THAT teacher...

[Ildecia]

you know who i mean.

whenever i went into a new grade in school; i always heard stories of THAT teacher. That teacher who is so much cooler/stricter. I would assume that there are more like them everywhere. so tell me your stories while i tell you mine.

In my high school; 10th and 11th grade had so many THAT teachers it was almost an epidemic! and i got like 3 of them. I had a history teacher that aught us so much; he taught PAST the book for class. and i had the coolest lit teacher ever. he let you walk in with food and anything really. so long as you shared.

EDIT:
mods.. i think it posted like 2 more versions of this same topic. can u delete them please? (or lock it. W/E works)

 

[tombman888]

I believe you have accidentally made a triple thread.

i have multiple THAT teachers. One's British, has the most cynical attitude you can imagine, and is always picking on anyone who gives him the right opening. best teacher yet!

 

[Celtic_Kerr]

I had a ton of them too, all know for different things

1) A history teacher known for how cool he was
2) One of those teachers that teaches 3 different subjects known for how laid back he was
3) A science/physics professor known for being silly/hilarious
4) A math teacher known to sleep with some of her students
5) A french teacher known for slamming doors and screaming
6) Another french teacher known for giving out ludicrous assignments, but always giving 90-100 percent no matter what they contained...

 

[Betancore]

Well we had an awesome science teacher who loved her subject, could teach, and swore in class. She went above and beyond what she had to do - she made a forum online so we could ask her questions and get homework help. Also she had the sexiest Irish accent. Did I just say that about my science teacher? Ugh. She got fired though. A few of us even met up with her outside of school; we can talk to her like a friend.

And my written expression teacher has a reputation of going off on a tangent about certain subjects, but also for being an exceptional teacher and also incredibly nice. Everyone who's ever had him as a teacher always has good things to say about him.

On the other end, there's this geography teacher who's so pedantic. He took marks off a lot of students' assignments because they used capital letters next to their dot points. Most people hate him, but he's a decent teacher. He force feeds you work, though. And the answer to every question he asks is always 'yes.' He makes himself seem like a good teacher because we all ace our exams - he gives us the answers.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

I have a few:

There used to be a History teacher (he taught me at GCSE before he left for medical reasons) who was known as the scariest most evil ************ in the place. He was alright when you got to know him though.

There was an Religion teacher known for similar reasons but he's lost respect from everyone (I swear even the teachers bully him now). He went from scary guy to greasy, fat bastard in the space of a couple of years. Doesn't help that he's still a complete bell-end.

And of course there's the careers advisor. Oh how we love her. She's hot, 'nuff said. Same with my 2 English teachers. Though I've noticed a few more hot teachers since I started Sixth form, especially the cougar of an Economics teacher.

Oh, and an honorable mention for the history department for letting us get drunk (with them xD )on a school trip.

Though now I;m in Sixth Form it's more relaxed and a lot of the otherwise boring teachers are quite cool.

 

[Celtic_Kerr]

Well we had an awesome science teacher who loved her subject, could teach, and swore in class. She went above and beyond what she had to do - she made a forum online so we could ask her questions and get homework help. Also she had the sexiest Irish accent. Did I just say that about my science teacher? Ugh. She got fired though. A few of us even met up with her outside of school; we can talk to her like a friend.

And my written expression teacher has a reputation of going off on a tangent about certain subjects, but also for being an exceptional teacher and also incredibly nice. Everyone who's ever had him as a teacher always has good things to say about him.

On the other end, there's this geography teacher who's so pedantic. He took marks off a lot of students' assignments because they used capital letters next to their dot points. Most people hate him, but he's a decent teacher. He force feeds you work, though. And the answer to every question he asks is always 'yes.' He makes himself seem like a good teacher because we all ace our exams - he gives us the answers.

We've all had the sexy teacher though, so it's okay. THe only wierd thing was that our teacher known for sleeping with guys was obsessed with propriety, not very cute (and I went to school with the asshole that wouldn't talk to you unless you were GORGEOUS), and a little bit crazy...

