Here's a collection of stories of my teachers, one from each of my hours in school:

 

Hour 1 - Biology: So my teacher is going around with a rock, seeing if we can identify it as living or non-living. (>.>) He gets to one person who says that she doesn't know. So he asks, "Well, how can we figure it out?" Someone in the room shouts, "Ghostbusters!"...So then my teacher asks if anyone knows their number. No one does, so he goes to the phone and dials up our school secretary and asks her if she knows the number for ghostbusters. She says she doesn't. So we go on. Well, in class a couple days later, the phone rings, and our teacher picks it up. It's the secretary, and she says that she got a hold of ghostbuster, and they're on their way. A couple minutes later, our school principal shows up in a suit with a vacuum cleaner around his back.....

 

Hour 2 - U.S. History: No really awesome story here, although we do spend like 1/10th the time watching YouTube videos. >.>

 

Hour 3 - Marching Band: Our band director bet us that if we won Oktoberfest (our biggest parade that we haven't won in like 10 years), that he'd let our drum major shave his head into a mohawk, and then dye his hair blond. Well, this weekend, (to the surprise of all of us), we placed 1st, and in class today, our drum major shaved his head into a mohawk. (but left the sideburns). It was a pretty big deal. The judges stopped by to hand us our trophy, the principal was present, and someone from a local news channel came in to take some footage and whatnot for their next airing. Tonight he's dying his air, so I'll get to see that tomorrow. =D

 

Hour 4 - Spanish II: Nothing specifically special although Profe does tell lots of weird stories. >.>

 

Hour 5 - English 10: Our teacher used to have a broken podium and thus, whenever anyone leaned on it during the speech, it would fall over. So when they fixed it, she was actually kind of disappointed. When someone in the class suggested that she break it again, she told us that she had already tried, but the new bolts were too strong.

 

Hour 6 - Pre-Calc: There's two kids in our class that always race to see who gets there first. Well, one day just when they were about to enter the room, my teacher slammed the door, and they both ran into it and fell backwards onto the ground.

 

Hour 7 - Intro to Industrial Tech: Okay, this class I dislike and only took it cuz my dad made me. Nothing exciting has really happened yet.

 

Hour 8 - Sophomore Health: Our teacher tells us to exit the room. So we do....A little while later he comes out dressed as some Jamaican Santa Wizard in the Army with a Macarena, and he tells us our wishes are granted....However, it turned out that he had accidentally closed the door, and locked us all out of the classroom. So he used a kid's cell phone to call the office for some keys to let us back in. =p

Lol nice stories. I'm afraid i don't have anything nearly as good.

 

I have block scheduling, so only four classes a semester.

 

Block 1 - DC/AC Principles: The teacher gives out tootsie rolls for knowing t answers to questions. I usually get a lot of them.

 

Block 2 - IT essentials: We walked into class one day to see a picture of a cat sniffing the camera with portal playing in the background. The teacher is just as nerdy as the rest of us.

 

Block 3 - MS Net Admin: Same teacher as second block. She's pretty legit. This is a senior class, and I (a junior) am doing better than half the seniors in it.

 

Block 4 - AP Gov/Lit: This switches on a A/B day schedule. One day we have english, the next gov. Gov keeps degenerating into random debates, and we're planning a toga party in lit.

Locke, I'm sorry to have to be the one to tell you this, but I'm pretty sure the staff at your school are trying to figure out the most hilarious ways to injure all their students. Be wary my friend

Here's a collection of stories of my teachers, one from each of my hours in school:

 

Hour 1 - Biology: So my teacher is going around with a rock, seeing if we can identify it as living or non-living. (>.>) He gets to one person who says that she doesn't know. So he asks, "Well, how can we figure it out?" Someone in the room shouts, "Ghostbusters!"...So then my teacher asks if anyone knows their number. No one does, so he goes to the phone and dials up our school secretary and asks her if she knows the number for ghostbusters. She says she doesn't. So we go on. Well, in class a couple days later, the phone rings, and our teacher picks it up. It's the secretary, and she says that she got a hold of ghostbuster, and they're on their way. A couple minutes later, our school principal shows up in a suit with a vacuum cleaner around his back.....

