Useless teachers..

Anyone got any useless teachers? Ones that are never in, that aren't helpful, that totally saunter through the syllabus so that you have to rush right before the exams? One of my English teachers is pretty useless so I don't have much of a clue about one paper...that we have this Friday! :eek:

What a joke...

Reply 1

rico dan man

12

yeh it happpened to me with english, she got sacked, just go to ask the other teachers for help

Reply 2

NickiM

14

History - neither have taught A Level before. One's just about bearable as a teacher, but the other decides that 3 weeks before our exam we should play games all lesson. If you ask a question they don't know the answer.

Sociology - one teacher thinks her idea of teaching is to be rude to everyone, and just read off sheets etc. Then the other teacher will go "Now, you should understand X from Y's lesson" and everyone stares at each other blankly...

Reply 3

</gibberish>

12

I find its more the CLASS than the teacher for mine(still in AS), in chemistry about 80% of the class are girls and they wont stfu all lesson.. :frown:

Reply 4

kellywood_5

17

A-level
Sociology- 4 teachers for 1 module in Year 13. The last 2 were good, although it was too late by then, but the first one thought teaching meant giving out a ton of handouts and never explaining anything and the second couldn't even speak English properly and hardly ever turned up because he couildn't find the classroom :rolleyes:

French- 1 teacher who collected loads of work in, but never marked it or gave it back and made us do stupid little Internet quizzes that would have been far more suited to Year 9s

English lit- 1 teacher who gave us loads of pointless worksheets more suited to Year 9s, never gave us an essay unless she was forced to for the department's half-termly assessment, never marked anything or gave it back, missed loads of lessons and threw all her toys out of the pram and stormed out when someone had the cheek to disagree with her opinion, despite telling us that having our own opinions was our main assessment objective :rolleyes:

Uni
Spanish language: 1 teacher who covers 2 pages in the textbook and then tells us we've finished that chapter when there at least 6 other pages to go, never gives us anywhere near enough time to do an exercise before she rattles off the answers and expects us to know vocab and grammar we haven't been taught yet

Spanish history: 2 or 3 lecturers who obviously knew what they were talking about, but had absolutely no structure whatsoever and kept jumping around from the 16th century to the 20th to the 17th to the 19th to the 18th so that you could never put a title on your notes and they now make no sense when I read back through them

Reply 5

Wildebeest

13

I have a few select useless teachers:

English Literature - a shame because she really knows the subject and is a nice lady. However, she doesn't even attempt to exert any control on the direction of the lesson; we are well behaved but it's an independent school so the pretentious twits start their silly intellectual debates. They use many long words. The many long words are completely in the wrong contexts.

French
Teacher (1) - no control at all and doesn't seem to like doing work. Lessons dissolve into sexual innuendo from the pretentious twits in our class.
Teacher (2) - very dull and knows worryingly little French considering she studied it at university.

History
Teacher (1) - just a bit full of himself really. More politics than history.
Teacher (2) - very nice and the Deputy Head. But I'm on exam leave now and we never finished the syllabus!

Perhaps I'm just an independent learner...

Reply 6

666baby

Maths- teacher didn't turn up for many lessons, didn't plan and didn't seem to know much about maths. He spent an hour doing 1 question and managed to copy the model answer up wrong! He then went off for a few months and we got him back about 4 weeks before we left, when we were very behind with the work. He has now made us buy CDs with explanations on from the internet so we can learn something.

French- She tells us that she hasn't heard of many French words and can't controll the class.

German- She can't control a class of 9 students who wnat to learn.

Reply 7

city_chic

OP

13

I HATE it when teachers stress that you need to give something in by a certain date, so you rush like mad to do it by the deadline..and then they take weeks to actually mark it and give it back! It's like, what's the flippin' point?!

Reply 8

kellywood_5

17

city_chic

I HATE it when teachers stress that you need to give something in by a certain date, so you rush like mad to do it by the deadline..and then they take weeks to actually mark it and give it back! It's like, what's the flippin' point?!

Or when they say 'the absolute deadline is x and you HAVE to get it in by this final deadline' and then they still give all the people who couldn't be bothered to do it more time :rolleyes:

Reply 9

city_chic

OP

13

^ Ugh yeah, that too. And the one time you have a really good excuse for giving something in late, they're like 'This was the deadline blah blah.'

Reply 10

Clubber Lang

15

I left school a while ago but on reflection we had some totally awful teacheers - totally clueless and didn't teach us in the best way.

On reflection most of them had piss poor people management skills as well.

Reply 11

VAI2007

1

Well my As Geology exam is Thursday and oh yes, my geology teacher decided he hadn't taught us enough or given us any past papers so guess what came through the post this morning: MORE HANDOUTS! (That's all he ever gave us never explained ANYTHING) and like 7 past papers <_<

Reply 12

westlife2005

4

Well i do BTEC Retail and all my teachers are ok, apart from 1 i suppose:

Teacher 1 - She's the head of business, enterprise etc... in the school and quite rightly so, teaches fabulous and is always happy to give ye extra help out of lessons if ye don't understand something!

Teacher 2 - He's a bit of a loone to be honest haha (meaning, he's hyper every lesson so we get singing etc.. oh yeah the full show) but he can teach and is serious about it when he does

Teacher 3 - By far the worst teacher out of the 3 of them, she joined the school after the Christmas holidays and i don't think she's used to the fact that we're 6th form pmsl (meaning, she treats us like we're a bunch of year 11's)

Reply 13

Clubber Lang

15

kellywood_5

Now that's bad, especially for a private school! We had to handwrite all our GCSE coursework, so that would have been even worse. Not just having to write it all out again, but what if the only copy you had was the one you handed in and you couldn't remember what you'd written? Thank God for computers, eh? :p:

If it was a state school i doubt they would have driven round to everyones house for it...

Reply 14

ferret123

1

I went to a private school yet our AS chemistry teacher had flunked his chem AS level so was learning as he was teaching us and THEN sat the same AS exams as us in the same hall - he had to queue up with us!!!

On top of that he is a big-headed sleazeball who just read from the book all lesson - ARG!

Reply 15

deutschsweetie

8

I HATE MY BLOODY GERMAN TEACHER.. 3 days til i get away from her :smile:

FOREVER

Reply 16

kellywood_5

17

Clubber Lang

If it was a state school i doubt they would have driven round to everyones house for it...

Lol true.

ferret123

I went to a private school yet our AS chemistry teacher had flunked his chem AS level so was learning as he was teaching us and THEN sat the same AS exams as us in the same hall - he had to queue up with us!!!

And there was me thinking private school teachers generally had to be better qualified! I've never agreed with private schools anyway, but after reading all the stories of poor teaching on here and being at uni with several people who went to private school but got lower grades than I did, I really don't see the point of them.....

Reply 17

73337

18

My chemistry teacher tries to teach, the only problem being she is an awful teacher.

Reply 18

snowball68

private schools can employ who they want, no degree or tt necessary! just because you pay doesn't mean you get the best at all!!
you will often find state sch teachers are much more up to date with knowledge and teaching methods, private schs rely heavily on small classes and excellent facilities!

Reply 19

Wildebeest

13

snowball68

private schools can employ who they want, no degree or tt necessary! just because you pay doesn't mean you get the best at all!!
you will often find state sch teachers are much more up to date with knowledge and teaching methods, private schs rely heavily on small classes and excellent facilities!

Yes, there are some 'individual' teachers at private schools - like one at mine who did Classics at Cambridge and contrastingly teaches French and Spanish. He's an exceptional teacher though! :smile:

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