<p>To what extent do you attribute your academic achievements to your teachers, as in, if you had different teachers, would the outcomes be all that drastically different, or are your successes solely because of your own intelligence/diligence/hard work, etc.</p>
<p>In math classes, good teachers are critical for me…
In all other classes it doesn’t matter</p>
<p>i actually attribute some of my worse teachers(cough cough ap us…) to wasting precious time with bs assignments that could have been spend doing something else…LOL</p>
<p>I’ve had bad/mediocre teachers, and I’ve usually managed to do well anyway, at least in terms of the grade. But good teachers have influenced me a lot. I wouldn’t be taking the classes I’m currently taking if it weren’t for a few good teachers I had in my sophomore and junior years. I probably wouldn’t have any interest in the subject I now want to major in.</p>
<p>An English teacher who is a tough grader can also help immensely, from my experience -at least when building core skills. My Lit teacher last year had graded AP tests several times, so the class was benefitted much more than if we had someone with less knowledge of essays.</p>
<p>Though it stands, knowledge doesn’t necessarily cause good teaching, but there is a correlation. More than sitting and listening to that teacher speak, the best learning moments came (for me) in the responses/critiques given to essays themselves, whether in side notes or through conversation.</p>
<p>Teachers are most helpful to me when we have a one-to-one session to clarify any doubts or go through some questions from practice tests that I don’t understand before the major exams. Otherwise they are mostly useless… most of my teachers teach too slowly and I’m better off reading the textbook and doing test papers.
Language teachers are really helpful though! It’s much harder to improve on my linguistics without guidance</p>
<p>teachers definitely affect the outcome of my grades… unfortunately</p>
<p>but fortunately, they’ve mostly helped. i always get the easy teachers… expect for in ap euro. that teacher hated me.</p>
<p>It wouldn’t change in terms of me. Though, now that I’m high school I have to try and regardless of what anomaly my happen in terms of my teachers, I’ll always strive to do well whether they’re good or bad.</p>
<p>It’s not easy vs hard teachers that help, but teachers I have a good relationship with. If I feel I can go and talk to them one on one comfortably then I will do well.</p>
<p>It’s amazing what one really amazing teacher can do. Freshmen year, I was getting awful grades in math (D for the 4th quarter of Algebra II). Sophomore year I found a teacher (my friend’s study hall teacher/Engineering teacher) that was really good at teaching math, and he helped me a lot. I ended my junior year with an A in AP Calculus and a 4 on the exam - and if it wasn’t for him, I wouldn’t have even taken the class - I would have taken Intermediate Algebra and probably would have received a B or C. I had pretty much decided science was something I had no interest in and would have taken cop-out science classes, but I ended up taking AP Physics because of him. Seriously, I would not be the same student without this teacher, he’s helped me a lot. I’ve learned so many life lessons from him that I can even attribute most of my success in English or Spanish to him. It’s seriously crazy how much of a difference one really good teacher can make!</p>
<p>And while good teachers in each subject certainly help, I think I would end up with a good grade regardless of how good the teacher is. Not sure I’d LEARN as much though or be as successful in that aspect. Some people on here seem to forget it’s not about the grade…</p>