Instructors and Students

This week in my freshman seminar class, we discussed good and bad qualities of students and teachers.

For good teachers, they must be able to hold that student’s attention, be relatable, have clear expectations, give respect and also be professional. Bad teachers will be late to class, speaks softly, have extremely bad hand writing, and won’t know much about what they are talking about or they just get off topic really easily.

Good students will show great worth ethic, contributes in class, is always prepared and is on time. Bad students will not even go to class, are disruptive, have missing assignments, gives excuses, sleeps in the middle of class and the list goes on and on.

For you to get the most out of a class, the relationship between you and an instructor should be a good one where you know he/she is there to teach you and you are going to get your monies worth with a good education and the instructor wants to know that you are there ready to learn and contribute and really engage yourself. Since you are in college you have the ability to choose your own classes so that means you can also select your own teachers. Do whatever is possible to find out about the instructor before you sign up for that class because you will be stuck with the instructor for 11 weeks.

If for some reason you feel like you are receiving disrespect from and instructor you have the right to gain it by going to the guidance office or finding a solution for it.

Zak