Curtis White once said, “Anyone can be a teacher or a professor, but not everyone can influence you to strive for excellence and make a difference in the world around you.”. When I think about what teachers influenced me, I think about what got my stubborn self up and talking. What made them so special that I was so excited to go to their class or school the next day? What made them so special that I would actually do my homework and study for their test? Not the fact, that I wanted good grades because lord knows I don’t have to study to do that. What made this person so special that I went out of my norm for them? My first teacher, I would like to speak of would be Ashley Amason from Walton High School. She is one of the hippest and coolest …show more content…
Ms. Amason was getting out a nasty divorce but that didn’t change her attitude toward her students. She made learning fun which is what some teachers fail to realize that’s what gets kids participating in class. Throughout everything that she has been through in her time of teaching me, she never let that show in her face. She always kept a great big smile. My second teacher, I would like to discuss would be Mr. Buck. My Spanish III teacher, back in high school. He was one of those teachers that during lunch you would come and sit in his class to learn more Spanish or just hear him make people laugh. I absolutely hated Spanish as well, I never really had a good teacher in the subject. I continued to stay in Spanish because I knew that was a requirement if I planned to go to a University. Mr. Buck would let us play "Hot Potato" with a beach ball every Thursday before a test. If you caught the ball after the music stops, he would ask you a Spanish vocabulary word and you would have to know what it is in English. It made the classroom exciting and got everyone out of their seats. He was the type of teacher that would play Charades with us to get us engaged in the lesson. If there was anything we didn’t understand, he would go through it as many times as we needed it. Mr. Buck is truly an outstanding