<p>What do you prefer? Or, rather, which have you had better learning experiences with? Older teachers or younger teachers? For me, I feel as though teachers under 30 are a lot less experienced and that affects my ability to retain information though not necessarily impact my grades. </p>
<p>My Sophomore English 10 Honors teacher was 70 and I learned more in that class than I did in any of my other classes combined while my current AP English teacher is a young man in his mid twenties and has a particular affinity for talking about his iPhone.</p>
<p>My friend has a teacher fresh out of school who is the worst…she can’t control her class and once cried in front of them after a particular taxing day saying, “I feel like I’m failing you all as a teacher!”</p>
<p>On the other hand, I’ve had younger teachers who were great. Had older ones who were most definitely NOT (worst two teachers were in their 50’s/60’s). </p>
<p>Don’t really prefer one age group over another so long as their good teachers.</p>
<p>My teachers who are between 35 and 45 have always been my favorites (or at least I think they’re that old). Also, sort of off topic, but female or male teachers?
I almost always get along better with Female teachers, as in the ones I’m close to are female, and I’ve really only had one male teacher who I like a lot.</p>
<p>@superstarlala - I’ve had mostly women teachers throughout most of my high school career - until Junior year, where I had an equal number of male and female teachers. I get along with female teachers better, I believe. I mean, I like my male teachers and all but I’m just a lot more comfortable with my women teachers.</p>
<p>I’ve never connected with a female teacher. Also, in my experience, most younger teachers don’t know how to teach and/or are more strict than older teachers.</p>
<p>Older teachers don’t know when I’m serious and when I’m not, so it’s much easier to get them on your side.
My math teacher is a guy just out of school and he’s amazing. The class is a perfect balance between working and chilling out.</p>
<p>There’s a pretty good mix at my school, but generally I’ve had the best working relationshi/experience with teachers in their middle years. I’m talking 40s and 50s. Then again, I haven’t been able to work with most of the younger teachers because they generally teach the regular/basic classes (not trying to sound cocky/condescending, I promise)</p>
<p>That’s so funny because my English teacher recently asked us the same question. Personally, I’ve had good and bad experiences with both age categories, so for me age doesn’t matter so much. Some of my younger teachers are great, and some of my older teachers are terrible. That being said, there’s no real pattern, although I do find that my older teachers tend to share more stories from their personal lives, making them more entertaining/relatable.</p>
<p>My ap government teacher was the best… she was young around 27-28 and I got a 5 on thr test.</p>
<p>On the other hand my geometry teacher was bad… she was 2 years from retirement and I didn’t learn anything. Got a basic on the CSTS never have I gotten below proficient in math</p>
<p>I generally like middle aged teachers the best. Really young teachers tend to not know the material as well and really old teachers are out of touch with students. When you get a middle aged teacher you get somebody who is very knowledgable and also still in touch with/able to work well with students.</p>
<p>If they’re hot and male, I prefer young.
Otherwise, I generally find older teachers are better, although sometimes they seem to have given up a little.</p>
<p>I agree that middle-aged seems to be the sweet spot for teachers. Not too young that they are inexperienced with teaching, but not too old that they lose the connection with students.</p>
<p>One of the best teachers I’ve ever had is my current AP Language teacher. She’s in her late 20s. I also really like my PreCal teacher who’s in her mid-60s.</p>
<p>I don’t care how old or young my teachers are as long they know what the hell they’re doing.</p>
<p>^same! A couple of my best teachers have been pretty young, in their 20s. I love how enthusiastic and funny they are right out of college. But two of my current favorites are in their late 50s. And although I tend to connect better with female teachers, gender doesn’t matter much to me as long as I feel comfortable with someone’s teaching style.</p>