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Educator of the Month: Mr. Elison
Educator of the Month: Mr. Elison
By: Leah Theroux
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Posted by wendeez Mon May 14, 2007 11:11:46 PDT
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0 responses 0 comments I want to nominate Mr. Elison, my sixth-grade teacher at Castle Elementary, for Educator of the Month.
Mr. Elison is a great teacher! His devotion and dedication to all of his students is really awesome. Most of us in Mr. Elison's sixth-grade class have excelled in areas like math, science and writing, which are areas that most of us kids had a hard time in. He takes the time to listen to us and our voices matter to him. He is really good at teaching us without us knowing. If any of us need help or don't understand something he makes time and he will find other ways to help us learn something we are having problems with. I believe Mr. Elison was born to teach. It's hard to motivate us kids. I hear teachers and parents talk about how hard it is all the time. Not for Mr. Elison, motivating us comes easy for him. He has a lot of patience and a positive attitude that just adds to the many things that make him a great teacher. Mr. Elison has us write an essay once a week on topics that are most of the time things we all want to write about. I used to hate those essays and now I don't mind them at all. He takes time to tell us how well we are doing and how proud he is of our accomplishments. He also tells our parents. Math and science were never a subject I liked but this year Mr. Elison has encouraged us to participate in the Science fair and he also assigned it as a project we had to do for class. My science project won first place this year at our school and I will be participating in the county science fair at Robobank Arena. The pressure to do well in school is overwhelming and so is the thought of going on to junior high. Mr. Elison has turned some of this stress and pressure into something positive. This has been a really hard letter to write because there are so many things I could share with you. I hope I was able to get you to see why Mr. Elison should be honored and voted for teacher of the year or month. He really deserves it. I have learned so much from him and will miss him next year as I move on to seventh grade. So please help us show him what a great teacher he is by honoring him.
Thank you,
Leah Theroux (A student in Mr. Elison's class)
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