Tell about worst and best teachers and why they were that way.
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Well-we moved from one school district to another when I was11 amd I always got b's and c's. The teacher in the new school -during a parent teacheer conference told my parents that I could do lots better. By the end of that year I was getting all A's (except for art) She was just a great teacher.
I can honestly say that I never had one teacher that I can call "Bad" in all my years in school-including College. But then again-I never once complained about a grade. I just accepted whatever I got and moved on. And if a teacher really was bad-I guess I did not really consider that it might be a bad teacher
Times were simpler then-you didn't cause trouble you accepted what you got. Can't imagine what its like to be a teacher today.
I can honestly say that I never had one teacher that I can call "Bad" in all my years in school-including College. But then again-I never once complained about a grade. I just accepted whatever I got and moved on. And if a teacher really was bad-I guess I did not really consider that it might be a bad teacher
Times were simpler then-you didn't cause trouble you accepted what you got. Can't imagine what its like to be a teacher today.
My best teacher was a professor that accepted me into a summer program that he had developed for high school kids, someone that I later worked for as a lab tech and then a research assistant, someone who became a very good friend, and although I didn't realize it at the time someone who literally changed my life. In the process of working in the basic science lab and helping a couple of students with their thesis and dissertations I 'learned how to learn'. It was a subject that we talked about a lot as the students were putting up with the research in order to become teachers, and 'Teaching as a Subversive Activity' was a popular book.
The discussions, questions, literature searches, identifying experiments, materials, methods, additional equipment, doing the experiments, putting the data togther, and eventually doing the papers, ended up being the way that I usually approached something that I found really interesting and wanted to know more about. Later on at different jobs I have been able to address some difficult problems with the approach, asking questions, doing the literature searches, testing assumptions, even using some of my hobbies to collect data. Some of the problems that we thought were new had been described in the 1950s :^)
I think that Einstein had it right when he said that "God is subtle but he is not malicious", and "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.". And I'm even an agnostic :^)
The discussions, questions, literature searches, identifying experiments, materials, methods, additional equipment, doing the experiments, putting the data togther, and eventually doing the papers, ended up being the way that I usually approached something that I found really interesting and wanted to know more about. Later on at different jobs I have been able to address some difficult problems with the approach, asking questions, doing the literature searches, testing assumptions, even using some of my hobbies to collect data. Some of the problems that we thought were new had been described in the 1950s :^)
I think that Einstein had it right when he said that "God is subtle but he is not malicious", and "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.". And I'm even an agnostic :^)
I had a whole slew of terrible teachers.
7th grade at Hesperia Jr hi school in Hesperia,Ca I had a teacher named Mr. Bleezek.
He would drink booze from a small bottle everyday, ocasionally he would pass out in class. He let us grade our own paper and never looked at them so we all got A's. He had a trash can behind a mobile chalk board that would catch fire about once a week! If someone wasn't lighting the trash can on fire they were peeing in it and the classroom would smell like pee.
9th,10th,11th grades at apple valley high school in apple valley, ca I had Mrs. Williamson. I rode dirt bikes and she was a member of the Sierra club. We hated each other and she went out of her way to mess with me infront of the whole class.
I got her back once! She drove an MG convertable. She brought it to autoshop for us to work on it. We had spools of spark plug cable and I ran a wire from her coil and taped it very near the key so that when she turned the key she got zapped!
It worked so well that she failed me my junior year even though I was passing her class.
Had another teacher (I forget his name) that ran off with a female student and got married in Vegas on her 18th birthday. Never saw either of them again.
The best teacher was a metal and woodshop teacher I had. A few years ago him and his wife were murdered in a home invasion robbery. One of the murderers was only 12 at the time.
7th grade at Hesperia Jr hi school in Hesperia,Ca I had a teacher named Mr. Bleezek.
He would drink booze from a small bottle everyday, ocasionally he would pass out in class. He let us grade our own paper and never looked at them so we all got A's. He had a trash can behind a mobile chalk board that would catch fire about once a week! If someone wasn't lighting the trash can on fire they were peeing in it and the classroom would smell like pee.
