Teachers, How To Instantly Gain Respect At School? | School Stories #36

what did a teacher do that made you automatically gain respect for them i went to a small charter school for middle school our english literature teacher was brand new to teaching if i remember correctly she was only 22 which seemed old at the time she always did her best to be so cheerful and make learning fun but the thing that truly solidified her spot as my favorite teacher was that for every student's birthday she would give you a personalized mini notebook it was just a simple small composition notebook but she had filled the first couple pages telling me how much she loved having me as a student how far she knew i would go and other affirmations it seems small but as a 13 year old who had a crappy home life it made all the difference in how i acted the rest of the year i've never wanted to do something for students so much i had a physical education teacher who organized basketball volleyball handball and football tournaments organized olympic games for the local kids and taught us dancing on weekends on his own just for us kids because we lived in a remote place without many activities and things going on he was more than a simple teacher when i was in the first grade my mother gave me one of many really awful haircuts the first day back at school afterward the kids picked on me horribly so much that i ran out and hid the principal found me and we went back to the classroom and he asked me to wait outside for a minute while he talked to the class he then walked me to his office and bought me a coke the next day first thing in the morning we had an assembly with the entire school and he walked up on stage with his head shaved completely bald and talked about bullying and the like some 20 years down the road he had retired and i ran into him at the local college s hooked his hand and said you probably don't remember me but yes i do he interrupted and said my name in the event the man was and is a hero in my eyes mad respect to him when i was a kid we had to purchase these red punch cards to get lunch at school unfortunately we didn't have that much money so there were times where my punch card would run out and i wasn't able to eat for a while until we got enough money to repurchase another one why nobody in my family applied for assistance was beyond me full stop i had one teacher who noticed i wasn't eating every day and she would bring an extra sandwich and offer it to me whenever she saw that i really didn't understand how kind that was when i was a kid but obviously as an adult that was such an amazing gesture of kindness not take my crap i was a pretty decent writer in school able to pop stuff out pretty quickly that was superficial but sounded good the first time i had a teacher hand my work back pointing out that i managed to compellingly fail to say anything was sort of a slap in the face that i didn't realize i needed same here i've been able to bulls my way through most english classes but i'll never forget the professor that told me she knew i could do better and give more than i was this will probably get lost but i want to shout out this teacher of mine she was our ap english language teacher for our senior year of high school on one of the first days in her class she explained how she went from being a kindergarten teacher to a high school senior teacher she always saw her cute and happy kindergarten kids but as they grew up and they came back to visit her a lot of them came to her troubled and dissatisfied with their lives it made her real emotional about how people had treated these kids she loved so much how she couldn't afford to see kids so disconnected with life and how she didn't want them to suffer as they headed out towards college and their adult lives so she changed curriculums and started teaching seniors if i remember right it always came down to sending her kids off with a smile prepping them for the real world i respect the heck out of her and she'll always be one of my favorites truly like a mother to all her students i'm epileptic and had a large set of seizures not long before finals in high school chemistry my seizures tend to mess with my memory and those multiple seizures had devastated my memory of everything i'd learned in class that semester i was doing reasonably well in class but absolutely bombed the test after the failed test i ended up just shy of passing the class and he decided to give me a bonus question that passed me i didn't expect that but the empathy was nice to see from a teacher even still the whole situation sucked my math teacher told me i should have studied better he then offered for me to retake the test which seems reasonable enough but there was no point as it was just all gone i've only had one since that was worse than that but fortunately i've got an understanding employer it doesn't hurt that i've got the union rep as well i had a professor once state that she doesn't believe in trick questions students trick themselves up enough without the professor helping that along she never did put trick questions junior year of high school english class we were discussing a story we had read one student let's call him carl made a point the teacher was dismissive and basically said cole was wrong the next day after we took our seats the teacher said before we begin i was thinking about what carl said yesterday i was wrong to dismiss it so quickly let's take a look at that again he then went on to repeat carl's point and initiate a conversation with the entire class after the conversation it became apparent carl's point was indeed off base but i was impressed the teacher publicly owned his mistake and went down the path he should have a math teacher went to the hospital several times to visit a student who had been seriously injured in an accident the teacher offered companionship free tutoring and genuine encouragement math teacher i don't care if you have good grades or bad grades if you work hard i will work harder to make you pass he worked hard for me i passed told us a joke about his name before we could and allowed us to eat during his classes because kids your age can't help being hungry all the time as long as we did it quietly great guy his whole attitude made all of us actually pay attention and do our best instead of shouting at my loud class 4 not shutting up before the lesson began my history teacher decided to quietly tell the story of a pink elephant that wanted to be an