Do your teachers favoritism students?
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I am still in school! What is that shit! Anyway, there are nice teachers who do their job well and try not to show favoritism, just as there are teachers who do not. High school teachers are generally not as open as Middle school teachers.
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no ...\nthey shouldn´t replace teachers you don´t like - because you can´t argue with them ...\nand they shouldn´t replace teachers you like - because no computer could have feelings ...
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well my culture has influence the classroom setting a lot where the teacher has the say in the class\nmeaning we students arent allowed to voice out our opinions that much\nthis culture tends to be permenant in the child's faculty even when they've reached univeristy level.\nlangauge proficienncy varies\nbut mostly what there always what the teacher says is always correct\neven when its wrong\nim from malaysia and a malay
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Not at all. If they are a good teacher, they are a good teacher. Put it this way; do you recall being influenced by your teachers sexuality one bit? I know I ceratinly wasn't. Things like homosexuality are part of the world, hiding it away from kids is not the answer.
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Yes!! Sub teachers are people like us who come in and give out a worksheet for you to take an hour to do. They are not the ultimate lecturer. They are in most cases the people you want to end up in your class (if your teacher is a prude)! But there are some that want to actually be teachers and try to give a student pure hell. However if the sub is the person who gives you a hard time pray about it and just know that chances are they wont be there tommorrow!!
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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?
903215
No, because it's not right for teachers to influence students to believe what they believe.  Also, if a teacher was, say, Buddhist, and a student was say, Christian, or if the teacher was, say Democratic, and she talked about how she felt about the President, it might upset the student that the teacher is so different and that might be what they focus on instead of learning from the teacher.  We tend to look down on people who's religions are different, and if a student looks down at a teacher, how's he or she going to learn anything?  If the student is mad at what the teacher said to attack the President, wouldn't that take away from the concentration on the lesson?\n\nMy social studies teacher said that his goal was to not let anyone find out what he believes, if anything, or his political party, if he has one.That way, we will only judge him as an intelligent teacher instead of what he believes.
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I have been friendly with many of my students, but do not consider them my friends. I think that if students come and visit you when they no longer are your student, and even when they go off to college, they can be considered friends. But I do not think that teachers and students are really friends when one holds the responsibility of a grade in their hands.  Relationships (healthy relationships) that continue after those roles are completed can be quite fulfilling.
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No, but if they did it would probably make recruiting teachers a lot easier. If you are having a problem with a teacher they could be the problem or it could be you.
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Your science teacher needs to re-arrange the class seating chart.  Who and where the students sit do make a difference on how the students behave.  Students often hate assigned seatings but it does help the students to focus.  Think about it--if the students get to sit by who they want, it is because they want to chat.  The teacher may have to change up the seatings a few times before there is a right combination for student focus.\n\nThen the teacher can set up a reward/punishment system for behavior like detention, parent calls, etc.  \n\nAs a general rule, the more time the teacher spends on student behavior, the less time the teacher can focus on student learning.\n\nThe difference between a good school and a poor school are not the teachers or the principals, but the students.  It is the students that determine how good a school can be.  And that comes down to if the students care or not.
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Schools that  have good teachers and also attentive students
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I think my favorite teacher was my ninth grade English teacher, Mr. Felix (yes, that was his last name).\n\nThe very first day of class, we hit it off, because as he was speaking he asked the class an off hand question:  "Who said, 'let them eat cake'?"\n\nThe class sat there silent for a few seconds.  I raised my hand and gestured for me to speak.\n\nWhen I told him the answer, he asked what I name was, and he said.  Good answer.  I'll be watching you.\n\nHe then went on to tell the class about his "non-negotiable zero" policy:  If you had an assignment due on a certain date, and it was not on his desk at the start of class, you got a zero - and it was non-negotiable.  The only excuse for missing the deadline was a death in your family -- YOURS!\n\nI loved it when all the prissy girls (I won't mention what we called them back then) would whine and try to charm Mr. Felix into granting an extension.  He never did.  I respected him a lot for that, because I wasn't one of the people who whine for a grade, and I resented it when girls (well, mostly girls) got away with that.\n\nHis policy got me once though.  He gave an assignment, and it was due a week later.  I procrastinated all week until the day before the due date.  Then I got quite sick.  I blew off the assignment, and missed class the day it was due.\n\nThe next day, when I came in, he asked me if I was feeling better.  Then he asked me where my assignment was.  When I told him I didn't have it, he said "you understand I'm going to give you a zero."\n\nI told him that I understood.\n\nIn giving me a zero, he taught me that I had all week to do the assignment, and an illness on the 6th day was really no excuse.\n\nI went back to my old school a few years later and paid him a visit.  We talked for a few minutes, and I never saw him again.  \n\nHe's certainly retired by now.
