My MEL experiences.

• Student/teacher relationship: I had a very strong student/teacher relationship wit my former high school A.P. U.S. History teacher.  He was also my freshman football coach.  He always created a positive environment and had a good attitude going into every single class.  Much of his class was based off humor which I loved.  He always provided a safe environment to learn though and knew the right and wrong amount of humor and critique to tolerate.  He never made anyone feel like an outcast.  Anyone who was willing to learn and have fun doing it was more than welcome to his classes.
• Learning styles: Unfortunately, this was an aspect during my grade schooling that didn't have much emphasis.  I was never given an assessment to understand what type of learner I was, well not that I can remember anyways.  A good thing though is that my teachers always differentiated for me and my fellow classmates.  If we needed deadlines pushed back, to redo assignments, or be provided with multiple options on completing an assignment, my teachers have always done an excellent job.  
• Helping students succeed: I am not very good at math, but I have one of the best memories from it.  I had been struggling my freshman year with pre-algebra and I was close to failing.  My math teacher spent so much extra time with me before and after class, assigned me extra practice problems, and would even provide me with more time on tests in order to keep me from looking a the clock every two seconds.  I didn't do well overall, but the big part is I didn't fail either.  I am certainly assured I passed solely from the help of my math teacher.  Some of your worst struggles can be your best stories.  
• Hands-On: I've never had much hands-on experimentation outside of science classes.  I remember doing many experiments in my chemistry and physics labs.  My favorite memory of hands-on experience was creating our own rocket prototypes and actually launch them to see whose design went the furtherest.  There was also only one instance I can remember outside of science classes dealing with hands-on experiment and it comes from an unlikely subject area, social studies.  We had a Revolutionary America day at my high school where we went out onto our athletic fields and learned how to be an American Revolutionary soldier.  We learned how to march, formations, lifestyles of camp, cuisine, and there was a demonstration with actual older rifles from the revolutionary era of how they fired.  This was an experience I will never forget.  Seeing the teacher in my history department dressed up in old style military outfits, marching around, and shooting off blanks of old rifles.  
• Context: One of the worst experiences I had as a high school student was with my physics class.  We had a teacher who had his doctorate and formerly taught at universities and then decided to go back to high school.  He rushed through all of our physics problems and rushed through how to get the correct answers.  He would leave all of his work on the whiteboard, but it looks like hieroglyphics to me because he didn't properly explain the meaning of the content.  I was bad with math to start with and the last thing I needed was a college professor teaching his high school class like it was a college class.  This was my sophomore year so I was young and very intimidated by this teacher.