When you're teaching a hard concept and the students all have puzzled looks on their faces and then suddenly you can see that 'aha' moment, that they got it, that's just an incredible thing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When people are smiling they are most receptive to almost anything you want to teach them.
The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.
I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
There's very little that's comparable to seeing the spark in a student's face when she gets something that she's been struggling with.
I think everyone's had that moment where you're sitting there in class and notice someone for the first time.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.
Something about teaching is curiously attractive, actually. I don't know what it is.
My goal in the classroom was always to make sure they were having so much fun that they didn't realize they were learning.
A storytelling device teaches. I hate to say it that way, because kids tune out. I don't teach on purpose, but I'm glad that it happens sometimes.
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