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Thank You, Jeff

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I was reminded again today that teachers are some of the most generous people I know. A teacher’s day is extremely busy teaching classes, covering classes for teachers who are away, marking, giving extra help to students during lunch or after school, supervising students during lunch and after school, attending meetings of one sort or another, completing paper work( the bain of a teachers existence) etc. Some days it never ends. Usually, it’s difficult to find a quiet moment to have a cup of tea and bit of lunch. So when I went to the science department to get the materials I needed for tomorrow’s class, I hoped I’d find someone there who was free to show me where the materials were stored.

I knocked on the science office door and Jeff, one of the science teachers, invited me in. I told him I wanted my students to build electric circuits tomorrow and could he please show me where I could find the materials I needed . Jeff was so generous with his time and experience. Despite the fact that I was interrupting his lunch, he not only showed me where the supplies were stored, but he also showed me the best way to set things up so that the activity would go smoothly. I really appreciated this. He didn’t have to go to all that trouble. He could have simply shown me where the materials were stored. That’s all I expected him to do. Instead, he gave up a lot of his valuable lunch time to help me. Even though I’ve been teaching for forever, I don’t have a lot of experience teaching science and need all the help I can get. After he showed me the ropes, so to speak, I felt much more confident about the whole thing. Thanks, Jeff.

You can tell that Jeff enjoys teaching. Over the years, his students have told me that Mr. Salt knows his stuff and can explain things so that you can really understand them. They tell me that if they don’t understand something , Mr. Salt will explain it another way so that they can get it. He doesn’t just tell them the same thing over again, only louder. And, that’s a good thing.

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