[Knight Templar]

I have recently discovered that Commited teachers and well thought-out lesson plans can make a world of difference in an education.

My Geometry teacher is great. Funny, cares, strict, yet not forboding, talented, knows what he is doing... overall great teach.

This has made a big difference i feel on how i take the subject.. i actually am understanding it and wanting to learn, feels great. All of the above bassically goes for my spanish teacher too. I knwo that there is some link because with most of my other teachers, i don't really "feel " it.

What do you guys think? What makes a good education? Can teachers really make or break the experiance?

[an0n]

Uh..yeah. Good teacher=Good learning.

*had a hot History teacher and a good Chem teacher*
*got good grades in those subjects*

[Knight Templar]

heheh hella fiine teachers work too..

*remember's a certain substitute teach that refused to pass out her personal phone number*

[an0n]

I was the only ****er in my entire school not to get a year-book. If I can scrounge one off a friend then I'll scan the hot teachers pic so you can see just how intoxicating she really is/was/forever will be.

[Knight Templar]

   

please please please

[Knight Templar]

maybe this belongs in the women thread

or we could jus convert this into a sexy teacher picture post... s'all cool here

[Kamikaze]

Originally posted by an0n
Uh..yeah. Good teacher=Good learning.

*had a hot History teacher and a good Chem teacher*
*got good grades in those subjects*

how the hell did you find a hot teacher anyway? All the ones around here are crusty old geezers/granny's.

(Why the effing hell aren't there any hot teachers in our school)

[CODEDOG ND]

Public School is crap.  They really don't know what to do with you between the ages of 14-18.  That's why High School is really boring and do less than what the 5-8th grade does.  Or at least in my school.  

Hot teachers...hmmm I got 2 and another that is a M.I.L.F.

[Grey Wolf]

I find that the good teachers don't teach better, but if they actually know what they're talking about and have a sense of humor, they tend to captivate the student's attention better. For example, my Global Studies teacher last year actually had lived in India and was dyslexic and not afraid to admit it, and I feel most people did good in his class. Over half the students in the Honors class were in his class last year.

[vadar_1]

Well i've had... 'conflicting' experiences with teachers. My chem teacher last year was a total *****... she was about 60, fat, never maried. She constantly yelled at us whenever you did something slightly wrong. She would scribble red all over your page and yell some more when you handed in an assignment with something wrong on it. However, I can still remember all the material perfectly, so therefor, dispite the hell of being in the class, you could classify that as a 'good teacher'. My physics teacher on the other hand... was a kinda-short semi-bald 40 year old guy who had been married for several years. He was always fun and had a great sense of humor, and always did a demonstration on what we were learning. No matter what it was, he could always find some tools to do a demonstration to prove that physics was more real then just of equations. By making everyone understand the physics behind the physics with demonstrations, the equations where easier to understand and use. Good class to go through, and i still remember most of it... good teacher. Now my math teacher, he still had a sense of humor... but his instructing was dull and 'textbook' like. Explaining things well enough on the board... but still very dull. He didn't reinforce the princaples, its just... heres how to do it, now practice on your own. He didn't reinforce the material, nor did he use demonstrations, and i didn't do so well in that class. Finally this brings me to my grade 10 (2 years ago) english teacher. He was an annoying guy who would always stare at the girls in our class. He didn't do a whole lot... basically just "read this, do this" kinda thing... I did horrable in that class, it was very disorganized.

But to answer the original question... a teacher can make you hate a subject if they really **** it up.

[Knight Templar]

but if they actually know what they're talking about and have a sense of humor, they tend to captivate the student's attention better

that sounds exactly like my geometry teacher, and he also, like vadar said, can back things up and uses examples, i think he's gonna be a great teacher... and the good thing is he teaches trig too.

i have had some really bad teachers though too.. i think my english teacher isn't going to be too great, i know it's only the first week, but she barely says anything and we're doing stuff like "personality windows" were we make a window out of paper and color in different things about ourselves... i know it's still a "get to know you prject" like i said, but it's kinda degrading and patronizing

i think my biology teacher is just a woman in desigise... transvestite if you will, i feel sorry for his "wife"

My computer foundries teacher is a hard ass.  
We have to take typing our first 3 weeks to become "efficent" and the like. Thing is i already know how to type as some of you may have noticed.. but aparently i don't do it correctly.

Correctly being homerow and not doing it being i don't use it. i don't use homerow because i have a normal keyboard and keeping my hands liek that beats the crap out of them and is so uncomfortable, so i just use what is comfortable and remember where the keys are from there. (on my left hand i have my pointer on "c", my bird on "d" , ring on "s" and pinky either on "a" or "shift". On my right hand we have the pointer on "m", vird on "j", ring on "k" and pink on "l") i know it sounds wierd but my hands and fingers are all over the board when they type, i just remember where the keys are.
anywho, back on topic, of course he sees how i type, says i am not doing it correctly and am "just trying to go fast and zip through the lessons" and makes me do homerow which is unaccostemed and uncomfortable... needless to say i go back to my way when he walks past. So while i am on typing lesson 6 (doing double the work as everyone else, i am typing each row twice as compared to everyone else's once) everyone else is on lesson 3 -4.

