I was in 3rd grade. She was a 2nd grade teacher. I was actually named after her daughter. Very special lady she was! She loved me and made me feel like I could conquer the world.

I am starting student teaching in just a few short days. I grew up fairly shy and low confidence when around others. I was a military brat and constantly moving at young age and never felt wanted or accepted in school by my peers. I was bullied pretty bad for a few years over the smallest things and now that I see from an adults perspective it was jealousy on their part. I was blessed to have some phenomenal teachers growing up I have consistently looked up to for guidance and advice. To this day I am still in contact with two of my elementary school teachers they have helped me see my true potential is helping others and teaching they way they helped me. It has been amazing to be able to turn to them as I being my teaching journey.

As a person with a disability who needs special accommodations during certain times I remember my junior and senior year English teacher ( same teacher!) She was there for me every time I needed something. She made sure I knew I was going somewhere in life. She made the class more fun and always had us smiling. She helped me over come fears!

I had many great teachers in high school, so its hard to pick one teacher that helped me. But I was in yearbook all throughout high school and my senior year I was going through a tough time at home because my parents were getting a divorce. I would stay really late after school so I wouldn't have to go home and deal with it. Well eventually my teacher was like "The yearbook can't get any better, you have already worked really hard. Why do you keep staying late?" I broke down and was crying and told him why. Ever since then, he stayed late with me after school, so I could distract myself with yearbook, homework, and even be sort of like a TA for him. He took his own time to stay after school with me because students weren't allowed to stay in classrooms after school by themselves just so I could wait a little longer to go home. I really appreciated that and new I wanted to be a support for other young students or kids. That's when I decided to go to school for Child development and Psychology. I am now a second grade teacher.

Thank you for sharing! I've never had an experience like that but I did have a favorite first grade teacher who was very kind to me. I'm so glad you had a teacher who impacted your life in this way!

Freshman year of high school, on my way to school with my older sister, I witnessed a student in the year below me being hit by a car while crossing the street. I was so upset, terrified and shaken that I knew there was no way I could walk into school and act like I was ok for 7 hours. So I went home, talked to my counselor and tried to forget about it. Obviously I couldn't think about anything else but that for hours and I realized that I was going to have so much work to catch up on. I went to email my teachers, when I saw that one of them (my english teacher) had already emailed me asking if I was ok, if I needed anything and not even mentioning anything about school. Now my other teachers were very nice, telling me to not worry about the homework but my english teachers response just stood out to me and seemed very genuine. The next day when my other teachers were asking things about the accident that I clearly didn't want to talk about, and when other teachers weren't saying anything at all, my english teacher asked again if I was ok. So I just want to thank him for showing that he cared when all my friends were ignoring me, and thinking I was over reacting for attention.

It was my Year 7,8 and 9 (UK) tutor and Spanish teacher that helped me out in everything, when I was bullied he made sure that the person was kicked out from my school and then would tell me to put a smile on my face. He was my spanish teacher for 2 years and my tutor for 3 years. He then left and I still remember everything he done for me throught that 3 years and he was an amazing inspirational teacher. He now moved away to another school :( .

I love this! I had great self-esteem in high-school up until grade 12 when I was diagnosed with major depression. My grade 9 teacher came to my house to talk to me, she told me I'm strong and I can get through anything, and encouraged me to focus on the good things and stay positive. I'm in college right now studying early childhood education !

I'm so lucky to have so many but one is now one of biggest mentors. I met her through my volunteer work at my elementary school, even though she was there when I went there. We have become so close and she has been so amazing. Every Friday I would sit there with her and we would talk. Just this past weekend she took me shopping for freshmen year of college and we went to lunch and talked through all of my worries and she said everything I needed. Needless to say the goodbye was hard and we both hugged and cried as she just kept saying how proud she was as me. My history teacher is another. When I started to fall behind she always always always stayed with me. She never gave up on me. My friend and I still do breakfast with her all the time. One other history teacher I didn't even have in class was the same. I went to her crying over a class and she gave me the tough love I needed. They've all seen me at my best and worst and sometimes I just think and wonder why they didn't give up but remember how lucky I am they didn't and how lucky I am to have such teachers and adults and mentors who still and always will believe in me and be there for me.