astronaut after a few seconds people started to shut up and listen about the pink elephant when everyone was quiet and listening he stopped mid-story as much as it made me respect him why didn't you finish the story ffs that cliffhanger it was a professor but she said she wasn't going to have a textbook for the class basically she didn't respect the textbook representatives trying to take the farmer approach to force kids to buy on 170 access code instant respect you just had to show up to the lectures and she teach you what you needed to know i had a professor who legit said i don't require a textbook because i think their scams much appreciated english teacher in high school asked where my homework was responded i forgot to do it and he said to the rest of the class why can't you guys be like scratch that he doesn't come up with some excuse he just tells me he didn't do it lol i would always tell my teachers i didn't finish it sounds a bit better than i didn't do it i had a business studies teacher who used to be a mental health professional so she knew the signs when my depression was particularly bad for example submitting work at 3am and would always make sure i had eaten and offered me coffee and generally made her classroom a safe space for anyone cestine if you're reading this you're amazing i moved out of home during high school it was stressful to say the least i started to fall behind in assignments i would be absent for days at time i missed tests etc i ended up explaining the bare minimum of my situation to my english teacher and their response always stuck with me just do what you can it may not seem like much but right then and there for 16 year old kid who felt like simply living with a burden it was everything treated kids with autism and asperger's like actual human beings in my school i was in a special needs unit for kids with asperger's and autism called the cdu communication disorder unit the kids and their ranged from having mild asperger's to fool on severe autism and as such most teachers treated everyone from there like they had severe mental health problems just because they were labeled as having autism or asperger's even if it was very mild but there was one support teacher in the cdu who was genuinely just a nice dude whether he was talking to kids who had severe autism or just some mild social anxiety he wouldn't talk extra slowly or call you bud or pal at the end of a sentence he would talk to everyone like they were real human beings it might seem like a small thing but when that's how pretty much all teachers talk to you and treated you in every class it was very refreshing to talk to someone who would talk to you based on who you were as a person rather than treating someone differently for being labeled as autistic thankfully this program didn't exist at my school aspies had 504s and more severe cases had ieps and certain classes were done by special teachers or with an extra teacher nobody was made to feel stupid or less than other students that teacher is the kind that all neurodivergent students love my band director he laughed with us he talked to us like people instead of lowly teenage students and he read to us the power of positive thinking he saw a need for it some of the kids were bored out of their skulls and thought it was stupid but some of us listened personally i love that he recognized a problem and took action i've been out of high school for wow 30 years this year i'm still in touch with him he's the most influential person in my life that is not related to me and it's because he chose to invest and do more than bare minimum as a teacher it's really interesting how a teacher can be so influential for one student while another student may hate them because they were bored out of their skulls i always hope that a student can connect with at least one teacher during secondary school in my first year of high school my class decided to play a simple prank on our english social teacher by all laughing when he faced the board and then stopping every time he turned around to face us after a few minutes of this he just left the classroom without a word we all sat there confused until a few minutes later the assistant principal comes in and explains that we've really upset our teacher he made us believe we'd seriously fricked up then our teacher walked in and pretty much went gotcha that son of a b had our respect from the non my high school science teacher paused class to rip a student apart for bullying another student called it out as soon as it happened in front of everyone and that bully never went near that other kid again we'll always remember that meanwhile my elementary school teacher blamed a bullied kid for being bullied we had a pretty cool and badass teacher in fifth grade he was cool made jokes made lessons fun but at the same time didn't take crap we had these really naughty boys in our class like they pulled pranks skipped class bullied other kids never turned in assignments or projects one day they did something really bad don't remember what it was and it made our teacher really really mad i was like this is it we all about to be a bunch of witnesses i thought he was about to put hands on these kids this man was livid he called the main instigator to the front of the class and just stared at him for what seemed like forever and this kid was just like not bothered had an attitude this teacher then starts talking cool and calm lecturing this kid about all the bad choices he's making about how he needs to think about if those choices are going to get him anywhere in life stuff like that he brought that kid to tears this kid who thought he was the crap oh so cool untouchable will never have to face the music kind of kid he stood there in tears the teacher wasn't rude or disrespect didn't like hit the kid or scream and shout at the kid simply spoke to him about making better choices teacher said the lecture we a lesson to all of us i just think it was so cool the way the teacher handled it spoke to him all of us in a way that made us think about our future for the first time make good choices it was small but he told us he was going to be in a bad mood that day because someone stole his bike just treating us like people was something that was rare in that school i love honesty like this i remember my first math class in college i didn't take any math my senior year of high school because i finished my math requirements my junior year anyway the first math test hit me