This is kind of irritating; as a student I find that a teacher who is demanding and hard hitting on missed assignments results in more stress and me being less co-operative, simply punishing a student for being unable to complete work is an inadequate solution; I understand this video is to help you manage your own life, but respect that we are as if not much more busy with our social lives than you are, and do not always have enough time for certain assignments.
@Wharficron hate to break it to you man. But find time. It's really as simple as that. I'm up right now, at 1:30 because I've got a 3 hour test in about 12 hours, which I'm still preparing for. And I KNOW I have the time to prepare, I was just too lazy. Motivation is the key.
@Wharficron I find this comment amusing, because all of my life I have been taught to get my schoolwork done before doing anything else (yes, even facebook!). Social lives can be put to the side for awhile, schoolwork cannot. just like MCKT2806 said just do it, and you'll probably find you'll have more time, rather than rushing it last minute.
@Wharficron Grow up. I'm at university right now and they tell us "restructure your life around this work, because we're not accepting any less". And we do that. And you know what? I've been putting up with this since Year 10.
Because that's *how life is*. When you get a job and your boss hands you a paper and wants it filed by Friday, you don't complain about having other commitments. You have that paper on their desk on Friday or you find yourself a new job.
Don't get me wrong teachers are very important , but over worked I think not . 40-45 hr week and 8 million holidays a year .Try the work life balance of many tradesmen 50-60 hr and fuck all holidays . Great video but I wont shed a tear for Miss because she stayed back photocopying a Gatsby quiz.
I really like this video, I sent it to my partner, she is a school teacher, in my line of work time management is more based on flexibility, very insightful, namaste
I'm going to email this video to every teacher from my school I get lessons from. Hopefully a few days later, class is going to actually be more fun and relaxed for everyone.
Do you live in England or something? You keep using English terms for things I'd never expect an American to use... Like saying 'Year 10' rather than '10th grade' or whatever it is in America... And you showed a higher tier AQA paper,the same which is used for English GCSE's, I'm not sure if American papers are still by AQA or EDEXEL...
This is very useful. However, I am a student, not a teacher. A lot of these tips do work for both teachers and students, but is there anyway you could make a video for students as well? I am super stressed, -I already have grey hairs and I am only 14- and any tips would help ALOT!
One of my teachers is like this. He is the most BORING and UNINTERESTING teacher i've ever had. No offense to you but i would rather do HW for a teacher who's nice and understanding than boring and monotone.
You are a god! Your from another counry, live in a different coulture and speak a different language then me. But stil! The way you speak, the way you explain and educate is ten times easyer to understand then eny other person!
I belive i the words Albert Ainstain spoke! " if you cant explain it easely, you dont know it well enough!" You my friend, "Know it!"
I don't believe in homework. (I haven't done homework in many years)
I believe that learning shouldn't be "work". Learning should be fun, and voluntary. I think everybody wants to learn, and if people had more spare time, everyone would be much smarter because they wouldn't be exhausted at the end of the day after endless mind torture and would actually be in the mood for learning something useful or interesting.
@SmartestViking "Everyone wants to learn" doesn't hold up in my reality - More like, everyone wants to play Fifa 2012... What I really hate though, is that they don't play Mortal Kombat 9.
A very well thought and helpful video. I do hope you make more videos for teachers in the future. Someone like you would be a phenomenal speaker for TED.
wait, wait, wait, wait... all this time you were a teacher... all this time i was like "oh you are so great! this is fun!" while you were trying to teach me stuff... you should be ashame of yourself lol i like your videos keep them coming :) (sorry for my english i'm still learning) :)
I knew a teacher that used this system, as a rebellious person brought up to speak my mind and question the stasis qua i almost got expelled in.... skirmishes with him, lets say. It was funny, screw you grey, keep making videos ^^
I wish a few of my teachers did what you do. Once one of my teachers were out and the next day she went like a madman because we didn't do what she didn't tell us to do. Terriable
My teacher gave us a project to do on the christamas holidays and we weren't meant to get homework... Even worse we haven't covered anything on that subject and she's been away on all the lessons we have to work on that subject, and we only have a 35 minutes on RS a week... Fml
This is really useful. But my teachers don't need to make a list - we can check our grades online and see if we're missing homework assignments. Usually they're graded for completion, but I go to a private school and just about everyone does her work all the time (also, half the kids are on some sort of financial aid). As long as students know that their grades are affected by homework, they'll do it. Well, if they care about their grades, anyway.
This is true actually about students putting a teacher on our to do list, at that the very top if I know they check it. Spanish, I never do homework. Teacher is a fat lazy guy who tries to trick us to think he checks the homework but really we put it in a basket with about 500 assignments with every other class he teaches. A teacher wouldn't go through that mess. I tend to use it as my garbage can for my other classes, never notices I wonder why? But I do my chemistry HW all the time.
Don't u get those kind of books/tablets of the shelf? Our teachers have notebook/books made specifically for teachers. They have proper sheets for attendance, to-do's, works your supposed to collect etc. You just fill in the names of students and after that it's only check marks and small notes.
If u rely on homework to teach the students, you are doing it wrong. Welcome to Finland, promised land of education. Short schooldays, long vacations, almost no homework (which I rarely do anyway) and top scores on international learning tests.
You just addressed all of my worries that I might have once I start working as a real teacher as soon as I graduate (which shall be by the end of this schoolyear)
Assign homework as a study aid. Do not collect homework, just give a quiz (a few questions) at the beginning of class. The homework is not mandatory but if it actually helps the student prepare then they will choose to do it. If a student quickly grasps the concept the they can skip the busywork. Those who fail the quiz have the option to turn in their homework to nullify the quiz and identify the students that have a genuine interest in the class but may need some extra help.
