Sorry for the strong title of this thread, but after today, I really got peed off with some of the other teachers I work with. Don't get me wrong, the majority of teachers are great and do an excellent job. But there will always be a small handful that treat their job:
- as a joke
- as a means to support their lifestyle of drinking
- slacking off
- picking up
- disobeying the rules
I try hard to help my students learn, assigning homework, checking on progress, making notes of weak points for each student and bringing variety into the classroom. My students are allowed to try their hand and to make mistakes in order to develop their own criteria of rightness, correctness and adequacy. However, some of the teachers at my school are more interested in allowing their students to do as they please, run a ruckus and really at the end of the day, these students don't learn a thing. Mainly it happens with the younger students around 10 years of age, as they wont complain about teacher quality. In fact, they will love a teacher more if that teacher is easy on them and resorts to lazy games in the classroom.
I pity the parents of these kids, as they don't know their hard earnt cash is going to waste on a lazy English teacher. It's very wrong, and the management of your school should be alerted to the lack of teaching quality if it occurs.