What type of teacher do you prefer?

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I prefer a younger male teacher because they're usually a lot of fun. They typically have a good sense of humor, we get to do more hands-on projects, and they want to keep their students happy. But for my classes right now, I only have one older male, one older female, one middle-aged female, and four young females. Wait, why are almost all of my teachers female? Anyway, what type of teacher do you prefer?

I prefer young female teachers so I have something nice to look at

I'll second that.

When I was in Highschool, my Science Teacher was a young Male and he was quite a sight to look at. He was also my favourite Teacher. That was in Grade 8.

Sigh... all my teachers are female and OLD, between 50 and 70. Except for the English teacher who's a man in his 30s. He isn't good at teaching but his classes are sort of interesting.

Here are my teacher types for my classes:

1. English: older man: He's boring, but you can get away with everything in that class! He also doesn't care if you walk in thirty minutes late, either.

2. Study Hall: younger female: She doesn't pay one bit of attention to us. She doesn't even know my name and I've been going to school for over a month now!

3. Health: younger female: Everything has to be done her way, but she gives out fun assignments and lets us talk a lot.

4. World Geography: middle-aged female: She is the strictest teacher I have. She can be nice, but she'll turn around and be mean again a minute later.

5. Creative Writing: older female: She is extremely outgoing to the point where it's kind of creepy.

6. Study Hall (again): younger female: I just started this class two days ago, so I can't give an accurate description.

7. Nutrition and Wellness: younger female: She is a bit strict sometimes, but her class is a lot of fun. We get to cook next month!

I don't care what age or gender my instructor is.
What I care about is that said instructor:
1. Talks a lot. I like the kinds of instructors who tell stories about themselves and go off on tangents about *everything*
2. Allows students to talk a lot and can find some way to connect seemingly random student conversations with the curriculum
3. Is good at explaining the topic in a way that can easily be understood
4. Assigns homework and projects that challenge students to learn something, express themselves and think in new ways.

I've actually had a few instructors like that. Every high school English teacher I've ever had, every Drama teacher I've ever had, and my current Geometry teacher are all perfect examples of this.

Well, since you've posted your entire class schedule, I might as well post mine.

1. English: younger male: Very lenient, more about class discussion than worksheets and papers, and when there are worksheets and papers they're usually opinion pieces that allow students to provide their own thoughts about whatever it is we're reading.

2. Biology: Middle-aged man: The class is kind of boring, but the teacher interesting to observe. He has a beach boy complex (wears button-up shirts, sandals, glasses) and likes to act in a way that makes you wonder if he's trying to imitate Agent Smith from The Matrix. I get lost and fall behind in this class, but most of the assignments are worksheets with multiple-choice questions that I can answer easily. I've got the second-highest grade in the class.

3. Drama: Middle-aged woman: Awesome all around. My instructor is this hippie type who's into Yoga and Meditation and such.

4. Geometry: Middle-aged man: The kind of teacher who goes off into tangents about his life story and talks a lot about his background in various fields. He also allows students to talk a lot in his class about matters completely unrelated to the subject (despite his claims to the contrary)

5. American History: Younger Middle-Aged man: He's a Rastafarian, a Vegetarian, and a social liberal (We were learning quite a lot about psychedelic drugs in his class during the unit on Native American cultures) but he's also kind of an enigma, since he has a signed letter from the president thanking him for his support to the Republican National Convention.
As for his teaching policies, while an interesting guy, he's kind of stringent when it comes to how work is to be presented (format, style, all work must be typed, etc.) and he makes the class hard by not explaining what exactly it is that he wants done for each assignment.

6 & 7. Spanish (I'm in Intense Spanish Language Acquisition, so I have it sixth and seventh periods:
Middle-aged woman. She's a good teacher and explains concepts well, but has a bit of trouble explaining how notebooks are to be organized and such.

I haven't noticed much of a trend in what I like as far as what you've mentioned in the poll. I think it depends more on personality and lecture style. I've liked my science teachers (for the most part) and also teachers who are a bit eccentric.

all my teachers were pretty stupid. my speciel ed teacher was disabled herself, she had one eye that looked one way and her other eye looked straight, s**t was f****d up. i remember one time she gave me detention before school, and i hated it so much i made fun of her eyes. quitely to myself of course.

I prefer an educator that I consider to be intelligent and wise. Appearence is secondary.

I'll take anything, so long as they don't have an annoying voice. But I'm with mysteriouslyabsent, I like eye candy. It does make staying after class more bearable.

Speaking of staying after class, whenever I had to when I was a kid, it was hardly punishment because all I had to do was stray off to my little 'world' for about five minutes until the teacher let me leave.

I don't really mind what teacher I get, but no-one likes an up-tight snot who demands absolute silence and complains about your handwriting. I'd always prefer that to a teacher who's relatively young, talks cool (and I mean actual cool, not a grandpa walking around in stubbies and talking like a 'gangsta'), and lets me draw all I like in class (if that happened, I'd get in about three or four good drawings by the end of a lesson).

zomg my speciel ed teacher is still there! look at her eyes! BWAHAHAHA! I WOULDN'T BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR!

http://wwwzope.yumaed.org/yhs/mainsitefiles/newindex.html


her name is deane close. if that link doesn't work, just look under faculty and special services faculty under mrs close.

Depends on what the class is. If it's a class I want to learn in, I'll take a middle aged male because they teach the best from my experiance. If I don't like the class, I'll pay more attention if the teacher is smoking hot. Thus, I'll take a young female teacher.

I would agree that it the type of teacher not the age or gender that matters to me. However, my favorite teacher by far was my 8th grade teacher and he was a guy just out of college. Our class that year got farther in the subjects then I think any class any year I remember. Of course, it helped that his expert subject was history and so was mine. We had alot of fun dialogues. He is sent me a Christmas card the year after he we all graduated elemementry school which I really appeciated.

Unfortunately, the school didn't like him so they fired him.