But.. But bullet points are supposed to have Capitals next to them!!!

 

[sky14kemea]

Yeah, of course we did!

I had a History teacher that would jump off desks (to prove points) and give out sweets. She also did tons of extra revision classes after school when the exams came up. I wouldn't have passed History without her. =P

Also we had quite a few cool Science teachers. One had a great sense of humour, one liked to argue with the smart kid who sat next to me about QI and other TV shows. >.> And another one let me drink milk in class when we were doing an experiment with it. Wuhahahaha. :F

We had some bad ones too though. >.> There was the mean PE teacher that never liked anyone that couldn't do the splits, or run fast enough for her standards ',:/ or maybe she just hated me individually, who knows. D:

 

[Trivun]

Three versions of this thread were posted, so I'll just copy and paste what I said in the other one (the other one people posted in, that is...).

Every single teacher at my high school was 'THAT Teacher'. In Year Seven, there was Gary Taylor, who taught me History and was also head of PE (physical education). He used to give everyone nicknames, like I was 'Man Mountain' (I was fairly small then, being only 11, and though I'm tall now I've always been skinny). Another History teacher later on, Mr Rushworth, would teach by basically drawing a massive diagram on the board (like battle tactics, or flowcharts and family trees describing the power structure of medieval England, etc.) and then having us copy it down into our books while listening to him giving a lecture for the rest of the lesson. And amazingly, I loved it, and I learned more about history then with that teaching technique than I have in any other lesson.

We also had Mr Worth, or 'The Goat', who was one of about four Maths teachers. I swear, I was the only person in his lessons who paid attention, he had absolutely no idea how to control a class (and this was a grammar school, where the kids want to learn...). Still, it seems to have paid off, I'm doing Maths at university now. And there was Dr Shephard, who taught Geography, who got so irate every time anyone called him 'mister'. He was so proud of that Phd... Paul Elsden, another Maths guy, he'd let us go early from his lesson every Friday before lunchtime because he loved fish so much, and it was always on the Friday menu. My friends have never let me forget a time when I apparently (though I don't really recall it well) threatened another PE teacher with a hockey stick in Year Seven, and this guy was pretty tough as I recall. Johnny Rockett, who ironically enough taught Physics. He was pretty cool and slightly mental. Another Physics guy, Steve Thorpe (aka Thorpedo), he was slightly odd (coming up with silly sayings every lesson, he even had is own Uncyclopaedia page) [http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Steven_Thorpe], and the evil half of our A-Level physics class used to torment him every lesson, to the point he almost had a nervous breakdown in the middle of one lesson...

Seriously, I could go on all day. There are entire Facebook groups about individual teachers from my old school that the Old Boys and Girls (former students) still post on from when they were there, years ago...

 

[Celtic_Kerr]

And of course there's the careers advisor. Oh how we love her. She's hot, 'nuff said. Same with my 2 English teachers. Though I've noticed a few more hot teachers since I started Sixth form, especially the cougar of an Economics teacher.

It was interesting when I went to Dawson College. All of the Colleges (Cegeps) in Quebec are known for something. Dawson has ALL the hot girls in them, Marianopolis has a shit ton of incredibly smart people, with a large asian majority (95% i think XD), Vanier is the school with the wine making class, etc...

So I go to Dawson and there are girls in short skirts EVERYWHERE, and it's autumn (fucking cold here)... Tight pants... Basically VERY attractive girls wearing attractive clothing. I'm not a man to let his jaw drop and go after the whole scantly clad thing (I like girls with a brain and personality), but even I was in heaven looking around.

So it's orientation week, I show up, wait for class to start and, in 4-5 of my classes, the hottest girl in the entire room walks in... And goes to the front of the class to teach us... It was mind blowing that 5/8 of my teachers were these bomb shells. Like they were TRYING to make us devellop the stereotypical teacher crush

 

[Sronpop]

I had an English teacher who told us he used to one of those bad influence kids in school and he got suspended every few weeks and stuff. Only now he was completely reformed and looked like the geekiest guy ever, bowl hair cut, massive shoes that look too big for his feet, he was only like 5,4 as well, huge geek. Anyone one day he happened to have a guitar with him so instead of having English class he sand Beatles songs to us all class. That was awesome.

