Poor teaching skills

[Anonymous]

Dear teachers, in case you didn't know, students talk amongst themselves. So when the highest grade in an non-honors class is a B- and majority of the class are Cs and Ds, maybe question if there is anything wrong with the way you teach.

[Anonymous]

Or itt could be something wrong with the way the students study (or more likely, don't study).

One of the classes I teach is non-honors and there are two A's among the 55+ students. These students are always on task, do all the in-class practice, do all the homework and study for quizzes and tests.
Most of the others put their pencils down and get on their phones the moment I've finished the lesson and it's time to practice. Some don't even bother taking notes. If you try to take the phone away, they argue or put their heads down and sleep. They don't do the homework at all or copy the key. They don't review on review day and copy the review key to turn in. Then they whine about their grade.

[Anonymous]

Sorry your kids are dumb.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Or itt could be something wrong with the way the students study (or more likely, don't study).

One of the classes I teach is non-honors and there are two A's among the 55+ students. These students are always on task, do all the in-class practice, do all the homework and study for quizzes and tests.
Most of the others put their pencils down and get on their phones the moment I've finished the lesson and it's time to practice. Some don't even bother taking notes. If you try to take the phone away, they argue or put their heads down and sleep. They don't do the homework at all or copy the key. They don't review on review day and copy the review key to turn in. Then they whine about their grade.

Maybe you don't inspire them to want to learn. Maybe your lessons are boring and rote. Maybe you just don't connect with the majority of your students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or itt could be something wrong with the way the students study (or more likely, don't study).

One of the classes I teach is non-honors and there are two A's among the 55+ students. These students are always on task, do all the in-class practice, do all the homework and study for quizzes and tests.
Most of the others put their pencils down and get on their phones the moment I've finished the lesson and it's time to practice. Some don't even bother taking notes. If you try to take the phone away, they argue or put their heads down and sleep. They don't do the homework at all or copy the key. They don't review on review day and copy the review key to turn in. Then they whine about their grade.

Maybe you don't inspire them to want to learn. Maybe your lessons are boring and rote. Maybe you just don't connect with the majority of your students.

Maybe their parents shouldn’t send them to school with unlimited distractions .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Or itt could be something wrong with the way the students study (or more likely, don't study).

One of the classes I teach is non-honors and there are two A's among the 55+ students. These students are always on task, do all the in-class practice, do all the homework and study for quizzes and tests.
Most of the others put their pencils down and get on their phones the moment I've finished the lesson and it's time to practice. Some don't even bother taking notes. If you try to take the phone away, they argue or put their heads down and sleep. They don't do the homework at all or copy the key. They don't review on review day and copy the review key to turn in. Then they whine about their grade.

My kid does assignments, comes to reviews, homework is always done. He also has a tutor. Summative is 70% of his grade. SEVENTY. Homework and study guides are the remaining 30. Maybe don't put such a big emphasis on tests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or itt could be something wrong with the way the students study (or more likely, don't study).

One of the classes I teach is non-honors and there are two A's among the 55+ students. These students are always on task, do all the in-class practice, do all the homework and study for quizzes and tests.
Most of the others put their pencils down and get on their phones the moment I've finished the lesson and it's time to practice. Some don't even bother taking notes. If you try to take the phone away, they argue or put their heads down and sleep. They don't do the homework at all or copy the key. They don't review on review day and copy the review key to turn in. Then they whine about their grade.

Maybe you don't inspire them to want to learn. Maybe your lessons are boring and rote. Maybe you just don't connect with the majority of your students.

Maybe their parents shouldn’t send them to school with unlimited distractions .

What, phones? Phones are the reason the majority of your students fall asleep in class?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or itt could be something wrong with the way the students study (or more likely, don't study).

One of the classes I teach is non-honors and there are two A's among the 55+ students. These students are always on task, do all the in-class practice, do all the homework and study for quizzes and tests.
Most of the others put their pencils down and get on their phones the moment I've finished the lesson and it's time to practice. Some don't even bother taking notes. If you try to take the phone away, they argue or put their heads down and sleep. They don't do the homework at all or copy the key. They don't review on review day and copy the review key to turn in. Then they whine about their grade.

Maybe you don't inspire them to want to learn. Maybe your lessons are boring and rote. Maybe you just don't connect with the majority of your students.

Maybe their parents shouldn’t send them to school with unlimited distractions .

What, phones? Phones are the reason the majority of your students fall asleep in class?

Not the PP. They're not falling asleep because of the phones. Some fall asleep after you take their phone away because what else are they going to do? Do you realize I have the gall of expecting them to study?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or itt could be something wrong with the way the students study (or more likely, don't study).

One of the classes I teach is non-honors and there are two A's among the 55+ students. These students are always on task, do all the in-class practice, do all the homework and study for quizzes and tests.
Most of the others put their pencils down and get on their phones the moment I've finished the lesson and it's time to practice. Some don't even bother taking notes. If you try to take the phone away, they argue or put their heads down and sleep. They don't do the homework at all or copy the key. They don't review on review day and copy the review key to turn in. Then they whine about their grade.

My kid does assignments, comes to reviews, homework is always done. He also has a tutor. Summative is 70% of his grade. SEVENTY. Homework and study guides are the remaining 30. Maybe don't put such a big emphasis on tests.