 

Hour 2 - U.S. History: No really awesome story here, although we do spend like 1/10th the time watching YouTube videos. >.>

 

Hour 3 - Marching Band: Our band director bet us that if we won Oktoberfest (our biggest parade that we haven't won in like 10 years), that he'd let our drum major shave his head into a mohawk, and then dye his hair blond. Well, this weekend, (to the surprise of all of us), we placed 1st, and in class today, our drum major shaved his head into a mohawk. (but left the sideburns). It was a pretty big deal. The judges stopped by to hand us our trophy, the principal was present, and someone from a local news channel came in to take some footage and whatnot for their next airing. Tonight he's dying his air, so I'll get to see that tomorrow. =D

 

Hour 4 - Spanish II: Nothing specifically special although Profe does tell lots of weird stories. >.>

 

Hour 5 - English 10: Our teacher used to have a broken podium and thus, whenever anyone leaned on it during the speech, it would fall over. So when they fixed it, she was actually kind of disappointed. When someone in the class suggested that she break it again, she told us that she had already tried, but the new bolts were too strong.

 

Hour 6 - Pre-Calc: There's two kids in our class that always race to see who gets there first. Well, one day just when they were about to enter the room, my teacher slammed the door, and they both ran into it and fell backwards onto the ground.

 

Hour 7 - Intro to Industrial Tech: Okay, this class I dislike and only took it cuz my dad made me. Nothing exciting has really happened yet.

 

Hour 8 - Sophomore Health: Our teacher tells us to exit the room. So we do....A little while later he comes out dressed as some Jamaican Santa Wizard in the Army with a Macarena, and he tells us our wishes are granted....However, it turned out that he had accidentally closed the door, and locked us all out of the classroom. So he used a kid's cell phone to call the office for some keys to let us back in. =p

 

LMAO

 

I would have loved to go to your crazy school. I also know about a dye hair story. In fifth grade there is a competetion over the whole country. My class did well in the first test and we got to compete in a radio show. If you win three radio show competitions you get to be on tv. My teacher said that if we made it to the tv show then she would dye her hair blue. We did make it to the tv show so she had to show all the viewers her blue hair. We thought it was really funny.

 

I guess I did some crazy stuff when I was a teacher too but I can´t remember anything extraordinary right now.

Lol wow Locke that sounds way better than my school day. 5 points for how much this amused me.

I don't have any awesome college stories yet, but I feel the need to tell some of the stories of my jr high and high school years......

 

*Whoosh through time portal*

 

7th grade english. Oh the stories I could tell. I'll limit it though. First off, you need to know that this teacher programmed his computer to let out an evil laugh whenever he got an email, his dark side was his last name spelled backwards, and he gave every student a nickname. If you got detention with him, he had a "lunchbox of doom" filled with the punches of hole punchers (the little paper circles). He dumped them on the ground and made you pick up every single one. If you forgot a writing utensil for his class he had a "textured" one for you to borrow and you could earn b points (kinda like the currency for his class) by chewing on a pencil/pen then giving it to him to use. If he saw you leave your locker open he rearranged everything for you (I know that one from personal experience :P ) and if you fell asleep in his class he tiptoed over to you and then rang an old fashioned teacher's bell right in your ear. I could tell a bunch of stories, but I will leave you with that overview. I was "Batty" in his class. My brother also ended up having him. He was "Batty Jr."

 

My 10th grade Honors English teacher was also awesome, but for different reasons. He told stories in the funniest way, and took time out of class to answer student's questions. He also had lunch with you if you were ever having a problem and needed someone to talk to (he met with me every thursday for two months because I was going through a really hard time and it REALLY helped). This one time in class, we were applauding for some reason, and the class clown of our class clapped a pattern as it was dying down. Everyone--including the teacher joined in. I can't remember what that pattern was, but we finished it and were all laughing and then got back to work. A minute later we hear something from across the hall... *clap-clap-clapclapclap. Clapclapclapclap...* we all instantly clapped twice. Us and the class across from us literally had a five minute clapping war. It was awesome.

He was also full of stories... Like the time he'd caught someone trying to break in and threatened him with a shotgun....

 

I had many many other awesome teachers, but I can't think of any specific stories right now because the sleep monster struck again last night (and since I haven't been around here long enough for you guys to know what that is--I've been randomly having a ton of trouble sleeping the last few weeks)

 

Oh btw, my class won the clap war. He was like "good job guys!"