My 4th grade science teacher would tell the me, "Girls that are smart in math and science can be anything they want to be... what do you want to be?" I still say that to the children I tutor and/or home school. The child who had heard it the most just "scored" her first "career" job in Chemical Engineering! She started last Monday!

Francesville! That's not far from where my grandparents live! I also had a friend in college that went to school there. I love seeing all your classroom tips and ideas. You're kindergarten students are so lucky to have you!

From 7th to 9th grade I had a teacher that really changed my life. She was like a second parent to me. I was pretty shy in a pretty rowdy class and didnt really have friends there since two people turned on me and they were both kind of leaders of bigger groups of friends, anyway I ended up with my back towards my locker, reading a book, and this one time my teacher was passing me in the hallway and suddenly knelt down on one knee and started talking to me. Most other teachers just gave me a smile and kept going, but she really from that moment on took me under her wings. The years passed trouble came and went and whenever things went bad I always had her to turn to. She would always listen and both her and her fiancè kept an extra eye at me and stood up for me. And even when I no longer was their student, they both took the extra steps towards me to ask how things were going, always supporting me. They both made me feel seen and safe. And thanx to them I'm just about to publish my first book, because they gave me the courage and support I needed to get here. Thanx for sharing your story it really means a lot!

In high school I was in AFJROTC. Two of the instructors made me feel beyond amazing every single time I felt sad. They would always say how special I was, how smart, how much potential I had, how respectful and loving i was. But what always caught my attention was when I was their teacher assistant my senior year. The Colonel pulled me aside and we were talking in his office and then on of his cadets walked in an interrupted and this student only spoke Spanish so I translated for and smiled and she was able to continue on. However, the Colonel looked at me in such awe and told me wow you really are so kind hearted. You spoke to her in such a way that made her happy (this student was a special education student and was often bullied) and he told me "I know you're going to be a fabulous nurse everyone will love you." Honestly both the Colonel and Sargent were so kind to me. I loved them and they always used me and my twin sisters as examples as great students. They both helped me when I was in a rough spot and didn't know what to do in my life. They helped me believe in myself. In fact they had such a great impact on me that I visit them every month at my old high school and every time I do we always talk for hours! Thank you for sharing!

I am so glad I found your vids! You are an amazing person, and an amazing teacher. I wish there were more teachers like you. I’m currently in the education program, studying to be an elementary teacher; and the only thing pushing me to finish my classes, is because of the reminder of what type of teacher children need. Unfortunately, I do not have any stories where a teacher showed me love/compassion. It was actually just the opposite, pretty much the whole time going through school. In second grade, I let a teacher effect me so much, that it almost led to me failing at everything I encountered. The teacher told me that I was “dumb” and that I didn’t have a brain. I always struggled in school, and would have no one to turn to for help. Not even a teacher. This is why I want to be an educator. I want my kids to turn to me for help, and know that they will be showed compassion and guidance. I was left behind and forgotten, and it wasn’t until three years ago that I started believe in myself. I’m 26 yrs old. I let that teacher impact my learning and social skills for this long in my life! Until I decided that I wouldn’t let anyone tell me what I’m capable of. I’m very smart, and I’m going to teach kids. It’s my calling. Thank you for being an inspiration.

Right before 11th grade, my family moved across the country. I went from a class size of under 250 to over 550 as the district was in the process of making two new high schools. I had been in the previous house since age 4. I went from confident and outgoing with lots of friends to overwhelmed and shy. I was put into this class elective simply because it had open seats and it was the best thing for me. Mrs. Bowers taught three medical science classes which I ended up taking all. She was the first teacher here to take the time to know me, I would let my guard down a little. She didn't have favorites, she would talk to me after class. When my parents separated the next semester, I never had to say I was having a hard day. She could tell, she would smile at me and didn't force me to answer questions in the class. She would wait until I raised my hand when I was ready and made sure to call on me. No one else in the class really noticed but it helped a lot.

