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That reminds me of such a funny story that happened to me myself.   I was immitating my nasty teacher behind her back but she turned around and saw it!!! She made me stand in front of everybody.
"See this naughty child.Don't follow her."....Well,it's over.  
Teacher,teacher,teacher....... 
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I would simply tolerate the teacher and try not to get into trouble. I would do this even though I'm normally a very rebellious person. |
From that day on, I tried to do like that. I'm quite a rebellious student in the class. But because of the traditional rule, to respect a teacher's words, I behaved obediently. Once my teacher commanded to move to another table where it was really stuffy (the room wasn't air-conditioned), I refused it because I had a right to sit not far, but at the back, near enough I could hear him. He still persisted in controlling his power by raising his voice a bit and saying that he felt uncomfortably hot too but he could bear all this heat, so why not me too? Yeah, at last I torelated it, though.
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| A lot depends on why the kids hate the teacher. When I was 12, one of our teachers was an old lady whom everybody hated. We disliked her because she was a tough disciplinarian, not because of anything she did wrong. In fact, she was one of the best teachers in our school. She taught us geography and social studies, and the advantage of being in her class was that she had been absolutely everywhere in the world and seen everything with her own eyes. She had traveled everywhere back in the days when traveling was very difficult. She had been in the African jungle, in colonial China and Vietnam, in the Himalaya mountains, and in many other places, and she'd seen firsthand how people in those places lived. We heard stories from her that no other teacher could have told us, and many years later I still remember them. The only reason we hated her was that she was so strict. She was also quite fair, but we still didn't like her. |
I would like her to some extent, though. That's because she made students learn. But I don't very much like it when teachers make students learn too hard and try to stuff or push every information into the students' brain without realizing that it's a human's brain/head, not a computer's. It needs relaxing and recharging too.
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| If I found a student imitating me, I would be less worried about her doing it than about whether the imitation was realistic. It's normal for kids to make fun of their teachers behind their backs, so any teacher who gets upset about it will drive himself crazy. In my opinion, kids' imitations of my behavior would be very educational for me, and I'd see if there was something good or bad that I could learn from them. However, I might still PRETEND to be angry. |
Please excuse me for saying " if you were one of my teachers, you would be the one of which your actions/motions I would imitate every day."
If you might still pretend to be angry, what would you do to the student?
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| #18 (permalink) Sat Oct 06, 2007 21:30 pm How do you celebrate teachers' day in your country? |
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Please excuse me for saying " if you were one of my teachers, you would be the one of which your actions/motions I would imitate every day."
If you might still pretend to be angry, what would you do to the student? |
I wouldn't do anything to the student, especially if his imitation of me was really funny. I might imitate his imitation of me in the classroom, and the kids would probably get a little scared and think, "Uh-oh, he saw it!" which would be discipline enough.
When I was teaching in a foreign high school, I used to see kids play tricks on teachers, including me. Most teachers would get angry and disgusted over the trick, but I usually didn't. Sometimes the trick was something I did myself at that age, and sometimes the trick was very imaginative and funny. If it's funny, and it doesn't cause any trouble, why get upset about it? If all it does is make the class laugh for a couple of minutes, who cares? It makes life more fun!
However, I have to say that when a trick was not funny and truly malicious, I could really bear my fangs. |
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| #19 (permalink) Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:41 am How do you celebrate teachers' day in your country? |
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| I wouldn't do anything to the student, especially if his imitation of me was really funny. I might imitate his imitation of me in the classroom, and the kids would probably get a little scared and think, "Uh-oh, he saw it!" which would be discipline enough. |
You're a good teacher, then. 
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| When I was teaching in a foreign high school, I used to see kids play tricks on teachers, including me. Most teachers would get angry and disgusted over the trick, but I usually didn't. Sometimes the trick was something I did myself at that age, and sometimes the trick was very imaginative and funny. If it's funny, and it doesn't cause any trouble, why get upset about it? If all it does is make the class laugh for a couple of minutes, who cares? It makes life more fun! |
I think, if learning isn't fun, it isn't worth learning. Agree?
