Although we reviewed Chapter 3 in class today, I would like to revisit an important topic from Chapter 2. Now that you have read chapter 2 about the professionalization of teaching and we discussed a few of the issues in our last class, I would like for you to reflect upon your 13+ years of schooling and the examples your teachers have set for you. You need to think of a time, experience, or memory of a teacher doing or saying something that exemplified that he/she was truly a well-respected professional. OR you can write about a time, experience, or memory of a teacher doing or saying something that was not professional. Do not use names when you are talking about this teacher. It can be as simple as "One of my high school teachers always wore flip-flops to school." Or it can be a complex issue such as "One of the high school teachers used to go to student parties on the weekend and drink alcohol in front of the students." After you state the issue, type a few sentences about why you thought it was professional or unprofessional and how it affected your learning.
Please be sensitive to the fact that this topic is very subjective. Something you might think is unprofessional another person might think is not a big deal. Let's be aware of people's differing opinions. We need to make sure we keep this post PROFESSIONAL:-)
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One of my high school teachers was very professional.. She dressed very nice and was a very well put togterh teacher.. she knew everything she was talking about and had a very professional way of teaching it. she was a very pretty teacher so of course all the boys liked her but she neevr wore anything revealing or wore too much make up to make her look different. she was a well rounded teacher who i definitly look up to.. and a teacher who was not so professional was a student teacher who talked to all the underclassman and partied with them and actually got kicked out of the education department because of this... very unprofessional.....
ReplyDeleteMost of my high school teachers were professional in every way, the dress, their teaching and their actions. But there was one young teacher who came to our school in my senior year, she would let students come to her home, they were allowed to drink alcohol while there and she had an affair with one of the male teachers.
ReplyDeleteI don't think she was professional at all, immoral is more like it.
Most of the teachers in my education experience were very professional, but I had one teacher that was very unorganized and unprofessional in his mannerisms. He would belittle students in class, take weeks to get back papers, and refuse to give out grades when it was nearing the end of the year. It was fustrating and confusing for all the students. No one was ever sure about how they were doing in the class and no one could talk to the teacher about it because he refused to listen. Eventually, others got involved and it got worked out, but he was a very unprofessional teacher.
ReplyDeleteOne of my high school teachers was very professional. She always dressed nicely. She kept her personal life to herself but still remained friendly and approachable. She was always in class and ready to start on time. She was involved in activities for the school. I had another teacher in high school that was very unprofessional. She didn't dress appropriatly and she brought her female partner to school with her. She met us outside of class in the loop to hang out and would email and call students to talk to them about personal issues. That was not professional.
ReplyDeleteMy senior year of high school I had a teacher who was extremely unprofessional. He continually refered to the students in his classes as well as the players he coached as "retarded". This in combination with his frequent bursts of shouting during exams, self absorbtion, and habit of blaming the failures of his students on their parents rather than his own teaching failures. This behavior caused me to resent him both as a teacher and as a human being.
ReplyDeleteMy teachers were always very professional in their classrooms. Unprofessional reminds me of a day in high school while sitting in my biology class we saw that we were stuck with a substitute teacher. He seemed quiet and let us work together, so no one was really testing him about going places or doing things we shouldn't do. One of my fellow students was talking a little louder than normal, and the teacher suddenly screamed, "Your mother should have drown you in your first bath!" Our jaws dropped. Then he sent the student to the principals office. This was the most unprofessional way to deal with such a small issue and I know that it seems like a dramatization, but I can call about 20 other people who will never forget that day.
ReplyDeleteI have had many different experiences with teachers. My education since 13 years old has been great up to college. Now that I'm paying for school I feel that I should get help when I need it. However, I don't mean that the teacher should drop everything she is doing to help me because they have stress to deal with as well. On the other hand, I do mean that they should provide assistance when needed especially for quizzes and tests. For example, recently one of my professors was saying in class that two young ladies had called her the night before a quiz to see what was on it so they could get a good grade. Turns out, they got the highest grade in the class. This caught my attention, so I decided I would call her next week before out next quiz because I figured she could help me out just like she helped the young ladies. So, I called her early in the day, the day prior to the quiz, and she never responded to my message.