Math was my most difficult subject in school. I struggled and had no confidence in my mathematical ability. I had to take summer school because I failed my a class. I had the most amazing teacher. He had a way of explaining things that really helped me understand. He never made feel stupid if I didn't understand. Instead he took the time to show multiple ways of solving a problem until one of the ways stuck with me. He was the first teacher who ever made me feel like I could learn math.

When I was 15 years old my home life was a wreck. My father came and went as he pleased and I had attempted suicide 3 times. All 3 times God intervened by using friends to stop me. I was a freshman in high school with no hope. My English teacher saw something in me and introduced me to a director of a preschool. I got a job as an assistant and that's where I found my love of teaching. I never knew why she invested in me, but I am so grateful she did! That same year I gave my heart to Christ and have been serving him ever since. 32 years of teaching children, (2-12 year olds), in the church and public schools and I love every minute of it! Yes it's hard and tiresome, but oh so worth it!!! Thank you for sharing your heart!

I'm going to be a sophomore in high school this year. But this happened when I was in freshman year. Back in April I was going trough a tough spot and I ended up in rehab for a week. Going back to school was hard after being in the hospital. But she constantly asked about me. She said she would come see me. She made sure I was okay. When she saw me I swear she gave me the biggest hug I've ever gotten. I love her to death. She's an amazing teacher. And she also made me like math😂

Thank you for sharing your story. You are truly an inspiration. Sending you many blessings😊

This was great ... loved it. One of my favorite teachers was in third grade... she had such grace and believed so much in all of us.. she did so many things that I still remember today ... she was super invested and I treasure that always 💛 coming from a #homeschoolmama

You are such s sweet soul. :o) I pray that you are blessed beyond measure this year for your transparency and compassion.

I’ve had so many incredible moments with teachers that I could NEVER forget. The one that had the biggest impact on me was probably this past year (my senior year) I was dealing with depression and I was suicidal. I was taking AP psychology and my teacher saw this crazy difference in me and she knew something was wrong. One day I was completely withdrawn more than I had ever been before and my teacher went straight to my counselor and shared that she was concerned about me. Both my teacher and counselor took me out of class and talked to me about what was going on, at first I didn’t say much and to be honest I’m stubborn so I wasn’t going to talk. My teacher was asking a ton of questions and I remained silent and stared at the floor until my teacher shared a story about herself. She was telling me that she almost attempted suicide but stopped herself and became stronger from her situation. She knew that my family like wasn’t the best and I was behind on some work that my mom was yelling at me about multiple times a day and this just pushed me farther and farther into a really dark place. So she offered to just put in grades for the missing work since it seemed to be really weighing me down, that’s when I burst into tears and told her no and I told my counselor and teacher how I felt. That conversation and the story that my teacher told me is part of the reason I am still alive today. I aspire to be like my teacher she was so outspoken and unapologetically herself she is also extremely smart and knows exactly what to say at any moment. I would be lucky to be half the person she is. This is probably soooo long but I have plenty more stories about teachers that gone out of their way to be amazing.

I’m going into grade 10 this year and many teachers have impacted me in a positive way. I believe that little comments go a long way especially when it comes to work, some classes I struggle and just knowing that the teacher has faith in me certainly encourage me to want to do better everyday. Also, I love watching your videos, they are truly inspiring me to maybe become a teacher myself one day!

