11 types of teachers from which escape even the most patient pupil

capercaillie

This teacher does not speak, does not say, does not discuss - he broadcasts. This does not wonder if students understand the topic of the last classes and managed qualitatively whether to do homework. Through permanent internal and external monologue "grouse" not to hear the needs of his student. It is not surprising that sooner or later he will find a more attentive listener. And - make a dramatic leap to success in learning.

Go-to-not-know-where

If a student in the first class will share concern that next month he will have a business trip abroad, and English not up to par, the "go-to-not-know-where" would get the Talmud English Grammar in three volumes - for it is necessary to start from scratch. And the one who does not understand the difference between the Past Perfect Past Perfect and the Continuous, advise denser do pronunciationAnd then continuous insufficiently expressive sounds.

Pupil tired not shoot at the target (and what must be confessed - paid employment inefficient for him) and the escapes to the teacher to better tuned eye and willingness to solve actual problems.

Firestarter

For such a teacher, there are only two points of view and his own wrong. He strongly emphasizes its superiority in learning, nitpicking and carefully draws attention to them, crushes authority and quickly discourage desire to learn. Like specific claims a student there, and want to attend classes less and less ...

Kicker

Upside down you, Uncle Fyodor, holding a textbook. And the letter writing crooked, and the size of them per millimeter is different, and breathing in the wrong place you take a phrase, and not in the glossary those colored pens write, and pauses between sentences tightened at you, and books for independent reading wrong I selected. Such a teacher is more important than external attributes ( "did the right thing"), than the outcome and student motivation, and self-esteem of the object of attacks are not very concerned about the "kicker". And who is now easy ...

moaner

From such a teacher to quickly run away, not only students, but also my husband, my mother, even neighbors. He constantly complains about the low wages, high taxes, impossibly high price, inconvenient work schedule, bad weather, traffic jams, modern medicine, the falling dollar, the lack of discounts for buckwheat in the shop... You can continue to infinity.

If the fantasy that "whiner" includes when listing their troubles, directed to the peaceful track preparation for classes, the reasons for the complaints he would definitely diminished. But this is unlikely. Quite the contrary: another pupil will escape - and become the new "infopovodom".

time killer

With this teacher all is clear: he is an optimist - so that can never calculate the time is right and the pupil I forced repeatedly to wait for the beginning of the first lesson, and then packed in the remaining time and, in turn, be late for meeting. In severe cases, time killer and more forgetful: while in the classroom, he generally will not always appear. Time is money? No, I have not.

I do not understand you

No matter how experienced and qualified nor was a teacher, student run away if you do not understand his explanation. Think of it, did not understand the difference between little and fewAnd then - between [e] and [æ]! But when such "did not understand" becomes too much, even the most modest and unassuming student suspects that the problem is not in it. More clear ...

Grandmother at the entrance

"You have such a good fellow! Emphasis is placed correctly in the terminals are not mistaken. Not that John Doe. He alphabet has not yet been learned, and the more he acne, An incorrect bite and the carpet on the wall tasteless. "

Well, if "grandmother at the door," examines the bones only others, but is not interested in how many earns dad petroleum and for whom student voted in the last election... Here involuntarily turn to the beautician, dentist, interior designer - and new teacher.

Academician

This teacher had seen everything. All possible errors. All of the likelihood of success. All conceivable design with the verb to be. He is bored in the classroom itself, and there is no hope that the student will be more fun.

The very employment

The teacher in class doing anything, just not my job: talking on a cell phone, scribbling SMS, surf the Internet, sitting in social networks, writes a love story, examines the trajectory of movement of the flies glass. Or is it really solves an important problem, doing something useful - not only for the student.

chatterbox

This teacher loves stories "Life" and talk "for life". First disciple and I am glad to hear the story of how a friend's cousin's cousin "talker" acted in Oxford (successfully!). But then gets tired of hearing about downshifting "talker" in Phuket or selecting children's furniture.

How to choose a good teacher

If you have any doubt that you have found the right teacher, before drawing conclusions, answer yourself these questions:

• I feel your progress within a few months of coaching?
• I condemn me wrong in the classroom?
• Can I use in everyday life the knowledge they get in the classroom?
• Does my master new technologies during the lesson? For example, videos from YouTube?
• Do I have something in common with the teacher?

If many of the questions from the list you can not find the answer or an answer you do not like, then you should definitely think about how to change the teacher!

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