I just lost my patience...

Madam, You have not mentioned the subjects you teach. Well I teach mathematics and other engineering stuffs and I know it is quite difficult for a teacher to get 100% focus from his students. Nevertheless it is necessary. Well, students often don't find a subject or a class interesting enough. There may be several good reasons for that. May be the subject is abstract and there is little or no relation with the world they see around. I treat my students a little bit differently. I give them a wide space and don't, for a moment, let them feel that I am their Teacher. I often allow older students to smoke with me. Sounds radical huh? Well, you know something dear, if you want to interpret and then change a person you have to first lower yourself to his level. You have to act, think and often behave the way they do. For a satisfying class there has to be a mixture of two things, the subject would have to be presented interestingly + the teacher will have to be little amusing. Without these two factors working simultaneously, your mission will repeatedly fail. Why don't you try to put more sense of humor in the subjects you are teaching. You may also try relating stuffs in a friendlier and familiar way so that the subject itself does not appear intimidating. Also, being less conscious about the traditional teacher-student relationship, and invent new ways of teaching would definitely help. I don't agree with one of the fellow members who said its because they are "lazy". Being lazy and being simply not interested are two different things. You can even make a gastric patient hungry, all you have to do is to serve it they way he wants it. Experiment with it and you will soon find out that they are not lazy at all. God bless you...?

I noticed that to a lot of students lately. They could not follow instructions or it seems that they are not listening while you were giving instructions. They are too lazy in doing assignments. They make the deadline as the time to make assignments. And a lot of them also just copy from one or two sources. They just don't care. They take their studies for granted, and some of them are just plain parasites. Ah, sometimes it could really tick you off.

hi dolce vita78 forgive me but I did check your profile to see how old you were. the only reason for that was to get a better understanding of what you are facing with college students. I imagine they are from 17 to maybe 22, and I think perhaps because' you are not that much older in some respects they have this silly idea: you are can be wheedled down to letting them do as little as they want since you are probably only ten years their senior. so you need to stiffen up your spine and let them have it: grow up, you are not in kindergarten , you are in college.Explain again a bit sternly how they must present their paper work. and if they do not do as they are asked, you must grade them accordingly. You must have really excelled in your own college classes to be teaching college students at your age, so be proud of yourself, and be the teacher you want tobe. Whats wrong with them is they are spoiled and need to grow up and come to terms with college life. Stand up to them and make them toe the line.

I don't know how old your students are - I'd guess, 18 ... 20? Well, round here they would be, anyway. I actually moved my 10 year old to a different school, because the one she was at didn't bother with homework because: "No one bothers anyway." Now, she has homework 3X a week - they say it preps them for secondary school. I'll leave you to decide which of the 2 gets the best Ofsted reports - plus zero truancy rates. It starts with the parents. "I wasn't told he had any to do" is NO excuse - unless you want it to be.

I am not a teacher although I have been a teaching assistant, luckily I was teaching younger children aged around 4-5 years but some of them didnt care about their homework when asked why they didnt do it they simply told me they had other things to do! I spoke to a handful of parents and it turned out the children were saying they didnt get homework! Needless to say I handed it to their parents in the future. Its hard I dont know what to advise Im guessing they are to old for it to be handed to their parents?

hello dolce, I didn't know you were a teacher?! students now are days can be real pain in the butt and a lot more lazier now than ever and some are member of some gangs that involves violence and rape. you should have shown how angry you are for what they did. i remember back in high-school when my classmates weren't doing much effort in their report, the teacher went really mad, and starts including bad words in it. probably you should make them realized that every activity is important, i guess are the times where you show your Tiger-side

I understand your frustrations, I experienced that also and it is very disappointing..We have a lot of irresponsible students this time, I do know, they always take things for granted and when they failed, that is the time they will always bother the Teachers and beg to give them a removal or special projects!

I think that's what you call, 'as long as one could submit something' attitude. Doesn't matter about presentation or neatness of their submission, as long as they could sumbit something and that they would pretty much justify it with the content of their work. I really had no guts to do such things before when I was a student. If I couldn't submit something presentable, I wouldn't even submit anything at all and hope that something considerable occurs later. I guess respect would be an issue but, in this case that you have shared, they were not humble enough to admit their shortcomings. (_

Hi, dolce.. I am sorry about your student being irresponsible. They know that they are supposed to turn in assignments on time and on clean paper. They should listen more in class and follow instructions the correct way. Don't let this get you down. Just simply tell this student that you will accept the homework assignment completely done. It is all or nothing. Either they do it the correct way or get a bad grade. That was very slack for this student to just up and complete their assignment in your face. If I was you, I would not accept it. I would kindly hand it back to them, and tell them that this is homework not classwork.

hi olce_vita78, I don't know whats is wrong with todays students, its the world all over, I think it because they get things too easy and don't have to work for it, si why bother doing an assegnment, don't matter does it? that is what they are thinking, I would shake their heads together. Tamara

It seems to me that they don't care much either about your subject or their general education. If they haven't done what they're suppose to do, don't accept their work and give them the grade they deserve. They probably won't care what you do anyway, that is until their parents get fed up with their performance and withdraw their financial support.

Its pretty hard being a teacher huh? Just like me I am a Computer Education Teacher & I see to it that before I let the students make there hands-on activity I will discuss the topic to them, I always ask them if they understand what I was discussing then the following day when they are doing their hands-on they ask a lot of questions that I had discuss clearly the previous day. Its pretty hard to understand the mentality of the student now & they just don't seem to have any retention anymore. Its sad...