I am a "retired" Navy brat, and moved every few years to my father's new duty station. Early on in my school career in 1st or 2nd grade I was labeled an "At Risk" student. I struggled to speak well and when I was tested in reading, I had to read stuff out loud. I went through intense speech therapy and language resource rooms. Being pulled out of class when fellow students were learning important grammar, spelling or writing content. So I remained below grade level in language arts for a long time. By 5th grade I moved to a new district where the label "At Risk" followed me in my records. In the new district unknown to us, "At Risk" students were considered trouble makers not students with learning issues. So the 5th grade teacher was horrible. Tearing up assignments because I missed a date, or commas etc, etc. I and 2 other kids were the receivers of belittling and tearing down. I missed many recesses and fun activities because I was a no good kid. Anyways we had 3 weeks when specialist district test givers came in and teachers went through training while we took standardized tests. Our class was so relieved as a group because we did not have our teacher in the room for so long. Afterwards it was announced that a student in her class had gotten the highest math score in the district for our grade. It was me. I had an "f" in math and my mom got very upset. How could I be failing 5th grade and get one of the best scores in the district. Our teacher ended up not coming back after the test results came back. Our class was interviewed and the school principal apologized to myself and the 2 other students who had been very severely emotionally abused. Our grades as a class were wiped clean from our record and we got to start over with long term sub in Feb. We moved into military housing 3 weeks before 5th grade was over. The teacher I got when we moved to the school near housing (same district) was told what happened. She cried when I started to tear a paper up I had turned in that had my last name missing. She was so sweet and gentle with me, working to try and build my confidence back up. The following year she was instrumental in getting Mr. McCoy set up as my 6th grade teacher. He was my miracle teacher. By the second week he had identified that I was not "At Risk" but gifted and a reader at an 8th grade level. I had a learning difference and needed to read silently. Then discuss what I read and get special help with writing ind revising because I had missed so much in the district that had labeled me and removed me so much from that content in the classroom. By end of my year I loved school again and my grades reflected where I really was. I was put on the advance track. Working with him inspired me to be a teacher. Though I am unable to teach and work with children due to my wrecked and weakened immune system, I really am looking forward to working with older adults with technology. As a volunteer on full time disability. I am still inspired by his example to help me be patient and figure out how the person I am working with learns. Sometimes I ask myself, what would Mr. McCoy do?

in middle school I wasn't very social and my science teacher in 7th grade would let me eat lunch in her room and I just felt so loved.

I know Francisville. I am from North Judson. My mom went to high school in Medaryville. Glad to have found your videos.

When I was in 3rd grade my mom made a point to tell me she hated me all the time. My 3rd grade teacher always hugged me and made a point to say you can do anything you put your mind to. Because of her I am working on teaching degree to better my life and my daughters. I graduated high school in 09 but had my daughter in 2011, so school took a back burner. But I am almost done with my associates degree!!!

For me- it was someone telling me that I was an important part of the organization. I was in middle school, and was teaching kids with special needs how to swim.

Your students are so lucky! You were definitely meant to be a teacher.

I went to a high school that was crazy rigorous in its curriculum, so that I felt pressured to always take on honors/AP classes that I didn't want to take. My junior year, I was taking AP U.S history and I was struggling bad, which frustrated me since it's my favorite subject. My teacher had told us that if we wanted to drop the class to come talk to him after school. When I went to him he told me that he believed I could do it, that I shouldn't give up, so I thought, "Okay, I don't want to let you down." That year was actually his first year as a teacher and we were his first AP US class and just watching him work with such passion was a blessing. He said his biggest wish for us was to be informed citizens, and for us to make the right decisions. He never talked down to us and always spoke to his students as equals. On my last day of senior year, I went to his class to say goodbye, telling him how much of an influence he had on me and what an honor it was to have him as my teacher for my favorite subject. I was embarrassingly choking up, looking down at the ground because I knew I would cry, but I mustered up the courage to look at him and I found he was about to cry as well. We hugged and it meant the world to me. At graduation, as all the seniors walked out of the ceremony he singled me out and congratulated me and told me he was proud. He's one of the reasons I'm currently in school to be a teacher. Thank you Mr. Pratt for giving me that extra push.

