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Awesome (and not so awesome) teachers/classes you've had

Post the best and worst, or maybe just most memorable, teachers or classes you've had here. You might want to avoid names, as I'm not sure they'd want themselves associated with a hacking site.

1st grade: My teacher was pretty awful, really. She seemed to hate me with some sort of a passion; when she taught us cursive I tried to make cursive numbers...at which point she showed the result to the class and actually mocked my work in front of them. Ouch. Incidentally there were three teachers at that school with the same last name as her and they all taught 1st grade. They were all also very nice. Behind her back I called her "Mrs. Gorgon," as it's only a one letter difference.

4th/5th grade: I was in a small school here, and 4th and 5th grade were taught by the same teacher. She was awesome, and completely restored my faith in teachers. Maybe it was just my simplistic child mind, but she was a really wonderful person.

6th/7th grade English: The real memorable part about this class was that whenever we were assigned a paper to write, the whole class would rent laptops from the library. I'd use the time to write my paper quickly and then use the remaining day or so to play games on the computer, since the teacher allowed us to sit wherever we wanted to work, even if that meant under the table or behind a bookshelf.

9th/10th grade Spanish: This guy was an absolute riot, and a great teacher to boot. Not a day went by in which the class didn't end up laughing their heads off at some point. One of the funnier things he would do is force students to write a half page, page, two page, or three page paper on why chewing gum in class is wrong if he caught you doing it, and when you handed it in he'd make you read it aloud to the class. This may sound horrible, but he would accept just about anything you gave him, leading to speeches about how birds will fly in though the window to snatch the gum out of your mouth, choke on it and die, force an evacuation of the school, etc. Probably one of the funniest teachers in the school.

11th grade Algebra: This guy was hilarious too, and a nice person overall, but he was an awful teacher. I mean really awful. His basic lesson plan was to teach us by showing us the most difficult, complicated problem he could come up with, solve it in the most convoluted, roundabout way he could think of, give us pathetically easy problems for homework to lure us into a false sense of security, and then bombard us on his tests with questions that made his examples pale in comparison. I...don't have fond memories of him.

12th grade Pre-calc: And on the complete opposite end of the spectrum is this guy. He wasn't very funny, but he knew how to teach the material effectively and is hands-down the best teacher in the literal sense of the word. Let me put it this way: about a quarter of the way though the year he decided to make us review what we learned in algebra last year (which for me was pretty much nothing, see above), which made me rather worried given my experience last year. But I learned more in a week with him than I did in an entire year from my previous teacher, and unlike what I learned last year I've fully retained everything this teacher has taught. Man, I wish more teachers could teach as well as he does.
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My 7th grade English teacher and my 8th grade (current) Social Studies teachers are both really awesome. They're both funny and they let us do a lot as long as our work is in and we get good grades.
Grade 4: My teacher had this weird hate against me. I don't know what it was but he would always target me for everything that happened and got me in trouble for the most minimal things (such as tripping >.>). He was nothing but an annoyance.

Grade 5: This changed things. My grade 5 teacher was awesome because the last school day before certain holidays (Halloween, Christmas, etc.), we would play some sort of game for prizes and sometimes just out of nowhere, too. She also taught things to me aside, since I wasn't able to understand things the same way everyone else could.

Grade 7/Second half of 8: My teacher was a jerk, really. She always had her favourite 5 students and tossed everyone else aside. It was usually the smarter kids, and she always helped them with school work. All the students who didn't do as well were shunned and were never really given much help, and got in trouble for EVERYTHING. Not only that but everyone picked on me and it sucked.

Grade 9 (Religion): This was probably my favourite teacher so far. He would let the students listen to music during class and we always did our work in groups. The purpose was for us to connect with the people in our groups and to even share a large assignment which required multiple skills. It doesn't sound like much but it was really fun.

Grade 9 (Integrated Technology): A really awesome class. We spent our time using programs like Adobe Fireworks and we got to build all sorts of stuff, even a roller coaster out of K'NEX. The teacher was awesome and I had a number of awesome friends in that class.

Grade 9 (Instrumental Music): This class was my favourite no doubt. There wasn't anything particularly special about it, but something inside me just enjoyed this class more than anything. Maybe it was because it was the first time I ever played an instrument and actually worked with a large group of people. Not only that but my teacher was awesome.

Grade 10 (Programming): This was a great class, too. My teacher was cool and all the work was fun. On top of that, all the kids were a bunch of "nerds" (they were pretty much like me, all internet-obsessed kids) and we always got to goof around without getting into trouble ever.



