Teachers and enjoyment of lesson

[Immenseman]

For a lot of lessons and people they only enjoy the lesson if they like the teacher. Do you think you could enjoy a lesson you loved even if you had a horrible teacher?

[Pyroka]

For a lot of lessons and people they only enjoy the lesson if they like the teacher. Do you think you could enjoy a lesson you loved even if you had a horrible teacher?

No not everrr, I more enjoy lessons which I hate with cool teachers. Makes it fun, I've got a lesson now with a subject I find boring but the teacher is the lolz, seriously he's off da HOOK.

[Immenseman]

Yeah, likewise. Although, I have a natural passion for History :love3: I reckon I might still be able to enjoy it even if the teacher is horrid.

[Barmi]

It's is hugely variable... but generally, no. In my first year of Maths A-level I had an excellent teacher and I loved the subject. In my second year of Maths A-level I had a horrid teacher and I hated the subject.

[Immenseman]

But if you really LOVED it then surely you still would regardless of the teacher

[Minstrels]

Put it this way yeah?

Since year seven our school had this decent history teacher so all like... over 50% of my year chose history for a GCSE subject. Then after year 10 she goes on that leave thing because she's having a baby. We now have this proper **** women who can't do ****.

Her lessons consist of copying off a presentation on the computer and answering questions off a sheet.

She's childish, she's one of those people who if it doesn't go her way she'll "take her bat and ball home".

She's emotional, we told her she was a **** teacher and we're going to fail now because of her.

Every year our head teacher and teachers write the reports, in year 10 all but eight people were predicted they were going to pass history. Now we have this new teacher half of the people who chose history are predicted to fail.


She's crap. History is crap. It was good, but she turned it crap.

[Immenseman]

You get good teachers up North?? Don't be stupid, lol.

[Minstrels]

You get good teachers up North?? Don't be stupid, lol.
Yer we do.

[Immenseman]

How come you're all so thick? :S

[Madox]

Yeah course we have a teacher for Carrers hes the biggest idot ever carrers is basically ict in are school so we love it its a time for us to play games and catch up ( he just gives people random grades Like 1 peice of work hes like very well done u got an B and you just write random stuff)

[Barmi]

But if you really LOVED it then surely you still would regardless of the teacher
Nope. Remember that in school and sixth-form the teacher still has control over the lesson and how you engage with the material. It is possible for a teacher to manipulate the lessons in such a way that you feel you cannot continue, regardless of whether you like the content or not. If the content you love is being delivered to you in a poor way, it often becomes very difficult to feel as attached to it.

Take Drama, for example. This is not my own experience, but it does happen. Some people may get a teacher who severely limits the practical time the students have, and put a heavy focus on the reading/thinking and theory aspects of the subject. I could quite easily someone no longer having a passion for that subject if they had an experience like that.

If the teaching dynamic wasn't so important, why are new teachers in state schools required to be dynamic and engaging with their subject, and expected to foster that passion in students? :P


You get good teachers up North?? Don't be stupid, lol.
Yes, we do. :(

[StripedTiger]

i have an average ability of most subjects
i only ever show real progression or intelligence when i like the teacher

gcse single science i went from a D/C to an A
biology as level i went from U/E to a high C

both situations ive liked the teacher

gcse maths i got a B and i could remember everything so well and could do questions the first time round. When it came to as level, i didnt like the teacher and finished as maths with a U

:P so pretty much, if you like the teacher, you enjoy the lessons, you work harder / better etc. thats what i believe

[Immenseman]

I totally agree with you Barmi, just playing devils advocate.

[Alkaz]

No not really, I had teachers I liked in lessons I loved but when they changed and we had a rubbish or nasty teacher I suddenly did not want to go to that lesson :(

[Barmi]

I totally agree with you Barmi, just playing devils advocate.
Awwwh, come on... he can defend himself! :D

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[Immenseman]

Need to provoke discussion with you dead lot!

