I got this, too. It was because I didn’t show my work. So I started writing out my process, and it wasn’t “how we were taught”, and got a 0 once again for it.
After that I just quit doing the work at all, and I’m sure they felt justified calling me lazy. I’m a lot of things but I’m not lazy.
My worst version of this was in third grade where we learned our multiplication tables. Our teacher had us all make multiplication flashcards. 1x1 up through 12x12. She then assigned us to spend a certain amount of hours practicing the flashcards, including some log and parental sign-off IIRC. A card might have “3x8” written on one side, “24” on the other. Practice and drill until you memorize them all.
Well, the problem I had was that I memorized my times tables in a fraction of the time we were required to practice. I ended up getting in trouble for not having enough practice hours - even though I was acing the quizzes we were getting. This wasn’t even about showing your work, as this was a rote exercise in memorization!
But the teacher thought that it took X number of hours of practice to learn your times tables. That’s what she assigned, and nothing was going to change her mind. So I sat at home pointlessly practicing the times tables I had already memorized, instead of doing something fun or even moving ahead to more advanced math concepts.
I had teachers like this. Let’s just say I keep coming back to less than nice things to say about that kind of behavior.
The flash-card thing is kind of cursed anyway because multiplication is commutative, and you really don’t need the cards for zero, one, and ten. If you can add anything to itself in your head, throw out the twos while we’re at it. So you really only need 40-ish cards to do the job, not 144+.
or even moving ahead to more advanced math concepts.
Yeah, can’t break the class up into multiple lesson plans. Gotta move with the herd.
In a just world, you’d have been bumped up a grade, moved into an advanced track, or given time in advanced sessions with other gifted students. That said, your teacher would have been responsible for making those recommendations. FWIW, I did get into those advanced sessions but only after contact with a teacher that wasn’t projecting, envious, or an authoritarian blowhard about this kind of thing.
In a just world, you’d have been bumped up a grade, moved into an advanced track, or given time in advanced sessions with other gifted students. That said, your teacher would have been responsible for making those recommendations.
Oh that did end up happening eventually. I did go down that track. Ended up taking calculus freshman year of high school.
There’s alot of us out there that don’t work like the system expects. You either know the answer or you don’t, taking more time doesn’t do anything for our brains.
There’s alot of us out there that don’t work like the system expects.
But the role of the teacher is to analyze the student’s behavior and provide useful coaching/advice. If your response to every critique is “Well, I’m just not constructed to operate that way” then you’ve squandered any value in the perspective of your mentor.
You’re implying some kind of native and intractable component of your psychology. As though neither you, nor any of your classmates, should ever be expected to adapt or expand your abilities. A bleak perspective to apply in adulthood. An absolutely nihilistic perspective to have when you’re still a very plastic formative child.
You either know the answer or you don’t
On multiple choice questions, maybe. Not on essays or proofs or other depth-of-knowledge questions.
If you were asked the question “How do bird’s fly?” you can provide a very wide latitude of answers. Some of them are short and pithy “They flap their wings”. While others are far more involved or focused on a particular area of expertise “<explanation of the physics of flight>” versus “<explanation of the biology of flying animals>” versus “<explanation of the learning process of animal intelligence>”.
But if you’re in a biology class and you keep giving physics answers to the question, then turning your nose up at your teacher when they say you are missing something critical, why did you sign up for the class to begin with?
Maybe they meant that the student rushes/half asses tasks. Doing them quickly doesn’t imply them being correct.
I got this, too. It was because I didn’t show my work. So I started writing out my process, and it wasn’t “how we were taught”, and got a 0 once again for it.
After that I just quit doing the work at all, and I’m sure they felt justified calling me lazy. I’m a lot of things but I’m not lazy.
My worst version of this was in third grade where we learned our multiplication tables. Our teacher had us all make multiplication flashcards. 1x1 up through 12x12. She then assigned us to spend a certain amount of hours practicing the flashcards, including some log and parental sign-off IIRC. A card might have “3x8” written on one side, “24” on the other. Practice and drill until you memorize them all.
Well, the problem I had was that I memorized my times tables in a fraction of the time we were required to practice. I ended up getting in trouble for not having enough practice hours - even though I was acing the quizzes we were getting. This wasn’t even about showing your work, as this was a rote exercise in memorization!
But the teacher thought that it took X number of hours of practice to learn your times tables. That’s what she assigned, and nothing was going to change her mind. So I sat at home pointlessly practicing the times tables I had already memorized, instead of doing something fun or even moving ahead to more advanced math concepts.
I had teachers like this. Let’s just say I keep coming back to less than nice things to say about that kind of behavior.
The flash-card thing is kind of cursed anyway because multiplication is commutative, and you really don’t need the cards for zero, one, and ten. If you can add anything to itself in your head, throw out the twos while we’re at it. So you really only need 40-ish cards to do the job, not 144+.
Yeah, can’t break the class up into multiple lesson plans. Gotta move with the herd.
In a just world, you’d have been bumped up a grade, moved into an advanced track, or given time in advanced sessions with other gifted students. That said, your teacher would have been responsible for making those recommendations. FWIW, I did get into those advanced sessions but only after contact with a teacher that wasn’t projecting, envious, or an authoritarian blowhard about this kind of thing.
Oh that did end up happening eventually. I did go down that track. Ended up taking calculus freshman year of high school.
There’s alot of us out there that don’t work like the system expects. You either know the answer or you don’t, taking more time doesn’t do anything for our brains.
But the role of the teacher is to analyze the student’s behavior and provide useful coaching/advice. If your response to every critique is “Well, I’m just not constructed to operate that way” then you’ve squandered any value in the perspective of your mentor.
You’re implying some kind of native and intractable component of your psychology. As though neither you, nor any of your classmates, should ever be expected to adapt or expand your abilities. A bleak perspective to apply in adulthood. An absolutely nihilistic perspective to have when you’re still a very plastic formative child.
On multiple choice questions, maybe. Not on essays or proofs or other depth-of-knowledge questions.
If you were asked the question “How do bird’s fly?” you can provide a very wide latitude of answers. Some of them are short and pithy “They flap their wings”. While others are far more involved or focused on a particular area of expertise “<explanation of the physics of flight>” versus “<explanation of the biology of flying animals>” versus “<explanation of the learning process of animal intelligence>”.
But if you’re in a biology class and you keep giving physics answers to the question, then turning your nose up at your teacher when they say you are missing something critical, why did you sign up for the class to begin with?
Mostly horizontally, a bit vertically. 😂
You made a lot of assumptions about that person based off of a very short comment. Why not just take someone at their word?
Yeah! Once a teacher was mad at me for being too quick and when she checked to scold me, everything was correct…