There was a moment in my freshman year of high school so basically last year, during that time I had gone through a very traumatic event and I felt like I had no one to turn to, but my biology teacher has been there for me even through that traumatic event so you know I had to share some stuff with her, she would always say “even if it does turn out to be positive, it’s not the end of the world” I don’t know why but that really helped me realize that if It does turn out to be positive, i would ask her if she wanted to adopt it but a huge curveball came, i was going through a miscarriage but even throughout that time, she would always try to be there for me and that really impacted me is a HUGE way so I love her for that ❤️ (she made me want to be a teacher 😊)

Thank you for sharing this personnal experience with us. No teacher has ever said anything like that to me. It wasn't done then in France. I was the unnoticed child, always serious, always discreet, almost forgotten. :)

I suffer a connective tissue disorder that causes chronic pain that many teachers don't understand. They often don't believe me or don't understand why I miss class for doctors appointments. They don't realize I'm spending my school day doing painful physical therapy or that I'm at the hospital for an appointment rather than in class. A substitute teacher/office worker told me her best friend has the same diagnosis as me and that I can go to her when something is wrong. That gave me a better feeling about school.

My choir teacher, Mr. Priaulx, in 8th grade convinced me that I could become a teacher (I even got future teacher award at 8th grade graduation). He was sure I could go all the way to a doctoral degree. Of course he felt it should be in the realm of music, but his belief in me when I didn't believe in myself made a big difference later on. We still keep in touch, and although I never got that doctorate, I did get a teaching degree!

I remember my 3rd grade teacher, Miss Parkes, was so supportive about me writing stories. It wasn't something that we were doing for class, but something I did in my spare time, and she let me read the stories to the class. she was amazing!

My sophomore year of high school. That was the year everything started to crumble; my trust with my family, my faith with God, and my self confidence. In the beginning of the year I told all my teachers in private of two things I struggle with, in hopes of them understanding where I'm coming from. First I told them I had Dyslexia; however, I do not like to be singled out in making accommodations, but to have patience. Secondly, that I have Tourette's, and as long as they ignore it, the students won't make it a big deal as well. There was this one teacher, that didn't know what either dyslexia or Tourette's really were (he knew of them but detail wise, not much), and wanted me to give him more information about it so he knows how he can help. There was this time where two kids were laughing at me, because of my Tourette's and this man (the teacher) stood up and told to leave the classroom for being disrespectful in his class... after class he apologized to me for making it a big deal and told me "I think your unique, and that's the way the Lord made you. I know it's hard, but as long as I'm here I got your back." To this day he was the only teacher that cared enough to ask me how he can help me with my dyslexia and stick up for me the way he did. I am forever grateful for him!

I was a very quiet student (voted most shy in Jr high) My 8th grade history student teacher wrote in my year book and said that one day I would find my voice and have wonderful, unique things to say. In college I started writing poetry and fiction. I got some of my poetry published and am even in an anthology for teaching poetry. I'll never forget that she saw deeper than the surface and was able to recognize me for who I was even though I was so quiet.

My junior year of high school there was this aide she was a friend to me her room was a safe space I would run to her room to escape the bullying. She made a huge impact on my life by just being there for me I cried to her she was truly a life saver . She helped me with my work I would give the world to meet with her and just tell her how she changed me super raw I know .

Oh this one is easy, in 5th grade my grandma passed away. I had never experienced death that close to me and my teacher, Mrs Spear, took time to...just be there and I really needed that. I also have a teaching impact story from this past year. I teach high school social studies. In freshman US history our first unit is an immigration unit. Anyway, the big final project is a family tree, as well as doing an interview with a family member on your tree. I had a student that had a bit of negative reputation(smallish district word travels) and on their interview had commented that they asked awesome questions. They finished the year with an A and was an incredible student. Sorry this is so long but your story got me thinking