That sounds reasonable. Homework should be no more than 10%. Formative should be no more than 30%. That leaves summative at least 60%. Seventy percent is reasonable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dear teachers, in case you didn't know, students talk amongst themselves. So when the highest grade in an non-honors class is a B- and majority of the class are Cs and Ds, maybe question if there is anything wrong with the way you teach.

Students also exaggerate. The students probably don’t know the true spread of grades. They know what they have and what several friends have (if the friends tell the truth).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or itt could be something wrong with the way the students study (or more likely, don't study).

One of the classes I teach is non-honors and there are two A's among the 55+ students. These students are always on task, do all the in-class practice, do all the homework and study for quizzes and tests.
Most of the others put their pencils down and get on their phones the moment I've finished the lesson and it's time to practice. Some don't even bother taking notes. If you try to take the phone away, they argue or put their heads down and sleep. They don't do the homework at all or copy the key. They don't review on review day and copy the review key to turn in. Then they whine about their grade.

My kid does assignments, comes to reviews, homework is always done. He also has a tutor. Summative is 70% of his grade. SEVENTY. Homework and study guides are the remaining 30. Maybe don't put such a big emphasis on tests.

You do realize that if your little snowflake makes it into college, 80-100% of their grades will be tests. There are no retakes and no minimum grades. Some classes it’s midterm and final, that’s it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or itt could be something wrong with the way the students study (or more likely, don't study).

One of the classes I teach is non-honors and there are two A's among the 55+ students. These students are always on task, do all the in-class practice, do all the homework and study for quizzes and tests.
Most of the others put their pencils down and get on their phones the moment I've finished the lesson and it's time to practice. Some don't even bother taking notes. If you try to take the phone away, they argue or put their heads down and sleep. They don't do the homework at all or copy the key. They don't review on review day and copy the review key to turn in. Then they whine about their grade.

Maybe you don't inspire them to want to learn. Maybe your lessons are boring and rote. Maybe you just don't connect with the majority of your students.

Maybe their parents shouldn’t send them to school with unlimited distractions .

What, phones? Phones are the reason the majority of your students fall asleep in class?

Absolutely. Do you know why they’re so tired? Because they’re up until 1-2 am scrolling tik tok. I’m a mean mom that makes my kids plug in their phones in the kitchen overnight. It’s insane how much both their phones light up with notifications of messages past midnight, even my 8th grader.

Also, phones are absolutely causing attention deficit in all generations, but teens have it worse because this is all they know. So a lesson that may have been fine in 2010 is now so boring your kid can’t focus.

Also, the teachers don’t make the curriculum. They’re doing their best, go into any school and you’ll see how hard they’re working. So many are burnt out because student behavior is atrocious. I would like to see you command the attention of 30 high schoolers with every school subject. US history and calculus hasn’t changed, students have.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or itt could be something wrong with the way the students study (or more likely, don't study).

One of the classes I teach is non-honors and there are two A's among the 55+ students. These students are always on task, do all the in-class practice, do all the homework and study for quizzes and tests.
Most of the others put their pencils down and get on their phones the moment I've finished the lesson and it's time to practice. Some don't even bother taking notes. If you try to take the phone away, they argue or put their heads down and sleep. They don't do the homework at all or copy the key. They don't review on review day and copy the review key to turn in. Then they whine about their grade.

Maybe you don't inspire them to want to learn. Maybe your lessons are boring and rote. Maybe you just don't connect with the majority of your students.

Maybe their parents shouldn’t send them to school with unlimited distractions .

What, phones? Phones are the reason the majority of your students fall asleep in class?

Absolutely. Do you know why they’re so tired? Because they’re up until 1-2 am scrolling tik tok. I’m a mean mom that makes my kids plug in their phones in the kitchen overnight. It’s insane how much both their phones light up with notifications of messages past midnight, even my 8th grader.

Also, phones are absolutely causing attention deficit in all generations, but teens have it worse because this is all they know. So a lesson that may have been fine in 2010 is now so boring your kid can’t focus.

Also, the teachers don’t make the curriculum. They’re doing their best, go into any school and you’ll see how hard they’re working. So many are burnt out because student behavior is atrocious. I would like to see you command the attention of 30 high schoolers with every school subject. US history and calculus hasn’t changed, students have.

I’m also a “mean” mom, I suppose, because I also regulate phone usage. Phones are silenced and put away at night for the very reason you wrote about above. Teenagers need sleep.

And I don’t expect a teacher to regulate my kids’ phone usage in class. It’s entirely my kids’ responsibility to keep them away and pay attention. The teacher already did the work of preparing a lesson and delivering it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dear teachers, in case you didn't know, students talk amongst themselves. So when the highest grade in an non-honors class is a B- and majority of the class are Cs and Ds, maybe question if there is anything wrong with the way you teach.

Non-honors kids tend not to be great students. Most aren’t even good ones. They are the ones with higher absences, lower motivation, etc. You’ll see more of them sleeping or on their ones or with AirPods in. Sounds like the teachers you are complaining about are giving these students what they’ve earned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dear teachers, in case you didn't know, students talk amongst themselves. So when the highest grade in an non-honors class is a B- and majority of the class are Cs and Ds, maybe question if there is anything wrong with the way you teach.

Non-honors kids tend not to be great students. Most aren’t even good ones. They are the ones with higher absences, lower motivation, etc. You’ll see more of them sleeping or on their ones or with AirPods in. Sounds like the teachers you are complaining about are giving these students what they’ve earned.

This. Very few strong students take non honors.