@pixitwixie If a student's ONLY motivation to turn in an assignment is avoid detention, then I would argue that it wasn't a good assignment for that student in the first place, because they weren't worried about falling behind. Don't be afraid to let your students fail, that's how they learn.
@CGPGrey I agree/disagree. Ultimately, homework is given to indirectly teach, right? So, a teacher assigning homework is actually part of a teacher's job. You get paid to do so. A teacher is ideally there to help students through "the real life consequences of falling behind the class".
Alright, I'll say it. I'm a student. I hate homework. I don't do specific teacher's homework, and only do the ones from teachers that actually follow up on it.
Still, you can't just be lazy and let us suffer. ^.^
@CGPGrey I would rather see no assignments. You learn nothing from them, they take up precious time in the often busy schedule for students and are little more than monotonous, busy work. I would rather do 10 tests before I did 1 assignment.
@whit717evans If they need to practice they can do it themselves before public exams and mid-terms. Math in High school should never be assigned for homework that gets corrected. The students have better use of their time and the teachers certainly have better uses than to mark or even check if its done. it should be irrelevant in HS. If you want to baby students, go teach grade 1.
In-class assignments are a different matter, I do recommend those in review for an upcoming test.
@whit717evans And what I was talking about was the time-consuming assignments in English or World History rather instead of math because I despise math but since I have a sane and rational teacher for Math 2201 who doesn't assign homework because its just a given that what you don't finish in class should be done at home but its completely up to you if you do it because menial sheets of math should not be enough to warrant unnecessary stress on the student but ANYWAYS I'm rambling.
@pixitwixie Stop being lazy. Some students need help developing discipline, especially if they're not getting it at home. I hated math in H.S., but because one teacher checked each student's homework assignment at every class, I ended up getting an "A" in his class, which helped me tremendously later on. I hated it at the time, but will be forever grateful to that teacher for checking our homework compliance.
@pixitwixie Having in mind that it is a teacher's job to help students learn whatever it is they have to learn, and this man's method accomplishes that in a better way, in my mind this method is more proper. You're just giving them a life lesson which neither makes them better students nor you a better teacher. Bear in mind the motivational factor...
@Michaisi The problem with Grey's method is that it takes up a lot of the teacher's time which would be better spent helping students, lecturing, or catching up on grading. (ironic considering that this is about time management) Another problem with both of your points is that they make the assumption that the student will learn something new or improve on a skill from said homework, in other words, that the work wasn't busy work and that the student isn't already ahead of the class.
@pixitwixie I interpreted Grey's message a little differently. I definitely agree with you on that it's not a teacher's job to try and make students turn in their assignments. That would be neverending and torturous. But it is something you're going to have to consider and keep track of, and if you don't keep track of it it could cause trouble with preparation. I thought of it to be more oriented towards your own administration, with the possible side effect of the students actually working :))
@pixitwixie If you don't care whether or not your students turn in their assignments, then you're not following your own philosophy, because you are knowingly having students that aren't learning anything from you. It's a lazy, hypocritical philosophy that may save you some time, but in turn have the potential to ruin a students learning experience, potentially setting them off much worse for life. And for what - a few minutes saved each day? I'd hate to have a teacher like you.
@pixitwixie Personally I think you're philosophy is what is wrong with our education system, other than the government cutting funds left and right. Teachers need to be engaging and care about their students. Children will be children, majority of which would rather not be in class, and out having fun. When you do the bare minimum as a teacher (just teach) then you can't expect more than that from your students either. The whole moto "Cs get degrees" comes from this and is the problem.
@pixitwixie That sounds good, until you consider that many students don't have a stable home life. If the student has inattentive parents, an abusive situation, or is desperately poor their priorities for homework might be very different. As a teacher your job is not just to teach your students, but to motivate them to learn. You can establish consequences for missing work without ignoring your students needs. Behaviorism as a motivator generally does not work very well for most students
How do you handle cheaters? What policy do you use to combat potential cheating? Of course, besides whatever your schools academic honesty policy entails. I personally was irritated with a teacher who was so concerned with preventing cheaters that things were made more difficult for the rest of us.
Also, do you think the typical grading policy should be changed? I find in some classes, learning the material and getting good grades are not always directly related.
I'm not sure I would like to have you as my teacher. The motivation for doing your homework should not be "the teacher is after you until you deliver it", but "this subject is so interesting that you want to know more about it". Perhaps it's an idealized view of things, but what I hated most about school were homeworks about things I was not at all interested in. I also don't think doing that homework helped me much at all ...
@uncinarynin I like teachers who are firm about due dates. I've had teachers who kept moving back deadlines because half the class didn't do the work, which of course only aggravated the problem. Nothing ever got done, making it such an utter waste of time that I eventually withdrew from the class. Sadly, not every student is excited about every class they take, meaning that there will always be someone in each class who isn't sufficiently motivated to do the work by the subject matter alone.
My moms a highschool teacher. He's making it sound a little worse then it actually is. Sure it can be stressful at time but now they have a grade system on the computer so they can see what assignments people were missing and if they are absent. Also they usually don't have anything to do after school because they get a planning period during school and they plan classes then.
This might all work in a perfect system, but from where I sit teachers are constantly getting screwed over with late notice coordination meetings and those "long term projects" (especially but not limited to said computer skills) are forced upon them, taking up even more of their time. Not to mention the huge buerocratic mess that is the teacher evaluations, which just gives them more useless paperwork to fill...
