i had the badest teacher in year 9 for math class he was soo bad you could do anything you wanted he was too chicken to say anything no one did there work he gave us, no one did there homework everyone just sat in class talking to freinds and doing what ever they wanted some of the bad kids in class would do all types of stuff to him like throw stuff at him ect ect and these dudes used to light sht on fire like paper and the carpet floor in class and the teacher would allways be like "whats that smell!?!?!?!?" then did nothing (im sure he noticed them doing it but he still does close to nothing)... sometimes hed tell kids to go outside or go to the front office cause they were bad then the kids were allways like NO F U! and the teacher just takes it and does nothing lmao! our class would get so loud that occasonaly other teachers would start comming in and seeing wtf was goin on and wed be silent and put our heads down untill he/she left but srsly u needed a bag of popcorn when in that class cause its too hilarious

but i did kinda felt sorry for the teacher tho...we had him for like a mounth then he quit then we ended up having  3 tough teachers in our class room for the rest of the year and we couldnt screw around and we would get introuble for talking

but that teacher srsly needed to go teach kindi students or somthing he was not qualified for a high school teacher

I meant kids calling out to each other across the classroom, throwing things, and so on, deliberately to make themselves the centre of attention.

You're right, kids not paying attention is a different problem and if it's because they don't get it then trying a different approach in teaching it is correct. Shouting at kids for not doing well is certainly not.

That is good, but not very far from "choose the people who are good at it and give all of their time to them". All PE (gym), music and art teachers I've ever encountered do this, and it means the majority of the class never gets any constructive criticism and never improves.

In those subjects, when you arrive in high school they assume you either "get it" or you don't by that point and don't bother teaching basic skills that would make those classes fun, e.g. practising passing in football and helping people do it right. I couldn't ever play football because of that, but it wouldn't take long for a teacher to help if he bothered.

Your only mistake is thinking that a 17 year old would get the boy meets world reference i think.

EPIC. I love Boy meets world XD

Richard Feynman, we need to start working on cloning technology so that we can have a clone of him for each school...

But seriously, I like a teacher who can control the classroom, engage the student, explain things in an easy to understand manner (I hate convoluted teaching, which is a trap I think some teachers fall into too easily) and teaches the student how to question as opposed to just absorb, which I don't feel is done enough.

I also think that more emphasis should be put on "learning how to learn", which was never taught to me by any of my highschool teachers. Throughout highschool the material was there for me to consume, but I had a hard time taking it in. Looking back it is clear to me that I was trying to learn things in completely the wrong way. There was no structure to my independent learning and there was no real understanding of what I was learning (I could know the facts and figures, but did not know how to apply my knowledge).

It wasn't until I reached University that I finally learned to learn. All it took was a few lectures explaining how to learn, which could have easily been done at the start of highschool. There was so much about handling information and being able to interpret it that I just didn't know. The highschool me and the university me are two completely different people as a result.

my favourite teachers were the ones in elementary schools who would get terribly angry when i corrected their mistakes.  teachers are idiots...its all about power...and due to unions these awful pieces of garbage cant be fired.

Nah, she had no problem helping people who were struggling as long as they were putting the effort in.

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