do you disagree with teachers giving out notes to student n why?
825250
Well I say it definitely ... depends on the purpose of the notes and needs of the student.   Sometimes I provide a structured outline, which the students need to fill in as we discuss the topic.  Other times, I provide my copy of the notes to students who were absent, visually or hearing impaired, dyslexic, or were simply out of the room when something was covered etc. If a student has difficulties  for any reason, I can  hand the student my notes and suggest that they double check first, then ask a question if they are still confused.  Many students  have an Individual Educational Plan or 504 plan which may requre that a teacher provide copies of notes or model notes.  Other students, parents, or teachers may not be aware of these required accomodations. For example, iIf I have a power point presentation, I provide a copy of the presentation slides along with room to take more clarifying notes.   I teach both elementary school and adult classes.  I would prefer people to be listening and discussing instead of taking lots of time to write down notes.    People learn in different ways. If you need to take notes, go for it.  Others find the process of note taking laborious and they are always one or more  steps behind because they are so involved in trying to take notes. Giving copies of notes or outlines helps speed up the class  and focuses on meaning/ interaction rather than busy work. Also, I often model the notes, so that they may be writing them down , but they are copying from an overhead or board.  I do this modeling more with the younger students, but even sixth graders have difficulties picking out the most important concepts from an oral presentation. Modeling how to take notes should be part of the process before expecting students to take notes independently.
914366
As a teacher, I always tell my students to stand up if they think I'm wrong. However, there is a right way to do it and a wrong way. If you are old enough to be asking this on line, it is best not to approach the teacher in a confrontive, competitive way. And that goes not just for situations with teachers, but conflicts with others in general.\n\nWhen dealing with someone in authority, tell the person you'd like to meet and ask when a convenient time would be for that person. If asked why, just say something like - "I need to ask you something and I don't think it would be appropriate in front of others." When the teacher finds out what it is, she or he will appreciate your not challenging them in public.\n\nThen when you meet, nicely explain your point of view. If you are friendly and approach it as a misunderstanding, your teacher will very likely be receptive to your point and be willing to work with you on a solution. By the way - it's always good to go in with clear idea about how you want to change the situation. But if you don't know exactly what you want, you can always ask the teacher what she or he thinks might be a fair way to solve your disagreement.\n\nThe teacher may or may not budge (it depends on the situation), but it shows you are willing to work with the teacher, without causing unnecessary conflict.\n\nTo your P.S.\nIt sounds as if the teacher thinks you are not listening to her when she is making a point. Something can happen in book - but what happens may not be what is happening - in other words, people can take actions, such as leaving to deal with something. But are they leaving to run away from something - or to go toward something else?\n\nDon't get in a competition with her. Be willing to show her you are willing to learn, even if you don't agree. And if she is mean - OK, she is. Some people are nicer than others - we have to deal with all kinds in life. It's just a fact. But you'll win nothing by getting in a power struggle in your situation.\n\nA good teacher will respect you if you approach her in the way mentioned above.
278015
No, abosultely not. The classroom is not an individual's political platform. If a teacher wants to express his or her opinion, he should think twice about the consequences, and carefully explain that it's just that, opinion. The honorable thing to do might be to say that "there are a lot of people with a lot of strong opinions about Bush" and leave it at that. It might be worthwhile to present a balanced picture of the "for" and "against" camps, or even have a moderated classroom debate about it, but preaching and using inflammatory rhetoric is beyond the pale, in my book.
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Not if the student is just playing lazy and looking for someone to give them the answers.  That's not help.....that's wanting someone to do the work for them.\n\nIf a student needs opinions or ideas, then it's not a bad place to get a little thought material.  It's also helpful if you have a math problem you have tried, but can't find the mistake.\n\nAs with anything else.  It's a great idea that gets abused by those looking for the easy way out of doing the work themselves.
62630
Truthfully, a good instructor would never evaluate performance based on agreeing or disagreeing with the perception of the student. It would be based upon the student's ability to prove their ideas and show support for their opinions. I am a teacher. I celebrate the fact that students oftentimes disagree with me. It shows their confidence in standing up for their principles or ideas. I fully accept their differences if they can substantiate them. This helps students understand that they CAN think for themselves and be accepted regardless..........as long as they know they can back up their thoughts reasonably well.
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don't think of it as a way of ruining their social life. think about it, when they give you work, you also give them work as well. i mean, i don't think it's fun to check hundreds of papers and grade your performance, right?\n\nthink of it this way... the teachers are giving you homeworks and projects because they want you to learn and grow up well. they want you to become members of the society whom will contribute to the betterment of society.
1123923
Believe it or not, there was one teacher that my son had, that would not give letter or number grades on anything other than report cards, because she didn't want to make anyone feel bad for not doing as well as someone else.  LOL ! \n\nSo no I really don't think the current grading system works.  I think it should be a cut and dried system. you know the answer-you got it right, you don't know the answer-you got it wrong.  Not this pampering of lazy uneducated children.  SO they really think these children's future boss' will give a great rats @ss about how they feel when they don't do so well at work today??? I doubt it too!