I am student, I am very friendly with ALL my teachers. I'm not a "suck-up" but I talk with them maybe 2 mins after each class and I get to know my teachers well. What I don't understand is HW. I go to school 8 hours a day, isn't that enough learning? If every day I spend 1 hr on HW, even if we made school 9 hours, I guarantee I would still have 1 hour of HW! HW, should be to finish what we had to finishing in school, not to make school part of our OUT-OF-SCHOOL lives!
I've never really come to think how much "homework" teachers have. I've had the thought but dismissed it. seems many times worse than being a student :/
i think that it is for the first time that i realize that teachers work is an never ending story and how much i have to thank to people which had give me their time.thank you
there'S an other reason for the other jobs to tkae more sickdays.
i work i a kitchen using knives and playing with food,i simply cannot take the risk of choping off my firgers because i am not totally aware of what i do or transmiting my microbes to others or the food itself.but we also have this "cannot miss a day" problem because we do a brunch every sunday.so me not being here = the others have to work harder.
Moreover a teacher in a foreign country? (You sound American to me, though I may be mistaken).
I mean, my class made our teachers lives miserable, and we were the highest set in my year. So presumably the lower sets were worse if anything. With my experience of how we treated our teachers, I regret making it so bad for them of course, but I also can not fathom how anyone would willingly teach.
I'm in high school but I still watched this because I enjoy your explanations! I really think it was this year that I realized how much time my teachers put in even OUT OF their work day to get assignments graded/essays read/classes planned. There was one teacher I had in my sophomore year, though, that i REALLY didn't like-because he just didn't seem to care whether or not we understood the curriculum and would read ESPN articles while we did the homework. It was honestly my lowest grade EVER.
So, this is all stuff that normal people should have learned without having to get a teaching degree. Seriously, if people don't know how to do this already they are in trouble regardless of what career they're in.
Interesting. I like the part about monitoring homework hand-ins. Question:
- Do teachers really still plan and present lessons on paper? (I ask for information...)
- Cover work: isn't there a syllabus which the pupils should be following, with a particular subject in a particular order? Why isn't it the work which is already in folders as a result of "Must do tasks for yesterday" the folder given to the fill-in teacher?
(By the way, I believe everybody has a duty to do their job if they can)
Why bother with all of this? School should be a sink or swim thing. If the student doesn't want to do any work, then he sinks. If the student doesn't want to cooperate, send him to ISAP or detention (or whatever places not where I live may have), do something to get them out of your class so you can teach. When teachers have to work this hard just to make sure that those who are unmotivated do their work, it just takes away from those of us who want to succeed.
@Antiunfunktasticize Should be may be radically different from the reality. Not all educational systems give teachers the power to get rid of students. Besides, I'm not convinced kicking out problem students constitutes effective teaching. Should schools specifically favour the smartest students or the most motivated students or the most organised students to the exclusion of others? These students need school the least anyways.
Listen to him teachers. Pupils are lazy and will organise HW priority by "who will punish me less if I don't do my work?". Trust me. I'm a master at not doing work.
What I love for homework is the "Dog Didn't Eat My Homework" sheet I have. When we are collecting homework, EVERYONE needs to turn in a piece of paper - either the homework OR their "Dog Didn't Eat My Homework" sheet. That way I not only know WHO owes homework but also have a piece of paperwork that notes that THEY know that they owe homework and WHY they didn't do it (did it but forgot, chose not to do it, forgot to do it, etc.).
@ruggerdavey Good idea, you can also bring up that paperwork during parent-teacher interviews to show parents how much work their kids are actually doing.
I would use a class list as opposed to a blank Tracking List. The column has the date of the assignment. If a student hands the assignment in after the due date, a red check is placed over the blue X. Then there is not cross writing/referencing - it's all on one sheet.
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One of my first principals had us create an Emergency File for days when we were ill. I went one step further and created an entire binder of worksheets that supplies could use when i was absent.
Very well assembled. I've sent this to friends who are teachers. Maybe I'll see them again before they retire. (Just kidding, America will never pay teachers enough to retire...) =\
it is clearly not a coincidence that many teachers the world over have bad work:life balances. it is a systemic, institutionalised flaw that needs to be stalled.
lots of good nuggets in this; thank you. the jump between rooms is a pain and i suppose it just means lost time...the one valuable resource that you'd want to keep hold of. loved the ending :-)
I took your advice on getting a clipboard, and it saves me a lot of time.
However, the "five minutes" part, doesn't apply in my country. We get 15 minutes, but need to go from classroom to classroom, instead of the students going from teacher to teacher.
But yeah, summer holidays. I agree. That, and seeing your students are truly progressing, and learning new ways of thinking.
I KNEW you had to be a teacher. :P What do you actually teach?
KillAllHumans52 4 days ago
This is kind of irritating; as a student I find that a teacher who is demanding and hard hitting on missed assignments results in more stress and me being less co-operative, simply punishing a student for being unable to complete work is an inadequate solution; I understand this video is to help you manage your own life, but respect that we are as if not much more busy with our social lives than you are, and do not always have enough time for certain assignments.
Wharficron 4 days ago
@Wharficron hate to break it to you man. But find time. It's really as simple as that. I'm up right now, at 1:30 because I've got a 3 hour test in about 12 hours, which I'm still preparing for. And I KNOW I have the time to prepare, I was just too lazy. Motivation is the key.