Then there was the Physics teacher who looked like a reformed coke head and admitted to us that she smoke pot in high school and never went to class, but then she would be unbelievably strict if you ever missed one of her classes. She was a *****, but I bet she was nice outside of class.

I had one teacher who was the most sarcastic prick ever. He room was the tech drawing/woodwork room, and if you ever got into trouble/or even if you were just really fast at doing your work he would make you do loads of random stuff. Like if you got in trouble you would have to sweep the room and put all the dirt into the 'Bin of Shame', but if you finished your work early he would make you sweep the room and put the dirty into the 'Bin of Fame'. It was the same bin only it had plank of wood with Fame or Shame written on each side on top of the bin.

Standing on the table in front of the class and singing songs, usually Barney songs was common punishment for not doing your homework. So was standing in one still and staring at the chalk mark on the wall. He was awesome, think he got fired though :/

 

[Trivun]

A few more from my school. Seriously, my school had so many of these... Anyway, we had a really hot Spanish teacher who was actually from Spain (though sadly I did fail her class in Year Nine, and dropped it for GCSE). She ended up getting married to one of the guys who taught French and German. They actually work together at the school and live together, I believe...

We also had an English teacher, my first one, Ms Field-Mears, who was reportedly fired from her previous school for having a relationship with a sixth-form student. Not entirely sure how true that is, though. Another time, our Design and Technology teacher was away for half a year on maternity leave, so we ended up with a total of two cover teachers in that time. One was rumoured to be a paedophile, probably untrue though since he wouldn't have managed to get a job in a school if that was the case. The other was pretty strict, crazy, and everyone hated him - we all got a good laugh though when in a lesson he hit the whiteboard, it came off the wall, and landed on his head .

Once we had a cover teacher for Maths, too. Our usual teacher had to leave sometimes because he had throat problems, and the usual cover guy would teach us the mechanics modules for A-Level instead. His appraoch to teaching us about Newton's Laws of Motion, and vector mechanics? He'd throw a pen around the room. Honestly, if schools had memes, he'd have been our equivalent of 'OVER 9000'...

 

[The DSM]

The only R.E teacher in our school was THAT teacher.

For one year we watched Saving Private Ryan and The Green Mile and everyone breezed thorugh the exam due to lots of last minute cramming.

 

[Deviltongue]

Grade 9 year, first day at a new high-school. I check my schedule and first period I have English. One chick sees my schedule and says "Wow,you have Mr.[insert teachers name here]? He's kind of an asshole." And she was kind of right.

I had a problem with handing in stuff and close to the end of the year he told me that if I handed in everything I hadn't handed in yet he'd mark it. So I did, and I got 60s in everything (I got 80s on all the stuff I'd handed in before but that stuff was all late so I didn't care).

Later in the month I checked out my report card and I got a 45. I figured I must have really fucked something up until I was in summer school and 3 of my friends who were also in that class got the same deal and ended up with the same mark. I never got him again and he's an alright guy when you're not in his class.

 

[Marter]

My Biology teacher last year was awesome. Probably one of my two favorite teachers ever. A classmate and I sidetracked that class so many times. Good fun.

My other favorite would be my grade 10 Humanities teacher. Only because doing the homework in his class was not required. If you didn't do it, you got an 80% on it.

 

[Betancore]

My Biology teacher last year was awesome. Probably one of my two favorite teachers ever. A classmate and I sidetracked that class so many times. Good fun.

My other favorite would be my grade 10 Humanities teacher. Only because doing the homework in his class was not required. If you didn't do it, you got an 80% on it.