I had 3 teachers. One was my elementary school principal, the other was my grade 9 ethics teacher , the last one was my grade 10 & 11 math teacher. When i was in grade 1, i got surgery and finally came back to school after the recovery. The principal called me and my older sister to the office to discuss how i was doing. She told my sister to make sure im ok and she gave me a sucker. She told me if i wasn't feeling the best to come to her. Then my ethics teacher back in grade 9 found out my grandfather had passed away the only day i missed school. She knew he had cancer and she talked to me when i told her about the cancer. Apparently when she found out, she cried and prayed for me with the class. When i got back to school, she and i had a long conversation about how i was doing. And finally, my math teacher. She was and is amazing. She is always there for her students and she even told us she treats us like her children. I had my wisdom teeth removed so i missed school (and i was in precalcus so missing school meant missing important work). She taught me the lessons a week beforehand and did not judge me for messing up and getting bad marks. Then a few months later, we had to put my dog down due to his back dislocating. I told her i had to leave because i just found out he hurt himself and her and i just cried. She took me in her arms and she was crying with me. I was so amazed when i passed her class for how much school i missed. She told me she was proud of me, which was the first time i heard a teacher say that to me. I made her a poster at the end of the year with the whole class writing a "thank you" note on it. She was so surprised and couldn't stop crying for how happy she was.

another great video keep up the good work👍👍👍👍👍👍

4th grade special ed teacher was the first one to understand my ADD/HD and would not remark on my bouncing and I learned so much that year by feeling ok to be me around her.

Thank you for sharing your story. 😘💖💞

On a random day of sixth grade, she call each student aside to tel her any problems they had, or about things that's upset them, I had no problems so I made something up, just to be a part of the moment, and she gave each student privacy to speak and she gave them advice on their problem.

I have had a lot of trouble with my mom and my teacher last year helped me through my difficulties with her and it with anxiety

Huh. My second grade teacher that noticed my signs and symptoms of dyslexia. She was also the first teacher that did not dismiss me and told me I was an intelligent, thoughtful person. She was also the teacher that sponsored my idea in the fifth grade to help (have students 4-6 tutor) struggling readers k-3, and also one of the teachers to recommend me for gifted and talented testing in the sixth grade. And now I am tearing up just thinking about her.

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My grade 5 teacher : Sister Kathleen... My friends dad was murdered he was a cab driver and he was killed on the job. Now at that age it's hard to understand why that would happen and happen to somebody you know... we were a close group of three friends and we rallied around her to give her love and support . Sister Kathleen saw this and spoke with our parents and she picked us up from our homes to take us to the funeral to be with our friend. She was so kind and caring and helped all three of us come to terms with death and god . She truly went out of her way as a teacher and I will never forget the love and compassion she showed all three of us especially my friend who lost her father.

Sad to say, I never had one of those teachers.

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It was my college English professor, I sat in my car on my first day of college at age 47 and cried I felt so scared to go in and be the oldest person in class and that there was no way I would keep up and he said to take things one day at a time.

My junior year in high school was really hard and I walked into class crying. The teacher was a man so I was not expecting him to even notice (stereotype I know :/ ) but when he walked into class I was the same way as you and I thought I was in trouble when he called my name. He so sweetly asked if there was anything he could do and that meant the WORLD to me. And after that day he told me I could go to him if I needed help with school or stuff outside of school. He changed my life.

I've had a few amazing teachers that I've connected with in middle and high school some that I still keep in touch with today. My art teacher Ms. Sheffey who inspired the artist within when I had no experience in art, and mailed me a healing book later on in life, Ms. Baxter Senior year writing in my year book "when many students take the easy road you take the right road, you'll do great and amazing things," Mr. Wilkinson 8th grade science who had us build bridges with a partner to see who would take the most weight, mine won out of all his classes, even though my partner was absent and I didn't think I could do it successfully on my own, and my 7th grade Social Studies teacher, Mr. Piedras who graced me time to cry in the girls bathroom because I had fought with my mom in the morning.

Mrs Gardner let me eat lunch in her classroom and work on this huge mural on the wall. I didn't want to be around all the other kids. I was going through a lot at the time. She said I was I butterfly...if only I'd allow myself to spread my wings and fly.

when I was little I had trouble reading and this teacher spent hours teaching me to read and because of that I wanted to be a teacher too

In 6 grade my student teacher wrote me a birthday card and tell me how much she enjoys me and my cousin I work hard and like to like share in class

i don't think any of my teachers even know i exist and even if they did they wouldn't care about me (or anyone) they literally just come for the pay check

I only have teacher talk bad about me 😭

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