To teach the uninterested students or to fuse the students who does not like you.
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If they are uninterested, you have the power to change what you do to capture their interest.  \n\nAs for the student who does not like you, it's rejection and it stinks--however you have it in your power to still treat them with dignity and respect. Perhaps the same for you will grow in time.
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i think the answer lies in the method of teaching and the teacher themselves not properly motivating students
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How dare you claim that those who actually know the subject matter would be the best teachers!  Don't you know it's more about self-esteem, and making the students feel better about the fact that they don't know s**t?
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I understand your frustration.  I have taught high school for 8 years and it is very discouraging at times to see the situations that exist in the classroom.  First of all, there is a mandate that Special Education students be mainstreamed into the general classroom population.  I have had a class of 34 students with 9 Spec. Ed. students (this is becoming more and more typical).  There are supposed to be teacher's aides to help in classes like that, but school budgets are spent so unwisely, at times, that there is no money for a teacher's aide for every teacher with a significant amount of Spec. Ed. students (who either have a learning disability, a behavioral disability, or an emotional disability).  This leaves the teacher and the students at a disadvantage.  Teachers now use more time on class management than on class instruction.  And, it's not just because of Spec. Ed. students.  For some reason many students like to "dumb down" on their own as to not be ridiculed by their peers for being too smart, a nerd, or a "lame".  School administration look at teachers with disdain and often let go of teachers with too high of a failure rate, so many teachers, when presented with a class or classes that do not produce on the expected level then create a curriculum that they feel the students have a chance to pass, even if it does not prepare a student to be on level.  Our educational system is in deep need of reforms that work, not just reforms that look good on paper but have no substance or effectiveness in the classroom or to the students.  I try to prepare students for high school and beyond, whether they are college bound, interested in vocational training, or ready to work once they graduate.  Teaching is a many tiered profession (teacher, counselor, mentor) if children are to be educated properly.  I worry about the same things you do, but I also know that the big decisions about education often do not rest upon  teachers' shoulders, but on an administration that is often too long out of the classroom to remember or know the things that work and the things that do not.  I only hope that it gets better before it continues getting worse.
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Yes, ...Because Considering The Position That A Teacher In School Holds, They Are Not Suppose To Be There To  Downgrade & Intemidate Students....They Are There For An Example And To Upgrade And Prepare You Students To Be Productive For Society!...So, Yes!...That Teacher Is Not Valuble To The Students And Needs To Be EXPOSED & DISMISSED!!
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1) Because there are better things for us to do in life than learn monotonous subjects in which we have no particular interest.\nIf we could specialize at a younger age, we would be spending time doing what we wanted as opposed to being "well-rounded" people.\n2) Schools these days are focusing more and more on the nagative aspects of student behaviour rather than the positive side of student learning: therefore we are suffering oppression because of the way we dress and act, yet are not rewarded for schievements in education, which is the primary purpose of school anyway.\n3) Peer pressure.
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Hah, nobody likes teachers.\nTeachers do things they shouldn't.\nThey get away with it.\n\nLa la la life goes on.
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I don't understand you.  I am surprised you are either teaching or a student in college from the way you write.  Embarassment from the student or the lecturer?  Do you mean who is more embarassed ?\n\nIf so, I would think the student SHOULD be more embarassed.  Why attend if you are not going to pay attention?
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Some schools are underfunded and overwhelmed. The teacher may not be very qualified and has too many kids in one class to be able to handle all of them. If the kid in this class has parents who work three jobs and don't have time to help them learn to read, they can end up not learning. The teacher may be so busy and frazzled that they don't notice the one kid that is faking it. Also, if the child lives under the conditions outlined above and has a learning disability, it is going to be ten times more difficult because no one is paying enough attention to spot the problem. They may just label the child "stupid" or "disruptive."
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Because they are uneducated about the differences so they catoragize them together.
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To educate ignorant people like you.
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Interesting question (I think it is a question.) Seems to me there is enough blame to go around...let's not stop with teachers. How about the students themselves? How about the parents? We have seen a huge dumbing down of students in the past 30 years...lowest common denominator effect, or "let no child be left behind." When students are pushed further into classes they cannot understand, when the quality of education is such that many students are left in the dark, when parents remain detached from their children and expect teachers to do it all, we have what we now have...a nation of illiterate kids graduating from high school Not all students are illiterate, but you don't have to look further than the questions/answers here to see that many kids cannot spell, cannot write a sentence, and cannot communicate clearly with written words. We have spawned a system where it is NOT cool to be educated, and certainly NOT cool to achieve anything in public schools. NERD is all but a curse word, isn't it? Yet it is the Nerds who inherit the jobs, the salaries, the world. Kids may think it is "cool" to be ignorant, but there comes a day when they must look around and wonder how they were left out ... of everything. IF I were to come home with a bad grade, IF I were to not do my homework, IF I were to mouth off to a teacher, I wouldn't sit for a week. So, to avoid the punishment, I did the work. Isn't it strange today that when a child misbehaves, the parents are up in the face of the teacher with accusations, threats, etc. Is it any wonder that teachers give up trying to educate a bunch of students who have no interest beyond text messaging? Teachers head into the career thinking they will make a difference. It doesn't take long for them to find out they are underpaid baby sitters of out-of-control thugs and brats. Unfortunatly, time has a way of evening things out. Sad to say, but I am glad I do not have to face the daily challenges of gangs, bullies, and "cool" people that students are surrounded by today.
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"THESE DAYS, EVERY CHILD HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO TO SCHOOL. HOWEVER IT SEEMS THAT SOME STUDENTS DON'T APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY AFFORDED TO THEM. THEY VANDALIZE THE SCHOOL, SCRIBBLE ON THE WALLS, AND THROW RUBBISH EVERYWHERE!"\n\nHOPE THAT HELPS
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i guess it's a bit like teaching - in order to get a class full of kids to calm down you have more success whispering than shouting because it is different - this translates into the advert world by being a break from the over-stimulation that we are bombarded with day in day out - interesting question ty
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There are different things -- trust levels, either trust has not been established or has been broken; barriers on type of relationship, i.e. a student wouldn't express the same to a teacher as a friend; location/environment of the communications, i.e. one wouldn't share deep secrets in the middle of church; and personal limitations, fear of rejection or dismissal.
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Most of the questions/answers on "Yahoo Answers" are do to the fact that most of the participants are victims of the United States public education system. It's a good indicator that something simply isn't working properly, let alone the fact that "teachers" are spending too much time playing "babysitter" insted of actually teaching our children. \nSad to say, but until we start passing referendums for tax dollars that will aid our failing schools, more "creative" usage of language can be expected.
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I like it. It can be frustrating because your students are often ill-prepared for the rigors of college, but I don't know any job that isn't frustrating at one time or another. It is quite rewarding to share your knowledge with others and to see the "light bulb" when they get it.