My Spanish teacher is honestly the worst. She can’t seem to put grades in, she’s always messing them up, and she doesn’t teach? In class we just work on the assignments she gives us, from the textbook, and calls on us randomly, but we have no idea what’s going on most of the time. Her tests are insanely hard because she doesn’t teach? We took a test today, which I am 100% sure I failed. I do the homework, and it, often times, doesn’t make sense, and she never helps us with it? I don’t understand her class at all and I am honestly hanging on by a thread. I have a 90.5%. I know I failed the last test we took, and I am really afraid for my grade. What do I do? Her projects and assignments just seem to get harder because my Spanish foundation is crumbling, and I really don’t want to get a B in her class. I just want her fired already. What do I do?
USE ALL THE QUIZLET! And I’m sorry your Spanish teacher is terrible. If there’s another Spanish teacher at your school who is way, way better, ask one of your friends in their class to help you out.
I just study aggressively and try to find online resources to teach myself. @superbowser12 Now that the material is getting harder, I’m finding it more difficult to learn and I’m afraid for my grade.
MANY, many teachers record videos that students-- even students in other schools-- can use.
Start with youtube-- do a search on Spanish irregular verb conjugations or whatever it is you’re learning.
Then try teachertube and educreations.
Oh, and consider starting a thread here, asking if anyone has a teacher who uses this method. It’s becoming more and more mainstream each year, and you may find more than you expect.
Also, you can go to extra help to any Spanish teacher in your school. The fact that a particular teacher wasn’t assigned Spanish 2 Honors this year doesn’t mean that he/she doesn’t know the material. (This year I’m teaching Precalc. Last week I gave extra help in Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry and Calculus, in addition to some of the kids I’m actually teaching this year.)
Hey, you can always try teaching yourself or reading the textbook independently to understand the language better. If not, you can try free websites that help you learn.
These would be helpful to study for about 30 minutes to an hour per day, but you need to maintain the rehearsal of memorizing the phrases and vocabulary words so that it won’t fade away.
For a week, do some documentation. Write down what she does in the class and how much time. “Told to open to page 347 and review conjugation. Told to do exercises at end of section. Did not go over answers”. Note when you got grades returned and if they were correct.
Talk to the head of the Foreign Languages Department.
Tell them that you teacher doesn’t put grades in in a timely manner (give example), has incorrectly entered the grades on more than one occasion (give examples). Also that you are given assignments from the textbook but are not getting any lecturing/teaching. Say that you do the homework, but really don’t feel like you are getting good instruction. Go over how the class went for the last week. Ask if the Dept head could observe the class. If the class is actually taught when the Dept head is there, then you go back and say “as you may have noticed, the teacher taught the class in a different manner when you were there and it was much more effective. Could you indicate to her that she should be teaching like this all the time.”?
Also, does the teacher have “office/help hours”? If so, go to them. Whatever you are supposed to have been working on ask if she could go over. that. If she doesn’t have help hours or doesn’t teach, then tell the head of the department. If the hours are not convenient, still suck it up and go to at least one to see if she will help.
