chatfouz
03-29-2008, 07:01 PM
I am halfway through college working my way to be a bio teacher. found this trying to learn what teaching is really like and not what the cute advertisments say in the advising offices. i have to say wow, what a real eye opener.
but all through highschool i have had comments to teachers but never could say. I thought here would be an appropriate place if any.
1. posters are NOT effective teaching tools. At least not in highschool. Posters taught me that making something pretty was more important than content. Two sentences and lots of pretty paper is more important that a paragraph and blank paper
2. Make us take notes. I honestly believe of all my highschool classes the class that most prepared me for college was US History. The teacher talked, and then we had the choice of taking notes. No handouts, no real anything. we learned how to take notes fast on a lot of information. taught us how to listen to a teacher and know the difference of what is important and what is not.
3. I hated it in HS but papers probably was the most important assignment and skill i learned in school. From jobs to college, everyone everywhere has to be able to write a report. I can not imagine what it would be like if I was not forced to write so much and now be unable to write.
4. I remember highschool students were like water, we take the path of least resistance. We will do the minimum asked of us. Keep showing us that we dont have to do anything and we wont. I remember some teachers and i did this, if they like you then you dont have to do any work. That if you complained right, or got mom involved you didnt have to do anything you didnt want to. And wow was university a slap.
5. The teachers I loved were the ones who were real people in the classroom. They were not just robots that assigned us homework but showed us they were like us, problems intrest etc. Especially when it came to work. I loved it that a teacher would admit something we were studying was thier favorite or thier least favorite. When a history teacher said this stuff next will be boring but we cant skip it, so lets just get through it. Makes them REAL!
6. What made some classes memorable vs others that were forgetable was the teacher and the teaching method. When teachers just went from the book and did nothing else it was dull. But when teachers included current events or personal experience to shed light it made a difference. I had a chem teacher explain how atoms function and assembled to the a whore house. needless to say he got in trouble but no one failed his test because everyone remembered that.
7. Please do not ever give into whining. We learned quickly which teachers we could whine to and get out of anything or postpone test or lower standards or miminalize the work. Some teachers we couldnt. It is a HORRIBLE habbit to teach us. It made my first real job, a sushi chef, difficult. I couldnt whine my way out of all the orders. Freshman year at STATE was worse, whining = an addition of work from prof. Some kids dont learn and we still sometimes walk into class and the teacher will say someone complained about this or that so hey, popquiz or extra writing assignment to show we all know the subject...
To all Teachers thank you! Good god yall are underappriciated.
but all through highschool i have had comments to teachers but never could say. I thought here would be an appropriate place if any.
1. posters are NOT effective teaching tools. At least not in highschool. Posters taught me that making something pretty was more important than content. Two sentences and lots of pretty paper is more important that a paragraph and blank paper
2. Make us take notes. I honestly believe of all my highschool classes the class that most prepared me for college was US History. The teacher talked, and then we had the choice of taking notes. No handouts, no real anything. we learned how to take notes fast on a lot of information. taught us how to listen to a teacher and know the difference of what is important and what is not.
3. I hated it in HS but papers probably was the most important assignment and skill i learned in school. From jobs to college, everyone everywhere has to be able to write a report. I can not imagine what it would be like if I was not forced to write so much and now be unable to write.
4. I remember highschool students were like water, we take the path of least resistance. We will do the minimum asked of us. Keep showing us that we dont have to do anything and we wont. I remember some teachers and i did this, if they like you then you dont have to do any work. That if you complained right, or got mom involved you didnt have to do anything you didnt want to. And wow was university a slap.
5. The teachers I loved were the ones who were real people in the classroom. They were not just robots that assigned us homework but showed us they were like us, problems intrest etc. Especially when it came to work. I loved it that a teacher would admit something we were studying was thier favorite or thier least favorite. When a history teacher said this stuff next will be boring but we cant skip it, so lets just get through it. Makes them REAL!
6. What made some classes memorable vs others that were forgetable was the teacher and the teaching method. When teachers just went from the book and did nothing else it was dull. But when teachers included current events or personal experience to shed light it made a difference. I had a chem teacher explain how atoms function and assembled to the a whore house. needless to say he got in trouble but no one failed his test because everyone remembered that.
7. Please do not ever give into whining. We learned quickly which teachers we could whine to and get out of anything or postpone test or lower standards or miminalize the work. Some teachers we couldnt. It is a HORRIBLE habbit to teach us. It made my first real job, a sushi chef, difficult. I couldnt whine my way out of all the orders. Freshman year at STATE was worse, whining = an addition of work from prof. Some kids dont learn and we still sometimes walk into class and the teacher will say someone complained about this or that so hey, popquiz or extra writing assignment to show we all know the subject...
To all Teachers thank you! Good god yall are underappriciated.