what makes a bad teacher?

[Anonymous]

Teachers who teach in an inner-city school for two years so they can pad their résumé enough to get accepted into an MBA program at an elite university.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers that are not able to speak, or write in the english language.

Let me help you--
You provided an incomplete sentence.
Since you're referring to people, you should use "who" instead of "that."
"English" should be capitalized.
You do not need a comma.

You're welcome!

[Anonymous]

Teachers who don't understand how impossibly brilliant my child is and that he needs way more attention than anyone else in class.
Teachers who don't value my opinion when it comes to the curriculum they are teaching.
Teachers that don't appreciate that I have to pay taxes to pay their salary.
Teachers who take time off from work when they are sick or their own child is sick.

[Anonymous]

Teachers who don't value what they've never learned and what they don't understand. Teachers who have only a superficial mastery of the subjects they teach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great question! And I am a teacher. 1) Little or no sense of humor, and/or ability to laugh at oneself. 2)burnt out/uninspired/bored teachers. 3) Teachers w/ poor skills in communication, orginization, creativity. 4) judgemental teachers who are unable/unwilling to recognize their student's strengths. 5) teachers who focus more on their student's weaknesses. 6) those who do not differentiate their teaching styles/behavior management for individual students.7)those who simply do not care. 8) cold, uncaring teachers.....I could go on....

As a long-time teacher/educator, I agree with all that you've written. It is especially disturbing to see poor elementary school teachers because their students are with them for extended periods of time. In particular, have no tolerance for any teacher who humiliates and "shreds" a child for any reason. Those teachers should be required to go through additional training with subsequent observations on a frequent basis or forced to leave.

My DD had this teacher. It was awful.

[Anonymous]

Often parents don't say anything because they are worried about a backlash from administration ....being thought of as crazy- even when their DC is the target. Administration generally knows the teacher is a problem but can't or won't do anything about it.

[Anonymous]

Well our "so-called" teacher Maria Muley tried to harm the little one, Lauren, her daughter. We were here when the ambulance arrived. Sadly she still teaches. Yes I am in San Pedro, so yes she is the same woman. We simply keep to ourselves since she is across from us so to speak

[Anonymous]

Teacher that do not sit, beg or roll over...bad teacher, bad teacher. Where is my rolled up newspaper...

[Anonymous]

Here are ways teachers can be bad:
-They are not interseted in teaching. I joined a school with teachers who blabber to other teachers and ignore important messages from their students.
-Teachers shouldn't need this traffic light business, they are only kids.
-They should be polite to people, especially when they are finding difficulty. My Yr5 teacher was kind compared to my Yr6 teacher.
-No need for calling names. Children can find this embarrassing, unless they are in Yr7+. Everyone makes mistakes.
-Teachers should keep things simple for their age. They shouldn't go pushing around nine year olds.
-Bad teachers smile at some and not too all. I have a teacher who always smile at everyone except me.

If you want to survive, just do everything your teacher tells you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers that are not able to speak, or write in the english language.

Let me help you--
You provided an incomplete sentence.
Since you're referring to people, you should use "who" instead of "that."
"English" should be capitalized.
You do not need a comma.

You're welcome!

I'm not that poster but thank you for the lesson on using who and that. I had bad elementary teachers.

[Anonymous]

* a teacher who does everything possible in alphabetical order by last name

from a "Z" last name

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great question! And I am a teacher. 1) Little or no sense of humor, and/or ability to laugh at oneself. 2)burnt out/uninspired/bored teachers. 3) Teachers w/ poor skills in communication, orginization, creativity. 4) judgemental teachers who are unable/unwilling to recognize their student's strengths. 5) teachers who focus more on their student's weaknesses. 6) those who do not differentiate their teaching styles/behavior management for individual students.7)those who simply do not care. 8) cold, uncaring teachers.....I could go on....

As a long-time teacher/educator, I agree with all that you've written. It is especially disturbing to see poor elementary school teachers because their students are with them for extended periods of time. In particular, have no tolerance for any teacher who humiliates and "shreds" a child for any reason. Those teachers should be required to go through additional training with subsequent observations on a frequent basis or forced to leave.

Please please tell me: how do these bad teachers keep their jobs? Don't they have an underperforming reputation, not only among parents, but also within the administration? We have all experienced these bad teachers, and yet, they still keep "teaching" our impressionable children.

I wish I understood this. The teacher I described earlier in this thread, who was throwing pencils across the room in a rage, is still teaching in the same private school to this day. When I first spoke to him about the issue and then, getting no where with him, I went to the head of the school, we became known as "trouble-makers." The head of the school took the teachers side and defended his actions. It's difficult to understand.

Powerful unions make it extremely difficult to remove a teacher. It can take years and $100,000s to fire a tenured teacher so most building principals swap bad teachers. Search Lemon Dace or watch this video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hh6uHUx728
For those that the system CAN get out of the classroom, they are often left still collecting a paycheck. Search New York City rubber rooms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lack of communication...and I don't even mean when there is a problem. We had a teacher who dropped the ball on several things one year with just my child. Have a discussion with me and admit the mistake.

Failure to ensure that what is important to a child is followed through.

Failure to allow equal volunteering for important tasks...i.e. our school allows parents to come in a read to the kindergarten class. When my son was in kindergarten, there were 29 kids but only 15 spots available to do this.

Failure to ensure that the county's max field trips are used per year per class. (Even a quick cheap one to somewhere close by versus only one).

Failure to let parents know about important events that they can attend in sufficient enough advance time (class parties that parents are invited to, ceremonies, etc.)

Failure to assign homework of a substantive and regular nature starting early on (and I don't mean just 'read tonight').

Failure to teach cursive and math facts by rote memory early on + spelling lists.

Failure to enrich those that need the enrichment on a regular basis. I used to teach so I know how easy this truly is - it is NOT hard at all.

used to . . .

couldn't hack it?

Effective teachers tend to stay less than 7 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tenure! And the other side of the coin is that private school teachers have relatively fewer rights, and virtually no course of action if they are unjustly fired. And sadly this happens more often than you would think....

But how do these horrible teachers last long enough to get tenure? Or, is it that good teachers gain tenure and then knowingly teach badly once they gain tenure. Ew.

Teachers in my district can get tenure in 3 years. Once tenure is given, they don't become bad/ineffective overnight. It's a slow decline in the interest to teach well. Sadly, most teacher think they are fabulous teachers but based on the poor state of education in this country, most teachers are the big part of the problem.

[Anonymous]

Teachers who get chumy with the Moms. They're on a first basis, chit-chat which seems to exclude, using acronyms and inside "jargon", allowing too much volunteering - feels like the neighborhood mommies are in charge.