Yeah. Elementary/middle school wasn't all that great but ever since high school it's been going awesome. Music class is going great this semester and science class is cool. Heh, it'll probably get much better next year on top of all that.
Pretty much disliked all of my teachers except my grade 12 chemistry teacher, who literally turned the classroom into a family of sorts. She actually got to know what university every single person was going to, what we were taking, and even set aside a few classes to teach us really advanced chemistry. As I handed my final exam to her, she shook my hand and wished me luck, which actually meant a lot since no other teacher has ever done that before. Such fond memories...

University .. eh. Professors are different than teachers since they aren't specifically trained to teach. That, and unless you're in a class of <30 or so, you never really develop any connection to them. However, my calculus professor somehow figured out my name on his own (I didn't even talk to him or anyone else in that class), and helped me through a bunch of problems I was having with the work. Most people said he was a terrible prof, but thanks to him, I did quite well in that course.

It seems like the underrated professors are the ones you connect to more, I guess.
Well, I was homeschooled.

Okay, in High School I never took any classes at home, so I actually had teachers who weren't my Mom, but still, I already knew 90% of the teachers I took classes with before I took them.

In college though it's been interesting. Most classes have been annoying due to the "Michigan Attitude," where every student and teacher seems to think he/she is the smartest person to walk the face of the earth. Orchestration class has by far been my favorite, followed by the Computer Programming class I'm taking now. The rest of them have been mediocre or terrible. I get the impression the school doesn't know how to handle Comp majors, so I'm stuck doing a lot of useless things because I'm supposed to turn out like everyone else.
The only memories of awesome teachers/classes I have are first to fourth grade in elementary school and eighth grade in middle school. The rest was an awful bunch of unmotivated, unlikeable teachers (who were missing half of the time) and idiotic classes.
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Right now, the only teacher I hate is probably my Biology teacher. The Biology teacher doesn't give a shit about all the students and just thinks of her own all the time. We have a rule at school, which is that a teacher has to check a test two weeks after it's been made. The Biology teacher... Checks it in 4 friggin weeks. She also gives way too much homework every time, and gives unexpected tests which are very difficult.

The teachers I like are the Latin teacher and the English teacher. The Latin teacher is very quick with checking tests and has good lessons every time. The English teacher is just amazing. He makes us work for a while, and when we're done we do all fun stuff like watching videos on Youtube and stuff. He also cares about his students, as he explains everything until everyone understands it. Also, he gives us cookies when we help cleaning the school :3
I remember my 7th, 8th and 9th grade math teacher: She was a sarcastic dictator, but yeah, the sarcasm made the class awesome. Everyone had a good laugh. My 9th grade geography teacher was pretty awesome too.

Not so awesome, pretty much everyone else.
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My 9th grade History teacher was quite possibly the best teacher I have ever got taught by. His classes were extremely dynamic, as in, they almost felt like an actual movie or TV program. I remember their most exciting moments were generally at the end, thus we loathed it when the bell rang early. His World War II class was definitely the most thrilling experience I have ever witnessed in school, hands down.

The year next, I unfortunately had the chance to cross paths with an absolutely awful History teacher. His classes were extremely monotonous and tiring. Additionally, I always had the vibe he didn't at least attempt to make a tiny bit of effort to get his subject across to us. I used to spend nearly three days straight studying for his subject, due to the sole reason his explanation skills sucked.

It seems I am in luck this year when it comes to teachers, though. With the exception of the average one or two, most of my current teachers are pretty excellent. I especially love my Biology teacher's classes - just like my 9th grade History teacher's ones, his are equally very dynamic and fun. He is also a videogame addict, and it is just hilarious when he starts talking about games all of a sudden during his explanations. He imitated Subzero's winning pose last week, and oh god it was awesome.
I have gone on and off homeschool multiple times in the past. I've really hated most all my teachers, though my music teacher, who I still even take private lessons with today, really knows how to teach. We're really at more of a "friend-friend" relation than a student-teacher one.

I'm currently homeschooled and in the 10th grade. I really must say I've never enjoyed school outside of homeschooling.
I've had quite a few teachers that I liked and a few that were pretty bad.

