My 12th grade Teacher Cadet instructor Mrs.Draper was the first person to pop in my head when I read about courage and responsibility, even while she’s extremely vibrant and animated she still keeps her wits about her and gets her job done as by the book as possible. Mrs.Draper has been inviting since day one, I remember the first day of teacher cadet she gave us hugs and said good-morning in the happiest voice I had heard all morning. She knows majority of us aren’t morning people but she still comes in to this day the same way, no matter what is happening she’s as inviting as day one. Mrs.Draper always makes us feel accepted whether it be our ideas during a discussion or our opinion about her teaching. She has no problem admitting when she’s wrong or when she doesn’t know something, it makes me feel like it’s okay for me to be open when I don’t understand things during class or outside of class. She takes full responsibility for her actions and would do anything for our growth. One day in class we were asking her about how our dual credit classes give us a 96 no matter what number grade our A was. She was honest with us and said she had never heard of that, but she took it upon herself to ask the guidance counselor about it in her free time. It’s the small things like that that will really make a class appreciate a teacher as more than just an …show more content…
When he teaches a lesson he takes the time to make sure there’s an activity for every kind of student no matter their learning style. When first meeting Mr.Cummings he seemed a little frigid to the class but after a few weeks we all got comfortable with each other. Even with the level of comfortable we had we all knew the difference between no and yes. As simple as that may seem until being in his class it didn’t seem like such a big deal to still do something after someone said no. He proved that to be wrong after sending a few people out of the classroom for showing blatant disrespect even after he respected us. The passion he put into his lessons showed drastically in the work he gave out and the activities we did. He had us do everything from jeopardy to posters to writing a short story. You can tell he enjoys what he does and wants to spread knowledge to as many children as are willing to learn; I’m grateful I got to be one of