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How Do You Like Teachers?
Topic Started: Aug 20 2007, 10:52 PM (122 Views)
WWEFootos48
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I'm sure everybody's had a teacher in their lives. So how do you feel about them overall? Do you like teachers, are you someone that hates the teachers no matter what? And what also makes a great teacher? Is it being comical, making a boring subject interesting, or just doing their job?
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My 8th grade history teacher was tight. He loved basketball and football, so we would debate alot about sports in class. He even had a Madden tournament. He was a cool teacher.

I hate boring teachers though. Those are the one's I hate most.
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I remember I had this one substitute teacher who would come in with his PS2 (this was a few years ago) and always play Madden. I thought that was cool.
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If you are just talking about school teachers, then any teacher that can make a subject interesting and learning fun is the ideal. Learning how to diagram a sentence isn't the most exciting way for teenagers to spend their day, but a teacher that has great skills at teaching can make it easier.
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Interestingly, my favorite teacher was someone who was kind of strict, but also acknowledged success. If you didn't do your work he got really hard on you, but if you did do your work, he would reward you with good grades. I know it sounds cliche, but for the whole school year last year, I got a full 2 letter grades higher than everyone else. :lol:
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Aug 20 2007, 06:04 PM
Interestingly, my favorite teacher was someone who was kind of strict, but also acknowledged success. If you didn't do your work he got really hard on you, but if you did do your work, he would reward you with good grades. I know it sounds cliche, but for the whole school year last year, I got a full 2 letter grades higher than everyone else. :lol:

I think that happens a lot. Most strict teachers are strict for a reason. Teenagers are on the whole, undisciplined and if it was left up to them, they wouldn't study a thing. A strict teacher just wants the kids to learn. A good teacher will reward good effort.
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I actually figured out a saying last year that said "The best teachers are always the ones that are hated by most of the class." Usually when a student hates a teacher, especially where I'm at, it's because they don't give them any breaks if they don't do their work. And it's true.
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I got along with most of my teachers. There was one during the eighth grade that I hated and she hated me, but I don't think there was ever really any other teachers that I truly disliked other than her.

My teacher back in the sixth grade was probably my favorite.

He would joke around with the students on our level and in many ways act a lot like us. He even let us get away with a lot (one incident involving me comes right to my mind). Everything was cool as long as the work was done and no one was bleeding, basically.

Another cool teacher was the home ec teacher (easiest class ever). She was like the last one in many ways, but a bit more strict. Still, she was enough like us that she was easy to get along with.

And a third cool teacher was actually a substitute teacher. He was in his forties, I believe, but he too would act like us. He'd stopped in the middle of a speech to trade "Yo Mama" jokes with the students. He'd come right out and swear and let the students do the exact same. Afterall, he realised most of us did anyway.

So, basically my favorite kind of teacher was the kind that talked to the students on the students level and wasn't afraid to joke around or push the boundary back a bit.

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Actually, there was at least one other teacher I disliked. I completely forgot about her - my seventh grade art teacher.

She was a perfectionist with zero sense of humor who pretty much never taught us anything other than how to draw shadows and write Old English. I swear, every damn project was one of those two.

What really irked me, though, is that she refused to give anyone an A+/100% on anything. Why? Because she felt that since it was art and was subject to interpretation or whatever, no one should be given a perfect score because no one was perfect.

In other words, she could've had Michelangelo (not the turtle) paint her classroom ceiling as a replica of the Sistine chapel and she probably would've given him a 93%.
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Interestingly, one of the educational theoies that was constantly pushed upon us last term was that teachers should never try to be on the same level as their students. That's not to say that they shouldn't be empathetic with them (that's the most important thing a teacher CAN do), but they generally shouldn't act like the members of their class. So basically, they shouldn't display the maturity of their class members. They should show maturity far greater.

Why? Because classroom management, whenever needed qill quite possibly fly out of the window the second a student realises that they have the same level of power within a classroom as their teacher. Learning is replaced by a second lunch, blah blah blah.

My opinion is that there's a thin line to tread. Based on experience, the teachers that I've enjoyed most were able to talk to us students in a chummy manner, kinda just talking to us as a nice person. But regardless of all of that, everyone still knew that they were the head of the class, and nothing came between that.

For instance, Mr. O'Doherty was my favourite teacher ever (inspired me to become a teacher), and he kinda functioned in the same way that Krauls teacher did. He didn't tell momma jokes, but he did draw funny images on the whiteboard that poked fun at himself all the time, he told lame jokes, he was a really funny and enjoyable guy. Yet at the same time, everyone knew that HE was the guy who was in charge. He knew his stuff, and he had a limit. Somehow, that line was very rarely tread over.

I think that a teacher who can talk with their students, be funny, make things interesting (duh) is pretty important, but they've got to be able to maintain control, and never let the students think they have power. The second that happens, there won't be a whole lot of learning going on in that classroom.
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My moms a teacher :eek:
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Some teachers actually care about their students, while others are just their for a pay check.
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i had 1 teacher, in my senior year of high school, that wasn't too fond of me. she realized i was using her class as a schedule filler, do to my overall lack of giving a shit. she lectured me slightly about it, but i just brushed it off, as i had a couple months left until graduating. i could've failed her class, for all i cared, without affecting my ability to graduate.


she was one of those bitches that only cared about the truly artistic students (it was a photography class). since i had/have no artistic ability, i only put in enough work to get D from her.



i found that the truly awesome teachers had a way of making the students try harder, without making it feel like work. a couple of them could actually make school seem fun.....at least during their classes. 12th grade English teacher, for example, was relaxed enough around the students where he made the subject worth staying awake for.

a Government teacher (did several Social Studies courses) was good for being able to joke back & forth with people. knew how to take a good ribbing, too.

those two teachers always managed to get a lot more effort out of me, then many teachers.......all without even trying. they seemed to know how to reach the most possible students, without hurting the potential of the smart kids.


shop teacher in the 11th grade was a bit on the boring side. hard to learn off him......wasn't really hands on, like many shop teachers. often seemed like he was going off a script.

had a history teacher in 9th grade, that was disappointed with me on a few occassions. he kept reminding me (and the parents) that i had so much potential....but always lacked the motivation. i think he saw that i was just looking to survive until i could graduate. at that time, i had no clue what to do with my life. too busy trying to survive the day (avoiding bullies & such) to concern myself with actually learning anything.
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