We’ve all had our share of students whose purpose in life seems to be making our own life miserable. If you haven’t, well you’re in luck. Here is a list of ways to make students hate your class.
101 Ways To Make Students Hate Your Class
- Be boring
- Be mean
- Be inconsiderate
- Be confrontational
- Be negative
- Be consistently sarcastic
- Be impatient
- Be satisfied with good enough
- Argue with students
- Yell at students
- Threaten students
- Pick favorites
- Don’t learn names
- Misspell names
- Don’t try to pronounce names correctly
- Discourage students
- Focus on insecurities
- Compare students unfavorably with their siblings
- Compare students with other students
- Don’t allow students to use the restroom in obvious emergencies
- Haphazardly allow a “revolving door restroom policy”
- Makes lots of rules
- Make unnecessary rules
- Inconsistently enforce rules
- Ignore obvious misbehaviors
- Selectively criticize minor mishebaviors
- Assign detention daily
- Don’t set clear expectations
- Create an antagonistic learning environment
- Embrace stereotypes
- Share your opinions often
- Prejudge students based on what other teachers tell you
- Assign frivolous classwork
- Assign frivolous homework
- Don’t give feedback on grades
- Ignore district grading policies
- Set hard deadlines that leave no room for error
- Don’t allow makeup work
- Make a habit of not counting homework
- Input grades irregularly
- Miss school a lot
- Go back on your word
- Don’t care about students
- Compare yourself to other teachers
- Criticize other teachers
- Criticize administrators
- Don’t answer emails
- Don’t return phone calls
- Remain in  your classroom all day
- Gossip with other teachers in the hallway
- Spend instructional time on returning emails or phone calls
- Eat during class
- Don’t prepare for technology breakdowns
- Use outdated technology
- React rather than respond
- Lecture frequently
- Show videos frequently
- Use one instructional method exclusively
- Ignore looks of confusion on the faces of students
- Don’t check for understanding
- Give pop quizzes regularly
- Avoid asking questions your students can answer
- Force uninterested students to participate in class
- Make test questions ridiculously hard
- Make tests with 50 or more problems
- Make tests with 4 or less problems
- Ignore real-world implications of your subject matter
- Make frequent allusions to musicians, TV shows, or movies that were popular 30 years ago
- Make frequent allusions to musicians, TV shows, or movies that were popular 3 years ago
- Try to be trendy
- Type loudly while students are working
- Talk loudly while students are working
- Sing, whistle, or make other noises to yourself
- Say “umm” regularly
- Use “library voice” all the time
- Use “teacher voice” all the time
- Ask personal questions
- Single students out in front of others
- Have private conversations publicly
- Call parents on speaker phone during class
- Take things personally
- Talk about your personal life frequently
- Be secretive about your personal life
- Arrive to work late
- Leave work early
- Take mobile devices away from students
- Violate staff mobile device policies
- Blame students
- Blame parents
- Blame administrators
- Complain without offering solutions
- Teach the same material every year
- Go through the motions
- Don’t push yourself to grow
- Set low expectations for yourself
- Set low expectations for your students
- Frequently remind students how long you have been teaching
- Count down the days until the weekend
- Count down the days until Christmas break
- Count down the days until the summer
- Count down the days until retirement
What do you think? Leave a comment with some more ways you have accidentally found to make students hate your class.
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