My course leader has given me some help in skill development, but more than that, knowing that he rates me so highly has been important to my confidence as a new professional in my field, as almost all the people on my course are developing within their established profession. My worst teacher - an English teacher in secondary school who introduced each lesson every day with the same sentence said the same way and then spent the entire lesson murdering the classics by reading them in a monotone. She never looked at us or spoke to us. We really didn't like her and laughed at her a little to relieve the tedium. I felt really guilty when she later had a nervous breakdown and left the school.
Just remembered - My Add Maths teacher once referred to me as "shadow" in front of the class when talking about who was shadow and substance in his class - I think he was rather suprised when I went to the staff room later to talk to him about it
