<p>Ok guys, I notice a lot of you on here are saying that "well I have a bad teacher so yah i have to study for the exam on my own.." and w/e. Ok seriously, are you sure some of you are just not as advanced as you thought? I mean I understand that some teachers flat out suck but come on guys, that phrase is becoming a cliche and its getting old. Accept responsibility for yourself. And for the record, AP courses are college classes, meaning you are a college student for that particular class so stop blaming teachers, it is your responsibility to learn the material yourself anyway. The teachers are just there to lecture and answer questions and show examples. Are some of you not getting your questions answered or what?</p>
<p>I aint mad, I am just getting tired of hearing "oh well my teacher sucks" or "my teacher cant teach" and blah blah blah.</p>
<p>I am in 5 AP's this year and some of my grades are just "average" but I never blame the teachrs for anything. And trust me a couple of them mak a lot of mistakes, but I mean if you know how to do a problem and follow what yopu know in the book then hir notes dont matter. Personally, I dont take notes myself, I just read the book and be done with it.</p>
<p>So, what exactly do u guys define as a bad teacher for Ap courses? If that is even the case.</p>
<p>First when they give way too much homework for you. We have to read a lot and make outlines. Also for the tests you have to know a lot. So far like no one has gotten like a 100 percent. Most of the questions are based on what the teacher thinks the answer is. </p>
<p>Second when the teachers don't care too much about the class. I havent' seen anything much like that, but it can happen.</p>
<p>Well, I say that my AP World History teacher is bad, because she just taught us how to write a Change Over Time Essay last week, a DBQ in February, and Comparative in early March. (She really didn't teach us; she just gave us example essays, the question and the rubric, then she said "FIGURE IT OUT") All my teacher does is give us a syllabus, which tells us when our tests and quizzes are on and she say read. She does not lecture and she does not go "beyond" the book. All she does is sit there, give us work, tell us to read, give quizzes, and tests. I know Advanced Placement is suppose to be "college-like," but everyone knows that a college teacher does more than that for their students.</p>
<p>Hmm bad teacher....i can throw my World teacher in there. Last year he missed probably 15-20 out of 180 days for various reasons. One of those reasons was he experienced some legal trouble. This year, he never came back after Christmas break, he was forced to 'resign' (he ran off with a student). Took the exam last year and got a 3 because he never helped us review and we didn't cover much after 1800. Rushed through the IR and World Wars the week before the exam. 3 outta 20something got 5's in a fairly decent AP program at my school. I pity the kids this year, but atleast they got a replacement.</p>
<p>When the teacher asks for work and never grades it, so you have no idea of what quality work you are turning out.
When one can cut class 60 times during the year, and then still ace every exam given out, and finally get a 4 on the AP.</p>
<p>Well, I'd say my AP Bio teacher is not the best...</p>
<p>When your teacher gives unreasonal amount of work (1 chapter a night... and it's pretty hard to memorize everything in just one night), and says it's justified because AP is supposed to be a "college-level" class... Later, I went to the actually course syllabi at my local college, and they were doing much less work than we were doing.</p>
<p>When your teacher doesn't teach half the material in the textbook; instead makes students do powerpoint presentations for each chapter to the class (but what do you learn from other kids' presentations?).</p>
<p>When test questions are extremely nit-picky and subjective.</p>
<p>When the teacher makes us grade our papers by ourselves... including ESSAYS. I might be wrong, but I thought the grading was the teacher's job!</p>
<p>Yeah, that's pretty much it. Strange thing is, he knows a lot about biology, but he just doesn't teach it! It makes me so angry, and I used to like biology before I took this class, but not anymore!</p>
<p>How about a teacher that keeps telling students about her personal life and brings my classmates and me either to sleep or do the teacher's pet's job? She doesn't know her stuff and it's the class's responsiblity to point out her mistakes in all lessons? She now makes me hate all Asian teachers and calculus. It's her first time teaching calculus...</p>
<p>ok well my bio teacher isnt that bad but....
he only does powerpoint lectures
he makes u read the book and doesnt thoroughly explain the details saying "oh u already know that" everyday
he makes the tests so hard that only those who basically have a phd could pass (but some gets A's which is crazy!)</p>
<p>maybe thats not a very good example but i just dont like his teaching methods</p>
<p>^Yes, and when my bio teacher actually teaches it, that's exactly how it's like! And he just summarize one chapter and expects us to learn from the textbook, which I think is horribly written and organized (Starr/Taggard: Biology -The Unity and Diversity of Life). And the test questions that come with that book is really hard. The only reason why I have an A in that class is because my teacher curves a lot of points, but still makes me wonder whether I'd pass the AP exam or not.</p>
My teach just flat out treats us like babies. She says things and tries to make it so easy its aggravating. The textbook she chose for us she says she chose because it was the, “easiest to comprehend.” I’ll have you know that any word over 6 letters it has to describe in detail. Also we are so behind I am reading ahead and doing online help to keep up but my teacher just wants to goof off, spend half the period on bell work. AND SHE WILL NOT GIVE YOU AN ANSWER!!! this is by far the most aggravating because Sometimes I do need help and she will come up with some tortured analogy about food or animals thinking that will help. Our class is 3 months behind most other AP students and I still don’t know how to write a DBQ. Does anyone have some help I really want to take the test but I don’t want to spend $95 dollars to fail. Please help.