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Yes, Teachers Change Lives

I only have respect for teachers; after all they teach,influence and help the young minds to do many wonderful things in life.

Thank you for that observation. Much appreciated.

I taught advanced placement biology, in a school noted for preparing students for admission to university programs in science, engineering, and medical careers. To this day I keep in touch with a good number of my former students who went on to exemplary professional careers. Many got full scholarships from what they learned in my school's biology and chemistry curricula. I created a student science research program where my students would conduct research in local industrial and institutional laboratories. Annually, our science research team won statewide awards and honors in science research competitions ("science fairs").

I also became renowned for my teaching of student teachers who served their student teaching (training) duties in my classrooms and labs. They, too, went on to exemplary science teaching careers. Beyond the somewhat rudimentary science teaching techniques they learned in the colleges of education I showed them how to propitiously engage high school science students in science learning. My student teachers all said they learned more about good science teaching when serving in my classrooms than what they learned in the somewhat dry "methods" courses in ed school.

My students were required to conduct research projects, then write up their results in a proper "term paper," a proper science research report. For them, I wrote this detailed handbook, "The XXXXXXXXX SCIENCE STYLE GUIDE for the Researching and Writing of Reports in Science." In college, their freshmen science professors were astonished at their science writing abilities; claiming that some grad student actually did the work --- until they scrutinized the Style Guide. A number of college professors then got permission to use the guidebook in their classes.