I want your Humanities teacher. Seriously. I can't even score 80% when I try. Well, I can, but that's beside the point. Reminds me of our Sport Ed. teacher. Our only homework was to bring a piece of fruit to each class. If we didn't bring fruit, we couldn't participate in class. We'd have to sit outside.

 

[Daipire]

Mr. Mac.

The best advanced maths teacher ever. He always wore looney tunes ties, too.

 

[exarkunsith]

In my pimary school, which i shall not name, had a science teacher that im supprised was hired, i mean sure he knew the content yet he had MASSIVE anger issues.
In three classes he had thrown chairs, never at kids though, and he was always shouting...i thought he was great, until the rumour that he had put a kid in the clay kilm.

 

[tharglet]

Reminds me of our Sport Ed. teacher. Our only homework was to bring a piece of fruit to each class. If we didn't bring fruit, we couldn't participate in class. We'd have to sit outside.

Lol, I'd be the one tempted to hide the fruit I'd invariably have for lunch if I had him.

My school was mainly oddballs. It's hard to remember a teacher who was relatively normal in that place lol. It wasn't a bad school, but most of the teachers were slightly nuts. Most notable were 2 of the English teachers (one an encyclopaedia of useless facts, other one fond of spiders and creeping people out), the physics teachers (plain bonkers), the art teacher (and her crazy clothes) and a maths teacher (very shouty and occasionally threw things).
Most famous was the "Mr Strict" teacher who used to patrol the corridors with his megaphone, reminding people to tuck their shirts in, put their ties on properly, walk on the left, etc.

 

[GirlGamer]

My science teacher is a "THAT teacher". He is tough on his students, marking things very toughly (his standards are pretty high) calls them retards, insults them constantly, if you ask too many questions, he yells at you, and when a couple of students were 45 minutes late for the bus home from Toronto, he charged them a hundred dollars each (admittedly, that made sense, because he had to pay the driver for his time). If he catches you with your cell phone, he grabs it and smashes it against the wall. The funny thing is, everything is completely allowed. The school policy says that no electronic devices are allowed at school, and teachers can do as they please with the device if they catch you with one, so smashing it is fine, although most just say, "come get it after class".
Aside from all that, he's also very cool. He gave us electrical things, such as a battery, switch, light bulb, etc., and told us to make a circuit with them (and told us if we were electrocuted, he would fail us. That's a double whammy!). He brought in the skeleton of a snake during the biology unit for us to look at. He took us to a conservation area to study the ecology, and we caught fish, frogs and turtles, and he laughed so hard when one of our students acted like an idiot and then fell in the lake. I was really scared for my end of term project which had to be oral (I have anxiety), but he gave me a great mark and said it was both comical and informative (although, it wasn't meant to be funny...). Also, the school's science textbooks are actually WRITTEN by him. His name and the school are in the authour's list and everything, so it's very cool. He's written 18 different textbooks.
Everyone at our school likes him, and visits his classroom at any chance they get. If I was a teacher, I would totally model myself after him. No texting in my classroom, idiots! *smash*

We also had an art teacher who was always doing things strangely. She loved talking about things that didn't really pertain to the curriculum (medical procedures, the differences between a glory and a rainbow, etc), and acting just a little wild. One of the projects her class got to do this year was glass etching. She bought a ton of mirrors and glass etching cream, and had them write cool little messages on the mirrors. One of them is awesome: "Your imperfections just make you more beautiful", and the mirror had a huge crack in it.
Her wildness got her into trouble though. So the story goes, (I wasn't there so it might not be right) she gave our school's chaplain a noogie, and then made some kind of inappropriate comment, and he claimed she was "mentally unfit to teach children". She was suspended! She was the only reason I enjoyed school! She'll be back in the fall, but still...

 

[FinalHeart95]

In eighth grade there was an English teacher notorious for being an utter *****. She could be a *****, but the horror stories weren't entirely true. To be honest, I thought the teacher the year prior was worse. She so blatantly played favorites it wasn't even funny.

My Algebra II teacher last year was awesome though. Nearly no required homework, and she knew the material really well. It helps that the kids in my class were cool though.