MCKT2806 3 days ago
@Wharficron I find this comment amusing, because all of my life I have been taught to get my schoolwork done before doing anything else (yes, even facebook!). Social lives can be put to the side for awhile, schoolwork cannot. just like MCKT2806 said just do it, and you'll probably find you'll have more time, rather than rushing it last minute.
AverageGuitarDude 2 days ago
@Wharficron Grow up. I'm at university right now and they tell us "restructure your life around this work, because we're not accepting any less". And we do that. And you know what? I've been putting up with this since Year 10.
Because that's *how life is*. When you get a job and your boss hands you a paper and wants it filed by Friday, you don't complain about having other commitments. You have that paper on their desk on Friday or you find yourself a new job.
Welcome to the real world.
Crimpyiff 23 hours ago
Dammit, he figured our system out!
Testoasteron 5 days ago
as long as you remain a fun, spontaneous and adaptable teacher/person, i guess this pedantry is worth it..
OOOuise 6 days ago
why are all the pictures from chinese schools >.>
lilricecookie 1 week ago in playlist Time Management
Don't forget why you became a teacher in the first place: the summer holidays...you're awesome.
ARKAtheist 1 week ago 5
Please make one for students!
PhoenixFireworks 1 week ago 3
i bet 5:57 is Olivia A.'s paper. goddamn smartass.
naimonmarcus 1 week ago
This is brilliant and I am not even a teacher.
towelmuppet 1 week ago
Don't get me wrong teachers are very important , but over worked I think not . 40-45 hr week and 8 million holidays a year .Try the work life balance of many tradesmen 50-60 hr and fuck all holidays . Great video but I wont shed a tear for Miss because she stayed back photocopying a Gatsby quiz.
hartstarter 1 week ago
makes me want to become a teacher... but I won't
gimkilo57 1 week ago
I'm watching this even though I'm not a teacher, I just enjoy your videos ;D
rabbeythegreat 1 week ago 2
aqa paper and american accent? do you teach in the uk?
loubailey90 1 week ago
@loubailey90 Reasonably sure he lives in the uk, see his 100k subscriber video if you haven't yet.
link2037 1 week ago
Thanks tons! I know it's for teachers, but some of the basic skills can be transferred to students. It's helpful...
blacksnowhitequeen 1 week ago
I'm studying to become a teacher in history so this is very helpfull, but just out of curiosity what did you teach?
ralfisme 1 week ago
I really like this video, I sent it to my partner, she is a school teacher, in my line of work time management is more based on flexibility, very insightful, namaste
boogieboardbuddha82 2 weeks ago
I have no idea why im watching this. I honestly think that about 3 to 5 of the people watching this are ACTUALLY teachers
SomeGuyWithAFace9 2 weeks ago
basically:
1. be organized
2. be prepared
3. be patient
notpointed 2 weeks ago
I find videos on organisation incredibly soothing! :-)
shealsosings 2 weeks ago
I'm going to email this video to every teacher from my school I get lessons from. Hopefully a few days later, class is going to actually be more fun and relaxed for everyone.
MissPurpur 2 weeks ago
04:31 -.- AQA I thought I was going to be sick the letters still make me shudder >.<
TomTomTubes 2 weeks ago
Do you live in England or something? You keep using English terms for things I'd never expect an American to use... Like saying 'Year 10' rather than '10th grade' or whatever it is in America... And you showed a higher tier AQA paper,the same which is used for English GCSE's, I'm not sure if American papers are still by AQA or EDEXEL...
teagm003 2 weeks ago
@teagm003 In another video, he mentioned that he lived there for a time. Or visited. Either one.
XatechChaos 2 weeks ago in playlist Time Management
@XatechChaos Oh cool... Thanks :)
teagm003 2 weeks ago
The must do and general stuff is for everyone! It makes life so much less stressful.
dannyland1 2 weeks ago
This is very useful. However, I am a student, not a teacher. A lot of these tips do work for both teachers and students, but is there anyway you could make a video for students as well? I am super stressed, -I already have grey hairs and I am only 14- and any tips would help ALOT!
ThePaperclipgirl 2 weeks ago
Really a great tips.. thanks for the idea..
alifaqmal 2 weeks ago
@MjoelH what do u mean?
Playfulpat 3 weeks ago
And lastly don't forget why u became a teacher in the first place(shows a picture of kids)............ The summer holidays!🌅
Playfulpat 3 weeks ago
were you a teacher in England? Because im pretty sure the AQA exam board only exists in here.
pertyboy69 3 weeks ago
Come to my freaking school, all my friends are subscribed to you...
zqwiggle24 3 weeks ago
can you make a time management for students?
1191jackie 3 weeks ago in playlist Time Management 217
@1191jackie it's the same, except instead of "prepare classes" it's "do homework"
notpointed 2 weeks ago
@1191jackie That's easy enough. Do h/w the day you get them, then hand it in the day it's due. Revise on in in between :)
HoangTrongNghia 2 days ago in playlist Time Management
I wish i had you as a teacher
TaylorHound 3 weeks ago in playlist More videos from CGPGrey 5
lol "the summer holidays" ^.^ :D:D
GarimaMeansGrace 4 weeks ago
One of my teachers is like this. He is the most BORING and UNINTERESTING teacher i've ever had. No offense to you but i would rather do HW for a teacher who's nice and understanding than boring and monotone.
KillaStorm1000 1 month ago
Why does your accent keep shifting from British to American? hahahah
MjoelH 1 month ago
I wish my university had a management course; information like this would have made my student teaching a much more enjoyable experience.
SamiJReads 1 month ago 21
@SamiJReads Feel free to suggest it to them. I do time management seminars : )
CGPGrey 1 month ago 17
@CGPGrey Can you do them in the UK?
