How Does A Teacher Earn Respect?

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In your opinion, how should a teacher earn respect? I posted a blog about this. Please take a look, and check out the Youtube video I posted a link to.


http://dwarren57.wordpress.com/2010/11/ ... n-respect/

Last edited by d057 on 02 Dec 2010, 5:44 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Teachers deserve no respect. No gods, no master.

Why do you say that?

Respect is a two-way street. I won't respect a teacher unless they respect me (and the inverse is often true.)

I almost always respect a teacher who has an obvious passion for their subject, and wants to will that passion onto others. I don't think I've ever liked a teacher who doesn't like their subject, even if I might respect them otherwise.

I think (suspect) he has trouble with authority. Which is not uncommon among aspies.

For me, I have a huge problem to recognize someone superior to me if I deem them unfit for any reason. Like having to listen to a teacher that is very incapable of teaching. However, if a teacher does seem fit for the job (and as a person) then I have no problem with them at all and will gladly listen to them. This also works the other way: a good teacher listens to his students. If he doesn't, he will fail one day.

To sum things up, a teacher earns respect by having respect for his students and a good attitude towards his subject. A good teacher knows his stuff and won't get overrun by his class.

Every one who gives respect deserves respect. Not all get it.

It has nothig to do with being a good teacher - though a good one is more likely to be respectable.

Question is - is the teacher there to learn?

I sincerely hope as I teacher I have been consistently worthy of respect.

Teachers deserve respect until they prove they're not worthy of it individually.
They're more educated,
and are there to help you further your own education.

There have been several instances where I have reported teachers who've said disrespectful things to me, and all administration has told me to do was "suck it up".

Pretty much all teachers are treated badly by the system. Do they deserve respect? Yes. But I do not believe they deserve to be my "boss", or should be allowed to perform that role to another student. I'm paying them, or rather I'm making their bosses rich.

I was sort of raised anti-authoritarian, but the student-teacher relationship should be one where the student can talk to/confront the teacher without being in fear of leaving the school. Understand that the administration abuses the teacher, the board of standards stacks ridiculous expectations on the teacher. And all of this has little or no effect on the actual teacher's teaching ability. Good teachers make the class interesting and have a firm grasp on the subject, the best teachers I've had assigned the least work. The best part: They were renowned by those around them and their classes filled up mighty quick.

We live in a school system/society based on standardized test scores, not academic intelligence. And I do well on those standardized tests.

I'm smart, but honestly, knowing people who have been through the education system makes it difficult to appreciate the worth of a college degree in most areas. I know the statistics thrown at me, but only rarely do I meet an educated person who makes more than the average shift manager at McDonald's.

So be kind to your teacher, he/she is getting treated badly by an inefficient education system that exists so different branches of it can compete better for government money and is bereft of long-term thinking and the benefit of a society that requires/champions those who borrow intensively to get a college degree. Remember, you can always slam him/her in evaluations and he'll never know who did it.

This is the best revenge as teachers who do bad on evaluations tend to get in trouble.

If I teacher respects me, I shall respect them. I can think of only two or three teachers in the past few years where this has happened.