Teacher here: Every time a student tells me they don't need my help

lindn · 9 months

As a student the one biggest reason I might not ask a question is because I don't even know what it is I don't understand.

___VK · 9 months

Eeyup.

Unrelated side note: this gif gave me a huge ladyboner.

Biddybink · 9 months

Students tell you they don't need your help? Mine are learned helpless and want me to do all the work and thinking for them, I am jealous.

DefinitelyRelephant · 9 months

You turn into Leonardo DiCaprio?

That has some exploitable possibilities.

snowlion13 · 9 months

that gif is too short

Books_4_LYFE · 9 months

Damn those students who insist on trying things themselves and learning from their own mistakes. God they're so retarded.

Bixby66 · 9 months

I've seen teacher's make this exact face. Like "Okay then, it's not like I have all the answers or anything. Have fun."

happygerbil · 9 months

Wait, so a student tells you they don't need your help, and then you turn into a hunk?

Mikulak25 · 9 months

In what capacity? PROVIDE EXAMPLES AND EXPLAIN.

Franzo208 · 9 months

Sadly I wish I had asked for more help in school, for some reason I had this irrational fear that if I asked for help, people would find me to be a weaker person because of it. If I didn't ask for help I thought I would force myself through it and learn it eventually, but I would never learn it that well if I even did learn it. I guess I just found myself too dumb to ask for help in fear that I'd look even dumber.

Rebootkid · 9 months

I must be the exception. I had my "Networking" teacher telling the class flat-out wrong things. I called him on it, he said, "If you think you can do a better job teaching the class, Reboot, come on up."

So I did. I did learn a new appreciation for teachers. (Coming up with a syllabus is HARD) However, I also learned that its OK to say to students, "You know what, I don't know the answer to that. Lets research it together."

The tech school asked me if I would stay on, after graduation, to teach with them, but I already had a better paying job lined up.

shaggyzon4 · 9 months

Thanks for this. I think you've clearly illustrated the difference between an educator and a teacher.

ChillBroMelvis · 9 months

you must be one of those teachers trying to make a difference in young lives.

jbuschdev · 9 months

Some people prefer to figure it out on their own. Being handed the answer, especially in a situation that requires critical thinking, defeats the purpose of doing the assignment. If you give someone a problem, and then immediately offer the solution... they don't learn anything.

I refused help from TA's and teachers because I didn't know what I was doing. I've learned more than my peers and have a much better understanding of the material now, even if I spent more a lot more time on assignments and labs. Granted if you get really stuck or don't understand the assignment you ask for help. But I'd rather be guided towards the solution, not given it.

gangster-ray · 9 months

Which movies is this from? He's very young here

Malicali · 9 months

This is also how I felt when my High School algebra teacher didn't believe I could do his homework assignments in my head without showing work "because he couldn't even do that", and at the end of the semester tested me in front of him by making me do literally every single one of those assignments again.

I don't presume to be remarkably good at math, but early high school algebra is not freaking hard, and he was by far the worst math teacher I have ever had. If he would have just assigned actual in class tests we probably could have avoided that as well. ಠ_ಠ

Structure · 9 months

As a teacher myself, this is very true. I don't know why they insist on acting like they know everything. Especially when I can speak like a normal adult and they won't even know what half the words mean. Perpetuate? What does that mean? Jape? never heard of it. Then I teach them a word like fop, and it is their favorite word for the rest of the year.

middledigitman · 9 months

everytime, honestly ??

mauv · 9 months

Upvote because 24 year old Leonardo is the best Leonardo and now I have a huge lady boner.

blooregard325i · 9 months

If a student doesn't need my help, but consistently get everything wrong, I re-evaluate my teaching strategy. Usually, I ask them to come in later.

TheOtherOneWhoSpeaks · 9 months

It used to bother me in high school when we would be reading a book out loud as a class, and when I got hung up on a word (which i fully understood the meaning of as well as the pronunciation) the teacher would butt in IMMEDIATELY before allowing myself (or any student) to correct ourselves. Too bad I didnt think about it back then, but when the teacher was reading out loud and caught themselves on a word, I should have corrected them.

OrderAndObey · 9 months

independence is what founded America... BAM!

existentialcwby · 9 months

yup. so glad i dont teach anymore.

ITSR · 9 months

Way to help gain respect for teachers like yourself....

Griffith · 9 months

You know that guy on the gif ended up dead, right?

Mdawgkill · 9 months

Literally, this is the hardest and longest

I have every laughed at anything on Reddit.

inb4thatswhatshesaid

Uriah_Heep · 9 months

This is a 16 frame GIF of a person looking skeptical.

Why would ANYONE upvote a submission like this?

[deleted] · 9 months

This made me LMAO.

Cheddarwurst · 9 months

It's true, I'm lying! I'm just embarrassed at how much I suck!

jakemyers7 · 9 months

Probably doesnt if he did he's probably stupid and might get stuck in a dead end as a teacher

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