<p>1)Give pointless work (Crossword puzzles, posters, projects that take forever and teach you nothing)</p>
<p>2)Extend an assignment the day it is due when you just spent all of the night before doing the assignment. At least give the people who have it that day extra credit for having it early.</p>
<p>3)Not announce that they are collecting an assignment and just put a tray to collect in the front and you have the assignment done and forget to turn it in.</p>
<p>4)When they favor 3 students in a class and act like everybody else doesn't exist.</p>
<p>5)When they expect you to keep an organized binder, but NEVER hole punch anything they give you. I know you can hole punch yourself, but I don't own a hole puncher and sometimes it's inconvenient to have to walk all the way across the room to hole punch something every time I'm handed a paper.</p>
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<li><p>Frequently complaining about their subject or their job. </p></li>
<li><p>Requiring that we take notes, or acting like people who don’t take notes are bad students even if they pay attention, ask thoughtful questions, etc. I don’t take notes if the information is available in the textbook or in a handout…I know some people benefit from just writing stuff down, but it’s easier for me to pay attention if I can just listen to the lecture without trying to write stuff down at the same time.</p></li>
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<p>1.) Declare “this is college, folks!” As they proceed to hand out a coloring worksheet.
2.) Act as if their class is the only important one, ever. My Spanish teacher won’t let me go get help in another subject after I finish a test because I haven’t completed the aforementioned coloring sheet.
3.) Use a powerpoint EVERY time they lecture
4.) Act offended if you prefer to take your own notes rather than use the guided notes they provide
5.) Teachers that jump around from student to student helping with a problem but never actually finishing the problem
6.) Don’t let you use phones when appropriate. I mean seriously, it’s a lot faster to google a word I don’t know vs looking up the translation in a Spanish-English dictionary.
7.) Will give students (the ones they like) partial credit for showing work, but all or nothing point system for other students. Consistency would be nice!
8.) Teachers that don’t provide feedback at the <em>very</em> least on tests. Homework would be nice too but I realize that that is a lot to ask for.
9.) Take weeks to grade assignments (I have an ungraded project from August still…)
10.) Take no time at all to put in zeroes if a student is gone, but ten years to enter to the grade for the makeup assignment.
11.) Pointless activities that have no academic value
12.) I don’t have another at the moment, but 11 is an odd number to stop on.</p>
<p>1.) Have “binder checks” which are worth 50 points and judged by how well you have your binder for that class (which is required; can’t have a folder or anything else) organized to how she sees fit. </p>
<p>2.) Hates me for asking questions and being curious about the language she’s supposed to be teaching</p>
<p>My Spanish teacher is infuriatingly stupid.</p>
<p>LOLOL at 1) bailey, I second 9, 3, and 11 of yours as well</p>
<p>I’d say the biggest is my Spanish teacher who does not even attempt to teach, rather assigning book activities (5-10 a day) and expects us to learn from that. We don’t even go over the activities to see which ones we got wrong. My math teacher from Alg 2 which I switched to online because of kept the class in groups for the entire period, told us which module and section to study and do the questions by ourselves in groups. We literally did this the entire time I was there while he was stationed at his laptop playing World of Warcraft. Never answered a question we had, just kept telling us what we knew and what we’re supposed to learn from the text. Hilarious.</p>
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<li><p>Lollygags the entire class period (for multiple days), then suddenly decides to speed-teach us a new lesson, then give 63732522 problems from the book -_-</p></li>
<li><p>Assigns a test on a certain day then gets wayyy too upset when there are conflicts (we aren’t allowed to have more than three tests on the same day).</p></li>
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<li>Assign work over breaks</li>
<li>Say “have a good break” after assigning work</li>
<li>Claim breaks are time for family even though they assign work</li>
<li>Complain about grading during weekends/breaks even though they assign work over breaks</li>
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<p>when they call on people randomly in class…probably the worst thing ever. that made me hate ap chem; i felt like i was gonna have a panic attack every time before he lectured</p>
<p>Forcing us to do homework (actually looking over it and grading it) when we understand the topic very well and could be doing something way better instead.</p>
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<li>Assigning useless, trivial work and pretending as if it’s helpful</li>
<li>Not understanding the subject matter that they “teach”</li>
<li>Complain about their job</li>
<li>Think that anyone who doesn’t do what they do is wrong and should be reprimanded (example: “I teach public school, so any teacher who doesn’t teach at a public school is bad.”)</li>
<li>Picking of favorites</li>
<li>Expecting you to do work even if you’ve already proven mastery of the subject.</li>
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<p>I hate when teachers barely gloss over a chapter/unit/entire course they can’t teach. If they can’t teach a topic, it’s probably because they are either not well-versed in the subject (this can easily be fixed by them [the teachers] going home and reading up on the material) or they are simply in the wrong profession. I’ve had teachers like this at least once every year since junior high.</p>
<p>1.) Get frustrated with students who do not grasp concepts immediately. Sorry I can’t memorize the products of the Krebs cycle the first time I hear it. </p>
<p>2.) Complain about being a teacher/teacher wages/etc. Yes, teachers should be paid more, but it was your decision to go into education.</p>
<p>3.) Lack of passion. A lack of passion when you are helping to form the futures of students is inexcusable.</p>
<p>4.) Assigning work during Tech Week or a major sports championship night.</p>
<p>5.) ANY assignment that involves being graded on neatness/artistic ability rather than actual academic merit. </p>
<p>6.) Answer your questions with other questions. Please give me a damn answer, that’s all I’m looking for.</p>
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<li><p>It’s perfectly natural for teachers to have favorites, but please don’t give undeserving people better grades than people who actually work hard. Don’t make it obvious to the whole class that you have a crush on the cute football player, it’s gross and he doesn’t deserve the grades that he gets.</p></li>
<li><p>Teachers that look at you like you’re stupid when you don’t understand something. This is high school, we’re required to take a lot of classes and you can’t expect us to be perfect at all of them. We’re not all math/science or English/history people, sorry.</p></li>
<li><p>Teachers that pick up homework without telling you that it’s due. I mean, it’s not like I have seven other classes to take care of or anything, so of course I’m going to do homework that I’m not sure is due.</p></li>
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