- My 9th grade biology teacher was a great teacher. He was a very fun teacher that made the class more fun. So, it was a real shame when he left 3/4 of the way through the school year, completely unannounced. :(
- One of the worst teachers I had was my 10th grade history teacher. She was expecting us to do college level assignments, which was pretty stupid because it was the 10th grade, not college. Probably the dumbest thing she assigned, that I can remember, was an essay we had to write on Napoleon Bonaparte. What makes this dumb is the fact that she chose until after the assignment was due to talk about him. Why couldn't she talk about it before the assignment was due? I guess that would be too easy. Usually, when I complain about a bad teacher, only I feel that way. However, this was the one time where everyone else it the class agreed with me, so that should say something about how bad she was.

That's all I can think of. I may add in some more later on.

Edit: I just remembered another teacher that I don't like. My teacher in my history class is really annoying. She mainly expects the students to teach the class rather than the other way around. If that's the case, then why did I even sign up for this class? Whenever I sign up for a class, I expect the teacher to do his or her job. It also doesn't help that nearly all of the assignments I have to do at home are online. What if I didn't have internet access on my computer? I would be pretty screwed if I didn't (I know I could just go to a library or something, but it would still be very inconvenient).
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My physics teacher last semester could be amazingly hilarious at times, other then the fact that apparently this semester he told a boy he had no... You get my point.

... My AP World History teacher... Eh. He clearly was trying to get everybody good grades in that class, but the classes were extremely tedious, and what he was teaching never really got through to me. I was failing to the point where my parents actually managed to get me out of the class. But at least I can easily get what my advanced history teacher's teaching....
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Maths is terrible, I'm god-awful at maths and "algebra" and "Venn diagrams" are not helping, sure when am I ever going to use 53B + 67A anyway? Classical studies is awesome though, learning about Greek mythology and Gladiators fighting each other is definitely my type of class!

Oh and science can be good fun too, using Bunsen burners and preforming heart dissections can be very intriguing and compelling.

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My 10th grade 3D animation teacher was pretty awesome. Every day she would always make us popcorn and occasionally we'd have a free day where we would watch pixar movies. Toward the end of the year we also had a barbecue party in that class which was pretty fun. I also remember toward the end of the year when I pretty much had nothing else to do in that class I brought Mario's Keytastrophe on a flashdrive and showed it to a couple other people in the class. Good times...

My 11th grade Psych teacher is also a pretty cool guy. I find a lot of the subjects that we learn about to be quite interesting and as he teaches them to us he'll start telling stories and such related to it. He's also obsessed with cats, and memes. One time another student asked him how many questions were on a test, and with the absolute straightest face ever he replied "over 9000." It was awesome. I was probably the only one in the class who actually got it though because I don't think anyone else laughed at that but me. :P
I've had really bad luck with teachers throughout my school days but I guess the good teacher ratio balances it out.

Bad teachers
My 3rd grade teacher was a racist (no I'm not kidding). He hated every Hispanic student in his class, including me. It actually got to the point where I answered a question for him and he said wrong, someone else answered with the same thing I did and he said right. He did that to every other Hispanic too.

6th grade English teacher. I had her for 3 class periods in middle school because after 5th grade, it was thought I had ADD and that I was incompetent with reading and vocabulary. She would treat me like I was retarded because I'm left-handed and she suggested that I'd be held back despite me passing her class with flying colors and me being able to read and comprehend at a 10th grade level at the time.

9th grade Spanish teacher. This guy, oh man, I've gotten into so many arguments with him. Since Spanish was basically my native tongue, I had to correct what he was saying a lot because no one speaks the Spanish they teach in schools, especially in California. He wouldn't help any student at all. If they didn't answer a question he would take away points as opposed to give them a zero.

11th grade American Literature teacher. This guy was so old and senile. All you had to do in his class was show up, literally. Everyone would talk in his class all day while he'd be up front talking and he wouldn't do anything. Half the class would be asleep, I could go on.

Cool teachers
1st grade teacher. I know most K-5 teachers are nice but this teacher in particular was really awesome. I've known a lot of teachers to not help their students individually but since I barely started learning English shortly before that, I had a slight speech impediment, she helped me overcome that. I then became one of her top students by the end of the year.

7th grade Earth Science teacher. She made sure all of her students understood the material and she helped every student individually who didn't. It's the only science class I paid that much attention in.

9th grade Geometry/Trigonometry teacher. He gave out a LOT of extra credit. On one test he gave one point of extra credit for every number of Pi we remembered and got correct in sequence.

9th-12th grade band/music theory teacher. The most respected teacher in my old high school. She taught me almost everything I know about music and wouldn't hesitate to help any student. She played every instrument in the band/orchestra.

