Anna, on 17 May 2011 - 01:39 AM, said:
It's totally not your fault. I have a teacher like that too. I HATE THEM. Try change teachers
I don't know what it's like here now it's been a good few years since I left school now, but their emphesis should be completely on your education.
I mean my father being a head of department at a teacher training faculty at a University, he had to retired due to physical health complaints, but he still works very part time, where he does the ob 1 or 2 jobs a year external verification for a few examining bodies still and invigulates for a few exams for local schools etc (probably why I myself love to work and becoming a tutor myself at a University once I pass my PGCHE Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education).
However when they do give you a telling off it's really for your own good to be brutally honest with you, when they tell you to do this, yes your encouraged to speak your mind but when it's required to do so.
I for one worked in a work place once where they where incredibly strict about timing, if I was 15 minutes late for work, which I did slip into a bad habbit with sleeping etc, which I have now sorted out I am glad to say.
All the excuses in the world, complaining etc will simply not work, the best way is to bite your tounge (can fully appreciate your troubles though on a sympathy angle), but to them all they will say is make better effort to get their much earlier, do everything in your power, to be honest there's not many excuses you can make, all they will say is get up earlier.
This is of a different angle, there was a topic (was not using my analytical brain at this point to be really honest), there was a bullet point I was not sure about with a lecture a tutor was giving and I missed the lecture for, through no fault of my own. I asked the guy (a Dr John Elliot a PhD Docter Artificial Intelligence & computer science) and all he told me when I asked him, was pointing at an angle towards the main building at the University all he said was, what is that? The library I answered.
He then said just simply go there and read up on it. No excuses that's all they simply don't usually have the time to go through small things like that.
They're not stupid (or at least should not be stupid), they know if you're mucking up and if you're being a model worker.
Hope that helps
Edited by Jez, 03 June 2011 - 02:16 PM.