ReplyDeleteCONT. I asked her the next day why she never responded and she told me that she taught night classes and didn't get home until 10:00 that night and didn't feel like doing anything but relaxing. Well, I work too, and I don't get off until 10:00 either but that doesn't stop me from doing my job as a student. All she had to do was give a one minute phone call and let me know what to study for tomorrow because I'm not doing well at all in the class. As a matter of fact, I just failed the first test. Yeah, this sucks pretty bad and I think something needs to be done about it. First of all, I'm a winner and winners find a way, however, I believe that it's not all of my fault and part of the teachers. I think this because I have not missed one class, I stay after sometimes with her, not to mention I studied for a few hours after completing the Exam review. Sorry this is so long, it just feels good to let out.
ReplyDeleteI can say that my teachers were always very professional.They dressed nice and have enough knowlege to teach. But some of the teachers were not nice with their attitude toward students. In Japan, we have to study very hard to enter good elementary schoo( sometimes good preschool), junior high school,high school, University, and get a good job. There is always a big competition. So, some of the teacher don't like students who don't get a good grade. One of my junior high school math teacher gave us a lot of homework with difficult math questions every day. Most of the students tried to solve the questions, because most of the students go to CRAM school( after school, we go to another school to study)so we study there in advance and review ans ask cram school teachers about math homework. But some students don't go to cram school and some times getting bad grade. My math teacher expected everyone go to some cram school to study, so he did't teach a lot at class. He didn't want to do exrta work for lower grade students. He only cared about "A" grade students. I was wandering why he became a teacher. If students need for help, teacher should help students. Teacher should talk to students, teacher should care about students, and teacher should spend some extra time for the students to understand the problem. I just think that my math teacher wasn't professional at all.
ReplyDeleteone of my teachers was not professional at all. He would hit on all of the female students and eventually he got fired for inviting one of his female students over to his house. The female student told on him because she felt very uncomfortable as a teacher. I thought that was really wrong of him because i felt that he always favored the female students over the male students like myself and didnt get a lot out of the way he taught because of that.
ReplyDeleteOne big deal happened in my high school while I was there. Our music teacher was questioned about the alcohol on his breathe one day at school. The school searched his desk and found a bottle of vodka on his shelf. Although students laughed at this in my school, it really wasn't that funny. This teacher just taught all his students that it is ok to drink, and he made it seem ok to do it around minors in a school setting. Proffessional?
ReplyDeleteWell I really had some wonderful teachers in the past, they were all very professional in every aspect with a few exceptions. I had this one teacher in high school, she was very young and a fairly newer teacher, but sometimes her behavior and dress was not very professional. She definately favored the boys in my class over the girls. She would also talk to us like we were her friends and it was almost like she thought she was in high school as well and the clothes she wore look like something you would wear to go out on the weekend. She didnt dress like that all time, but every now and then i would notice it and it would be very distracting.
ReplyDeleteI had a teacher my sophomore and junior year of high school that was very unprofessional. She was nice to all of the students, but continuously flirted with the boys and "picked" them over the girls. She did not dress appropriately, always wearing clothes that showed skin in places that shouldn't be shown, and she lost all respect from the girls in my class. She was fun to talk to, but she spent most of the class period doing just that...talking to us and not teaching us. In high school I thought that was great, but now I look back on it and realize how unprofessional it was.
ReplyDeleteWhile in school the majority of my teachers wewre very professional. However, my math teach in 8th grade was very unprofessional. He would get really angry when people asked questions or didn't understand what he was teaching. Once I raised my hand to ask him to explain something again and that I didn't undertsnad, he responded by telling me to stop listening to him because I was never going to understand. Looking back I realize how hurtful that can be to a student, especially at a naive age like that. It was very unprofessional and he was obviously not a good teacher.
ReplyDeleteMost of my high school teachers were professional granted some weren't the best at teaching. I can think of one teacher who was very professional and did her best to help each student master the subject. She made to work challenging and really encouraged her students to do their best and pursue their dreams. At the time I didn't like the class because it was kind of hard but now I'm thankful for it and the teacher.
ReplyDeleteFor the most part my teachers were always professional when it came to inside and outside the classroom. I did have one teacher my sophomore year that everyone knew he was very unprofessional with female students. He would put all the girls, especially the ones who wore revealing clothes, in the front of the classroom. He was very unprofessional and tried to be friends with these students outside the classroom as well.
ReplyDeleteContinued....Having a teacher like him made it hard for me to want to learn from him knowing how he is with females. Almost everyone in the school knew him as the teacher who put girls up front according to what they wore to school.
ReplyDeleteMy school for the most part had all professional teachers. I have had two teachers recently who acted very unprofessional. The first teacher I had, it was a pottery class that had a door that led outside to let the pots dry outside and the teacher would let the students take smoke breaks outside and he would join in with them, personally I think that is very unprofessional. Another teacher I had would literally say a curse word every other word while trying to teach the lesson. I hated it!