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| However, I have to say that when a trick was not funny and truly malicious, I could really bear my fangs. |
Well, the students might just want to try you on, Teacher.
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| #20 (permalink) Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:53 am How do you celebrate teachers' day in your country? |
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| I think, if learning isn't fun, it isn't worth learning. Agree? |
I definitely don't agree. There are lots of things that are not fun to learn, but they must be learned. People who want all learning to be fun may avoid these subjects, never learn the material, and then they suffer later in life. I suffer because I never learned math well. |
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| #21 (permalink) Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:33 am How do you celebrate teachers' day in your country? |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: |
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| I think, if learning isn't fun, it isn't worth learning. Agree? |
I definitely don't agree. There are lots of things that are not fun to learn, but they must be learned. People who want all learning to be fun may avoid these subjects, never learn the material, and then they suffer later in life. I suffer because I never learned math well. |
But I think it's partly true. If learning something isn't fun, it's not worth learning.
Well, I mean.. I think learning math can be fun if it makes you feel happy when you learn it. If someone thinks math as a very bad subject, not a fun subject, then he/she can't learn it well.
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| I suffer because I never learned math well. |
People have different talents. You can't force yourself to learn what you don't have interest in. Now you might be very good at language instead of math...Agree?
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| #22 (permalink) Mon Oct 08, 2007 12:25 pm How do you celebrate teachers' day in your country? |
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| People have different talents. You can't force yourself to learn what you don't have interest in. Now you might be very good at language instead of math...Agree? |
I don't believe in talent. I believe in intelligence, but not specific talents. If a person has no unusual problems, like dyslexia, he can learn anything he focuses on. The problem with me and math was that as a child I had decided I was an "artist", and I balked at math. Now I can see that I could have learned math quite well if I hadn't refused to.
I should also say that I was taught math by an experimental method that was later determined not to work. A lot of Americans my age have trouble with math because they were taught with this method. |
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| #23 (permalink) Mon Oct 08, 2007 22:16 pm How do you celebrate teachers' day in your country? |
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Hi everyone,
We have a teachers' day in Turkey, but we celebrate it on 24 November. It is a very special day for teachers in my country because everyone in Turkey thinks that teaching is a holly job to do. Students give presents to their teachers on that day and usually there is a ceremony to be held at schools on the very day.
Throwing pencils and things like that are so common in Turkey too, but generally teachers are respected by their students in my country (Thanks God)
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| #25 (permalink) Tue Oct 09, 2007 6:06 am How do you celebrate teachers' day in your country? |
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| aydincelenk wrote: |
Hi everyone,
We have a teachers' day in Turkey, but we celebrate it on 24 November. It is a very special day for teachers in my country because everyone in Turkey thinks that teaching is a holly job to do. Students give presents to their teachers on that day and usually there is a ceremony to be held at schools on the very day.
Throwing pencils and things like that are so common in Turkey too, but generally teachers are respected by their students in my country (Thanks God)
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Hey Aydincelenk,
Teaching there is a holy job.That's great. How you celebrate it sounds like one my friends made. Ahh...in my country, throwing pencils and things like that very rarely happens.
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| #26 (permalink) Tue Oct 09, 2007 21:21 pm How do you celebrate teachers' day in your country? |
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Hi Nicholas,
In Turkish we have a saying; "I can work for forty years for the one who teaches me a letter." and that shows how holy teachers are in my country. Teaching is thought to be the profession of prophets.
As there are some noughty students in every class, we have some in our classes, so it is not strange to hear from some of the teachers that some students throw pencils in the class. |
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| #27 (permalink) Tue Oct 09, 2007 23:38 pm How do you celebrate teachers' day in your country? |
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| In the USA we throw pencils at our teachers. |
We never threw pencils at our teachers, but from time to time we organized a cattle drive. |
ROFL
We did blow spitwads at each other, but never at a teacher. We at least showed that much courtesy/respect. hehe
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