randaness:owlsofstarlight:My best/favorite teacher would literally take off the points for a questio
randaness:owlsofstarlight:My best/favorite teacher would literally take off the points for a question that the majority of the class got wrong from the total on the test and then hold a lesson on the topic because she realized if 90% of her students didn’t know the answer then she hadn’t done a good job teaching it.I hate it when teachers take pride in having a large percentage of students get bad grades in their classes. It just means that students aren’t learning from youMy A-Level History course had two key subjects taught by two different teachers. One was The French Revolution and the teacher was brilliant. She had a passion for history, was actively interested in what we thought and let us lead the way we were learning as much as she was (while still keeping to the curriculum and keeping a mostly traditional class structure). The other subject was… the inter way period. I think. Possibly. Might have been Crime and Punishment. I honestly can’t remember. The teacher was… OK. He wasn’t a bad teacher but he decided early on that I wasn’t interested in the subject (I wasn’t really, but that’s not the point) and he let me know frequently enough that he didn’t think I would get a decent grade. He marked my essays far more harshly than students working at the same level as me. He taught lessons in a very strict, rigid format, sticking to the old-school “teacher says everything, class take notes”. I went into the French Revolution paper knowing I’d ace it (and I did). I went into the other paper knowing my teacher thought I would fail so I made a point of pretty much relearning the entire course during the revision period (In the UK you get a couple of months revision for the final exams) and I aced that paper too, get a high A (this is before A* came in) and I did it purely to spite him and prove I was better than he gave me credit for. I scored highly in spite of him, not because of him. He clearly wasn’t happy. Made a comment to my younger sister about how some people ended up getting A-Level grades they didn’t really deserve. So yeah, if you’re a teacher be more Miss Evans and less Mr Gilby.And just to be clear: Fuck you Mr Gilby. I got the grade I did because I’m a fucking good historian and I did the work in spite of you, not because of anything positive you did. -- source link
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