Questions tagged [teachers]
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How can I explain my crisis of confidence to my judo sensei without casting aspersions on his teaching?
I am a 27 year old male and have been taking judo lessons twice a week for the past six years, give or take a year when the dojo was closed for the pandemic. The class is run by three men, all between ...
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How to handle being laughed at in a room full of people in a foreign country?
Note: It has been well over 10 years since this happened, but I think about this more often than I am happy to admit.
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When I was 15 I went for an exchange year in the US. I was a ...
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Asking teacher to fix course software in group chat to speed up resolution
My child is currently taking online lessons due to Corona lock-down. The teacher takes about 40 minutes to explain today's lesson and then the children (7, 8 year) do exercises online and offline with ...
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How do I chase a teacher who hasn't replied to my messages despite reading them?
I'm studying a course remotely, and sent my teacher a message on Teams about 10 days ago now, asking a question. No response, but I can see the read receipt. Hoping to prompt a reply, I asked another ...
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How can I communicate to a friend that he should apply to more jobs?
An acquaintance of mine is a teacher.
Because of a change of rules at his school, all the teachers will have to reapply for their jobs next year. I'm sure he'll get his job back, but if he does not, ...
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How do I tell students at a school I volunteer at to stop flirting with me?
Occasionally, I head out to volunteer to teach robotics programming at an all-girls school in my area. For context, I'm male and age 20, and the students are adolescent females in 7th and 8th grade (...
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How to handle students in a classroom who might have feelings for you?
I am in my early 30s, unmarried male. I teach engineering at a local university.
Each of my classes have around 30 students. I try to treat everyone fairly. There are of course students who do not ...
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Instuctor wants me to pay for additional lessons before sign off; but didn't complete all hours of the course
I'm taking some mandatory motorcycle lessons (required before you can legally ride on the road).
I've paid around $600 for these to the school the runs the course. The course (whose structure, ...
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How can I decline to help my teacher with their personal IT problem?
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Note: Certain details have been changed for privacy's sake.
I am the go-to person for tech help for my friends (and enemies), family, and teachers. I have helped everyone I know with ...
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Keeping a potential music teacher a possibility for future learning?
I was looking for a singing teacher to give me private singing lessons. I emailed and left voicemails for a lot of teachers I found online. Only 2 bothered to even reply. I went with the first teacher ...
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How to improve my ways when teaching my wife
My wife studied basic-to-midlevel (by school standards) programming in upper secondary school, but then she didn't go further than that, and slowly lost the grip of it and didn't think about it for ...
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How to deal with a teacher who bullies me?
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I come from a highly conservative country which follows Islam. According to cultural and I think religious perceptions, being transgender is not okay at all! Having to do ...
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Improving teacher-student relationship [closed]
I am in a biweekly evening class of adults (who are mostly strangers to one another) learning German at beginner level (A1). Our first lesson contrasted with the next four, which were given by a ...
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How to talk to parents who undermine tutoring
I do some in-home tutoring, and this sometimes means working in a family space. However, as a tutor, I also have to create a professional setting that allows the kid to focus and recognize they're ...
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How should I handle the situation when I caught my student cheating in examination? [closed]
Backstory: I caught my school (private secondary) grade 9 student cheating in examination (third terminal). So, I took his copy and told him to go out but he didn't and kept standing in his seat ...
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