<p>Got another one: I would let kids sleep in class. We’re sleep deprieved high school kids. Let us sleep geez…</p>
<p>I’m with Foreman on the attendance policy. In college many professors don’t care if you come to class. It’s your loss if you don’t. </p>
<p>ALSO I wouldn’t make my students do pointless posters. My biggest pet peeve in the world is when teachers have us make posters. I feel like I’m in third grade again.</p>
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agreed, then I won’t need as much aspirin</p>
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I hate anything pretentious. I like straight and to the point, obviously I’m a math/science person :)</p>
<p>If it was an elective/non-academic course, I would grade everything as a participation grade. No tests. Easy exam</p>
<p>If it was an academic, I’d ask the class if they actually wanted to learn about whatever the subject was. If they said no, I’d just make them do lots of homework and outlines and give them tough tests. If they said yes, I’d try to make things interesting and focus on discussion and real-world situations, and worry less about memorizing info from a book.</p>
<p>If I taught a math class I would definately walk around and ask each student individually if they understand the material and if they don’t, go over it with them.</p>
<p>I hate teachers who do quick lectures and just sit around for the next hour. Teachers should definately be responsible for the grades the students recieve. I say if a teacher has a lot of failing grades he/she should be fired immediately.</p>
<p>Screw this contract crap. If they don’t perform, there will be no job security.</p>
<p>2 words.</p>
<p>Corporal Punishment</p>
<p>@chris2k5: I go to a fairly pretentious school with obnoxious parents who call and complain whenever their kids aren’t getting good grades. So now, the math teacher slows down and waits for two or three kids in our class to understand and guess what chapter we’re on now? Chapter 2 out of 12 and it’s January. Definitely make sure the majority of the class understands, but the student has to assume some level of responsibility.</p>
<p>Claire1016:</p>
<p>Don’t even get me started on posters and other art-like projects. Yes they do make me feel like it’s grade-school all over again.</p>
<p>Plus, all the girls make me look bad. For some reason, girls put a lot of effort into posters and other projects that involve a bit of artistic ability. They delicately decorate the project with glitter, colorful construction paper, neat handwriting, block lettering, nicely cut color pictures/photos, etc.</p>
<p>And there’s me. I just slap something together in like 5 minutes and it looks like crap.</p>
<p>^Woah, girls and guys can have equally crappy looking posters. When I make posters their typically done in homeroom and the writing looks like it came from my left hand.</p>
<p>For once, I would teacher social studies and history or government. I would:
1.Grade the homework actually
2. The homework would be paragraph answers.
3. I would have an essay a week, at least, and emhazie on writing
4. I would expect my students to gain knowledge outside of class
5. Classtime would be spent on materials not covered in the book
6. A test a week. Like APUSH. Force the people to work.</p>
<p>ALL STUDENTS in school are way to laid back, besides the ones who take all AP’s and such. I would expect writing and analytical skills to increase.</p>
<p>wow, do you hate children?</p>
<p>I would teach material <em>very very</em> unwatered down. [Likely, I’d want to teach math.] For instance, in calculus I would expose basically all the theory I could to them, except at a slower pace so they don’t get overwhelmed. I would be sure my grading favored not good test takers, but those who master the material. </p>
<p>As far as possible, I would make homework assignments a big part of the grade and actually grade them. If possible, I would grade 100% based on HW, but assign problems that basically make people think enough so they really will collaborate. </p>
<p>While one could argue that students could just copy answers…in reality when problems are nuanced and complex enough, students will get so worn down with trying to get answers from others that they’d actually try to get help and start catching up with the material.</p>
<p>a). No homework checks. If people don’t bother to do work, yet don’t understand, it’s their problem.
b). Mark the first paper/project harder than usual to ensure people know they can’t slack if they want the good mark. But then ease up so everyone feels they’ve improved, to build confidence. (And nothing like 60% on the first assignment to make grade grubbers change class.)
c). When angry parents complain, tell them their kids just need to spend enough time to either do hw or seek help. If they haven’t made that effort because they’re doing more EC’s/AP’s than they can manage, too bad for them.
d). Get to be a curriculum leader so I don’t have to use common unit exams. Instead I’d procrastinate and make photocopies of unit tests written by hand at 2AM on the day of the test.
e). Always ask children to explain fundamental concepts or the purpose of something. i.e. What is a derivative?</p>
<p>mines is a little like wilmiester… i’ve seen the students get higher grades if you actually push them. You guys would hate me</p>
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<li>pop quiz on first day but it’s just a review of last year to see what you remember and what i need to work on</li>
<li>grade the homework intensily so the kids know what AP coordianters look for</li>
<li>Essay and DBQ every 2 weeks first semester and every week second semester</li>
<li>summarize one chapter daily… i mean summarize, and i will look through it</li>
<li>A test when every 2 chps are over and every quiz when 1 chapter is over</li>
<li>on top of summarizing chapters, you have homework every day.</li>
<li>notes every day… you listen and write down, i talk and explain</li>
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<p>Anybody who doesnt think they can do it and is going to whine, GET OUT!</p>
<p>I’d be the kind of teacher that people talk about like this:
“Oh, you have Mr. X, he’s madd cool and nice, but he’s crazy HARD! People who actually care about his Physics (yeah, I’d be a Physics teacher, or Calculus) class, pass with solid B’s, geniuses get low to mid A’s, and everyone else fails. BUT at least he makes sure you understand the work before testing you on it”
Yeah that, and I wouldn’t be one of those teachers that tolerates kids who you explain things to them like 10,000 times and they PURPOSELY don’t get it, causing the class to move really slowly.</p>
<p>Never use overheads or powerpoints, instead I would write stuff on the board.
I seriously hate powerpoints lectures because the teacher would use 18 sized font and only the first row can read it. Then the teacher would just read off the powerpoint for an hour. And plus, I can’t stand dark classrooms because I would fall asleep.</p>
<p>And I would make the class challenging. I would most likely enjoy taking a hard class that I have to study every night and get a 90 than a class that I sleep in and get 98.</p>
<p>My teachers love to make the courses hard. The math department makes tests that actually average in the 50’s, but then they scale everyone so the class average is 90. People have been known to get 40’s which magically become 80.</p>
<p>^ A test in my chemistry class was averaged in the 50s WITH a 10 pt curve. The teacher was actually really mad and said that we need to work harder and left the failing grade like that.</p>
<p>I would LOVE to teach a science course like Anatomy and show gross procedures on Youtube ALL day.</p>
<p>If I were to become a teacher (which I’m 99% sure I won’t), I would teach Calculus, Stats, or Physics. (or some combination of the three)</p>
<p>I would post 5-10 minutes or so videos summarizing each section (with examples) in the textbook on youtube so students could use that for reference. It would be really helpful for for reference and in the case of absence from school.</p>
<p>Also, the videos would make it easier for students who want to work ahead. Watching one of my videos would probably be a more desirable option than continuing to read the next chapter in the textbook.</p>