How to talk to my teacher?

Question

i have an F in her class right now and i want to talk to her about my grade...

but it seems that whenever I talk to her, she tends to be in a bad mood...and she would embarass me and stuff..

so what should i do? how am i supposed to talk to her?

Answer 1

Wait until the end of class and remain behind during your own time. Tell her you want to discuss your mark and try and work towards getting a better result. Just be polite and nice and im sure she will be fine.

Answer 2

1. Start the conversation and see where it leads. If she continues her "bad mood".

2. talk to another teacher and see if THEY can talk to her. That's a slippery slope, but, it might work. or the teacher might 'accompany' you as back up.

3. go to the counselor

4. Go to the principal.

That's about all you can do. You can get your parents in on this and have them talk.

Its all up to you

Answer 3

Ask her to get someone to help you or ask her for extra credit after class when everyone else has gone

Answer 4

well..she probably doesn't want to talk you because she thinks that before, you were never worried about your grade, and now that its the end of the year, your all worried.  What I would do is somehow (through a friend or her website) find out all the work that you did poorly on, do it correctly and turn it in to her asap.  At least this will show that you have some intuitive to get things done if you know what I mean.  Then sit down and talk with her, and don't let her embarrass you, just listen to what she says, turn it all the work that you did poorly on, say thank you for letting me have opportunity to be in your class and tell her some things that you learned from her.  And bringing her an apple may help.

Answer 5

As a teacher, I disagree with the previous answerer, who suggested you redo all your work and surprise her with it.  She will likely be unimpressed and maybe even annoyed.  Why?  Because you decided not to listen to her instructions or guidance up to this point and now that your grade sucks, you once again decide to do whatever you want and hope she welcomes you with open arms.  Trust me:  that's not gonna happen.

Any decision to redo or makeup missing work needs to be made by her, hopefully in a discussion with you.  You are asking her for a favor; please act sufficiently humble about it.

As for her bad mood:  it's May.  We're tired.  We want school to end as much as you do.  So ask to see her after class, preferably after school, when you can talk in private without all the disruptions that occur during the school day.  But also realize that it's pretty late in the year to start worrying about a grade, so she might just say, "Forget about it."  Go in there with that expectation, in fact, and then arrangements you make with her to improve your grade will be a plus.  Good luck.