May event: Report card for my teachers

Written by Sam Lemonick

Friday, 23 April 2010

Many of us remember a favorite teacher or professor, someone who encouraged our interests, cleared up our confusion, or expanded our horizons. Many also remember a teacher who always rubbed us the wrong way -- or maybe it was the other way around. And everyone remembers, with pride or anxiety, getting their grades at the end of the term.

As the school year ends, we invite you to turn the tables and evaluate your teachers' performances. We want to hear your stories of the math and science teachers who made an impression on you, good or bad.

You choose the metric: Letters? Numbers? Written remarks? You pick the categories: Lecturing? Encouragement? Chalkboard handwriting? Don't name any names ("Mr/s. H" or "my fifth grade math teacher" is fine), but let us know what your math and science teachers did, right and wrong. Submit your "report card" before May 31 via our online form or by .

This time around, you decide who made the grade.

Here are the "report cards" published so far:

Inspired in junior high by Gail Simmons

"Scientifically enlightened" in 5th grade by Susan Horton

Science fair failure by Chelsea Wald

Her enthusiasm was contagious by Diana Tomai

Just a little cell by Tamara Spriggs

Fourth grade crime scene by Belkis Cardona-Rivera

Hindsight is 20/20 by Atalie Ashley

Professor mom and her "lab" by Tunisia L. Riley

Stoichiometry never looked so good! by Enger Muteteke

My first physics teacher by Jennifer Huber