teaching

absolutely not. teachers are there to help students unravel lessons. how the teacher teaches and guides her/his students through the lessons is reflective of how effective they are. the other half of the responsibility falls on the students who must work to understand what the teacher brings to the class. this is how the students earn or "make" their grades. the teacher only records them. that is why it is important that student-teacher interactions are important. it makes lessons easier to understand and different perspectives are considered and understood. when a teacher fails the majority of her students, then something must be wrong with her/him. while it is true that some subjects are difficult, i still believe the teacher's creativity and methodologies can make these subjects easy to understand, even fun. a good teacher should not be restrictive, but rather creative.

I don't think that this kind of teacher is a good teacher. The performance of his/her class would really reflect upon how he/she teaches them. So if almost all the students fail, then the teacher is really not a good teacher.

of course not. that would only mean he or she is not an effective teacher. the measure should be how much percentage of the class passed. it is not how many of the class failed.

You know, when I hear of a teacher who pretty much fails other students, I think of two things. Either they are either sadistic or rather inept. What quality is worse, well that really depends on your own perspective about how things are going. However, a teacher who fails students, just proves that they are in the wrong line of work for one reason or other. That is the problem isn't it. The education system has gotten to the point where pretty much there are people that should not be teaching, that are in fact teaching for whatever reason. It makes me want to bang my head into a wall that some of these people are slipping through the grapevine to mess up the lives of students that had potential. If a teacher fails the vast majority of their class, then they should find another line of work, because if it happens on that vast of a scale, its not a student, it the teacher.

Hi figurativeme, I also encountered some teachers who seem to revel on their reputation as "killer teachers." Maybe their reputation precedes them but still it is a fact that many student flunk their subjects because of the marks/score/grades given by those teachers. It is possible that the subject itself is difficult, hence, the statistics of failing students would appear justifiable. But then, it does not necessarily mean that the teacher is good if most of his/her students failed the subject. I beg to disagree because the percentage of students who failed the subject might also be reflective of the teaching skills and ability of the teacher to "educate" his/her students. On another perspective, wouldn't it possible that the students fail the subject because the teacher failed to make his/her students understand and grasp what the teacher was trying to teach them. In that sense, it would appear that the teacher failed as a teacher because the students did not learn anything on his/her subject. Therefore, the teacher failed to teach his students well because they did not understand the subject at all. A good teacher knows how to impart his/her learning and knows how to make himself/herself understood. The best credit a true teacher can claim is when his/her students understood what he/she taught them. Have a good day and happy myLotting! :D