10th grade Algrbra II teacher. Really funny guy, always quoted MadTV and Family guy in class to keep us entertained. Used metaphors to help us understand the materials better. Let us listen to our ipods/mp3 players in class during tests to help us concentrate.
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DOWNRIGHT WORST
7th Grade World History:
Honestly he had been teaching for 50+ years. He was in the system long enough that he married one of his students. He was going blind, diabetic, and didn't know jack shit about what he taught. Most of his classes would end in a test on stuff he never taught us or a blind rage caused by low blood sugar.

ALL-TIME BEST
10th Grade Advanced Composition and Rhetoric
He was also my English teacher. He was a fantastic comedian who managed to teach at the same time. He was the supervising teacher for the robotics team and enjoyed my writing style, meaning that I saw him more than most others. He's a great guy who happens to know a bit of internet lingo (At least he knows what a troll is).



Hmm, bad & good teachers, eh...?

3 WORST:

# 3 : Grade 9-12 band teacher:

This guy had some health issues, and really probably shouldn't have been teaching in the first place. While I consider it commendable to wish to keep teaching while your health is declining, I consider it a disservice to your students if you take the equivalent of several years out, coming in once or twice a month, and then vanishing again, leaving your poor students in the hands of a poorer substitute, who did a poorer job to begin with. However, even when he was there he was a rather poor teacher, tending to get very angry at students, 'scaring' them into practicing.

Outside of band he was incredibly disorganized and controlling, a terrible combination when things were supposed to be being run. He also had very little concept of what was and wasn't needed for a high school sound setup. Burning thousands of dollars on more and more advanced soundboards and recording systems when some instruments are simply unavailable seems erroneous to me, especially compacted by the fact we already had a very good one. He also had no concept of anything outside of music, resulting in the most foolish and ridiculous setups for band concerts.

# 2 : History Professor.

This was the most unpleasant experience with a university professor I've had the misfortune of having. He would typically only talk to reasonably attractive girls, but if you could get him to talk to you, he wouldn't stop, regardless of what else you had to do. This would have been okay if anything he said was of real value, but I don't think I ever gained a thing from talking to him, other than a vague sense of impatience and frustration.

The worst aspect of his teaching, however, was his vanity. For those of you who are unfamiliar with university, there are, in arts courses, assigned readings for pretty much every class. A pain in the ass to me as a science student who has assignments 24/7 regardless, but I did not appreciate several of the readings being comparatively lengthy pieces by the professor. The final straw for this man's arrogance came on the tests: One midterm, half of the marks were allotted to a question that was the equivalent of how we would teach his class, and nearly half of the final was responding to a piece. Given how critical he was of our writing when his own was nothing special, this man was one of the few profs I've had which at the end of the term I had little to no respect for, regardless of how hard they may have worked to get where they are.

# 1 : English/Band Grade 7-8 Teacher.

To be clear, the last two teachers I had were bad, but they were bearable, and while most of the time I was in their classes I was annoyed and felt as though my time was being wasted, it would be a falsehood to say that I learned absolutely nothing under them, and each of them has had something to give to me positively.

The next teacher, in reference to them, has enriched my life in the two ways: Perspective of how bad teachers can get, and invaluable lessons on how to deal with people who are psychotic. I've never known a worse teacher in any sense of the word. The rest of the staff had a clear distaste of her, which a few of them voiced. The parents unilaterally disliked her. She was mentally unstable, and a very poor teacher to boot. Her English class regularly degenerated from a semi-organized shouting match to a complete verbal brawl between a few students, while the rest of us wearily put our heads down and dreamed of better days, or counted the clock tick, waiting to hear the occasional half-decent insult on one side or the other.

Her english class was the worst part of her, but she was also a band teacher, and that had some interesting ramifications, such as:

- If you dropped out of band, she hated you.
- If she hated you, you lost 20 points on everything for no reason.
- Conversely, you could hand in absolute shit and get 100s if she liked you, which I did routinely, having decided to stick out band for better days.

But the most dire example of what she could do is as follows:

During a band concert, where most of the students had only been playing their respective instrument for one or two years, she stopped everything. In front of all parents. Why? In order to verbally abuse a percussionist in front of the entire school, and proceed to show her exactly why she was failing and how she should do it. By the end of the unpleasant experience the poor girl was crying miserably, and I don't think there was a single person in the room who didn't want to, at very least, silence the foul women.

She later that year took an absense for mental reasons, going to help people in another part of the world where a natural disaster had occurred, or so we were told. We didn't believe it, and hoped it was a lie for their sake.

