From my experience, History teachers tend to rule. I remember my seventh grade teacher being one of the best teachers I’ve ever had. She was witty, outgoing and made up games to teach the curriculum. It wasn’t always about work work work with her, but when she did give us work she made sure we understood it.

My favorite teacher by far was my Algebra teacher. One time she stayed after school with me for three hours to make sure I understood everything. I think the best teachers are the ones who aren’t uptight, don’t just stick to the textbooks, and who are willing to help their students instead of just saying, “Well what don’t you get?” And then shrugging it off. You could tell she really cared about the importance of knowledge and wanted her students to learn even if it meant sacrificing her own time.

I also, like teachers who know how to have control over the class and don’t let it get out of hand. That was a huge mistake that my most recent Spanish teacher did. She was an idiot with a lack of sense of humor and got all of her lessons from another teacher, or out of the textbook. We’d learn something and then have quizzes on something entirely different. Not to mention the fact that she didn’t know how to grade fairly, so she gave everyone B’s on the final exam.