I think i'm gonna get out of the class.

[demon442]

Originally posted by vadar_1
But to answer the original question... a teacher can make you hate a subject if they really **** it up.

Tru dat.  My english 2 teacher is a uber-*****.  she's like 70, all family dead(and bitter because of it), alzhiemers, dislexia, parkensons, and hemmoroids.  nuff said...

Public school is ****e, end of story.

PS: an0n, hurry with that yearbook thing(I gotta see this one).

[Knight Templar]

sheeit dude... that's when u get them in the hospital and accidently rip over the life support plug

[Cannikin]

My Social Studies teacher 2 years ago was the most worthless teacher ever. Basically all he did was pull some project off the internet, print it out and give it to us. Then he goes off and surfs some porn sites or something (well maybe not porn...).

[Stunaep]

well, let's put it that way. Three years ago, we had a math teacher, who was overall great, had a great sense of humor, but, had slight troubles explaining stuff to us. She was actually a chemistry teacher, by profession so that could have played a part as well. My grades at that time were.... average.

Now, we have a maths teacher who has all the same characteristics as the other one, BUT she can also explain the subject so well, that even guys with IQ equal to a pine can understand. Of course, my grades went up noticeably after that.

Also, our Russian teacher is a 60-year-old fat cow, from the  old soviet school (has us learn everything in the book by heart), is generally strict and apart from some occasions is very very unpleasant. BUT, she teaches his subject well. It's a different, and albeit crappier method, but hey, it works.

[demon442]

Originally posted by Knight Templar
sheeit dude... that's when u get them in the hospital and accidently rip over the life support plug

One problem with that plan:  Everybody know I want to do it and the fukin pigs don't need evidence anymore, just drug money.

But what im gonna do one day is when she is skribbling in grades, im gonna sneak up behind her and let out the most demonic war cry i can and hope she has a heart attack.

One more thing:  Tha ***** slips some(no, a lot) of vodka into her 20 Oz. mug at lunch, so im gonna make some niccotine poision and put a few drops in...:devil:

[CP5670]

It depends. In principle, if we are talking about actual learning rather than good grades, then I would say that the student's interest in the subject is more important. However, the public school system of today is geared so that the teacher probably counts even more than the student both in grades and learning.

The third option is the best; I am doing exactly the second part of that.

[Kitsune]

I can't really vote for just one thing listed here.
Because I know for a fact that there's homelife stuff that screws things up for students, not to mention some just don't give a damn.

In the 11th-12th I had the same math teacher (Ms. Thurman) and she couldn't have been older than 35.  And she didn't look older than 25.  I was there for geometry one year then algebra 2 the next.  
She was funny, could crack the best blonde jokes (She was one but didn't act it thank god) and wore the tightest knee-length dresses she could...
For the first time since elementary school I was making A's in math (which is why I never made it to calc or trig in high school, my old math teachers were so bleeding boring...)

However most of my classmates had the typical "high-school" attitude where school was just a place to go hang with their homies and **** with the little guys and try to get hooked up with some drugs or another.
Then there were the punkers who just wanted to screw around and mess with the quiet people.
And most of them were in my class, and getting failing grades.
And what's sad is I HATED geometry, way too much memorization for me to handle.

Now, my 10th grade science teacher was Mrs. Kuhn.
A hefty-set mexican guy in the class was the clown and had a bunch of guys following his footsteps.  His favorite thing to do was wait for her to turn around and make a coughing sound that always came out *coon-dog!*

Well, she had a mental breakdown in the middle of class and left.
We had a substitute teacher for the rest of the year.  An old lady who has been to the school since it was built in 1915 as a 'little red schoolhouse' and had all her kids go there, and became a teacher for an ungodly number of years, and now a substitute.  Old woman'll be there forever and doesn't take anyone's B.S.

However the original teacher was still bad...  But then the class didn't help matters.  I remember having bad grades all through and barely making it at the end.  Taught us the basics of the periodic table of the elements, how to recognize oxides in chemistry names...
Then on the final exam we get stuff like 'Name this compound' and would spit out a 10-25 molecule chain...
I went through the science book the next day and couldn't find a damn thing relating to that question.

And while I barely passed, others never came anywhere close to passing, the big guy had like a 25% average in there.  And go fig, he was held back, twice.  Probably more, but I won't know since I finished as 'most improved senior' (meaning my GPA had gained at least a 1.5 points from freshman to senior.

Better teachers help, but if you don't want to learn, if you think school's a place to hang out...    Then it's all about what you get from them.


*Doubts that many here were in the "Let's go **** around cause school's a joke" crowd.*

[demon442]

Originally posted by Kitsune
*Doubts that many here were in the "Let's go **** around cause school's a joke" crowd.*

You doubt wrong.

[Kitsune]

Originally posted by demon442


You doubt wrong.

Yes well, one person compared to how many members here?
The definition of 'many' involves more than one or two people.