9th,10th,11th grades at apple valley high school in apple valley, ca I had Mrs. Williamson. I rode dirt bikes and she was a member of the Sierra club. We hated each other and she went out of her way to mess with me infront of the whole class.
I got her back once! She drove an MG convertable. She brought it to autoshop for us to work on it. We had spools of spark plug cable and I ran a wire from her coil and taped it very near the key so that when she turned the key she got zapped!
It worked so well that she failed me my junior year even though I was passing her class.
Had another teacher (I forget his name) that ran off with a female student and got married in Vegas on her 18th birthday. Never saw either of them again.
The best teacher was a metal and woodshop teacher I had. A few years ago him and his wife were murdered in a home invasion robbery. One of the murderers was only 12 at the time.
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Well, the teachers that I did the best in their classes were very limited in their personality. Not that they were "dull" or anything. They just presented a stern but not hostile approach to what they expected out of you.
The teachers that taught me to think ....I didn't necessarily excell in the topics ..but I loved the work.
My problem was never developing any study skills. If the teacher was a good lecturer ...I never had to study on most topics. Now if I can't bounce it off a human and integrate something in some "other" terms ...I'm lost. When I'd read most technical text (for a Honeywell 8000 series controller, for example) ...I often wondered who the writer was trying to impress. It would be a masterpiece of needlessly complicated terms to express the simplist of concepts.
The teachers that taught me to think ....I didn't necessarily excell in the topics ..but I loved the work.
My problem was never developing any study skills. If the teacher was a good lecturer ...I never had to study on most topics. Now if I can't bounce it off a human and integrate something in some "other" terms ...I'm lost. When I'd read most technical text (for a Honeywell 8000 series controller, for example) ...I often wondered who the writer was trying to impress. It would be a masterpiece of needlessly complicated terms to express the simplist of concepts.
The best teachers I've had are responsive and have immediacy when needed. They facilitate the process of student learning.
The worst teachers I've had are not responsive and are not confident in the material they are presenting. Another quality I don't like is when the teacher is not a good communicator.
The worst teachers I've had are not responsive and are not confident in the material they are presenting. Another quality I don't like is when the teacher is not a good communicator.
I don't know if I could rate a teacher as best. I've had teachers who made difficult material easier to understand and work with but i don't know that I would rate them as the best.
The teacher whom I carry most with from my experience is "AQ". He was an english lit. teacher in high school. He treated us like men and with respect and he received respect in return.
I can remember the class whining about a particularly heavy project he had just assigned. He simply said, "Men, life goes on." It stuck with me that all the whining in the world will not change anything and that one must deal with one's problems. The most important lesson I've learned. Life goes on with you or without you.
The teacher whom I carry most with from my experience is "AQ". He was an english lit. teacher in high school. He treated us like men and with respect and he received respect in return.
I can remember the class whining about a particularly heavy project he had just assigned. He simply said, "Men, life goes on." It stuck with me that all the whining in the world will not change anything and that one must deal with one's problems. The most important lesson I've learned. Life goes on with you or without you.
Having 2 bachelor's degrees and a Master's, I can only say: "there are so many (bad teachers). I don't know where to start!!!!!"
But I'll give you one of the more recent ones. We called her "The Teacher With her Own Political Agenda." This one was a real doozy. She believed certain minorities were discriminated against. So she was on a one-woman Crusade to right all the wrongs and injustices of the world. So, all the whites, jews and orientals got mediocre grades. The "under-privileged" and academically challenged groups, though, got really incredibly high grades. People averaging 60-70% in tests through the semester got A's and B's. People averaging 85-99% in the same tests got B's and C's.
Eventually, the administration found out about our female "God," and fired her. But not before some real and terrible damage was done to the school and its students.
Disclaimer: I do not have anything against any group, be they over-privileged or under-privileged. I am just telling the occurrence or event the way it happened.
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Don't try and pull the wool over our eyes ..you silverspooned elitist!!!! (shaking head with eyes cast down in pathetic condemnation ..symbolically washing my hands of you in contemporary Pontius Pilate manner)
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