This blog entry is more like a little rant, about many, many experiences I've had with a pair of teachers.
As I've mentioned in a previous entry, teachers always encourage participation, that's awesome. Thumbs up, speaking is important! Nevertheless, sometimes teachers forget that students can also teach them things.
I remember many instances with professors from English in second and third semester and even from the teacher of Morphology (only once with him, though) where I've said a word/saying/idiom/phrasal verb they didn't know existed, and they shut me down for it. They just shut me down and say I'm wrong, don't even bother to research.
And when I bring up an example or the dictionary, my peers tell me to relax, and the teachers just shrug me off. It feels awful, it legit has been one of the worst feelings to be told I'm wrong on something that is actually true and that my students cannot even learn it too because the teachers just pass me off as an idiot who is making up stuff out of his rear area.
I remember one teacher straight up telling me to ''never'' use the word ''cute'' for objects or clothing, or anything else that is not an animal....Excuse me?? And he also did it in front of everyone. It really sucks having to deal with things like that because what if one students he tells that to will think to themselves ''Oh maybe I am wrong, I'm so useless!''
I remember a very specific instance of this in morphology class when we learned about the suffix ''fully'' and the teacher said a few examples, and I said ''purposefully'' and literally, the class laughed and the teacher said ''Not that one! but yes there's many'' I literally thought I was wrong, incorrect, stupid. I felt like garbage. I took out my phone and googled it. And guess what, I was right!
Later that night I told the teacher and he told me not to take things too seriously.
Go figure!
As I've mentioned in a previous entry, teachers always encourage participation, that's awesome. Thumbs up, speaking is important! Nevertheless, sometimes teachers forget that students can also teach them things.
I remember many instances with professors from English in second and third semester and even from the teacher of Morphology (only once with him, though) where I've said a word/saying/idiom/phrasal verb they didn't know existed, and they shut me down for it. They just shut me down and say I'm wrong, don't even bother to research.
And when I bring up an example or the dictionary, my peers tell me to relax, and the teachers just shrug me off. It feels awful, it legit has been one of the worst feelings to be told I'm wrong on something that is actually true and that my students cannot even learn it too because the teachers just pass me off as an idiot who is making up stuff out of his rear area.
I remember one teacher straight up telling me to ''never'' use the word ''cute'' for objects or clothing, or anything else that is not an animal....Excuse me?? And he also did it in front of everyone. It really sucks having to deal with things like that because what if one students he tells that to will think to themselves ''Oh maybe I am wrong, I'm so useless!''
I remember a very specific instance of this in morphology class when we learned about the suffix ''fully'' and the teacher said a few examples, and I said ''purposefully'' and literally, the class laughed and the teacher said ''Not that one! but yes there's many'' I literally thought I was wrong, incorrect, stupid. I felt like garbage. I took out my phone and googled it. And guess what, I was right!
Later that night I told the teacher and he told me not to take things too seriously.
Go figure!
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