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Should a student advises a teacher to change her style, method and attitude of teaching? How should it be?
I am a student of a class, where this class seems like couldn't get along with this particular subject teacher.
This teacher couldn't communicate with the students, let alone for the students to get their messages across. She would exclaimed that the students have no manners when the students try to reason with her. For example, there is an assignment where the class is told to copy down the correct answers for corrections in the term papers, and there is this student who could not see the answers properly due to light reflections, hence going upfront to copy the answers. (It is normal over here for students to go upfront of the classroom as the blackboard reflects the light from outside or the fluorescent light, and most teachers allow it.) The teacher use the reason of "students changing places is prohibited and against the school rules" to tell her to go back to her original place. The student then tell her that she really cannot see, and she sees no wrong in her doings as she is changing the place for the sake of copying down the answers. The teacher insisted that she should go back and copy down, which made the student to raise her voice to get the message across that she cannot see them. The teacher then said that she has no manners, and do not deserve any marks for attitude, behaviour and homework. The teacher even questioned on the way how the student treated her parents. This sparked a very heated cold war. And the problem is, that student is not the only one that change the place for the sake of copying the answers down. There are plenty of other classmates do so, but the teacher did not pick on them.
This is only one out of many incidents that has fished out dissatisfaction of the class. There is another annoying teaching method: when discussing questions in a workbook, every 5 minutes she would stop discussing and started to scold those who are noisy, but in her scoldings there were no authority, unfortunately. This made those who are really interested in getting the questions discussed lost the interest, and eventually got fed up with this teacher. This teacher is not a new teacher-she had been teaching us for the past 8 months.
Another case of the teacher's problems with listening is as follow: There is another student who offered to photocopy exercises and questions for the teacher at a very low cost, hence reducing the class' expenditure. But the teacher refuses and insists of photocopying at the book shop in the school, which cost a lot more than the student's offer, and said that the exercises have to be given out the next day. The student said that she could do it, and other classmates said that other teachers also used her service to photocopy materials. The teacher simply turned a deaf ear to her, and that student gave up in persuading her.
These are a few examples of what we face daily, and the school year is ending in another three weeks here, and high chances are the teacher will be continuing to teach the subject in the following year, if one would follow the norm like previous badges of classes. Should someone in this class advises that teacher to change her style, method and attitude of teaching? And if so, how should this be conducted?
Additional information: This teacher occasionally boasts her 20 years of teaching experience (which is quite true), and always giving threats like deducting marks that has little impact and authority on the students.
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