25 Biggest Mistakes Teachers Make and How to Avoid Them

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Mistake
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Unethical Behavior
SCENARIOS 22.1 and 22.2
Keep Hope Alive
There are two incidents that stick out in my mind and they were with the class as a
whole and not just me. My sixth-grade year I was put in an English class with a bunch
of troublemakers. The teacher had a breakdown and quit and the rest of the year the
class watched movies and read books out loud.
When I went into my seventh-grade class (it was in a different school district), I had
a wonderful, but hard, teacher for English, who taught me more than I ever learned
before or since.
My second experience was during my senior year of high school. I was taking two
English classes with two different teachers, because I was pregnant the previous year.
The teacher for my sophomore English class is who I am about to talk about. My
sophomore English class was with a bunch of “lower levels” and troublemakers. The
teacher told us that none of us would ever go to college. I could not believe this teacher
was telling us that. She was a teacher!
The worst experience I remember having in school was during my senior year in high
school. I had just found out I was pregnant with my daughter and had been absent several
days from school. I was placed on “homebound” by my doctor. In order to be on
homebound I would have to change from my computer course to an elective I could
study at home. I went to speak to my computer teacher about dropping the course and
she told me, upon finding out I was pregnant, “Why don’t you just drop out?” That was
the worst thing a student could be told by a teacher.