this teacher is not fun

Amber doesnt like this teacher. he bothers her. It makes us tired to go to class. It hurst to sit here so long!
lAlA

Lark,
I had one of those, the man bothered me too.
I hope you get out of that class soon.

red

Sorry to hear that lAlA
If Amber wants to talk about the teacher, blow off some steam, she's more than welcome to do so here.. will you tell that to her?

Lots of hugs to all of you!!

xx Sara

Hi All,
I didn't know lAlA was so upset by the teacher. No wonder I was so tired on Monday!
This professor, is a hypocritical asshole. He says that if we go into teaching to make a difference we will be sorely disappointed because the system is so fraught with scandal and politics that we will just be another brick in the wall. That we would be better off looking for a job elsewhere but since we committed we might as well see it through.
Then other times he tells us how important we (student teachers) are to society and how much we will help to shape our students lives.

He also is quite lazy, he tells us constantly how working in a continuation high school is the only teaching job you should consider because a) you dont have behavior problems, b) you only have the students for half the time and get paid the same, and c) you dont have to teach you just help them get through their assignments.

WTF!!!!!

The worst part is that he has really good material, and really good techniques, but how can I believe him when he is full of hypocrisy.

I want to teach music in elementary school (to start) and then I want to move to High school. He hates elementary school. He won't let us observe elementary school. Won't even let us mention it. All of his techniques are to be applied to upper grade school.
So I challenge all of his hypocrisies and he HATES it.

Its frustrating, because I go to that class to learn about classroom management and walk out of there frustrated and annoyed. He picks on me because I want to teach elementary and music. What is so wrong with that? That I wont be hired right away because the district has a stick up their ass?
I dont want to be a math or science teacher. That is not what I am going to school for.
But it doesn't matter. Head down, mouth shut,and I will get my degree ... and then I can teach however the hell I want.

XD Bipolar teacher?

Amber I had a teacher like that in art college, and another one similar in uni... both had awful preconceived ideas about waht we should or should not do.
the one in art college picked on me in animation class because I stupidly made it known that i liked manga... and I didn't even draw manga half the time! Therefore, every animation i did was branded 'alternative' and 'manga'., even when it wasn't. When i tried to make it different he called it 'too disney' and therefore still wrong to him.
I really hated it, he thought I thought I was too clever all the time, he thought I had delusions of grandeur and all that, and that I was never going to get anywhere by doing 'commercial' art *groan* Just because it didn't correspond with his preferred art style.

The one in uni didn't like me because I wrote a screenplay about a suicide I witnessed *double groan* She told me off for being too generic, and then spent a 2 hour lecture to the entire class, aimed at me, telling us that we shouldn't write awful generic stories about things we had never experienced. She also told me off for trying to defy her... the instant I did it she assumed I was trying to be Mr Big, and was sarcastic to me for the entire year.

Head down mouth shut... that's exactly how I felt too with those teachers...

Ugh, they're just closed minded people I guess.

I see nothing wrong with working in elementary and doing music. To me that's one of the most important forms of teaching you can do, elementary's a very critical age! And music is so important. If he can't see that, then fair enough, You'll still make a great difference anyway

xx

Thanks guys!
He's so frustrating! Oh well... I will just lie my way through it, and get an undeserved A because I am doing his bidding instead of actually THINKING!

*Sigh*



Oh well...

do what i do! leave the thinking for the inside ;D

the rest of the world is my playground, i shouldnt have to think about it.

i had a teacher who always hounded me to do better work even though mine was the best in the class.. then he would make me stay late every day and talk to him even though i didnt want to.. at the end of the semester he threatened to give me a B instead of an A.

i work as a dispatcher and now he calls to get his room unlocked.. his voice is gay as hell. he didnt talk like that in class.. no wonde rhe kept me after all the time hes a #######1 and he liked me!

I had a teacher purposely grade my papers harsher than everyone else's and give me a C+ simply cuz he didn't like when he let us review each other's papers and I was pretty brutal on anyone who handed me their paper.

1. Not my fault those kids couldn't handle college level writing.
2. They appreciated it a lot more than sugarcoating, and actually enjoyed letting me grade their papers.

I think the teacher felt threatened I was more helpful in writing than he was. XD