224569
You see, it's like this.  Teachers are bitter, old, mean people who can't stand the idea that kids are going home and have nothing to do but watch TV and play video games.  So they assign homework.  Sometimes they assign LOTS of homework.  Most of the time they just throw it away when you turn it in.  They don't want to bother correcting it ... they're gonna go home and watch TV and play video games.\n\nOr they want to help you learn.  I don't know which.
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And another thing - won't this person's teacher know (s)he cheated, when the assignment turned in clearly isn't in the student's usual wording or of his/her usual quality? In this day and age, teachers must be pretty good at spotting "cut-and-paste-from-wikipedia"-papers, as well as papers written by other people than the student in question.\nAnyway, thanks for bringing this up, it's nice to see that a lot of people are somewhat annoyed by students using Y! answers as their free, effortless homework-service. :o)
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The problem is that some tutors are editors rather than teachers.  It's one thing for a student to have a tutor help him or her make sense out of sentence diagramming or explain the relative merits of ending sentences with prepositions; more instruction is generally better, so long as it doesn't conflict with the point of view expressed in the classroom.\n\nBut, some "tutors" get involved in helping students with specific assignments, including writing assignments such as essays.  These misguided "tutors" can involve themselves in all sorts of things--from helping choose a topic, to assisting in choosing supporting ideas, and even proofreading for grammar or other errors.  The worst "tutors" do these parts of the work for the student.  Others at least have the sense to try to teach the student something while helping with these tasks.\n\nWhat the students too often fail to realize is that any of this kind of "assistance" on an assignment, received without the knowledge and approval of the instructor, is academic dishonesty as well as plagiarism.  It is academic dishonesty because it is unauthorized collaboration; the student is working with someone else to complete the assignment, without the permission of the teacher.  Further, it is plagiarism because the student submits the work as her or his own, not acknowledging the input from the "tutor."\n\nThere are, of course, cases in which instructors ask students to participate collaboratively in all of the activities mentioned above.  But, the fundamental difference is that if the instructor asks that it be done, it is then approved, and is understood to have been a part of the writing process.  (And it is typically done in a controlled setting.)
819777
Nope --- I was a teacher and I hated giving it too (I had to grade all of it). Homework is important --- Sorry
600745
I am a teacher and I usually teach in u-shaped rooms where the students face me with their desks in front of me. Generally, I may correct something as they're writing it, and have no problems or difficulty doing it (my handwriting is a little bit words but still quite legible). It was only when students commented on this 'ability' with amazement that it occurred to me that not all people can do it. But I've never practised or made an effort or anything. The surprised students then tried it and made a pig's ear out of it.\n\nI'm male, BTW. But I am left-handed. Maybe that's got something to do with it?\n\nOr maybe you and I are just both incredible geniuses who tower over the rest of humanity with our gifts!
1072438
With the typo, it kind of looks like the question is "are kids eatting too much homework in school?"  I thought that a teacher would be far less likely to accept that pathetic excuse, "sorry teacher I ate my homework. It was a long bus ride and I forgot my lunch tickets.  It was my fault for leaving it out where I could reach it."
96729
While it is true that teachers are human and may not word a question exactly right that makes it clear, they do not ask the "wrong" question.  They are asking the student what they believe is important for the student to learn and know.  If you pay attention in class, the teacher usually gives out clues during lectures as to what they think is important for you to know; also when they point out certain readings, that is usually important material to know.
933533
As with any profession, sometimes there are hindrances to completing a job.   Sometimes other students cause so much trouble working on such assignments, that the teachers get disgusted and  good kids like yours are pushed aside\n( And, yes, there are teachers who lose interest in what they've assigned, or they are lazy.  It is unprofessional. ) I suggest the next time your daughter gets a big assignment, you contact the teacher and ask what standard it meets, what is the purpose, when is it due and what per centage of her grade is it. Also, if this is a pattern of her teacher(s), speak to the teacher or the principal.  Good luck.
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I think it's fine for teachers to come here and ask for advice/suggestions to use as effective teaching tools/techniques. \n\n But when teachers-or any other professional for that matter- come here and ask the general public to provide them w/information that they need and is the basis needed to perform their job...in a teacher's case---curriculum, then maybe it does come across as being "lazy".\nBased on the past questions you've asked, there's not really anything there save but 1 or 2, that you couldn't have typed in your own search for....probably within the same amount of time it took for you to log in and post your question here....and the info found could've been printed out in the same or less time then it takes for you to keep checking for posted answers.\n\nTurn the table here...how do you feel when you see students on here asking us to provide them with the FLAT OUT answer to their homework questions--with NO explanations.  They don't want to know nor do they care HOW it's done, they just want to GET it done.   Perhaps that's the light some see your questions in?
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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.