<p>I took one AP test this year and I was in this teacher's class and it was his first year teaching that particular AP course. Our whole class came out of the AP test scared/horrified and we told our teacher that we all failed and he didn't seem to care.</p>
<p>My question is: Do most teachers actually care?</p>
<p>actually yeah. well first off if they are hired to be an AP teacher and students consistently do bad then they're in the hotseat because obviously the teacher isn't doing his job. </p>
<p>no art histroy though.</p>
<p>Yes. They do do care. They want to support the students and play it off if the kids say they failed, but they'll be in a lot of trouble if most of their kids don't do very well. It does represent their abilities as a teacher. They have more pressure than the regular teachers in the school, so they will be judged harsher if kids fail.</p>
<p>it really depends on the teacher. some teacher think of their job as just that- a job. others, like my AP US teacher, actually connect with their kids and then it makes him proud that he taught a class of winners :)</p>
<p>I thought they cared, but now I am inclined to think that they don't. My teacher guaranteed me that I would get a 5 on my AP test. I got a 3.......and I emailed him notifying that I got a 3 when I (and the teacher) were both REALLY expecting a 5. All he said in his reply was: The good news: you passed. I hope you are having a great summer.</p>
<p>i asked my teacher if i should rescore and he wrote that he didn't think it would change anything...</p>
<p>most of my teachers do care. like my chem teacher has been shooting for 100% AP exam passing rate for his class every year. but my physics teacher does not care at all (or it seems).</p>
<p>powerbomb, don't you think he was trying to make you a feel a little better? Disappointing to get the three, but he's right, not the end of the world.</p>
<p>One of them does (100% passing rate for the past 5 years), but the other 4 doesn't seem to care that much.</p>
<p>Most do care. In my district, teachers aren't "penalized" for scores, because teacher's pay isn't merit based. I honestly believe that a teacher's pay SHOULD be merited based in order to force them to care if they. I think all the AP teachers I've ever had do care. Most of them have bought us breakfast or snacks, hold review sessions, stay after school for us, etc. Despite all that effort on the teachers' part, most of the student body doesn't care.</p>
<p>My son's teachers definitely cared. When he learned of his scores, he immediately telephoned his APUSH teacher, and they chatted about 15 minutes that night. The teacher expected a 5 from him, and he got that 5. This particular teacher averaged 3.5 on the APUSH exam a year earlier. My son e-mailed two more teachers, who were thrilled with his 5s in stat and chem. We hosted his English teacher for lunch the following day. He was a little disappointed with the 4, but she was just thrilled for him.</p>
<p>you invited the english teacher over for lunch???</p>
<p>That's interesting...</p>
<p>I care, but there is also a limit to what I can do.</p>
<p>Sungchul, if you take a random sampling of the students at your school, and you had to trust your summer paycheck based on them doing what they were supposed to and in the way they were supposed to do it, would you? Why or why not?</p>
<p>I think they care, but now, after receiving a 2, I'm very curious as to how well the rest of the classs performed on the test. I'm going to call the school and see if they will release the results. Wouldn't you think they'd be obligated to do so?</p>
<p>no, they're not obligated to. the teachers get a sheet with every student's name and score in his/her class. then the principal gets a huge booklet with the same thing except for every AP test taken at the school. So it's up to the principal whether he wants to send out the scores or not (but he'd have to blot out the names or something).</p>
<p>powerbomb, you seem needy.</p>
<p>My teachers care, I guess? Chem teacher seemed disappointed when he thought I had failed the exam; luckily, I passed (5).</p>
<p>Well, I know it is not the end of the world. It's just that before I had taken the exam, this teacher was so excited for me and he would constantly encourage me that I would get a 5 for sure. I got a 3 and I told him and it seemed as though he instantly dropped his enthusiasm and hope for me. He was a good teacher though, I guess...because he was on collegeboard once as an AP exam grader.</p>
<p>Some of my teachers care and some did not care too much.</p>
<p>My Environmental Science teacher did not care at all. She wasn't even preparing us for the exam in her class.</p>
<p>My calculus teacher cared but she was not too confident in the class. She wanted me to pass but she thought the rest of the class were failures.</p>
<p>my art history teacher was happy because he had a 100% pass rate and overall cares about the students. I told my Physics teacher in person(since I have Summer school) that I had gotten a 4 (and his pass rate the year before was 0/4 students) and he just shook my hand and was like good job, see your hard work payed off. For some reason I don't think he cares much because he isn't willing to change grades after passing the AP test and I was thinking while he was shaking my hand, if I worked so hard why won;t you change the D I got first semester?</p>
<p>It's not really a matter if they care about the scores as much as they care about the class and the students in it. My World History teacher was quite proud of his job and did it extremely well, and until our year, had never had a student score below a 3 and openly praised them for it. Someone in our class got a 2, and he actively shunned him for it ever since. </p>
<p>Other teachers however just don't seem to care at all about their students. My Comp Sci teacher was completely unqualified for the class, loathed having to even partake in it, and had really low standards for everyone in it. She would flat out tell people they would get a 1, not because they needed some constructive criticism, but because she enjoyed it (in her defense, he did get a one >.>). On top of all that, our US history teacher makes it well known that the only reason he has the job is because everyone else who was qualified had enough pull to avoid it. The farthest he ever comes to caring for his class is his bet every year to buy coffee every day next year for a randomly chosen student he knows will fail the AP if they get a 5. Somehow, last years kid won.</p>