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If you want to learn then ask questions.

posted March 24, 2009 - 2:13am
If you want to learn then ask questions.

I have seen so many students complaining about their teachers that they (teachers) don't teach them properly. Sometimes students are right but most of the time students are wrong. No teacher is there who don't want to teach his/her students. I believe all the teachers in teaching profession are willing to teach except few who don't want to do any work.
I have noticed in my teaching profession that there are most students who just do whatever they are asked to do; most of them don't even ask questions related to the problem. I just want to tell students teachers are no God who can find out that you haven't understand the problem solved by the teacher or the topic teacher taught you. There are some points I have noticed and willing to share with you.
[b]Don't shy in group to ask questions.
I have noticed that while taking classes in groups students feel shy and don't ask questions to teacher if they don't understand; thinking that other students of the same group will make fun of them and will think that he/she is weak.
This is not good practice. If you don't understand the problem and when your teacher asks "Got it" and you say yes (while you know that you don't understand) then what teacher will think? Surely he will think that you are good and have got the problem right. But you know the problem. After this teacher will go to the next level and hence you did not get the 1st level right, you will also not able to get the 2nd level. And problem continues.
What you get after this: A poor result. If you have asked the question to the teacher, you would have got a good result in your hand.
Don't feel shy as in your same class/grade all students are like you, they all think like you and have problem like you. If you ask question, you just not help yourself but also help other classmates as well because there are chances that other students also have same problem like you.

So start asking question and clearing doubts.



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Some teachers don't know

it is true students need to ask more questions, but it is also true that some teachers do not know how to answer questions. I had an algebra teacher, in college, who would ridicule the student for asking a question. It got to the point that we would ask each other because we didn't want to be ridiculed. But when we all (in our group of chairs) did not understand, one of us would ask and bear the ridicule for all. One night I had had enough and when a student asked a question and the teacher answered with, "If you don't know that by now, you'll never know it." I grabbed my books, stood up, looked at him and said, "I payed to learn not for ridicule. I'm not listening to this." and walked out of the class. I also wrote a letter of complaint to the math department. I did go back to class and it appeared his "resentment" of student questions lessened, but I won't take him again and I have and will advise others not to. MJ - Sending happy thoughts and Smiles! Avatar: Betrayal and Retribution http://www.valkyrieart.com/Poser1.html

Very true

Very true but I've seen teachers who know this goes on, so they will start questioning students or have them work out the problem right there. Then the teacher gets an accurate evaluation of what the students actually do and do not know. For, sometimes I think I understand or that I don't know that I actuaally don't know. And sometimes I don't understand it well enough to be able to ask the right question. Very Good article, but if I would make one suggestion; add spaces in between your paragraphs this will actually make it easier for your readers to read. Great article For more articles by this author click here

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