McDADDyK 2 weeks ago
Yeeeaaaaahhhhhh. Im never going to become a teacher.
faiter119 1 month ago
The little fuckers in my school should be given the strap.
Baboonaiih 1 month ago
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LosAngelasBasketball 1 month ago
The sad part about the end is that I've had teachers which seem to only have taken the job for that reason.
ProjectEndgame 1 month ago
I'm not a teacher... why can't i stop watching this?
oxynecrophobia 1 month ago 4
You are a god! Your from another counry, live in a different coulture and speak a different language then me. But stil! The way you speak, the way you explain and educate is ten times easyer to understand then eny other person!
I belive i the words Albert Ainstain spoke! " if you cant explain it easely, you dont know it well enough!" You my friend, "Know it!"
Sorry for my poor English.
nsdpowerball123 1 month ago 3
I don't believe in homework. (I haven't done homework in many years)
I believe that learning shouldn't be "work". Learning should be fun, and voluntary. I think everybody wants to learn, and if people had more spare time, everyone would be much smarter because they wouldn't be exhausted at the end of the day after endless mind torture and would actually be in the mood for learning something useful or interesting.
SmartestViking 1 month ago in playlist More videos from CGPGrey
@SmartestViking "Everyone wants to learn" doesn't hold up in my reality - More like, everyone wants to play Fifa 2012... What I really hate though, is that they don't play Mortal Kombat 9.
B1aDK 1 month ago
Video talks about time management, I watch it to procrastinate for a essay.
gamers209 1 month ago
LOL (!) on that last comment
MBaksh04 1 month ago
I wish you were my teach C.G.P
Strivez1 1 month ago
A very well thought and helpful video. I do hope you make more videos for teachers in the future. Someone like you would be a phenomenal speaker for TED.
Thank you.
Beowulf419 1 month ago
damn im in yr 10 and im in bloody foundation thats a higher paper DX
MsIlovemanga 1 month ago
next step is MATRIX
donner260 1 month ago
Don't tell them this cause now they'll want my homework.
ShoveItUpYourJumper 1 month ago
Awesome video. Thanks.
HallmarkJD 1 month ago
wait, wait, wait, wait... all this time you were a teacher... all this time i was like "oh you are so great! this is fun!" while you were trying to teach me stuff... you should be ashame of yourself lol i like your videos keep them coming :) (sorry for my english i'm still learning) :)
carlosmashiado2 1 month ago in playlist Más vídeos de CGPGrey 4
I knew a teacher that used this system, as a rebellious person brought up to speak my mind and question the stasis qua i almost got expelled in.... skirmishes with him, lets say. It was funny, screw you grey, keep making videos ^^
TheHarrolEggCompany 1 month ago
I wanna be a teacher when I'm older. No way would I be a secondary school teacher though, too serious and boring. :)
ElectriicHeartss 1 month ago
I wish a few of my teachers did what you do. Once one of my teachers were out and the next day she went like a madman because we didn't do what she didn't tell us to do. Terriable
TheCheeseinacan 2 months ago
My teacher gave us a project to do on the christamas holidays and we weren't meant to get homework... Even worse we haven't covered anything on that subject and she's been away on all the lessons we have to work on that subject, and we only have a 35 minutes on RS a week... Fml
whiskerwolf1 2 months ago
I will never become a teacher... Unless it's a lower school one, or an assistant.......
Too much organisation needed
whiskerwolf1 2 months ago
This is really useful. But my teachers don't need to make a list - we can check our grades online and see if we're missing homework assignments. Usually they're graded for completion, but I go to a private school and just about everyone does her work all the time (also, half the kids are on some sort of financial aid). As long as students know that their grades are affected by homework, they'll do it. Well, if they care about their grades, anyway.
Ayshafr 2 months ago in playlist More videos from CGPGrey
Do you still teach?
thehermanater 2 months ago
This is true actually about students putting a teacher on our to do list, at that the very top if I know they check it. Spanish, I never do homework. Teacher is a fat lazy guy who tries to trick us to think he checks the homework but really we put it in a basket with about 500 assignments with every other class he teaches. A teacher wouldn't go through that mess. I tend to use it as my garbage can for my other classes, never notices I wonder why? But I do my chemistry HW all the time.
ArmaEditor 2 months ago
@CGPGrey You became a teacher just for summer holiday?
alinutza91geo 2 months ago
Don't u get those kind of books/tablets of the shelf? Our teachers have notebook/books made specifically for teachers. They have proper sheets for attendance, to-do's, works your supposed to collect etc. You just fill in the names of students and after that it's only check marks and small notes.
ottokiiski 2 months ago
If u rely on homework to teach the students, you are doing it wrong. Welcome to Finland, promised land of education. Short schooldays, long vacations, almost no homework (which I rarely do anyway) and top scores on international learning tests.
ottokiiski 2 months ago
Neither teacher nor student anymore, but it's good general advice that can be applied to many jobs.
unnamednewbie13 2 months ago
As a future teacher I can only say: WOW!
You just addressed all of my worries that I might have once I start working as a real teacher as soon as I graduate (which shall be by the end of this schoolyear)
Great video!
KillaB89 2 months ago
Assign homework as a study aid. Do not collect homework, just give a quiz (a few questions) at the beginning of class. The homework is not mandatory but if it actually helps the student prepare then they will choose to do it. If a student quickly grasps the concept the they can skip the busywork. Those who fail the quiz have the option to turn in their homework to nullify the quiz and identify the students that have a genuine interest in the class but may need some extra help.
