Talks With Teachers

Kathy Thomas  English teacher   Paradise High School (CA) Segment I – Background and Inspiration    Tell your story. Where are you from and how long have you been teaching? What   classes have you taught?    – Kathy went to Arizona State and was originally a business major but took a lot of language classes, especially French, and became a teacher of foreign languages for the first 12 years of her career. Who has helped you in your journey to become a master teacher?   – Not one specific person... a lot of people put her under their wing. Her math colleagues taught her organization and served as voices of comfort.      It is important for other teachers to know that we all have had setbacks in the classroom. Identify an instance in which you struggled as a teacher and explain what you learned from that experience.   – Early in a career, while doing a lesson on telling time, only one student was paying attention. The clock that she had, made of card stock, hit the one student that was paying attention. But she