Crap teachers & how to avoid them dragging down your marks (1 Viewer)

[meLoncoLLie]

When we were doing locus and the parabola in class, my maths teacher was like:

"Okay, people. the focal chord that is parallel to the x-axis is called the....the...lactus retum...? Umm let me see."

*Class giggles

"ummm what is it called again? *flicks through textbook. Ohh right here it is, it's the lactus rectum."

*I burst out laughing.


Later on...


" Okay. If the focal length is a, then the latus rectum is 4a."

Fellow classmate: "Sir, why is it 4a?"

Teacher: "Ummmm I don't think you can prove it at this stage...hmm let me think."

*Starts scribbling on whiteboard furiously, doing all these calculations involving trigonometry and pythagorus theorem*

"Ummmm you can't prove it, you'll just have to accept it as it is."


If you have a teacher like this, would you apply to change classes? What will you do to ensure you still get good marks even though you have such a teacher?
I got a maths tutor. He's awesome! I wish he could come and teach my maths class.

 

[acmilan]

Sleep through class and teach myself at home, had to do that for physics

 

[Jago]

ignore your current teacher and learn off your tutor.

like what im doing for example, except replace tutor with textbook. stupid ext. 1

 

[Casmira]

pfft who's your 3u teacher?

 

[meLoncoLLie]

pfft who's your 3u teacher?

I don't want to announce his name...

Ask me privately

 

[wrong_turn]

i just checked what school your at. Oatley?! thats damn close to my school. is that you in the avatar. i might have seen you around in hurstville

i might ask my friends who go to your school!!! haha

 

[wrong_turn]

of course refering to the teacher.......... *looks away as if hiding something*

 

[meLoncoLLie]

lesmiester_dj:

Blakehurst! I know a couple of people there...

I'm sure we have come across eash other in Hurstville, I go there quite often.

 

[iamsickofyear12]

In maths I got a tutor.
In IPT, Business Studies and English I learnt it myself.

 

[absolution*]

I seriously dont know of anyone that has all great teachers. Even all decent teachers. Everyone has at least one crap teacher normally. Just stay on top of the workload, concentrate on getting the highest possible assessment marks, and try to work extra hard at that particular subject.

 

[acmilan]

I seriously dont know of anyone that has all great teachers. Even all decent teachers. Everyone has at least one crap teacher normally. Just stay on top of the workload, concentrate on getting the highest possible assessment marks, and try to work extra hard at that particular subject.

All of my teachers were atleast decent, there was only one i didnt like but it wasnt that she wasnt a good teacher but that i just didnt like her methods. I didnt get a tutor as my teachers were decent, just sometimes i had to read over stuff myself at home to fully understand it

 

[MasterP]

Urgh. My legal studies teahcer isn't that great, he rambles on about unrelated crap, and my SDD teacher is an imbecile. Just read up on the syllabus material, go over past exam papers and make sure you know everything there is to know about the said subject. Try to make extra notes yourself as you go along, making a list of key points in the syllabus. Keep ahead of everyone else in class, but above all try to understand everything you're writing down and researching.

You have to take responsibility for your own learning when your teachers suck. :/

 

[wrong_turn]

i'm trying to figure out if i have any incompetent teachers............... don't rush me. i'm doing my best?!

i usually have to work out the maths stuff for myself. but it gets a bit fustrating if i don't know it. though i do quiz the questions about the topics we learn. this is very occasinally, that's why some of the class click it from my questions.

hey meLoncoLLie, i always hang around hurstville. your face really looks familiar...so familiar that i have a photographic image in my head. say hello to mat evans for me. it might have the potential to freak him out. say eric green to him and he will know who i am

shit this really is getting too off the topic?! try to change subjects, there are probaly more than 10 maths classes at your school.

 

[Odourless]

I seriously dont know of anyone that has all great teachers. Even all decent teachers. Everyone has at least one crap teacher normally. Just stay on top of the workload, concentrate on getting the highest possible assessment marks, and try to work extra hard at that particular subject.

All of my teachers are fantastic! The only teacher that I had who was bad was for Chemistry in year 11 and that was because you couldnt understand him because of his accent but I've dropped that now so its all good!

 

[Casmira]

i've got an idiot software design and development teacher =/ i still got 5/40 for it though

 

[lukebennett]

the trick is (if you can be bothered doing your own work) to get the macquarie revision guide or your other text books and make notes on them before you get taught certain topics as this can avoid confusion when your teacher teaches you thing badly.

 

[Casmira]

i just get the syllabus + book and mark off dot points with book and make my own notes

our teacher is seriously an idiot, and she hates the people who know more than her, she sets homework which is supposed to be done in class, ie. she'll set homework for railroad diagrams where she didnt teach us it so i just had to figure it out that night on my own and it wasnt easy considering we got no intro to railroad diagrams whatseover

then she sets us 'revision' papers that we got nothing to revise OFF

she's an idiot

 

[meLoncoLLie]

hey meLoncoLLie, i always hang around hurstville. your face really looks familiar...so familiar that i have a photographic image in my head. say hello to mat evans for me. it might have the potential to freak him out. say eric green to him and he will know who i am

I think I'm more recognisable by my height
You know Matt Evans? Haha why will that freak him out?

 

[meLoncoLLie]

but be aware that some topics may not be covered in the book, if you were to go by the book. e.g. in "Maths In Focus", there are no topics such as mathematical induction, binomial proofs, etc.

Yeah. We're doing mathematical inductions next and I'll have to rely on other textbooks. But it's not like I don't rely on other books already. We already use Maths In Focus, (easy-as book) and all our teacher teachers us is the WORKED questions in that book. So he spends the whole lesson copying out the worked question AGAIN and explaining it AGAIN. He never teaches us anything else.

 

[wrong_turn]

its because i'm the only person who calls him that.

oh and tell him to get a haircut?! he already finished making that bet with his dad already?!