Do teachers forget their knowledge once they become a teacher?

Question

i asked my teacher if i could borrow a pencil, she said ok hold on a sec, i need to get the class quiet. a few minutes later i wuz talking, and she started yelling at me for not taking the notes. i said you still haven't given me a pencil yet. she said yeah but you can be paying attention. i wuz like ok but i need a pencil. she wuz like ok. a few minutes later, i started talking again and she yelled at me. she's like precious you need to be writng this down. i'm like miss, you still haven't given me a pencil yet. she started looking at me all funny. then one of my friends gave me a pencil.

Answer 1

Well, she was probably overwhelmed.  Come to class prepared next time and solve the problem!

Answer 2

Ummm...she didn't forget her knowledge. She forget that you asked her for a pencil...totally different!

Anyway, just because she forgot to give you a pencil, that does not give you permission to disrupt the class and disrespect the teacher while she is trying to teach. You should take responsibility and go to class prepared. If not, then you should discretely ask someone else to borrow a pencil.

Answer 3

I always tell my students that they cannot talk to me/ask me for anything at the beginning of class because I need to take attendance and get the class settled down and started.  Often a student who should have brought their supplies with them has asked for a pencil, and in trying to get everyone settled, I've forgotten.  It's the students job to raise his/her hand and ask for one or borrow one.  However, that does not give the student permission to turn around and have a separate conversation with another student while I'm trying to get class started.  Just because you couldn't write things down, doesn't mean she was giving you special permission to talk when she had already told you that she needed to quiet the class.

Answer 4

Sounds like there was a lot going on in the classroom that day.  Not quite sure how one 'forgets their knowledge."  If you were waiting for a pencil, there was no need for you to be talking.  I'm sure the people that you were talking to were supposed to be copying the notes as well.

Isn't it your responsibility to make sure you come prepared for class and not your teacher's to supply you with pencils?

p.s. proper PUNCTUATION and GRAMMAR never hurt anyone!

Answer 5

Perhaps if you had been paying attention and brought supplies to class as you have undoubtedly been instructed to in the past, this entire situation could have been avoided.

And, even if you didn't have a pencil, you could have been learning something...grammar and spelling would be a good start.

Answer 6

Your teacher has a lot of students to deal with, and a lot of things going through her mind at once.  it's easy to get sidetracked and forget something minor like a student who asked for a pencil.  If she agreed to give you one, she shouldn't have yelled at you for not having one.  But the two things to keep in mind are that it's YOUR responsibility to bring a pencil to class, and even if you can't take notes that doesn't make it okay for you to disrupt the rest of the class while talking.  Next time, raise your hand and politely remind her about the pencil as many times as necessary.  Better yet, come to class prepared.

Answer 7

The specific situation you are describing does not have to do with whether the teacher lost her knowledge or not. The teacher was simply distracted with educating the students and not giving a pencil to a student that was supposed to come prepared to class and to LEARNING. Teacher's job does not have to do at all with being a school supply. I think that instead of questioning the teacher's role and knowledge, you should focus on questioning your own role as a student, because it seems you are pretending others to do what You are supposed to do.

Answer 8

There are many things on a teacher's agenda and on her mind. Your lack of preparedness doesn't help.  Bring your own pencil to class so she can do HER job.

Answer 9

they tend to 4get things that are not important to them.

Answer 10

I'd have given you a zero, not a pencil. Be prepared for class.

Answer 11

I would say that the teacher was getting flustered because 1) she was trying to quiet the class down 2) you asked her for a pencil when it's your responsibility to have one (or you can always borrow one from somebody else, which you eventually did) 3) you added to the noisy class problem by deciding to talk, even when the teacher said to you that she was trying to quiet the class down 4) she may have been further irritated at the disrespect you displayed by deciding to talk and 5) she's probably getting tired of seeing no capitalization in your writing and the misspelling of the word, was.