<p>^Lol, I’m sure you know what I’m talking about…I just never would have thought of it that way. That totally changes my perception of that song, so like every time I hear it, I can like visualize it. And it like feels so strange.</p>
<p>Wow, that was a lot of “likes” lol.</p>
<p>well i guess you really were taught something then(:</p>
<p>My economics/ US Civics lest year. He did not teach at all, he was also a dean. He never came to class and when he did he give out busy work. His class was a joke. People in his class play cards, watch videos on the computer and did homework. You didn’t even have to go to class because, therewas always a student that will mark you present. I learned nothing from his class, he never even knew my name! His class was like a free period and good thing his class was a GPA boost. He knew me I could have gotten a larger GPa boost, o well.</p>
<p>Very very very unfortunately, my Ap Calculus does NOT TEACH AT ALL. He gives us homeworks everyday and make the smartest kids in our class solve the problem –> meaning he doesn’t do anything much. >_></p>
<p>my current AP lang teacher just challenges our knowledge from what we already know/what we can pick up from him. we never actually ‘learn’ anything. to learn in his class, you observe higher achieving students that do well…</p>
<p>I always forget that most CC students go to good schools, or at least, many of them are lucky to have good teachers. I usually had one or two teachers a year who actually taught. Most of my classes went like this:</p>
<p>10 minutes of “getting ready” +
20 minutes of going over homework in groups (not with the teacher, but with an answer key) +
5 minutes of getting assigned more homework +
10 minutes of relaxing/waiting for the bell/starting homework +
= 45 minutes</p>
<p>From sixth grade, I can distinctly remember the teachers that didn’t follow this pattern:
6th grade social studies
7th grade honors science
7th grade Algebra I
8th grade Honors English
9th grade Honors Biology</p>
<p>And not all of those were “good” teachers. I didn’t learn anything in 6th grade social studies or 8th grade English, but at least the teacher tried - and I appreciate any effort. I had teachers who didn’t even assign homework. My Spanish teacher gave us no homework, but we usually spent all 45 minutes going over a five sentence warm up. This explains why by Spanish III I had still only learned the present tense.</p>
<p>Haha, my AP Physics C teacher doesn’t really teach…</p>
<p>He’s a genius though. Smartest teacher in the school. From what I heard, he just gives out random grades to people because he never marks tests either…</p>
<p>^ Same situation at my school with one of the teacher. The guy graduated from Harvard and has all this intelligence, but he is so lazy and talks irrelevant things.</p>
<p>My spanish teacher was terrible at not teaching… he was a football coach and he never taught us anything for two years… i am now i spanish three and we got a new spanish teacher this year and she is shocked that we don’t even know basic spanish… we should be reading books in spanish by now!!! but no, we just finished the spanish 1 book and are on chapter 2 of our spanish 2 book… i just can’t wait to take spanish in college (sarcasm)!!!</p>
<p>Ugh. I have several this year. </p>
<p>My AP Lang teacher is focusing on fiction because she hates nonfiction…</p>
<p>My Chem teacher gives us several weeks to read a single paragraph in the book. We spent the first month learning how to add, subtract, and multiply numbers.</p>
<p>And my German teacher combined the German 4 class with German 1 (she could choose to combine us with German 1, 2, 3, or the other German 4 class). She sends us out in the hallway to read literature from the Middle Ages, which she read in grad school. And she avoids answering questions regarding how things are graded, declaring that “it’s all a crapshot, but we’ll figure in out eventually.” As she says, it’s only November!</p>
<p>My AP Gov teacher doesn’t teach. Here’s a typical day: </p>
<ol>
<li>Free time to ‘review our notes’ - 30-45 minutes.</li>
<li>He gets off his computer and walks to the front of the class, sits down in his chair, and says: “Current Events?” really fast. so that it almost sounds like “cur-ren-vents”</li>
<li>We discuss what’s happening in the world - 25-55 minutes. (We’re on a 100 minute block schedule.)</li>
<li>If someone asks a question from the reading, he’ll answer it, albeit slowly. (The guy is a genius, he knows everything inside out and upside down) </li>
<li>Every 2-3 days, he’ll quiz us on random stuff that’s mostly from the current chapter, but he’ll slip in a few questions from past chapters (and even some from future chapters and current events). The average grade on these quizzes is somewhere around 40-50% correct.
<em>sigh</em> It’s one of my fav. classes b/c I can text super easily!</li>
</ol>
<p>Sophomore year Alg 2, teacher just piled on homework, after homework, after homework…</p>
<p>Junior year physics, same as above…</p>
<p>The teachers just sat at their desks on the computer all day,</p>
<p>None of my teachers can teach. I’m not kidding. None of the teachers at my school can teach period, except for maybe one or two.</p>
<p>I wish I were exaggerating, but I’m really not. At max, there are three teachers that can teach. But aside from that, it’s basically self studying and lots of major sucking up.</p>
<p>my AP spanish 5 teacher!! She will let us answer 5 questions for “diez minutos” and then she goes to the computer to do grades or something for the entire period.
Before my class, she has the same class in a different room directly underneath the room we’re in. Today it took her 20 minutes to go up a small flight of stairs…and we had a test today…which I failed because she sucks</p>
<p>Yeah. My Geometry, Algebra II, and Psych teachers were pretty much useless. >.></p>
<p>I learned more about psychology in the two weeks I worked in the counseling office at the end of the year than I did during the whole semester of psych.</p>
<p>Just in high school (could care less about before), while not many teachers I have had and have this year aren’t atrocious, few have been/are outstanding - maybe 1 or so. Rest are mediocre, which I can live with. </p>
<p>A good 3/4 of my teachers last year didn’t really teach. This year’s just mediocre and plain stuff.</p>
<p>I like these kinds of teachers more</p>
<p>^My sentiments exactly.
My honors english teacher last year was always online shoe-shopping. Class was a nice break from the disgusting combination of APUSH and AP Bio. Life was great!</p>
<p>I think everyone has them at some point, lol. I’ve had quite a few, BUT, I’ve also had some pretty amazing teachers, so I think it all averages out.
Except, it REALLY sucks when your AP Cal teacher can’t teach…</p>
<p>of course =P</p>