Category: Cram Session
I like to hide in my classes and answer questions and such only when I feel like it. I had an instructor that just kept using any e-mail I sent or something I wrote in a paper as examples in class. It didn’t bother me much until I got the backlash from other girls in the class. I guess he was trying to include me, but I was included enough. It is a weird awkward feeling to be that kind of example at any level of education. I thought that I wouldn’t have to deal with the in a university. I’m not trying to complain about him or the class because they both were pretty all right. I just am interested if anyone has gone through the same awkwardness.
Hello there I know what you mean I was in a communications class and he call on me and stuff. didn't like that teacher much.
I'm not a fan of teacher's liking me too much. It happens. I know sometimes it could be very irritating. But at least, you would only put up with the teacher using your work or you as an example for one semester only. But other than that, you would probably get an A in the class. It just shows that your doing your work well. Well if it goes the other way around, the teacher picks on you all the time just to see your reaction or just to make you feel more irritated then that just shows that the teacher is not doing his/her job right.
I think it could very well be something with comm classes because this was a comm class and maybe I shouldn't have felt too uncomfortable. I guess I don't like to cause any conflict or upset people. That's why the other students comments about my remarks kind of made me uncomfortable. I admitted one class that I got baptised and now when I talk about how I used to smoke and stuff I get the before she was saved jokes. I guess I'm way too open. Oh well I just am that way and it's who I am.
Yeah, that's happened to me before. Once when I was in 6th grade, I had this art teacher who would try to go out of her way to make her class "accessible" to me. But she used to make me write letters on the chalkboard and then would stop everyone from what they were doing and make a huge deal out of it. I don't even know what the point of that was, considering my handwriting was probably crappy anyways. I also had an environmental science teacher in 9th grade who like completely avoided me, and I would sleep in that class all the time and not do my work half the time, and she gave me an A.
This is really awkward. The teacher thinks they are complimenting you, but as you say, it really can make one feel uncomfortable. When I had teachers who would call on me in class, I started deli berately giving wrong answers. The teacher stopped this really quick, and treated me like anyone else after that. Depending on how comfortable you are with this particular teacher, you might discuss the issue with him or her.
In my case, this was a teacher in my major field of study, so it wasn't potentially for just one semester.
Good luck,
Lou
Yes, I also experience that. You cannot avoid that thing especially if you are only the blind in their class. Sometimes, I am shy because I am their example. But sometimes, you need to accept for your classmates to change their attitudes. Its okay.
But sometimes, it is really hard.
I work really hard, so any attention I get is not usually fake. My teachers marvel over me, as I am one of the most mature and hard working student in their classes. I am an egoist and an attention hog, you can call me that, and I am very outspoken, so I love it. My Spanish teacher had to praise me because I was one of her best students, and she was amazed that some of these sighted people got Fs, and I a blind person got an high A. I believe my grade at that time was 103 or 104 percent or something. My health teacher too. Everyone was loud and abnoxious and most didn’t like doing work. I however did everything and more, so he was just so amazed. Yeah, the hardworking teacher’s pet.
I've never really had the experience of being made an example. My grades were good, for the most part, but somehow that never happened to me. And I think I'm grateful. I think I'd be uncomfortable as well. The fact that a blind student can do the same things a sighted student can should be an obvious thing and should not be something that has to be constantly reinforced. Why should we get special attention for being on the same academic level as everyone else?
I have, however, had the experience of a teacher who hated me making a spectacle of every little mistake I made in his class. That was to be expected, though; he is an arrogant wank-stain who has no problem showing who his favorites and least favorites are. God, that man is the boil on the ass of humanity and responsible for some of my worst high school memories.
I suppose, but I believe if you were going above and beyond standards you have quite a right to those praises. It’s like the attention Hermione gets in Harry Potter, if you have read those. That’s the closest example I can get.
Well yes, I believe everyone deserves praise for their accomplishments, but to an extent. Hermione's academic performance was slightly over-the-top, and that's where I have the problem.
Becky
You mean to say, that you have problems with blind overachievers, who shut themselves up all day to study?
i've had instructors that used my work for examples but it didn't have anything to do with me being blind so it wasn't the same thing. it was kind of awkward anyway because i'm just really shy but it was flattering at the same time. i don't really like being called on if i didn't volunteer an answer but at the same time i know i'm good at looking spaced-out without meaning to sometimes so the teacher was probably making sure i was paying attention. lol
i hate it when a teacher uses me as an example in a negative way though. not exactly negative but i don't know; like i had a teacher and the class was complaining about some assignment and i was working on it and she said something like "look Kandi's not complaining and she can't see so she actually has something to complain about." lol but i don't mind a teacher using my work or something like that as an example if its something that deserved it.
To Rachel, if that's what you want to do, be my guest. It's not for me, and I think that anyone, blind or not, who shuts themselves up all day to study is missing out on a lot of other great things in life. I believe that education is important, but there needs to be a balance with it.
Ah, I see… Yeah, I should probably get out a little more, but when you are so obsessed with perfection or rather strengthening the whole work quality and keeping it up there, it’s a little difficult. You know one of those students who worries even about one little mistake they made and makes to obsess over fixing it? Yeah, that’s basically me too.
I agree with what Cotton Candy said. I'm the same way, kinda shy and I guess its easy for people to think i'm spaced out. To rachel, ease up a bit. I understand u wanna do well, but u sound like one of those people that my friend has in his calc class, she can't get anything wrong.
Yes, I probably should, I have a bit, but I am still working on it.
A good balance of work and play never hurt anybody. It’s whiled partying until the crack of sunrise and going to class hung over that hurts people after a while.
I was made an example once, not in the classroom necissarily but onstage in a choir concert my freshman year of high school. My choir director basically talked about how awesome my sighreading was and the process behind it. I am a modest person and am not much for theing the center of attention, so it felt kind of awkward. My sister has gone to the same schools I have, and she hates it if she gets one of my old teachers, because I always behaved well and did well on my work. Unfortunately, she is not as smart as I am, so it really bugs her when they find out I'm her sister, since they expect her to do as well as I did. I used to be a perfectionist, but I have been working on toning down a bit. I did shut myself up and study a lot my first year and a half of college, because I really wanted good grades, and I got them for the most part, but I eventually found that there is life outside the dorm room and that studying isn't everything.
Oh yes! And of course there are the instructors that think every blind person they'll ever teach has the same abilities, the same strengths and weaknesses. Because of course, you know, all blind people are exact copies of one another. That is infuriating and potentially disastrous on so many levels.
Good point there Inu-Princess2006 Yes, I hate it when the teacher goes.
"You know, I' have never had a blind student before... so you are my first one"
Hint: it means
You will forever be my example for every blind person after me.
or
"Johny did so and so and I did so and so for Johnny. I will or I must do it for you."