I also have a really awesome teacher. For geography. He sometimes threats us like we are on the Primary School, and he has a sort of "favorites" in the class. But in a way it is fun. Once, a boy from my class was sitting a wrong way, and he was ordered to sit the way he learned once, long ago. Then, he said that someone else from the class also sat wrong. Without even looking, my teacher said she had to go outside. They did the same, but the punishment was different. And he always want us to read from the book, and the same five or six people are always asked to read. And many more of that kind of things. If you say something to the person next to you, he doesn't say you have to be quiet. No, he asks what you said, and then says something about it, like "you're right", "you're wrong" or "what do you think of it, [fill in a name]".

Aiel Heart, your 7th grade English teacher sounds like a very intriguing person. I would nae mind to have him for a teacher.

Greek mythology with him was VEEEEEEEERY interesting :P

 

Oh, and if someone was late we were all to point at that person an laugh..... which could have been bad if it was because of something horrible.... We never really did that anyway though. Haha I remember this one day this kid who's desk was sort of on the other side of the room from the door was wearing this multicolored sweater and he dashed in right as the bell rang, ran right by the teacher's stool (with him sitting on it) and got to his chair right as the bell finished ringing. The teacher blinked a few times and was like "It was like a rainbow entered the room!" (or something to that nature... now that I think about it it may have been a comment about skittles... I don't remember :P )

You know this kinda brings up a good point; which environment is better suited to helping kids learn? One instilled with order, where everyone is disciplined and people read straight from the book, or one filled with chaos, where many different teaching methods are used and developed? Which one would you employ if you were a teacher Locke? Organized lesson plans, or fun lessons with a bit of chaos thrown in?

I wouldn't call our class chaotic, but part of the reason we behaved was because we respected and liked him. It's much harder to behave for a teacher you hate (like a certain German teacher of mine who broke her own rules all of the time and spent a good 15 minutes arguing about whether we should be allowed to drink water bottles in her class (the hand book said we could and it wasn't in her initial syllabus) and the entirety of her agreement was that it was disruptive to the class.... She kept the argument for at least 15 minutes... any one else seeing the..... contradiction (is the best word I can think of) here?)

 

I think that if students are having fun, they'll be more engaged and learn more.

Des, if I were a teacher (and I'm crazy enough to sometimes consider becoming one), I'd allow the people in my class to do whatever they wanted, as long as they followed two rules:

 

1) They had good marks.

2) They would not be evil to someone else.

 

And they also would only have to make homework if they'd think they needed it, or if their marks were not good enough.

That style only works if you have higher-level classes who actually want to learn stuff. Some of my teachers actually do work it that way though.

But if they don't want to learn stuff, I say "you are now going to be quiet and learn. Either here, or at home.". Talking about that, I forget a rule: You are not allowed to do things that hinder other people while learning.

I am going to become a teacher :P at the time though I'm becoming a special education teacher so I'm not going to need to handle a bunch of kids at once. Though I am teaching a class to third graders at church right now so... :P

I would teach rather similarly as one my math teachers. I have found that if you can make the class interesting, you can keep the class as on task as a strict teacher. While that won't necessarily learn more, they'll at least enjoy the class more which I think can also be valuable so long as learning is still happening at a good rate. I would really really like to be able to split my classes up into different learning levels, so as not to waste the faster learning kids time on trying to teach those who are a bit slower. And so on. Those are just my initial thoughts. I don't really think too deeply on it, since I'm almost positive I'll never be a school teacher. (for a variety of good reasons)

Sounds like you'd be good at it :P

 

What are you going to be then? A business man?

No, I'd be horrible! =p I totally suck at teaching and explaining things, especially math (which would be what I would teach). In the end, I'd probably confuse more than help my students. >.>

 

Something....

I'm sure you could figure it out :P

Thanks, but I'd rather not. >.> Me no people person.

math man. perhaps engineer.

 

perhaps home schooling your children.

I would have loved to have been home schooled/internet schooled after moving back to US.

me too, but wasn't gonna happen. but home schoolers need all kinds of professional and community assistance. i bet you'd be good with that.

I have a lot of friends who came on finish from PNG and are doing online schooling. It's interesting. (and always makes me just a tad jealous. =D)

*Wraps brain around the very friendly seeming Locke not being a people person* :P

 

Perhaps an engineer. Or maybe an accountant.

 

O.O become an astronaut.