Teachers - if a student wrote to you years later to thank you, would you prefer an email or a handwritten letter?
When she got a different job, leaving just as I’d sat my GCSEs I think she guessed I might become disengaged, so encouraged me to do A Levels at her new school. And it was a much better fit, loads of great teachers, so I’d put a fair amount of detail in thanking her, not a card.
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I often don't think teachers realise just how much of an impact they have on young people. A careless sentence, at vulnerable times, by an adult, can, genuinely devastate. And, in the other hand, simple encouragement can open up a pathway.
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Completely agree: when I changed schools after I was kicked out of home at 13 a new teacher asked where I lived, sneered & said “I bet you get free school meals too” so I just stopped eating lunch because she’d made me feel even more worthless exactly when I was convinced I was.
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In terms of thanking that teacher, I would suggest mentioning a specific conversation. Sometimes we don't know what, exactly sticks with a person we teach, or what they remember. But, I have been on a teaching team with a former undergrad student, and they told me...
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...that in essay feedback I gave them, I wrote 'based on this work, I have no doubt, you will reach the highest levels of academia'. When they were about to quit. I don't specifically remember writing that sentence. But I know that I, proudly stood by them when they achieved that
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