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My favorite Teacher was Gonzalo Zapata. He was the best Math teacher in the world. He always taught us how to apply Maths in our lives. Sometimes he used to speak about philosophy. He encorage us to fail and stand up with a positive attitude.

My undergrad statistics and business analysis professor Dr. Tanner. He was super goofy but genuinely gave of himself for the students in his class.
The first day of one course he walked in and said "If you take advantage of what I give you in this class Little John's advice will be applicable for your career. You can snap your fingers, watch your step, then you can do it all by yourself baby."

The teacher who changed my life was Mr. Smith in grade 6 in Canada (Quebec). I was 11 years old and they were already showing us the reality of World War II on television. We played board games like Memory 44. This teacher knew how to get the kids moving and get them out of the classroom to go play in the gym when our group was too excited. Also, we watched a lot of shows on TV such as "The Mysterious City of Gold". He made me realize that general knowledge is important and that young people need to be fully aware of the realities of life before they become teenagers.

Happy Teachers Day!! We all are teachers here in community who help and teach others.
In my life my Favorite teacher is my Biology teacher who helped me to develop my interest in human science how our body works. He used to explain everything with examples that helped me to grow in my career.

I've had so many female teachers but it's funny to me the most influential ones for me have been the few male teachers I had. The first is Mr. Strasser, he was my teacher in high school. He taught Latin, which I took with him for four years and our sophomore year history class. He was a great storyteller and had the most engaging and fun classes. It's not like we were goofing off, but he made learning ancient history fun with the way he could paint a picture with words.
The other was Dr. Kruse. He was a computer science and some advanced math class professor at my college. He was very patient in helping you work through code. Treated you almost like a peer rather than his student. And every Friday was "Bad Joke Friday." It seemed fitting for his computer science classes to make us a less stereotypical nerdy/hard to relate to computer geeks. Plus it was fun to start of the day with a bunch of dad jokes.

My favorite teacher is Diana Lopez, she is a mechanical engineer, but during the years that I had the privilege of being her student, I learned mainly about the ability that women have to achieve everything we want, and that we must always seek equity in all things we do

My favorite teacher was in middle school English who I was fortunate to have both 7th and 8th grade. She was foundational in expanding my vocabulary and overall forming my approach and structure to writing and communication. It was only a few years ago that I actually learned sentence diagramming was NOT something she invented! : mind blown :
Language is incredibly powerful and communication is critical to everyday life. Learning and practicing effective communication helps foster respectful relationships, enhance conflict resolution, and generally just navigate a complex world in a productive way.

Okay, and that ties back to sentence diagramming how??
Admittedly a wee bit tangential, but I've seen many people through the years struggle to find common ground or respectfully understand each others perspectives and so often this boils down to language used setting parties up for failure through unclear communication or misunderstanding without clarification.

Sweet and all, now what relevance does this have to a Qualtrics community forum?
Quality of survey feedback has a direct correlation to quality of questions (aka language) and overall survey structure/approach. Carefully and strategically crafted questions are a paramount component of survey design.
#ShoutOutToEnglishTeachers

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Wonderful to learn about all the heartfelt stories you share on this topic. I personally have some memories of the different teachers I've had and things they've told me. But I've spent the morning trying to find one that stood out, but with no success.
I do remember things they've said or taught me, but I sadly dont have that ONE person that gives me warm feelings these days.

I had a teacher in high school that was the most feared teacher of all teachers due to his strict no-nonsense stance and deep bellowing voice if you were out of line. I rebelled the school system at about year 11 and ended up having to repeat a year due to non-attendance and lack of work submitted. Repeating a year was what it took to knock me into line. However it was a tough struggle finally doing the right thing and almost every teacher still treating me as the trouble maker I had become. But not Mr McVicar. Although I had been in his warpath before, he respected me and could see that I was turning over a new leaf, while other teachers were still saying 'why don't you just drop out?' He was the first teacher to treat me as an adult, and if it wasn't for his assistance I probably would have given up and left school. I ended up taking home 3 of the excellence awards from the graduation ceremony, and how i loved walking off the stage past the teachers that doubted me!

I always remember Mr Fresquet, My teacher in primary school when I was 7. I don't have any example but this teacher was the one that makes me loving school. He gives me the curiosity for knowledge virus !
Long time after that, I had another world best in class teacher, in university. Mr Cribbs va so clear in his explanations... Everything he had explained is still in my memory, even if I do not work in genetics any more !

And I can't talk about teachers wuthout a mention for Mrs Annie who helps my son Arthur to bypass his social difficulties (he is HP) and be fully integrated within his class.

I couldn't possibly choose just one! Professor John Ferguson and Dr. Shannon Peterson at Utah State are two world-class educators. Both of them know how to design curriculum that is both timeless and engaging, and I can't imagine where I would be in my life if they hadn't pushed me and taken a personal interest in my goals.
Teachers make the world go round, and we're all lucky to get to interact with so many great ones.

I’m kinda with MattiasM in that I can’t clearly recall any the names of the teachers I had. Moving around a lot meant I was in a different school every few years which did not help. One stands out not because I found him special or pushed me hard but because of his unusual (to me) last name; Mister Kabatznik. Here’s to you Mr. K!