MrS1lent0ne 2 months ago in playlist More videos from CGPGrey
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pixitwixie 2 months ago 15
@pixitwixie If a student's ONLY motivation to turn in an assignment is avoid detention, then I would argue that it wasn't a good assignment for that student in the first place, because they weren't worried about falling behind. Don't be afraid to let your students fail, that's how they learn.
pixitwixie 2 months ago
@pixitwixie I actually agree with you. But many schools require teachers to follow up every homework assignment from every student.
CGPGrey 2 months ago 39
@CGPGrey Ah, okay
pixitwixie 2 months ago
@CGPGrey I think followup is good for the earlier grades, because they're still learning the skill of doing homework independently
akemitsukino 2 months ago
@CGPGrey I agree/disagree. Ultimately, homework is given to indirectly teach, right? So, a teacher assigning homework is actually part of a teacher's job. You get paid to do so. A teacher is ideally there to help students through "the real life consequences of falling behind the class".
Alright, I'll say it. I'm a student. I hate homework. I don't do specific teacher's homework, and only do the ones from teachers that actually follow up on it.
Still, you can't just be lazy and let us suffer. ^.^
Pr0Fect 1 month ago
@CGPGrey I would rather see no assignments. You learn nothing from them, they take up precious time in the often busy schedule for students and are little more than monotonous, busy work. I would rather do 10 tests before I did 1 assignment.
TheRimDoctor 1 month ago
@TheRimDoctor
I'm a high school math teacher. Kids need to practice. Period.
whit717evans 1 month ago
@whit717evans If they need to practice they can do it themselves before public exams and mid-terms. Math in High school should never be assigned for homework that gets corrected. The students have better use of their time and the teachers certainly have better uses than to mark or even check if its done. it should be irrelevant in HS. If you want to baby students, go teach grade 1.
In-class assignments are a different matter, I do recommend those in review for an upcoming test.
TheRimDoctor 1 month ago
@whit717evans And what I was talking about was the time-consuming assignments in English or World History rather instead of math because I despise math but since I have a sane and rational teacher for Math 2201 who doesn't assign homework because its just a given that what you don't finish in class should be done at home but its completely up to you if you do it because menial sheets of math should not be enough to warrant unnecessary stress on the student but ANYWAYS I'm rambling.
TheRimDoctor 1 month ago
@CGPGrey I think it is the teachers duty to follow up work, otherwise their closer to the university style of learning; lecturing.
AdmiralMustard 1 month ago
@pixitwixie Stop being lazy. Some students need help developing discipline, especially if they're not getting it at home. I hated math in H.S., but because one teacher checked each student's homework assignment at every class, I ended up getting an "A" in his class, which helped me tremendously later on. I hated it at the time, but will be forever grateful to that teacher for checking our homework compliance.
izm64 2 months ago in playlist More videos from CGPGrey
@pixitwixie Having in mind that it is a teacher's job to help students learn whatever it is they have to learn, and this man's method accomplishes that in a better way, in my mind this method is more proper. You're just giving them a life lesson which neither makes them better students nor you a better teacher. Bear in mind the motivational factor...
Michaisi 1 month ago in playlist Time Management
@Michaisi The problem with Grey's method is that it takes up a lot of the teacher's time which would be better spent helping students, lecturing, or catching up on grading. (ironic considering that this is about time management) Another problem with both of your points is that they make the assumption that the student will learn something new or improve on a skill from said homework, in other words, that the work wasn't busy work and that the student isn't already ahead of the class.
pixitwixie 1 month ago
@pixitwixie I interpreted Grey's message a little differently. I definitely agree with you on that it's not a teacher's job to try and make students turn in their assignments. That would be neverending and torturous. But it is something you're going to have to consider and keep track of, and if you don't keep track of it it could cause trouble with preparation. I thought of it to be more oriented towards your own administration, with the possible side effect of the students actually working :))
Demoras 1 month ago
@pixitwixie If you don't care whether or not your students turn in their assignments, then you're not following your own philosophy, because you are knowingly having students that aren't learning anything from you. It's a lazy, hypocritical philosophy that may save you some time, but in turn have the potential to ruin a students learning experience, potentially setting them off much worse for life. And for what - a few minutes saved each day? I'd hate to have a teacher like you.
SchmidtP89 1 month ago
@pixitwixie Personally I think you're philosophy is what is wrong with our education system, other than the government cutting funds left and right. Teachers need to be engaging and care about their students. Children will be children, majority of which would rather not be in class, and out having fun. When you do the bare minimum as a teacher (just teach) then you can't expect more than that from your students either. The whole moto "Cs get degrees" comes from this and is the problem.
HavikZeroX 1 month ago
@pixitwixie That sounds good, until you consider that many students don't have a stable home life. If the student has inattentive parents, an abusive situation, or is desperately poor their priorities for homework might be very different. As a teacher your job is not just to teach your students, but to motivate them to learn. You can establish consequences for missing work without ignoring your students needs. Behaviorism as a motivator generally does not work very well for most students
Lemquennel 1 month ago
I'd love you as a teacher having seen all your youtube videos.
Lleroy 2 months ago
How do you handle cheaters? What policy do you use to combat potential cheating? Of course, besides whatever your schools academic honesty policy entails. I personally was irritated with a teacher who was so concerned with preventing cheaters that things were made more difficult for the rest of us.
Also, do you think the typical grading policy should be changed? I find in some classes, learning the material and getting good grades are not always directly related.
