Slide1: Annie Sullivan Middle School Why We Teach Our hopes, our dreams, our aspirations, our commitment. 2006 - 2007


Slide2: I teach because I feel all children deserve the opportunity to be appreciated for who they are. They deserve the chance to reach their fullest potential. Bernadette Conroy


Slide3: I am proud to contribute to my students’ education and life. It feels like a secure and natural fit. Sena Anania


Slide4: I try to be a role model for my students, showing them through my actions how you treat yourself and others. Brenda Vanover


Slide5: I like to see the smiles on my students’ faces when they accomplish something they didn’t think they were able to do. Lois Abramo


Slide6: It is a privilege to mold and shape future generations. Debra Marech


Slide7: I teach for so many reasons. I teach to educate the future generation. I can only hope that my students learn as much from me as I learned from my great teachers. Rachel Garay


Slide8: The one thing that has always remained constant is the relationships I have with my students. I have taught the past three decades and students never change. They want and are willing to respect and to believe in you as a teacher. Ernie Miller


Slide9: I went into teaching because I enjoy learning, interacting with children, and playing with science! Sue Fortin


Slide10: It makes me feel good to help my students to observe the world around them and to see things in a different and creative way. Tina Guarino


Slide11: I hope the excitement and passion for teaching that I bring into the classroom every day will inspire students to try their best and continue to challenge themselves. Lizzie Hawk


Slide12: I teach because I am a teacher. Rich Labedz


Slide13: What I love most about teaching is helping students discover and work with their unique challenges and strengths so that they feel good about themselves; realize they can chart their own futures and dream big. Caryn Parnell


Slide14: I want to help students understand their potential. I want to help students realize their potential. Debby Bevan


Slide15: I teach because it keeps me young at heart and I can’t imagine doing anything else that I would love as much. Carol Anne Allen


Slide16: I teach to engage students so they will question and be curious. Mary Jane Waite


Slide17: I am an idea person – ideas strike like lightning hitting my brain. I love to share them and to learn about other people’s ideas. There is no place for that in other jobs, but there is in teaching. Chrissy Harmon


Slide18: Students with learning difficulties have experienced years of defeat and are often afraid to take risks and make mistakes. My job is to create a healthy climate in the classroom for each student where risk taking is celebrated and making mistakes is okay. Marilee Gleason


Slide19: Every student is capable of learning and I truly take pride in making my students feel confident in themselves, and what they are learning in class. It is my job to not only teach social studies but to mold students into young men and women with respect and integrity. Lucas Giguere


Slide20: Every day, teachers help students learn how to learn. In so doing we get them closer to reaching their individual dreams and to realize there are dreams yet to be dreamed. Andrea Lambrecht


Slide21: Teaching is a great way to stay young in thought and spirit. Chris Mahan


Slide22: I have so many opportunities to laugh! I laugh at myself, laugh with my students, and laugh with my colleagues - how many other jobs give you so many opportunities to laugh? Sandy Morris


Slide23: I teach to serve children, the community, and the country. I teach with the hope that we will inspire and prepare our students to become our future teachers, scholars, executives, artists, and most importantly, leaders. I teach because they are our future. Erich Ledebuhr


Slide24: My job never seems like a job. It seems more like an adventure… always new, challenging, rewarding, sometimes disappointing, but most of all fulfilling. Donna Schleicher


Slide25: It is one of the only professions that allows a new refreshed beginning every year. A new chance to make a difference, to try new things and to be creative. Carie Scagliarini


Slide26: I teach because of the pure enjoyment of seeing kids having fun and excelling in sports. Kim Corvi


Slide27: I teach because I truly hope that I can make a difference and that I will reach at least one student each year. Laura Welshoff


Slide28: I love to see my students’ faces light up with pride. Colleen Ahearn


Slide29: As I journey toward improving my skills as a teacher, I am gratified not only by my students’ learning but by what I learn. Amy Harrington


Slide30: I love interacting with my students because they are able to teach me about acceptance and patience every day. Allie Amaral


Slide31: I feel very lucky to be in a role where I can provide adolescents with skills that will enable them to be successful in their relationships. Roberta Nelson


Slide32: I love working with young students to help them formulate their reasoning process as well as to make them more aware of the world around them. Rob Vacca


Slide33: I wish to foster a love of reading in today’s generation. Jessica Bussman


Slide34: I teach to open the door for my students to the world beyond their community. I teach so that students understand that they must “make the world a better place because they have been in it.” Julie Vincentsen


Slide35: All it takes is for one person to reach out to a child in need and demonstrate to her that someone cares for and believes in her. That child’s chances for success are then multiplied many times over. Bob Flanagan


Slide36: I teach to make a difference, to help young people understand the world we live in, and to construct a better future. Fernando da Silva


Slide37: I teach to make a difference for kids: a difference in what they know, in what they are curious about, and in how they regard education. Lauri McLeland


Slide38: I teach to build a special rapport with each child from day one. Rachel Field


Slide39: I hope to spark my students’ interest in the Latin language and the culture of ancient Rome while I also encourage them to become responsible young adults. Jennifer Dohm


Slide40: I realized first hand that good teachers reach the tough to reach, and inspire the easy to reach. Dan Moriarty


Slide41: I love finding that diamond in the rough, that student who has never had all the tools he needs to succeed but so eagerly wants them. Lisa Vetrano


Slide42: Teaching is the most important job next to parenting. In what other job can you influence and be influenced by so many people? Gretchen Carr


Slide43: Eighth graders want to be adults, but need the right guidance to help them along that path. I want to help my students succeed and realize their potential. Sarah Thompson


Slide44: Without an educated electorate, true democracy cannot survive. Jonathan Mello


Slide45: I teach because I want our students - our future - to understand that we are more alike than we are different. Our future depends on it. Beth Wittcoff


Slide46: I teach because I love music. I like being in a position to help students experience the things I love about music. Mike Barnicle


Slide47: Being a teacher defines who I am. Joyce Bardol


Slide48: I teach to remind myself and my students that every person has potential; every student and every adult has the power to generate change and inspire greatness. Diana Hadfield


Slide49: Every year is a new beginning, a unique and different experience. Anne McCaffrey


Slide50: Remain true to your hopes, dreams, and aspirations for you and your students. Together we will realize them. Dedicated to the students at Annie Sullivan Produced by Beth Wittcoff Edited by Erich Ledebuhr, Julie Vincentsen, Jennifer Dohm, & Sandy Morris Inspired by Kathy Hogg, Woodford County Middle School, Kentucky