1 . When Shelby Lattimore, a math and science teacher, saw her third graders weren’t attending class, she found a fun way to change that. The 25-year-old teacher started her class ______ to encourage them not only to ______ but to get excited about learning.

In the class, students can choose from a variety of “______”, from being a door holder to being a cleanup crew. They get “paid” every two weeks and the ______ they get depends on which job they take on. The money is not real but play money spent on a homework pass, a seat change, and so on.

Each month, Lattimore’s students also have to pay “rent” for their class desk and chair. To keep things interesting, Lattimore also introduced a new ______ to her current class. At the beginning of the school year, she ______ students $5 and then once the new year hit, the ______ increased to $7. “So that was kind of an ______ that they had to make,” she said.

Students can buy rewards once a month. The reward ______ low, medium and high price ranges, with $2 candy being the cheapest option to a more ______ $5 “lunch with Ms. L” reward. Students can also ______ until they have enough money for the most expensive reward, for example, being the teacher for $ 30.

Today, Lattimore has seen how much they’ve learned about various ______ from budgeting and saving to reading a receipt and ______ change. She has also heard from students’ families, who are ______ of this idea because their kids are learning something they never learned at this age. “That’s really the goal here, to not just ______ them this year, but to keep it going,” she added.

2 . I am a teacher in a famous co-education English medium Secondary School. Our school provides necessary ________for disabled students like a wheel-chair, lift, separate wash rooms and many more. One of our students, Kiran gradually developed “Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy”, a severe muscular disease and became completely ________on others.

When the school reopened for its new academic session in June 2017, as class teacher I found that Kiran was not ________for his new session. I ________for one month. Meanwhile, I enquire about his ________with his younger sister and ________that Kiran’s condition became worse than before. With the ________from the school authorities, I ________him at his house along with his classmates and ________him by giving examples of some of the most successful personalities with disabilities. They________even the fully functional people and claimed their ________such as, Stephen Hawking, Hellen Keller and Stevie Wonder. Kiran’s classmates________to help him with his studies.

Kiran now ________his studies with the help of his teachers and classmates. At present, he is among-st one of the favorites for his teachers and fellow students. The boys of his class take ________ to play chess with him. We always try to make him________and bring a smile on his face.

3 . Nathan was a boy in my band class as well as in my math class. I never really liked him. He didn’t have any friends at all and always sat _______ at the lunch table listening to music with his phone. People just walked past him without _______. In class, whenever he was asked a question, he would take a long time to answer it, which made the whole class get _______. Whenever he got an answer _______, the whole class would _______.

One day, when I walked into band class and was _______ to play my flute (长笛) , Mr. Kohler began the class. After we had played _______ for a little while, Mr. Kohler asked the class, “Who can tell what _______ it is just by hearing the pitch (音高) ?” Nobody raised their hands except Nathan. When I saw him, I laughed and thought he couldn’t do anything _______. How could he possibly guess the note when the pitch was played?

Even Mr. Kobler laughed a little and then told Nathan “ Come here, buddy.” Nathan ________ and went to the front of the class. Mr. Kohler had a tuner (校音器). He played a pitch and asked Nathan to ________ it. Nathan said, “ E flat.” Mr. Kohler said, “ OK. Good.” He played another pitch. “F sharp,” Nathan said. The whole class went ________. Mr. Kohler ________ Nathan by playing two pitches together. “C and B flat,” Nathan said. “Good job, go back to your seat.” he said.

Then I got surprised. Nathan had guessed all the pitches ________. That day I realized I shouldn’t judge people ________ little things I saw and that I needed to see the great things people can do.

4 . During a term of online learning, teachers in America had done their best to keep students motivated during the COVID-19 pandemic. And students are now_______the favor by surprising teachers with messages of gratitude(感谢).

“I wanted my professors to know they were_______for all the hard work they do and all the _______ words they say,” Faith Williams, a student at a university said. “This teacher-appreciation action kept _______on my TikTok, and in each video teachers broke down in front of their students, which was really _______,” she said. Williams’s own video surprised her professor Michael Rapp, gained immediate_______from viewers and received numerous comments. “Rapp really touches his students’ lives and has great _______across campus. You can tell by the_______on my TikTok that many students love the caring and warm professor,” she added.

Williams explained that she organized her surprise via a mass email to her classmates,_______them to make their own signs and________them when to show them off. As seen in the video, it was________timed with the professor saying goodbye to the class as the academic term________.

“You’ll always be able to find me and I’ll always be there if________. Good luck with everything in your life,” Rapp said________,before going speechless at the________of the signs. “Thank you, ” he said with tears in his eyes. “Sorry if I got a little________right there, but thank you so much. I hope I had as much of________on you as you just did right here for me...That’s something that I will definitely________forever.”

Numerous educators________these teacher-appreciation videos displayed the same________as Rapp. “I will never forget this. It was so comforting,” one educator said.

5 . The first day my new teacher turned up, I burst into laughter (爆笑). Ron Clark spoke with a funny southern accent. He said he used to be a singing waiter. I thought, who is this guy? He’s a complete______.

I was in the fifth grade. I______I’d spend most of the year in the headmaster’s office. I’d always been a______maker. I’d get shouted at, and the teachers would______on me. Ron Clark would just be______them, I thought.

I was______. That first week, I kept making fun of him. He pulled me out to the hallway and said I’d better improve my______. “Tom,” he said, “you’re a_______boy. You can do better.”

He told me I was a natural leader and that I’d go far in life______I started working hard. I was______at first, and then something happened: I began to_____him. He had a most unusual way of teaching to help us learn.

He______taught in his hometown. He grew up under the______of his parents, who were DJs at dance clubs. He had seen a TV show about our______schools and the lack of good teachers, and taken the______.