BlueNinjaTiger 2 months ago
The end of the video made me actually laugh out loud. My dad is a substitute, and your concluding statement is remarkably accurate. XD
SweetheartMorada 2 months ago
When did we start saying "less well"? It's an awkward phrase.
SuperTonyony 3 months ago in playlist More videos from CGPGrey
I love the summer holidays...the only bit of school i really miss
americanu197 3 months ago in playlist More videos from CGPGrey
Do you teach in Britain?
BiggestATLAfan 3 months ago
I'm not sure I would like to have you as my teacher. The motivation for doing your homework should not be "the teacher is after you until you deliver it", but "this subject is so interesting that you want to know more about it". Perhaps it's an idealized view of things, but what I hated most about school were homeworks about things I was not at all interested in. I also don't think doing that homework helped me much at all ...
uncinarynin 3 months ago in playlist Weitere Videos von CGPGrey
@uncinarynin I like teachers who are firm about due dates. I've had teachers who kept moving back deadlines because half the class didn't do the work, which of course only aggravated the problem. Nothing ever got done, making it such an utter waste of time that I eventually withdrew from the class. Sadly, not every student is excited about every class they take, meaning that there will always be someone in each class who isn't sufficiently motivated to do the work by the subject matter alone.
SweetheartMorada 2 months ago
Is it ironic that I am watching this to stall work?
trogdor147 4 months ago 104
@trogdor147 No, it's procrastinatory.
SweetheartMorada 2 months ago
@trogdor147 Are you me?
B1aDK 1 month ago
@trogdor147 I'm watching this to stall things I enjoy doing in my spare time...
WlatPziupp 2 weeks ago
xD.. LOL the end crack me down badly.. no spoiler xD
XeroVector 4 months ago
a folder in a folder
folderception
ginomw 4 months ago in playlist Meer video's van CGPGrey 4
Quite helpful for gcse organisation. Thaaanks
xLoveHopeex 4 months ago
I am not a teacher, but I found some of your advice useful in my work situation as well. Thanks! :)
drawwithmouse 4 months ago in playlist More videos from CGPGrey
what do you teach?
usingtocommentonvids 5 months ago in playlist Time Management
are you Jamie Salvatori
Jtw101298 5 months ago in playlist Videos from CGPGrey
Remember the real reason you became a teacher *picture of student* the summer holidays.
McWorldReview 5 months ago 4
My moms a highschool teacher. He's making it sound a little worse then it actually is. Sure it can be stressful at time but now they have a grade system on the computer so they can see what assignments people were missing and if they are absent. Also they usually don't have anything to do after school because they get a planning period during school and they plan classes then.
thereaga 5 months ago
@6:00 that person did not do well on that quiz :P
aquamus 5 months ago 2
i rofled at the end
Funkipotato 5 months ago 4
I'm not a teacher yet I watched this entire video... I'm not entirely sure why.
imcrazysteve 5 months ago 7
@imcrazysteve because time management is universal
ferrous719 4 months ago
@imcrazysteve Same...
JBshotJL 4 months ago
Awesome. Now... to reverse it to "Time Management for Students"
thelooker28 5 months ago 6
This might all work in a perfect system, but from where I sit teachers are constantly getting screwed over with late notice coordination meetings and those "long term projects" (especially but not limited to said computer skills) are forced upon them, taking up even more of their time. Not to mention the huge buerocratic mess that is the teacher evaluations, which just gives them more useless paperwork to fill...
namelessbeast 5 months ago
damn teachers have to put in so much more work into being a teacher than i thought
osoelv702 5 months ago 2
I am student, I am very friendly with ALL my teachers. I'm not a "suck-up" but I talk with them maybe 2 mins after each class and I get to know my teachers well. What I don't understand is HW. I go to school 8 hours a day, isn't that enough learning? If every day I spend 1 hr on HW, even if we made school 9 hours, I guarantee I would still have 1 hour of HW! HW, should be to finish what we had to finishing in school, not to make school part of our OUT-OF-SCHOOL lives!
danielcarmi305 5 months ago in playlist Time Management
I've never really come to think how much "homework" teachers have. I've had the thought but dismissed it. seems many times worse than being a student :/
Eesofuffoo 5 months ago in playlist Time Management
I dont even go to school anymore and dont plan on being a teacher, but your vids are mesmerising <.<
badgermansam93 5 months ago
5:54 how can you get a question wrong when it asks a "do you think" question?
etrinh00azn 5 months ago
@etrinh00azn your supposed to write in complete sentences detailing why you think this or don't think that, not just with yes or no
tkdude11 5 months ago
i think that it is for the first time that i realize that teachers work is an never ending story and how much i have to thank to people which had give me their time.thank you
chesterDAgangster 5 months ago
thank you for this video.. I'm starting my teaching career as a language teacher at JICA in Japan..
andthesunsets 5 months ago
@cmanclan101 you must go to a shit school dickhead.
kenardpascua 6 months ago
there'S an other reason for the other jobs to tkae more sickdays.
i work i a kitchen using knives and playing with food,i simply cannot take the risk of choping off my firgers because i am not totally aware of what i do or transmiting my microbes to others or the food itself.but we also have this "cannot miss a day" problem because we do a brunch every sunday.so me not being here = the others have to work harder.
unkebekwa 6 months ago
@CGPGrey Why did you become a teacher?
Moreover a teacher in a foreign country? (You sound American to me, though I may be mistaken).
