Education Experiences

What was a memorable teacher or learning experience? Who was positive and engaging?

I grew up in the Catholic education system that stressed rote learning. Teachers did not need to entertain or engage us. Rinse , repeat and spit out.

Then sometime in high school, I had a physics teacher by the name of Mr Jensen. Rumor was that Mr. Jensen did not need to teach. He had supposedly invented some audio stuff that had a patent that paid him millions. I never knew if that was true. I do know that he taught his class with a passion and perserverance that I had never encountered. I was going to stay awake in this class. The class was always interactive, constantly in motion. I still have memories of his lessons. He had lots of neat stuff to do demonstrations with. He was the first person to teach me the "with and without" method of finding an answer. It was a lesson in how to set up a theory and test it. I apply it in my work and in other problem solving tasks to this day.

Positive experiences plant a seed in my mind. How can I be a engaging teacher? How will that passion transform learning so that what I teach becomes a lifelong knowledge?