1. What do you hope to accomplish with your students this year?

I want my students to be able to reflect back on this year and see that they have learned something as well as to realize they have become better people on this earth. I want them to see their accomplishment of becoming better writers and thinkers than they were at the first of the school year. I truly hope my students see these traits in themselves.

2. What made you want to be a teacher?

When I was in school I had some really amazing teachers and some not so great teachers. The great ones made me want to be like them. Others made...