I mean, my class made our teachers lives miserable, and we were the highest set in my year. So presumably the lower sets were worse if anything. With my experience of how we treated our teachers, I regret making it so bad for them of course, but I also can not fathom how anyone would willingly teach.
passwordresetisbroke 7 months ago
thanks for the visual and thank you teachers!
kiarg100 7 months ago
I'm in high school but I still watched this because I enjoy your explanations! I really think it was this year that I realized how much time my teachers put in even OUT OF their work day to get assignments graded/essays read/classes planned. There was one teacher I had in my sophomore year, though, that i REALLY didn't like-because he just didn't seem to care whether or not we understood the curriculum and would read ESPN articles while we did the homework. It was honestly my lowest grade EVER.
anime2012 7 months ago
The summer holidays !
vonigner 8 months ago 4
Wouldn't teachers take less sick leave because they don't take sick leave during the holiday periods?
TatianaEstevez 8 months ago
Feeling "poor" or "poorly" instead of feeling "bad" or "badly"... either you are an english teacher or living in the UK is affecting you!!
Kumagoraa 8 months ago
So, this is all stuff that normal people should have learned without having to get a teaching degree. Seriously, if people don't know how to do this already they are in trouble regardless of what career they're in.
dorfineer 9 months ago
*** You produce wonderful, useful videos. Thank you so much. Would you run for President in the USA please?
IamHereThisisme 9 months ago
Interesting. I like the part about monitoring homework hand-ins. Question:
- Do teachers really still plan and present lessons on paper? (I ask for information...)
- Cover work: isn't there a syllabus which the pupils should be following, with a particular subject in a particular order? Why isn't it the work which is already in folders as a result of "Must do tasks for yesterday" the folder given to the fill-in teacher?
(By the way, I believe everybody has a duty to do their job if they can)
tsuchan1 9 months ago
I love the ending... true (and I'm drinking a bud right now!)
PatRibsey 9 months ago
youre a dickhead of a teacher. these are teenagers, not phD students.
cmanclan101 9 months ago
Why bother with all of this? School should be a sink or swim thing. If the student doesn't want to do any work, then he sinks. If the student doesn't want to cooperate, send him to ISAP or detention (or whatever places not where I live may have), do something to get them out of your class so you can teach. When teachers have to work this hard just to make sure that those who are unmotivated do their work, it just takes away from those of us who want to succeed.
Antiunfunktasticize 10 months ago
@Antiunfunktasticize Should be may be radically different from the reality. Not all educational systems give teachers the power to get rid of students. Besides, I'm not convinced kicking out problem students constitutes effective teaching. Should schools specifically favour the smartest students or the most motivated students or the most organised students to the exclusion of others? These students need school the least anyways.
3w4v 8 months ago
THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS?! xD
Rafel993 10 months ago 3
Listen to him teachers. Pupils are lazy and will organise HW priority by "who will punish me less if I don't do my work?". Trust me. I'm a master at not doing work.
icanhazbongos 10 months ago
What I love for homework is the "Dog Didn't Eat My Homework" sheet I have. When we are collecting homework, EVERYONE needs to turn in a piece of paper - either the homework OR their "Dog Didn't Eat My Homework" sheet. That way I not only know WHO owes homework but also have a piece of paperwork that notes that THEY know that they owe homework and WHY they didn't do it (did it but forgot, chose not to do it, forgot to do it, etc.).
ruggerdavey 10 months ago 64
@ruggerdavey That's a brilliant idea -- I might just have to use that in the future.
CGPGrey 10 months ago 33
@CGPGrey I totally got it from someone else, so I've got to give the props to her. She has a blog called MissTeacha.
ruggerdavey 10 months ago
@ruggerdavey Good idea, you can also bring up that paperwork during parent-teacher interviews to show parents how much work their kids are actually doing.
dedeen 5 months ago
@ruggerdavey That's fantastic. I've only had a few weeks of teaching practise so far on my course, but I could see this being very useful.
stephenlawless5 5 months ago
I would use a class list as opposed to a blank Tracking List. The column has the date of the assignment. If a student hands the assignment in after the due date, a red check is placed over the blue X. Then there is not cross writing/referencing - it's all on one sheet.
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One of my first principals had us create an Emergency File for days when we were ill. I went one step further and created an entire binder of worksheets that supplies could use when i was absent.
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Nice job ;)
marlainey 1 year ago
Very well assembled. I've sent this to friends who are teachers. Maybe I'll see them again before they retire. (Just kidding, America will never pay teachers enough to retire...) =\
ufo8mykat 1 year ago
it is clearly not a coincidence that many teachers the world over have bad work:life balances. it is a systemic, institutionalised flaw that needs to be stalled.
danielmcshane 1 year ago
lots of good nuggets in this; thank you. the jump between rooms is a pain and i suppose it just means lost time...the one valuable resource that you'd want to keep hold of. loved the ending :-)
danielmcshane 1 year ago
I am a student not a teacher, but I will still be taking some of your advice.
Also, I now realise how much more difficult time management is for a teacher as opposed to a student.
iamgenghiskhan 1 year ago 65
@iamgenghiskhan I would have thought you'd be too busy building the Mongol Empire to go to school.
CGPGrey 1 year ago 202
This is really helpful.
I took your advice on getting a clipboard, and it saves me a lot of time.
However, the "five minutes" part, doesn't apply in my country. We get 15 minutes, but need to go from classroom to classroom, instead of the students going from teacher to teacher.
But yeah, summer holidays. I agree. That, and seeing your students are truly progressing, and learning new ways of thinking.
noseman123 1 year ago
The summer holidays. HAHAHAHAHA I agree :D more teachers should watch this.
Sh4d0wQu33n 1 year ago
can u make one 4 students????
msInternationalmusic 1 year ago