Dr. T is an alien
Patti Mayonnaise
Knows when to hold them, knows when to fold them
I've been found out!
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Apr 21, 2022 15:14:49 GMT -5
I had a teacher with muscular dystrophy who was all but immobile and confined to an electric wheelchair. You could tell she was just not in the mood for our sh**. As a guy with a less severe form of muscular dystrophy, I can relate at times. There are days where the pain can be maddening.
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legendkiller1985
Don Corleone
If I'm going to have a past, I'd prefer it to be multiple choice
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Post by legendkiller1985 on Apr 21, 2022 16:55:13 GMT -5
I had a professor for US History 101 in college who would just leave the room during a lecture for 20-30 minutes during each class and made us sign in for attendance but left the book open so you could theoretically sign yourself in for the week and get credit for the course and skip the other part of the lecture. Ended up getting a B in the course and always suspected he either was doing drugs or had horrible IBS or something. Another professor I had for European History was this older Russian gentleman who had intro level course and was teaching it like it was a Masters level course at a community college mind you. would expect you to give a full 90 minute lecture as your group project and that increased that high as more students dropped the course. Was really smart but was so hyperfocused on his work he couldn't realte to people and would almost kind of belittle you if you didn't understand. Regarding the first one, I do have to ask what the class schedule was like. I've taught two different types of schedules at college: The first is your typical 50 lectures on M-W-F and 1hr15min lectures on T-R (though I mainly taught lab courses which completely tosses that out the window anyways). The other, and more recent, is at a local community college where you get all of the week's lecture in a single block. That means that if the class is a 2 credit hour course, it is a 2 hour lecture (well, 1hr50min lecture, but who's counting?). I frequently taught 3 or 4 credit hour courses which meant that it was a full 3-4 lecture each time we met. While I almost never jetted off early except on the days of exams, I could see some lesser experienced lecturers struggling to fill the entire block without losing the entire class 75% of the way through. Regarding the second example, I do wonder if it was truly as bad as you think it was. The reality is that so many students expect entry level courses to be easier than they are, but the reality is that in order to retain accreditation for the course they cannot be that easy. I always shot for a class average being 80%, which meant that the class average would be in the B- to C+ range. After I taught for a while I even got good at getting the averages to that point, but there were always students who thought that I was being too hard. I assure you that my boss never thought that. The first guy was an adjunct who taught Tuesday/Thursday afternoons and was open about how he was gonna retire at the end of the year. My friends I took the class with and I found this out years later so there's that. The European History example I did retake the course and talked to the dept. head and the original professor who I had the first time had a reputation of being a ball breaker in the dept. and a ton of other students complained over the years but the colleges hands were tied because he was tenured. He had the reputation of not giving A's or B's ever. When I took each section it was a Wednesday/Friday early afternoon lecture and they were roughly 90 mins a piece. The other professor i took that summer cut us a break because a good chunck of the seats in the section were other classmates who failed the section. and he was a lot less rigid on his expectations for your tests and papers. I think the older guy would have been a great teacher if his expectations at the time weren't so rigid.
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J. Hova
Don Corleone
Emotionally exhausted and morally bankrupt
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Post by J. Hova on Apr 21, 2022 20:31:02 GMT -5
I don't think I ever had teachers that checked out, I just had some poor teachers. The amazing part is that my school district is considered one of the best academically in the area and has won awards statewide.
Two of them that stick out were a social studies teacher in Jr. High and one in high school. They were both football coaches and I haven't the faintest idea how they got their degrees. I mean, they literally taught straight out of the book and if a question was asked that wasn't immediately accessible in said book, they would get the deer in the headlights look and stammer all over themselves.
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Allie Kitsune
Crow T. Robot
Always Feelin' Foxy.
Celestial Princess in Exile.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Apr 22, 2022 7:21:15 GMT -5
Pretty much ALL of my high school teachers. If you needed help understanding something, you weren't going to get it.
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Ultimo Gallos
Grimlock
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Apr 23, 2022 7:16:56 GMT -5
I had more strange teachers than checked out ones. One of the weirdest was Dr. Patyk. Thick Polish accent. He taught literature, I think I took his class in 11th grade. He organized the seating in the class into rows, with each person in the front of the row being the captain. You moved forwards or backwards depending on answering questions, behavior, or totally arbitrary reasons. He hated that he had to teach The Odyssey. So much so, he literally taught from the cliff notes, and told us to only bother reading the cliff notes. He wasn't that checked out about all the assigned reading, just The Odyssey. Sounds like my high school Honors English teacher. We would get assigned two books every 9 weeks. Then she would hand you two packets full of questions about each book. And older kid told us "Lool Rymer copies all the packet questions straight from Cliffs Notes." So all of us would buy Cliffs Notes and got an easy A. Same teacher that loved the students that went to her church and if you didn't she wanted nothing to do with ya. Oddly when I got out of the Army I applied to be a sub teacher at my old high school. Mrs Rymer saw my name on the list and was gonna miss a month so asked if I would be the sub for her class. First day subbing I go into class see the question packets and look,yep she is still copying the questions out of Cliffs Notes. So told the kids to go buy Cliffs Notes.
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Post by zrowsdower on Apr 23, 2022 10:33:56 GMT -5
Had a history teacher who never really taught. One time he decided that we were going to do an extensive study on China. He said there would be pop quizzes and we would have to do projects and stuff like that. A couple of days later, we were watching part 4 of Roots. Got a B in that class and I'm not really sure why or how.
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Post by jason1980s on Apr 23, 2022 11:43:04 GMT -5
I was pretty lucky to have some good teachers more so for moral support than teaching. I was one of the most bullied kids for the first three years of high school, last two or three years of elementary school so I pretty much had only teachers to rely on for "friendship." I don't know any teacher really "checked out" but I can't remember any 1-8 teacher really doing much that impacted me or others in a positive way. They were mostly what then I considered "very elderly" though that was 50s-60s then and did seem a bit burned out, most or possibly all of them.
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ookkie
Unicron
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Post by ookkie on Apr 23, 2022 11:44:00 GMT -5
*carefully reads the responses, hoping that there is no description of me to be found*
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Post by DeeBee on Apr 23, 2022 13:17:36 GMT -5
I went to a different school during my senior year of high school and all of them couldn't possibly give a shit less about teaching. We watched movies and would play video games in our history class, played poker in our science class. I mean, as a teacher myself now, I can get checking out at the end of the year. Like now, testing is coming up and then after that you're babysitting until the end of the year. Not to mention you're completely drained and burned out by this point in the year. Having said that, when you get to the point like my high school teachers were at, you need to retire or quit. You're hurting the kids and it's shitty.
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bob
Salacious Crumb
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Post by bob on Apr 23, 2022 17:59:13 GMT -5
*carefully reads the responses, hoping that there is no description of me to be found* *is doing the same*
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