Teacherscan be extremely influential people in their students’ lives. Even if they don’t realize it, one meaningful conversation might alter the trajectory of a child’s educational career. And while the educators that we love are remembered as saints for decades to come, the ones that we despised are never forgotten either…
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Looking back on my time in school, my memories of most of my teachers are a blur. I might slightly remember how they look, what subjects they taught and how much I struggled or excelled in their classes. But we tend to never forget the teachers that made us feel strongly, whether that was positive or negative.
So what exactly makes a great teacher?Southern New Hampshire Universitynotes on their site that the best teachers are strong communicators and excellent listeners. They knowhow toget through to their students, and they take the concerns of their classes seriously. Wonderful teachers also prioritize collaboration and are real team players, which sets a great example for their students too.These teachers are flexible and accept when they need to change with the times. When it comes to lesson plans, they also find a way to make sure that both they and their students are engaged. Teachers that truly make an impact on their students’ lives are empathetic, patient and value real-world learning.
So what exactly makes a great teacher?Southern New Hampshire Universitynotes on their site that the best teachers are strong communicators and excellent listeners. They knowhow toget through to their students, and they take the concerns of their classes seriously. Wonderful teachers also prioritize collaboration and are real team players, which sets a great example for their students too.
These teachers are flexible and accept when they need to change with the times. When it comes to lesson plans, they also find a way to make sure that both they and their students are engaged. Teachers that truly make an impact on their students’ lives are empathetic, patient and value real-world learning.
Clearly, the teachers on this list could use a lot of lessons in the best practices described above. But sadly, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to find amazing teachers nowadays. Low wages, long working hours, extremely high expectations and pressure to go above and beyond have many teachers feeling burnt out when they’ve barely even begun their careers. In fact, theWest Virginia Education Associationpublished a piece discussing why many teachers are walking away from the classroom permanently.
Frustrated teachers note that they’re fed up with budget cuts, violence in their classrooms and salaries so low that many have to take onextra jobsduring their free time. Many educators also complain about being expected to work during every hour of the day, even when they’re sick. They tend to spend at least 40 hours a week in the classroom, but that usually doesn’t account for time spent grading papers, planning lessons and meeting with parents.
She’s in the third grade and the teacher doesn’t know the spelling of about?
According toTeachers of Tomorrow, some of the biggest challenges educators face today are: limited access to funding, drowning in endless paperwork, struggling with time management, adapting to educational trends, helping students with various learning preferences and difficulties, disciplining students, lacking effective communication, trying to meet the standards of school administrators, burning out, keeping their lessons inclusive and dealing with socio-emotional challenges students face.
Teachers are often expected to juggle many roles at once without complaining at all or asking for higher wages. And unfortunately, this drives many great educators out of the profession, while leaving room for terrible teachers like the ones on this list. Educating the future generations is one of the most important jobs a person can have, so it’s crucial that we call out this toxic behavior in classrooms and ensure that it doesn’t continue.
What kinda question is this? If you expect people to say “no that is impossible” just ask them “Is this possible” not “How is this possible.”
All of my professors including this one emphasize the importance of not using ChatGPT for assignments and how they will give out 0’s if it gets detected.So naturally this gets under my skin in a way I can’t even explain, some students like myself put a lot of effort into the assignments and spend a lot of time and the feedback isn’t even genuine.I’m not even against AI, I use all the time and it’s extremely helpful to organize ideas, but never do I use it in such a careless manner that’s so disrespectful.
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She can’t even figure out what half of these questions even mean.
Has this happened to anyone else? Any advice?
He just used it to teach everyone how 401k’s work and is actively promoting that they use it.Text says “If I invest $12,000 a year into a 12% money market account, what will that value be in 15 years?”
Wrote a report on my marketing and she checks on a AI detector and the essay I wrote is flagging as AI. What kind of a world do we live in.
My problem is that the low percentile given to homework almost makes it hard to do. Where’s the motivation when it’ll only affect a whopping 6% of my total grade?
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