Has anyone ever felt that they "connected" with a teacher?

Question

i truly feel that i understand some teachers and their teaching styles and i like to work and understand for their classes. for the teachers who i just dont get, i cant do the work because i dont understand what they teach. well i understand it but i dont connect with it, or them.

i don't think i explained that well.

Answer 1

There's really a bunch of parts to what your saying. I've had teachers that I liked personally, I thought they were great people, but I didn't jive with their approach at all- but since I thought they were brilliant individuals I liked learning with them and trying harder to figure them out.

I've had other teachers that just really appriciate what their students bring to the classroom-- creativity, intelligence, wit, whatever! and they really went out of their way to foster everyones abilities in the class to contribute to what was going on.

Another thing is learning styles. Google "Learning Styles" and you'll find lots of information on that. Everyone's got different ways that they best understand information. The caveat to that is that teachers usually gravitate towards teaching in a style they would most be receptive to.

Teachers are taught to use a wide variety of teaching skills to accomodate for student's different learning styles, but some use more over others. If your teachers are teaching in ways that jive with your learning style then you have less of a ways to go in understanding what they are on about.

Hope that helps!

Answer 2

I don't really understand what you are saying. At first I thought  you were going to say you had feelings for a teacher..then I read your explanation. Your explanation is pretty vague. After reading it I am forced to ask...what was the question again?