Mr. Lambert, a biology teacher at Goffstown High school won staff of the month hosted by the junior class council in November. Despite being a favorite among students, he was not a favorite student among teachers. He had repeated his sophomore year of high school as a teenager, being a high schooler for a total of five years. Mr. Lambert went to Milford Area senior high for the first two years of school and transferred to Lawrence Academy where he repeated his sophomore year and finished high school.
During and even after school Mr. Lambert shows up to help students as lead teacher in the Homework Den. Freya Given, a junior who attends homework den once or twice a week since the beginning of the year says Homework Den “gives me a focused time to work and if I have any questions Mr. Lambert is always there to help. He’s really good at simplifying things to be easier to understand”.
While in public school the only two classes he passed were Biology and Health. He believes he only passed those classes because he was most interested in biology. “I was a slacker and just didn’t do my work. The class sizes were gigantic, and English classes had 70 kids in it.” He also says he didn’t have much parental involvement. He takes the blame but knows there were other contributing factors. Lambert attended summer school and repeated his sophomore year in private school. In Lawrence Academy there were no honors or AP classes, every class was just harder and more specialized. He states the structure of private school helped was incredibly beneficial. “Every minute of every day you had to be somewhere doing something.” Students were required to participate in a sport; Lambert was on the wrestling team.
After high school Lambert attended multiple colleges. He started at University of Montana and due to some money issues, he moved to UNH Manchester for half a year. Then he moved to UNH Durham for 3.5 years. He discusses how UNH was huge which caused him to fall back into old habits. What really opened his eyes was after school when he had to pay bills and live in the real world. Finally in 2017 he went to SNHU to get his master’s degree.
Mr. Lambert believes his approach as a teacher comes easier to him since he can relate to all kinds of students. He hears many teachers loved being in school and they can’t imagine what it’s like to not enjoy learning. He has seen both sides, being good at school and not so good at school. One of his previous students, Esmerelda Garcia remarks, “Lambert never made me feel like I was supposed to know everything in the world”. He even says he would pull kids who were failing open bio and put them in honors, and they would pass because of the structure and people around them. If he had stayed in public school he would have kept failing, and he believes the same thing with the kids he teaches. He sees the potential in all his students and does his best for them to achieve their goals. Lambert gives inspirational advice to anybody who needs it, offering help anywhere he can. He states, “Just because everybody else does something one way doesn’t make that the right way for you. There are a million paths, some are harder, some are easier. But as long as you are doing your path it’s fine, just don’t give up on your path”.