So, you've heard the worst... but what about the best?

# 3 : My Grade 10 French Teacher. This guy was cool, and in grade 9 and 10, he was my all-time favourite teacher. He was a quirky, had an excellent sense of humour, and inspired me to try hard in French, a subject which I had previously hated. A lot. He helped me start a chess club, and supported me through the fun and tough times of running the club throughout my three years. My all time favourite moment of his teaching was him stating that having sex was like driving a car: You got better with practice, you don't want to pound the gas immediately or you might hurt the car, when you first start you're very cautious, etc. He went on for quite a while.

# 2 : My Intro to Systems Programming Prof. Another quirky individual with an excellent sense of computer humour, I admire him as the first person to teach me something about Computer Science I didn't already know, and the first person to really challenge me with what I had to do. I've always worked hard on my own to get ahead, and his course was a refreshing, if brutal change, of my own leisurely pace. Also, C pointers are a bitch. But most importantly, this guy is an incredibly effective teacher, and I've learned more from his class than any other class I've ever taken has taught me.

# 1 : My Grade 11 Physics Teacher.

You might wonder how you'd top someone who's course taught me the most, because that'd be the logical place where you'd say you'd hit the best. But this teacher didn't just teach me his subject matter; he became a close and good friend, as well as spurring me on to greater heights and allowing things to happen that I never would have thought possible. It's because of him that I am where I am in life, and I couldn't do what he's done for me justice in an internet post online, so I will suffice to say that without this man, I would be a completely different individual, and poorer one for it.
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Teachers I like:
1)My current drama class is the first one that comes to mind, but probably because I am getting all A's for running around and yelling for 72 minutes.
My teacher is also super nice, but she is leaving to have a kid so we get a new teacher we know nothing about.

2)My gym teacher is another that comes to mind. He was always so happy and so optimistic. He was genuinely a great guy.

3)My grade 9 geography teacher was a great guy. He was always smiling, had a great sense of humour and had amazing people skills. His death was unfortunate, as he had a lot to give to people.

4)My current math teacher is another teacher I genuinely like. Not for his personality, which isn't his best trait. He will spread out a 5 minute listen to be the whole 76 minutes which is pretty annoying. I like him because he is the first teacher I ever had that believed I need to be put in the advanced course. He knows that I am bored after I finish my work in about 2 minutes, and is the only teacher I have ever had that actually fought for my right to be in it. He told me he managed to schedule a meeting with the math department to discuss my placement, which I find awesome. :)

Teachers I dont:
1)My current tech teacher. He is always yelling at us, calling us stupid, throwing shit at us, telling us to shut up, and yelling that we're failures if we need help. It was bad enough they put me in that class by mistake and wont let me switch out, but that guy makes it so much worse.

2)e: post above reminded me of my grade 9 english teacher. She told me I was letting "evil forces corrupt my mind" because I would talk to my friends in class. She also called child services on me twice because a kid cut up my arm with a pencil. The weird thing was that there wasn't anything exactly wrong with her, I just didn't like her.

3)e2: post above also reminded me of my history teacher last semester. She was possibly the worst teacher I have ever had. She would throw a fill-in-the-blank on the overhead, then we would either go outside and walk around the track or watch a movie. I learned absolutely nothing in that class, and that was also partially due to the kids in my class. They were loud, they were sexist, they were racist, and they were annoying. We would typically spend about 5 minutes "working," about 25 minutes outside or watching a completely irrelevant movie and about 40 minutes listening to her yell at the kids that wont shut up.

I guess I'll edit this as I remember people.
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Some teachers I would definitely leave in my rear-view mirror are my teachers from Grade 1, Grade 3, my Physics teacher back in my Junior year, and my teacher for Calculus on my final year of school. Why?

My Grade 1 teacher hates boys and she even fucking scratched my face to hell. I got pulled out of her class and transfered to another Grade 1 class.

My Grade 3 teacher is a rookie at the time. Instead of having my class spend time outside for recess, she pops in a fucking VHS tape about science and math. Okay, I would rather spend time ouside than staring my eyes at a video.

My Physics teacher is the worst teacher I would ever witness because she keeps yelling at me every time I have my work graded lower than a B-. So what, I graduated, go away.

My Calculus teacher just gave me a hard time. All he does is just stare down at me instead of minding his own business. I can't even concentrate.

Now, I do have two teachers that I do like, and they are both my Algebra teacher and my English teacher back in Grade 8. Both of them treated me like family, and that helped me get straight A's in both subjects. :D
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