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

I’m going into my last year of college, and during which I’ll be student teaching. I’ve taught here and there before, so it won’t be a completely new experience. But one thing I don’t think my classes consider enough is how to be a good teacher - academics aside.
What do you, in your experience, wish more teachers would’ve done (or should do)?
In case my wording is a little off (I’m not sure how to articulate this better), I mean things like do you wish more teachers developed positive relationships with students, do you wish they taught in a way that was more considerate of students (i.e. not giving homework constantly)?
I know a lot of students - myself included - don’t look back on their time in high school too fondly. I’m curious what others would suggest for teachers to do to make high school a pleasant experience (without changing the curriculum, of course).

This page is a permanent link to the reply below and its nested replies. See all post replies »

Insomniac100

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