Is it reely bad if a teacher can't spell?

Question

Spelling has nothin' to do with intelligents, I had several preffesors who were unable to spell and teacehrs who were always correcting themselves. I was told I had to know how to spell in order to teach, and it wasn't something I could aquire. I just had to have it, or be kicked to the curb!

Answer 1

Obviously you cannot spell.   You can use the "check spelling" function, however, can't you?   Teachers must know the information they are teaching much better than their pupils.   You could teach K3 or K4.

Answer 2

Yes and no.

I myself am an English teacher, and a bad speller (I got a job...).  However, I know my weaknesses and therefore I double check all materials before publishing them (student handouts, notes to other teachers, even notes that I intend to write on the board).  Also I let my students know my weakness (words with double consonants), and I challenge them to find my errors (if there are any - this keeps them paying attention - in fact I've had some real cool teaching moments when an entire class was racing through a dictionary!).  

You may not be a good speller but you can't just say, "I'm a bad speller. End of story."  You need to show you are a life long learner and work on improving your spelling.  Finally, I found my spelling improved as I corrected papers.  I was forced to look up words that I was unsure of and this reinforced the spelling in my own mind.

Ultimately it is not really bad - as long as you are doing something about it.  (On a side note - bad spelling may impact your grammar.  This can prove to be embarrassing if you use "your" for "you're" or "their" for "there." )

Answer 3

Yes..kids learn from teachers. If da teachers can't spell, da chances r kids can't either....unless they have common sense.

Answer 4

You don't have to be the best speller, but you have to know the rules and how to use them. A lot of spelling is just knowing the rules. You can't teach them if you don't know them.

Answer 5

Yes.

Answer 6

It's pretty bad, although I'm guilty of it myself as a teacher...

Answer 7

I agree with you, it's not a measure of intelligence, but, still, teachers are usually expected to spell things correctly.  Unless you're teaching primary school, or want to be an LA/English teacher, I don't think it should be too too much of a problem.

Answer 8

Super bad ! ! !

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Answer 9

What you say is quite true about spelling and intelligence, however spelling is (from what i've seen at school) a critical thing in school. Once a teacher misspells something in class, other students will always point it out etc. and complain at times too ==' I mean not all of us can spell that well, but it's quite essential if you're a teacher. Hmmm unless you're a maths teacher?

But i guess the main thing, if you really really want to be be a teacher, then be one (:

Answer 10

You know what I find funny?  I looked at all your other answers and questions on this Yahoo forum, and no other response by you has nearly as many spelling errors as this question.  So I don't know if you're trying to be funny, stupid, or what, but it is quite clear to me that you can spell much better than you are letting on in this post.

Answer 11

What you have to be able to do is to correct your own mistakes.  You are correct that spelling is unrelated to intelligence, but a teacher has to model correct behavior for students, and a teacher who spells as badly as you did in this message would have trouble being respected by students.  That is what dictionaries and spell-check programs on computers are for!

Answer 12

No it is not bad, but you should learn too, to  influence her children that spelling is important. Also, it will help to make life easier with better writing skills with any type of document, that you write

Answer 13

MY BIGGEST PET PEEVE!!!!! Well, that and newspapers that have huge spelling and grammar mistakes in them. It was so bad in one place where I lived, the sign out front of the school (where they put the announcements) was misspelled, and when I brought it to the attention of the principal, I learned that she had not even noticed it herself!!!

My thought is, at least be able to fake it, and know the basics. It's not horrible to have difficulties spelling unusual words, but the three and four letter words that you use regularly, you should be spelling correctly if you are going to be writing them in front of kids.

Answer 14

Well, as long as you could master the basic of spelling than you're OK. It'd be ashamed though for a student to be better at spelling than his/her teacher. Bad speller also show that s/he doesn't read, or read very little. Spelling isn't hard, unless you have some source of mental disorder. Other than that, you should be giving excuses. Bad speller is another sign of ignorance.

You're right that spelling doesn't relate to intelligence, but intelligence people acknowledge. So, you must acknowledge on your vocabulary. It's very embarrassing to not knowing how to spell.

Not knowing how to spell isn't the worst thing that a teacher can do. I think the word thing that a teacher can do is to say, "I don't know." Can you imagine your teacher saying, "I don't know," to you? Let's face it, no body's perfect, and no one will ever be; but you must learn how to spell.

It's not just knowing how to spell and have knowledge. It's also about hand writing. I've heard that if you have a very bad hand writing, you can't be a teacher. I'm sure you know why.

Edit: As long as you are a math teacher, then I guess spelling important for you. At least, you should be the best mathematician in your area. It's like when most teachers complain about math. Most teachers that I've met are usually weak at math and art. So, go figure. However, there's thing counselor. She was quite intelligence, but she can't spell at all.