An Inspiring Teacher's Amazing Moves

let me first say I wish I had a teacher like you when I was what what lucky students you have and we'll get to that in a minute about how important teaching is to you but when when did you realize or who told you that you dance like me yeah hi mom I was at my mom's house visiting and she had a music blasting and she didn't hear me like nah hello she was so I started dancing to her music and she was you dance just like Ellen DeGeneres and I'm a huge fan I admire you more than you can imagine I do I use all the things that we've taught over the years like you are such an inspiration to me and I mean I'm taking that with me to my classroom so that's I thank you for that first of all you've affected me and I'm able to affect my kids and that is such a huge thrill to do so I'm dancing and she goes you dance just like I so I told my students like let me tell you something my god do I dance like Ellen DeGeneres they go you totally do so they recorded me and that was it they pop they popped it online five days you're calling I know well as soon as we got it I was like I want to meet this guy because first of all hey your students are just fantastic for sending that in so thanks for setting that in first of all like I said I think that the probably one of the most important jobs is being a teacher we depend on you this is you know our future generation is is there every single day being influenced by people that that can get them interested in learning and make them want to learn and and what made you want to be a teacher well I 20 years ago my dad passed away I was in fourth grade and I had a fourth grade teacher her name was Debbie Russ who you know at the time I thought teaching was just you know worksheets and homework and you know didn't even like school I hated school and oh there she is and she was I was much shorter and she was much taller then and she took good care of me I didn't think a teacher could do that and that summer and every summer thereafter until recently I would visit her and she'd come pick me up and she was it's phenomenal in that moment I knew that I want to be a teacher and hopefully in fact one kids like she did to me well you obviously do fact affect a lot of kids they they wanted to send a message to you so let's take a look mrs. Chianti is one of those guys that you know when you see him in the morning he's always got a smile on classroom setting is really something very boring no one really wants to be there guy like mr. chair mati turns the classroom setting into something way more enjoyable after class is over you're able to go I don't want class to be over I want to keep going I want it to be longer he cares about his kids his teaching skills are amazing mr. chair Monte I would like to personally thank you for all that you've done for me these past couple years Thank You mr. chair Monte for believing in me and helping me believe that I can reach my goal I wanted to say thank you for making my last two years of high school something to really remember yeah passion that you have and you can see how much they they mean to you I mean that's what you're hoping that you send your kids to school and you're hoping that that person is invested in students the way you are so I love you for that I love you for a lot of reasons but and I know that we want to do something that would be fun for you and your entire class we're gonna send you group sales at broadway.com is giving you and your entire class tickets to go see sister act on Broadway we're gonna have to take a break in we'll be back with Patrick Dempsey but I think you should dance through the audience because [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause]

Channel: TheEllenShow

Views: 393,226

Keywords: The, Ellen, DeGeneres, Show, Jonathan, Chiaramonte, teacher, student, students, dance, dancing, dancer, dances, huge, fan, remarkable, inspire, inspiring, teacher's, amazing, moves, kid, kids, message, from, video, theellenshow, talk, show, daytime, send, sending, sister, act, broadway, through, audience, school, interview, interviews, May, 2011

Id: qrPo_AbWbrU

Length: 5min 40sec (340 seconds)

Published: Wed May 18 2011