Quarter-Finalist
Katie Cook
I love pouring into students; teaching high schoolers and watching them grow and learn is so incredibly rewarding.
I love pouring into students; teaching high schoolers and watching them grow and learn is so incredibly rewarding.
Help me become America's Favorite Teacher, win $25,000, a trip to Hawaii, and appear in Reader's Digest!
One outstanding teacher will win $25,000, a feature in Reader's Digest, a trip to Hawaii, and a school assembly with Bill Nye!
Learn MoreAs a high school senior, I was in a mentoring program for kindergarteners; one of my students was highly intelligent but struggled socially due to a lack of attention at home. The other was a girl who was a social butterfly but struggled academically. Through these two, I recognized that all children need support regardless of background, socioeconomic status, or parental input. I also experienced learning from an incredible high school English teacher.
Tell us about your most memorable teaching experienceMy most memorable teaching experience happened about 3 years into my career. I had a young girl who would not respond to me or my teaching positively. I reached out at Christmas to her dad and learned she did not have positive female role models in her life which led to her sarcasm and disrespect toward me as a young, female teacher. I adjusted my approach with her, opting for a gentler, more consistent response, and she completely changed how she reacted to and learned from me.
What would you do with the $25,000?I would add to the college fund for my own personal children, pay off some debt, expand my classroom library my students use for daily, independent choice reading, take my children to Disney World for the first time, and work on some much-needed repair projects at my house.
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