ReplyDeleteThis effected my learning because instead of focusing on what he was trying to teach, I was trying not to listen to him curse. I was brought up not to curse and so hearing it over and over really threw me off.
ReplyDeleteMost of the teachers that I have had throughout my education expierience were all very professional. Back in elementary school, I was new to the class and didn't know my way around the school at all, because of this, my teacher asked if my parents and I could come in early before school one day so that she could give me a tour and show me where everything was. This allowed me to be comfortable in my new surroundings and it really made me feel like she cared. This effected my learning because from that point on I knew that I could always go to her if I ever had a problem regarding schoolwork or any other problems I was having and was always confident that she would help me and allow me to understand things better. This even helps me now because I am not afraid to ask teachers for help or further explanations of things if I need it.
ReplyDeletei had a teacher once in high school that wasnt professional at all. We used to do nothing in his class and just mess around all day. For instance we watch the Frsh Prince of Bel Air everyday for a month because there was no lesson plan or anything. I think to myself this is what my parents are paying me to go here for it was unbelievable.
ReplyDeleteThankfully I have had, for the most part very professional teachers throughout my education. One exception was my middle school language arts teacher. At the time my father was a member of the local school board and my LA teacher was a leader within the teachers union. I was a student in her class during difficult salary negotiations and the unprofessional nature of the teacher was evident in her conduct towards myself. The teacher became belittling, spiteful, and unconcerned within my education. It was a difficult year.
ReplyDeleteFor the most part I have always had professional teachers. In my opinion professional teachers just doesn't mean dressing nice it also means to teach the lesson well and keeping the students engaged. One teacher in high school was the wrestling coach. He would always answer his phone during class. He also favored the people who played sports over people who didn't play sports. It was hard to ask for help because he had no idea who I was.
ReplyDeleteIn South AFrica we have websites where pictures are randomly selected to placed on. One day I got to school and there were pictures of two 24 year old teachers up in all the restrooms. The picture showed them both holding alcohol and they were clearly intoxicated.These teachers were new to the school and had not had the opportunity to earn respect yet so as soon we all saw the pictures we lost respect immediately and it took a few years for them to get their record clear. I know that I personally did not make an effort to show them much respect.
ReplyDeleteThrough my years of education almost all of my teachers have been professional except for one. In my first semester at a community college my College Comp I teachers had unprofessional behavior. Overall she was not bad but, she had her favorits. She was a harsh grader, and for the same paper of the same quality she gave one a C and the other an A. The two had almost the same errors, but she apparently always gave this young man an A on every piece of homework, and paper we had. I do not mean to sound rude, or mean, but he was not a very bright person.
ReplyDeleteMy High School History teacher didn't know how to pronounce the word "Nazi" correctly. She also had no clue what she was talking about when it comes to history, and when I respectfully challenged her she just said I was being rude and disrespectful. I think teachers should know what they are talking about.....especially history teachers. Which is why I'm gonna be the best darn History teacher ever.
ReplyDeleteI had a teacher who wore suits to class everyday. He would wear two and three piece suits with a matching tie and shoes. I always thiught he looked very nice. I think he dressed as professional as someone could have. Even in the summer when it was 80 degrees outside.
ReplyDeleteIn high scholl I had a teacher that cursed in class all the time. He was extremely profane in front of students with absolutely no regard for professionalism. this a was a terrible judgement call onhis part and his lack of professionalism was reflected back at him because none of the students had any respect for him.
ReplyDeleteExcellent posts! I can't wait to talk about these today. It is great to read your reflections about professionalism.
ReplyDeleteMost of my teachers were very professional in everything they did. They all dresses professional and acted professional most of the time. The school did have those teachers that were there more to be your best friend than to teacher, and there were those other teachers that had a sexism attitude, but for the most part the teachers that I had were very professional in the way they presented themselves, and they way they represented the school.
ReplyDeleteMy high school for the most part was very solid in all its education programs except for the music. When i was going through high school, I had a different choir director for all four years i was in choir. they were all pretty good teachers, but the students were so horrible they would run the teachers out. My senior year, i had a director that actually just graduated from Lindenwood and she had a need to relate to all her students, which is a good thing but, she went way too far. One day she showed up to class and she had gotten her nose pierced. Im deffinatley not against nose piercing at all. In fact, i think they are cute, but i thought it was very unprofessional of her. Its deffinatley not something i would do if i was a teacher.
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