What do you wish more teachers considered? (See Details)

An understanding of the curriculum they're teaching, and leaving politic out of it on any bias. Let them come to their own conclusions. Your HS days are behind you...move on, and it's your responsibility to know your students with respect primarily to their educational needs based on the results you get from them. You give them homework assignments that are part of the curriculum you are teaching-it gives them responsibility to complete an assigned task and not return to class with a lack of understanding of what they were supposed to have learned from said "homework". It's a key to open the door to a higher level of schooling or to a University or College for them. The homework assignments are directed at getting them more informed. This is a learning environment, a path to their future successes and not Disney land, or some fantasy world. You, Katie have a task before you, but we need good teachers! You hang tough, and take no crap from your students! You rule the roost!

Use the technological tools at their disposal more effectively, and less ambiguously.

Honestly, I think it's not about the individual choices of teachers. It's more that the job pays badly, teachers are treated like shit, and the system is set up so that good teachers burn out and leave and bad teachers can persist because they can't get a better job elsewhere.

Education needs real funding and when you get that, you get better teachers, smaller class sizes, and more positive relationships with students.

Or in short, a lot of teachers are set up to fail.

Going way way back to highschool I wish they were more impartial. My older brothers were so bad teachers hated me before they even knew my name. The class favourites got good marks even when they wrote jibberish.
We had this teacher for a day thing where I got to instruct, assign homework, and grade the essays. Some of our honour role kids were writing nothing but fluff.
Still pisses me off.

My kids all say that student teachers are far too serious when they start off.. they need to lighten up and be "normal"

Maybe that's a tip for you.
They think that the student teachers are taking the job too seriously and are too strict/boring, where as in fact it's probably nerves making them do that.

I guess for me, the best teachers I had during high school made an effort to at least build some sort of individual connection with me instead of a one size fits all sort of approach. In a more academic sense. I liked, especially junior and senior year of high school, where some teachers would post grade distributions on their syllabus so we’d know how much assignments/tests were worth.

Also, free food was always good too, or something out of the ordinary occasionally. I remember my government teacher would make us pancakes the class after a test.

The best teacher I ever had never assigned us homework or in class assignments, but had assignments due every month that were conducive to the material we’d learn. But I guess it depends what subject you teach in terms of leeway you’d give.

If you’ve ever seen the tv show, the wire, season 4 does a great job of showing aspects of teaching and education

I wish more teachers had BETTER FUCKING PENMANSHIP god dammit 😠 Got these professors teaching me advanced astrochemistry and shit but I can't read the chicken scratch that they write on the marker board with.

I think it starts with better parenting. I had a normal high school experience.

empower your students then get out of the way and watch them soar!

I don’t know about your teachers but that’s not the kind of relationship we have with our students. So far as student evaluations go, at best, we produce mostly quality students who never fail to greet us fondly in public and reminisce on their high school days. But that’s just private school and we have very high standards for both student work and staff ethos.