On Thursday, the teacher of the year was announced.   Katie Pemberton was surprised in the gym of her school with the award and 1,000 dollars. She is a 7th and 8th grade math teacher at Canfield Middle School in Coeur d’Alene. Ms. Pemberton will go to DC to be in the contest for National Teacher of the Year.

Teachers are some of the best people in the world. They give their entire day to help young people to learn. They spend a lot of their free-time grading papers and writing assignments. My favorite teacher is Mr. Grant. He spends a lot of time organizing notes in powerpoint form to help us do well. He explains the material very well and I understand what he is trying to get across. With him teaching, school is a lot easier.

Who is your favorite teacher and why? What qualities do they have to help school became easier or harder to make a challenge for you? Would you rather have a teacher that pushed you to do better or a teacher that made everything easy? Would they be making it easier by how well they are teaching you or just making it easier by not trying?