[Kent]

When I was in school, if a teacher was too nice they were considered a push over and couldn't control class.
Strict teachers would just get abused
People in the middle would get moaned at as people said they had sudden mood swings.

you just can't win.

[Immenseman]

Yeah, but a teacher can be strict and nice.

[Kent]

they can't, they get ****** over.

[Immenseman]

well maybe just in your unruly school!!

[Soka]

At school, no. If the teachers horrible, the lessons were horrible from my own experiences my ICT teacher was an absolute **** and it led to me despising ICT until i left school. On the other hand, my excellent maths teacher at school furthered my interest and enjoyment in the subject. At college, yes. As a lot of my work is independantly done and the teacher has less control of lessons etc. So i'm assuming university will be a bigger yes due to even less control and a greater independance.

[Rozi]

I find it hard to like a subject if I don't like the teacher because of their teaching style or personality, but saying that, I really like my physics teachers personality but they can't teach at all, so I don't like physics.

[Bun]

It's is hugely variable... but generally, no. In my first year of Maths A-level I had an excellent teacher and I loved the subject. In my second year of Maths A-level I had a horrid teacher and I hated the subject.
JULIE :rude:.

Even when I outsmart the bloody booklet she still finds a way to put me down :@:@

[Jassim]

Usually having a nice teacher does make the lesson more enjoyable but that's not always the case..

[e5]

If I had P.E where we were doing practical and I had the teacher I hated, then yeah it would be fine lol. anything else probs no coz we're more enclosed nd they cud beef at me lolol

[camera]

For a lot of lessons and people they only enjoy the lesson if they like the teacher. Do you think you could enjoy a lesson you loved even if you had a horrible teacher?
no way. ill probably sleep during his/her lesson or doodle in the textbook/notes

[Hecktix]

I remember in year 8 I was in second set for maths. We were given the strictest teacher in the whole school, he was a former RAF Pilot and basically treated his class like the people below him in the RAF.

I didn't particularly like maths, but I didn't despise the lessons despite this teacher constantly telling me that I'm a lazy piece of dirt...

Afterall.. I was in set 1 the next year...

Otherwise I think it's highly dependant on the teacher for a young student to enjoy their lessons, afterall they're in school 'cause they have to be, and obviously the lessons they will enjoy are those which are fun.

However I think as we get older, and start doing subjects of our choices we will enjoy them, irrespective of the teacher. However again this has it's limitations, last year when I did English Lit AS, which is a subject I am hugely passionate about, I despised it because my teacher was a selfish son of a *****.

But I love psychology so much this year, it doesnt matter my teacher has a penis on his head.

[Janeisntpleased]

law would of been absolute hell if my teacher wasn't a god.

[5,5]

if all a teacher does is lecture then i dont do well in the class. if they do fun things and crack jokes and do visual things, i do very well.
i learn better when i see it, not just hear it.

[RandomManJay]

I would say that you still can enjoy the lesson, but it would harder if you have a teacher you don't like.

[AlexOC]

The only lessons i look forward to like Science, History and PE, are teached by cool teachers, and i think if i got a crap teacher in one of them i would hate it.

[Immenseman]

I think it's a global thing that design tech teachers are scary, lol

[AlexOC]

I think it's a global thing that design tech teachers are scary, lol

It's the weapons they have around.

Turn your back on them BAM, Drill in your face.

[Immenseman]

It's the weapons they have around.

Turn your back on them BAM, Drill in your face.
LOL. They just scare every pupil at my school :(

[Crimson]

I dont think I could.

[Four]

No, the teachers make the atmosphere.

[Angel-Light]

We have discussed this in my Education seminar at Uni. We came to a conclusion (my classmates and I :P) that the enjoyment of the pupils to like the subject counts the most as it becomes a pain when you are trying to teach a class of 20 pupils who are bored half to death.

From my own experience it is a mixture really. I had a great teacher for English in Higher but I hated the subject. In Maths and Computing I liked both subject and teacher so I don't know where that puts me :P