Comments | ayanami116: What's Your Image of a Good Teacher?

ayanami116

What's Your Image of a Good Teacher?

Apr 21, 2009 09:10

Is what my friend asked me late last night on AIM while I bitched and moaned about these horrible kids at wonderful Nachi Junior High School. The new school year began early this month and in most Japanese schools that means a new set of teachers and a new set of rules. I know I already mentioned how bad the first years were last year. How bad were ( Read more... )

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changeling0203 April 21 2009, 01:26:45 UTC

Um, teaching IS part of the workforce. In fact, it's more hellish and difficult in a lot of ways than any other job. Teachers have to deal with parents, teachers, the administration, and students, none of which are on their side. They see the culture of the place they teach in, and the world their students go in to ( ... )

ayanami116 April 21 2009, 02:17:08 UTC

Haha, yea I don't know why I'm even friends with him either. Maybe it's because I need to stay at his place for the weeks right after my contract ends with this job, and I'm homeless? Hahaha. Oh we use and abuse. I know we're all very horrible ( ... )

changeling0203 April 21 2009, 15:05:01 UTC

I read the edit, and the last part is kind of right. A little. You shouldn't take all the difficulties to heart and let them get you down. If it makes you feel any better, middle school is the hardest to teach. They mellow out by high school. I'm told that in Japan teenage boys are allowed to do whatever (because it's considered rude and inappropriate to correct other people's children) but that they learn shame and dignity when they become adults.

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ayanami116 April 21 2009, 04:08:25 UTC

I think we were both looking at the same situation from two different points. Yea, I think we were both right with some of the things we were saying. And yea, I think I can name a few teachers where I respected first and then began to like. But, when I say I like a teacher, I don't want you to get the wrong idea that I just liked them like a friend or a buddy and that's why they were good teachers. Because I know a lot of teachers that can be really buddy-buddy with the students. A lot of the students like them but of course they don't really respect them. Personally, I've had some teachers where they obviously knew their own knowledge of their subject to the point where they were becoming narcissistic. They just wanted to show off how much they knew, and they weren't really teaching anything anymore.

I guess what I really wanted to tell my friend was that teaching is dealing with real human beings. Students are human beings and teachers are human beings, so this job is not all mechanical. It should involve some feelings too.

OMFG momo15 April 25 2009, 19:20:07 UTC

Where the HELL does your friend get the right to say that shit to you? While I agree that it's the teacher's job to make the class interesting enough so they pay attention, things are SO.DIFFERNT.HERE. especially in the bad schools. I had the same exact problems at my old school, and the new ALT there, who is a really good and experienced teacher, is also having trouble. If the kids are crazy, they know they can get away with it because the teachers won't punish them for it ( ... )