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A teacher who makes students feel bad for asking questions is not a very good teacher, in my opinion.  I am a first year teacher and I encourage all of my students to ask questions.  This also helps me to clarify concepts and will assist me in preparing and teaching the lesson better next time.  I must say though, it is quite frustrating for students to have a teacher repeat something 4 or 5 times just because the students were not paying attention the first time.
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If you think your teacher hates you, don't you think he will suspect you 'treated' the apple? :D)\n\nNo details are provided to support the teacher "hates [you]." Some male teachers are not "chummy" with female students to keep "boundaries" clear. \n\nThere are countless stories of misunderstood actions and/or comments between male teachers and female students (and vice versa) that radically changed the lives of all involved. \n\nKeep track of your grades to make sure his "hatred" of you does not spill over into your GPA; and, try to remember to focus on your work. You're not in school to get your teacher "to like [you] as a student."
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No!  Take my hubby for example...last semester, he had a teacher that he absolutely hated.  If given the right to he would've evaluated this teacher horribly.  Then, the teacher "retained him".  He couldn't go ahead with the program until he re-took this teachers class and passed it (he only missed passing by about 2 pts).  Hubby hated this teacher.\n\nNow, he's re-taking the class.  He's doing great and has come to realize that this is an awesome teacher that only wants his students to know and study the material.  This teacher has become a great mentor.\n\nAll I'm saying is that if you pay based on student evaluations, where's the checks & balances system in that?  Shouldn't it be based on our work and not potentially open to personal opinions?  It seems to me that something of the sort could happen.  There's plenty of awesome teachers that are just "hard" but sometimes the teachers some students can't get along with are the best.
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If the student knows you accept them, regardless of their English fluency, they become comfortable and productive in your classroom.\n\nI work in a very economically underprivileged area (ALL students are on FREE lunch -- not reduced lunch... free), in an elementary school.\n\nMost students are from Spanish-speaking homes, and Mexican culture.\n\nBehaviors I see regularly in my classroom that I "accept" and then gently guide students away from over the school year...\n\nResource hoarding.  I have buckets of supplies, and allow students to hoard as much as they like, until they get used to the idea that they won't "run out." Taking other peoples' supplies is not allowed. The "stolen" item is openly returned by the "thief," who then is guided to practice asking for new materials from me or my EA. It does mean that at the end of the school year, when I pull apart and box things for the summer, I find little stashes of stuff all over the place, which I consolidate back in the buckets for next year....\n\nLack of eye contact with authority figures.  In the Mexican culture, it is disrespectful to look an authority figure in the eye. Once the kids are comfortable with me, we have several class discussions about this and other small differences that make a big difference in how the kids will interact with authority.\n\nAlso, I am the Gifted Enrichment teacher for my school (gifted falls under special education in my state). I work hard with the kids to understand how and why regular ed instruction is done the way it is, and how to challenge themselves and find their own depth of knowledge (while I continually try to "nudge" the regular ed teachers into curriculum compaction and allowance for independent study rather than drill).\n\nWith my Resource remediation students, certain phrases are NOT allowed.  "I can't" is replaced by "I need more time" and/or "I need more help."  Looking at someone else's work and saying "That's easy" is also not allowed... everyone has things that are easy for them and hard for someone else, and vice versa...we don't make someone else feel like they are dumb by criticizing their level of work.\n\nWe build on our strengths. I have several kids with normal or better non-verbal intelligence, who don't even talk in complete sentences because their language disability is so severe. Guess who were in charge of puppet and set design for our puppet show this year.... not as "filler" jobs but actually IN CHARGE. The set and puppets looked wonderful!
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Best teacher: Mr. Sanders, 10th grade English\n\nFavorite: Mr. Sanders ties for favorite with my 8th grade History teacher Mrs. Miller.\n\nDifference between favorite and least favorite: Least favorite is Mrs. Pryor, 9th grade geometry and she was a horrid teacher. She never looked a person in the eye and did not interact with the students at all. Mr. Sanders encouraged the use of our imaginations and free thinking. He wanted to hear our ideas and allowed us to discuss and even argue our points. He taught me never to accept something just because someone else said it was so. "Question everything and learn more" was his motto.\n\nTeacher become more affective: That's a tough one. Be more understanding of the individual needs of their students. Classes were much smaller when I was in school and it was easier for a teacher to recognize a student who needed special attention before they got lost. These days, partly because of the size of classes and partly because it's just harder to teach todays kids, some teachers just don't seem to have the energy or the desire to deal with the special needs of some students. I also think the school districts themselves should loosen up on the teachers and give them more freedom with their curriculum. Teachers who are allowed some freedom in technique seem to make even better teachers than they would be with their hands more or less tied.\n\nHow many questions is that now?: Counting this one, 6.\n\nEdit/10:48pm cst/3-11-06\n\nOops, forgot one.\nWhat makes a good teacher: One that opens my mind and motivates me to use it.