How Was Your Day? #3

[Kim]

It's not a mixed ability class though. I tried talking to him on Wednesday and all he said was that he hoped I'd copied a lot of the stuff of the board. He doesn't give you time to copy it, and I was that confused I couldn't follow what he was doing, let alone do a question by myself. My parents don't care, they're just going to start caring when I start failing, which probably won't be long.

[Abi]

It's not a mixed ability class though. I tried talking to him on Wednesday and all he said was that he hoped I'd copied a lot of the stuff of the board. He doesn't give you time to copy it, and I was that confused I couldn't follow what he was doing, let alone do a question by myself. My parents don't care, they're just going to start caring when I start failing, which probably won't be long.

All teachers do that. You have to be able to listen and write and take it all in at the same time, its a basic skill they get you into when you get to GCSE, ready for A Levels and Further Education. So you can't blame your teacher for that, its just you probably dont realise what teachers are told to do/not to do. The lower classes go a bit slower in the lessons and dont expect you to do it as much, because really, the odds of you going onto Further Education, like degrees, is slimer. But the higher classes are expected to be able to do it, so you've just got to get used to it.

[CrazyLea]

I agree with what Abi said.. it's all preparing you for tougher times. If you cant handle this, then you'll struggle with A levels.. althought tbh, you have ages yet to get used to it Kim.

He doesn't give you time to copy it, and I was that confused I couldn't follow what he was doing, let alone do a question by myself.

Do you raise your hand in class? If he ignores it, shout out! If he ignores you still, just be adamant, demand (kind of ) that he helps you!

E.g Kim: Can I have some help
Teacher: *Ignore ignore ignore*
Kim: EXCUSE ME! I need help. Now unless you want me to fail my exams I suggest you help me

You know what I mean ;)

[Kim]

I got him to explain something to me the other week, and he completely humiliated me whilst he was doing it, not that I was any better afterwards. Lol Lea, I'd get sent out for being rude. He doesn't like me anyway, so that doesn't help matters. Every other lesson I'm fine, it's just that one. He's laughed in my face before and he's done the same to another boy, but I don't think the school are interested. My tutor certainly isn't as I spoke to him in one to one tutoring.

[Abi]

What did he do to "completly humiliate you"? How would you prefer him to teach? He sounds to me like he's just got a good personality, and not afraid to be friendly to pupils and take the **** sometimes. My politics teacher asked me if i take drugs today. That doesn't make him a bad teacher, it just means he has a strange way of teaching, lol!

[Kim]

He was supposed to be showing me it one to one, so instead of sitting at my desk and doing it, he does it on the interactive whiteboard, and no one else was asking for help. He had me telling him what had to be done and writing it down even if it was wrong, for the whole class to see. I can understand him asking me everything to check if I understood, but writing it down even if it was wrong and doing it without the projector paused.

He laughed at me for a wrong answer, and the other boy because he asked for extra work to get his grade up.

[Jojo]

COuld you not take an accounting A Level instead. My friend failed her Maths GCSE and now shes training to be an accountant after doing AAT at college.

Can I do that as well as taking A levels at school then, but just don't take as many subjects?

I didn't do Maths A levels and got a C in my GCSE's but I'm doing an Accountancy course now.

Speak to a careers adviser etc - how many people I know that have left school with nothing like the grades in their GCSE's that you are predicted Kim but have gone on to bigger and better things in life. My cousin left school with hardly any GCSE's but is now a computer programmer on some stupid amount of money per year (something daft like £50k odd).

[Jojo]

He was supposed to be showing me it one to one, so instead of sitting at my desk and doing it, he does it on the interactive whiteboard, and no one else was asking for help. He had me telling him what had to be done and writing it down even if it was wrong, for the whole class to see. I can understand him asking me everything to check if I understood, but writing it down even if it was wrong and doing it without the projector paused.

He laughed at me for a wrong answer, and the other boy because he asked for extra work to get his grade up.

The only thing I would say to this though Kim, is that he might have thought that you were the only one who felt that could ask for help, yet other people in your class, may still have needed the help and been stuck on it, but were too embarrassed to speak to him and request the help they needed.

Laughed? or chuckled thinking how nice it was for children to want to make a difference for a change rather than not giving two hoots what grades they got?!

Sorry if it feels like I'm not being sympathetic, but to me, it seems like a personality clash and even if he does something to try and make you feel more at ease (would you have preferred him shout at you for getting the answer wrong or chuckle/laugh and then go through it with you again?) its wrong, if he ignores you, its wrong and apart from any thing else he hates you?! It seems like you don't like him, you feel that he doesn't like you, which if you probably turned round to him after class and said, Sir I feel like you are always picking on me or making me feel such and such, he would probably be horrified not realising that this was what you were feeling, and that you need to sit down and sort out with him whats going on. Thats what I'd do anyway, if your parents don't want to get involved - sort it out with him yourself, face to face, not go through your tutor etc.

[Tannie]

This Week Has Gone By So Fast. I'm Actually Still Tired. And Now I'm Worrying About My History Exam As We Have To Learn All Of Last Year's Stuff But We Had A Diffrent Teacher And We Know nothing To Do With That Topic.

The Exam Board Or Mr Mcgee (Year Head) Have Mucked Up My Computing Exam Put Me Down As General/Credit (Highest One) Instead Of Taking General/Foundation (Lowest One) HaHa As You Can See I Am Having Dificulty In Most Of My blooming Subjects!

It Didn't Help At Tutoring On Wedensday Either! I Was Talking To Sue And Katie Went "Your Going To Fail" Which Got Me All Worked Up! I Could Of Strangled Her I Really Could!

I Failed My Second French Prelim So If I Do Bad On The Exam The School Can't Hand That One In If I Fail This Exam. I Can't Remember What I Gort In My Prelim In December But Yeah So There's My Week

[Kim]

Can't they change it, Tannie? In the exams we had, they changed the level paper one girl was sitting on the last school day before the exam.

I didn't ask for the help that time. He laughed at the boy as if to say that he didn't think he was capable of the grade that he wanted to get and he's had similar results to me, so I wouldn't risk it. He noticed I was getting upset over it, thinking it was only that topic, but it's everything, which is why I was upset.

Had a barbeque today, which was good, and got quite a bit of my work out of the way.