I was never in a gifted class. I grew up in special ed and then mainstreaming it. I even went to a special school for toddlers when I was 3 4 and 5 for kids with devlopement delays.
My worst teacher I had was my student teacher in sixth grade because she always lost our school work so lot of us students always had to repeat the same assignments again. Even I hated doing the same school work because I hated homework and I hated working. All I wanted was free time just like a typical child. I would still hate to do the same school work again I already did. Also during math time, she was a horrible explainer on how to do the fractions, kids were bored so they goof off in their seats, talking and throwing their things at each other and I be reading my book or writing in my notebook and the teacher would come up to me and put my book down telling me to pay attention, then I move onto my story writing and when she put that down too telling me I need to pay attention, I lie my head down and fall asleep. She made a big deal about my behvaior but not about how the other kids acted and it was all caught on tape when they had a camcorder on and the staff and the teacher still didn't do anything about the kids misbehaving and were only making a big deal about how I was acting.
The best teacher I had was in 4th grade. He was a funny teacher and he had an imaginary student name Ferd Berford and he was a very dumb student. His favorite word was 'duh' and because of that word his favorite US state was Idaho because of the Duh part. I remember one of his stories he told about him when he went to Disneyland and he thought the haunted mansion was real and the time he went to China and took pictures there and his father told him it was all a dream so he takes out his photo album to show him the pics but the problem was, they were all black because he didn't take off the lens cap. There was another time when he was taking notes and the paper was blank because he didn't take off the pen cap. He was 14 years old and still in the 4th grade in our class and he had a older brother in high school who is very smart, smarter than the rest of us on here. The teacher was a very good story teller he made him sound real and kids claimed they had seen him floating around in our school.
He also made his students work, not play and goof off and he had all of us know he had rules and they are meant to be followed and there be a consequence if we didn't follow them and kids thought he was mean because they didn't like following the rules. During snack time, he didn't allow us to have chips or candy or other junk food for snack time, he wanted fresh food, healthy food and during reading time when it was time to read a book, he didn't allow comics.
The other teachers i had were good minus the second grade teacher. My mother said she was horrible and her class was loud and she was wishy washy. When I was 6 and 7 my special ed teacher gave me the same school work over and over I already knew how to do and I never learned anything new so I got way behind in education thinking I still needed to learn that stuff and I wasn't as smart as normal kids. I didn't even know what a grade was either. I can remember being clueless when someone would ask me "What grade are you in?" and I wouldn't answer because I didn't understand it. Then after asking me the same question a few times then they ask me how old I was and I tell them and then they say "Are you in first grade or second grade?" Sometimes I said first, sometimes I said second not even understanding the question. I was repeating what I remember my teacher saying to a few kids in my class. "Looks like Garret won't be going to first grade." "Look like you're going to second grade."
In middle school and high school, I don't know any bad teachers I've had but my 10th grade enlgish teacher crashed into my mother's Saab when I was 17 or 18, does that count as a worst teacher lol.