like a truck after never having to try in high school and i scored in the low 60s the next three tests i learned to study and got 398's in a row the last week of class the professor who was a hard boss by the way and would kick you out for having your phone out called me up to her desk after class and said clearly you were having a bad day that first exam so don't worry about that great because i won't count it it really changed my view of that professor i had an english teacher back in high school that offered a mercy to everyone in the class you could drop one assignment or test for the year as someone who has blacked out when doing a speech two years before i just told her to remove me from the speech list i remember my fifth grade teacher had every student circle one book from the scholastic book fair flyer when the day came for the fair if you didn't go to the library to purchase that book for yourself she will buy it with her own money to make sure every student got to take a book home i wouldn't have had any books of my own if it weren't for her i had a teacher like that i would have hand me downs from the 50s if i didn't get books like that and i love that she did that i had a principal in a new school i hadn't met yet because the first day of school at my new high school was my dad's funeral he had no idea what i looked like but he sought me out in the really crowded hallways and gave me a hug and his condolences never felt creepy only cared about he went on to local politics and became our mayor only time i have truly voted for the best person for the job and not the least objectionable your principal is good man he go heaven i had a teacher in elementary school who was prone to outbursts he had a short fuse at least compared to every other adult i knew at the time for instance when several of us in class weren't listening he'd throw a piece of chalk against the wall to get our attention honestly we just thought he was crazy a year or maybe two years later the school had a talent show like a big one in the gym in front of everyone one of my classmates was really into music and wanted to play a drum solo our teacher had mentioned offhand that he used to be in a band and played drums so my classmate asked him sort of dared like kids often do with adults to play a solo in front of the school and he did he freaking rocked it but that's not what made me respect him turns out the band he played for was a very successful and at the time quite popular arc band he left just before they became popular because he wanted to be a teacher he chose teaching kids over the chance at fame and fortune and didn't regret it edit decided to look him up and he's still a teacher and doing very well made me smile you can't post that without telling us the name of the band i had a professor that made it crystal clear that if we ever made an appointment and didn't show up he'd take five points off of our final grade i tried to find him during office hours and he wasn't available i told him that i deserved an extra five points because he wasn't available when he said he would be and he gave it to me in the interest of fairness people who stay true to their teachings are always great provided that their teachings are moral i had a professor in college who was five minutes late to the start of an 8 a.m lecture and clearly distraught she started by apologizing for the delay and explaining that she just got off the phone with her sister telling her that her mother just died of cancer the remainder of her lectures for the day were cancelled but she was going to try to keep it together enough to do ours since we were already there so early in the morning i respected that she decided to give us the lecture we had comfort despite being in the immediate shock of mourning a loved one and being vulnerable enough to tell us i had a teacher in the sixth grade who gave me a c-plus on a poster project that i turned in when he saw my disappointment he asked what grade do you think you should have gotten i thought for a second and said a b-plus he immediately scratched out the grade and gave me a b-plus tragically i saw in the news a few years later that he drowned while on a fishing trip that got to me had an extremely zany teacher who taught psychology and had the last name ward psycho personality in the best way possible to fit her name and job never met someone who fit their name and job description so well worse she taught driver's ed too on the side she was the type whose any personality was a big plus most of her kids loved her but if you left around in her class she'd eject you from it with extreme prejudice she still teaches and she teaches very well as an aside there was also this middle-aged woman who was basically a hall monitor and filled in any other position she could think of as well as handing out intentions or suspensions if she caught you effing around instead of being where you were supposed to be small lady absolutely no nonsense and tough as nails she wouldn't take crap from you but also incredibly fair overall i realized she knew when to bend my older two siblings hated her because she always caught them skipping class smoking or worse i got along with her very well and never caused her any trouble i asked her once about my little brother and she said he was a good kid and while she'd had to give him detention a few times she was also proud of him because when he got into a fight he did it for the right reasons my little bros are very tall hulking guy and never hesitated to defend someone from a bully it got him a few detentions for fighting but apparently she made it clear she was proud of him for standing up for others nonetheless i repeated this later to my brother and he said she was a very good woman very fair and that he'd liked her for that fairness and her sheer guts my astronomy teacher in high school was a textbook nerd glasses bowtie mustache pocket protector the whole deal there was a group of senior girls that would mock him mercilessly one day he noticed a pack of cigarettes hanging out of one of their purses as he walked by during his lecture he reached down and pulled one cigarette out of the box he proceeded to insert the tip of the cigarette into his nose and continued the lesson like nothing was wrong this dude must have kept that cigarette hanging in his nose for 30 minutes without mentioning it once at the end of class he casually walked back to the girl's desk grabbed the pack out of her purse inserted the nose