<p>Do you speak up if your teachers are wrong? Have you had teachers give you handouts with mis-information?</p>
<p>Sometimes I catch grammatical errors on French handouts. I usually point them out to my teacher and get extra credit :D</p>
<p>I used to do that with my Geometry teacher and she got really mad, and I’d hand in my tests like 15 minutes before everyone else did. One day after class she told me to stop because I was “making her look bad”.</p>
<p>For me, it depends on the teacher. If it’s a teacher that I’m more comfortable around, then I would point out the error. Otherwise, I probably wouldn’t say anything</p>
<p>In 1st grade, a teacher spelled millennium as “millenium” and I pointed it out.</p>
<p>/win</p>
<p>depends what teacher it is.</p>
<p>i hated my calc teacher, and he often did things wrong, so i had a ton of fun pointing those out. also liked when i would finish a test before he would be done making the key(all our tests were scantron, we didn’t need to show work, and i have a TI-89Ti…) so would tell him “here, i made the key for you”</p>
<p>omg…ive been doing tht ALLLLLLLLL SUMMER in my calculus class!! It’s as if I’m teaching the class cuz she doesnt do the most simple things like distrubuting a negative or forgetting about the product and quotient rules… Ah such a waste of time!!!</p>
<p>My teachers get really ****ed off. I was moved to a higher math class cuz I kept correcting the teacher and blurting out answers even before she completed the question.</p>
<p>i did that sometimes in calc and chem
for chem we got e/c everytime we corrected our teacher
:3</p>
<p>Last year my health would always have at least one or two grammatical errors on EVERY handout. I didn’t bother correcting him because I honestly didn’t give a ****.</p>
<p>whenever we have a test, even when we’re not allowed to write on the actual packet, i circle the typos. mainly because i think it’s ******** that teachers don’t take the time to fix every typo, it’s just unprofessional. my calculus teacher has so far been a better speller than my english and history teachers, pff.</p>
<p>I did that once in sixth grade. Got in quite a bit of trouble for it, though, so I refrained from doing it later on!</p>
<p>I corrected everyone when I was younger, but then my mom told me I need to stop criticizing everybody for the tiniest things. She says I’m still like that, but whatever. In a math class, I’ll correct the teacher if he did the problem wrong, but he’s really open to that. I’ll also correct once in a while in Spanish. Beyond that, I think correcting is totally uncalled for. There’s a girl in my class that takes pride in finding teachers’ errors, and I find it disgusting.</p>
<p>I did that all the time in my 8th grade US History class. I was the teacher’s pet of sorts - I had all sorts of resources and gave them to the teacher. And I often read supplementary material on top of what was being taught. Ah - I loved that class. Even though it was a regular class (not Honors), I was so actively engaged in the class that I got so much out of it. </p>
<p>(to be honest - sometimes an individual student can get a lot out of a single class if he is extremely actively engaged in the class - often to the point of being annoying to the teacher). This is highly teacher-dependent though. I had this option in 8th grade but never had such an option later on (and that’s when I started to hate school and value self-study)</p>
<p>It gives you an edge that you know the correct answer when the rest of the class doesn’t. </p>
<p>I rarely correct my teachers.</p>
<p>yeah my A/T Lab Teacher. I had a different teacher for AP Bio thank god.
This was on our final 1000 L is equal to what ?
1000 Cm^3
1000 mL<br>
I kid you not these were the choices and she told me there was nothing wrong with the question.</p>
<p>Early senioritis! That’s exactly what I am talking about!!! I wish all teachers offered extra-credit for catching these errors, but not all teachers will recognize or acknowledge their mistakes!</p>
<p>to earlysenioritis, wow… :O</p>
<p>In most cases, I think you end up looking like a jerk if you correct the teacher too much. Unless a teacher’s mistake caused confusion, I really didn’t bother to correct it. Also, it depends on the teacher. For example, one of my teachers this year absolutely abhorred typos (and he was the easy-going type), so we had fun telling him about all the typos on his tests (and ironically, there were a ton). </p>
<p>In calc, my teacher often did out problems on the board, so if she wrote down something wrong, someone always had to correct her to avoid confusion, and she didn’t mind. In French, my teacher sometimes used grammar contrary to what we’d been previously taught. If that happened, I asked him about it just to make sure I didn’t have the concept messed up.</p>
<p>And, occasionally, in chem, she’d leave out a key piece of information in problems, so then there was truly a need to point out her mistake or ask for clarification. But, again, she was good-natured about these things.</p>
<p>If there were typos on handouts or stuff, I didn’t bother. I’d be wasting the teacher’s time.</p>
<p>I think it’s fine as long as you aren’t out to get your teachers. There are ways to point out mistakes non-critically. For example, you could go, “Could you explain to me why this is that? Oh, but wait, I thought it would be this because…” If the teacher still denies the mistake, then, well, I wouldn’t know what to do. </p>
<p>During my junior year we were doing a simple population growth question for the ecology unit, and my teacher argued that it would take a population growing exponentially at a rate of 10% per annum 60 something years to double in size. Nobody in my class really cared, so they all listened to my teacher and learned it incorrectly. I wrote out a couple of mathematical proofs for her and she kept on denying it, for a week and a half, until one of her math-oriented friends confirmed the rigor of my proof. It was actually a lot of trouble to go through, but misinformation just annoys me so much.</p>