cigarette then shook the pack and handed it back to the girl without a word it was such a baller move rock on mr keith holy crap that's freaking hilarious mr keith is a genius i had been put in a lower set due to class capacity issues he started off with a sph around what we would be learning this year and then assigned work to the class after that he walked up to me and gave me a big book with the syllabus and told me he knew i'm too smart for this class and instead of following what the class does he wants me to work through the syllabus at my pace faster than others being implied and he would come and check on me after assigning work to everyone else he said i could do lots of little each class but i needed to finish the book by the end of the year super duper motivated me to smash his class i had a principal in high school that was extremely strict and was always looking to get people in trouble it got to the point where everyone knew that even the teachers hated him but none of them ever said anything about it because they didn't want to lose their jobs well there was this one kid that was being accused of something he didn't actually do and one teacher decided she'd had enough of the principal's balls and stood up for the kid she was an amazing teacher and of course he fired her at the end of the school year that didn't stop her from coming to my classes graduation the next year though there was one other teacher that would make comments about the principal in class and insinuated his hatred toward him nobody snitched and at the end of the school year on his last day of teaching he wrote a note saying he quits because of the principle and left it on his desk and never returned love that man mr dionofrio who will probably never see this our middle school's first lockdown drill came without warning like we and the teachers had gone over how to do a lockdown drill and new one would be coming in the next month but the school decided authenticity would be the best for preparation one day in seventh grade science class the nun principal got on the pa and announced lockdown and we all panicked but knew what to do mr deonofrio ushered us into the coat room and told us to sit as far away from the windows as possible and be silent he locked the door and pushed the file cabinets against it we heard banging on the doors and first floor windows some footsteps in the hallway we were silent and terrified i remember two sports ball guys standing up and holding their arms out in front of us like we were in a car about to crash when the banging started the banging was just the hall monitors and the lockdown was just a drill this was in 2007 before school shootings were an epidemic and it was my first lockdown when it was over mr d shed a few real tears while we helped him move the desks and cabinets back for the rest of the class less than 10 minutes he told us each how he loved us all and would do anything to protect every one of us no matter what he was really shaken just like we were but he never tried to hide it nobody in the class made any jokes about him being gay for crying or telling us he loved us we all saw a grown man experience real fear and courage and every one of us respected him for it after that nobody ever was disrespectful or talked over him in class i was in college and my teacher ran in about 10 minutes late his excuse went something like this him sorry i'm late guys i was it's not really important ah yeah just that me a smartus godzilla him without missing a beat nope mothra a small thing like a sense of humor is nice had a science teacher he was absolutely terrific a great teacher a great everything so one day his class was going one when i felt like i was getting my periods but within a few minutes it was clear that i was getting them because of the cramps now i didn't want to ask him because i had to tell him but i also needed to go to the bathroom he noticed said i could leave the class whenever i wanted to without me asking and continued to teach still one of the best teachers i've had my fourth grade teacher would have a classroom yard sale every year after she did her annual spring cleaning her daughter was about 13 so the things she'd recently outgrown would be age appropriate for us i'm aware this wouldn't work out every year and i'm not sure how long she taught at our school but she told us it was a regular thing we didn't have to pay for them if we needed or wanted something we could have it there was some sort of lesson incorporated into the yard sale how to trade or value money or something like that so we didn't feel embarrassed if we needed a few more things and the other kids did i wish i could remember exactly how it worked but this happened in 1994 she was an all-around great teacher thanks miss farrell whose name i've probably misspelled your class was fun he admitted that he didn't particularly want to be a teacher but did it for a stable career the type of guy who should have been an english phd but didn't have the money to chase an academic career like that he was way too good to be teaching high school english probably a teacher you guys deserved my teacher was asking a student in the hallway to quiet down as they were disrupting her class the student proceeds to not quiet down and begins bombarding the teacher with teenage insults the teacher who if you can imagine is a shortish hippie lady in her late 50s one of the nicest people i know and would always have time to help you with an assignment regardless what she was currently doing anyway the student who is still raging starts walking away from my teacher and the first words my teacher says to him after asking him to quiet down is i'm sorry have a good rest of your day it took me some time to understand what she did that day she knew that the student wasn't angry at her for asking him to be quiet he was angry due to personal reasons and he was just lashing out and she let the student release some of that anger towards her and when it was done she responded with only kindness after hearing hate for minutes i have a solid amount of respect for almost all teachers but for her i have the most she taught me that kindness can only be spread through kindness dang i think i have only seen two teachers professors ever to have such understanding compassion if you are new to the channel you can subscribe i 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Length: 26min 49sec (1609 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 14 2021