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Arrogant or Oblivious? Teachers Who Disrupt Classrooms

It seems only natural to look at our teachers and expect them to be the epitome of maturity. They are supposed to be guiding the students, after all. Our expectations of instructors could boil down to the simple fact that teachers are types of role-models, and role models are supposed to uphold principals to be respected for.

I think we sometimes forget how these teachers are human and have the tendency to revert back to their own days of student youth. However, I still have found certain lines that teachers should simply not cross.

It is not that instructors should be perfect. Obviously, they are human like the rest of us and were our age at some point. One of my history teachers explained how he still wants to stay up all night drinking like he did when he was a student, but then his middle-aged body reminds him that he isn’t up for that anymore. I was reminded that the same professors I see in class used to be in my own seat years ago.

Having a teacher who is as disruptive as another student is where I draw the line. Since I have to act as a partial teacher sometimes, I know the importance of keeping students quiet so other students can concentrate on their work. Much effort is taken into getting students used to turning off their phones, taking conversations outside, and basically treating the writing center as a library. This is a little hard to enforce when I have certain professors barge into the classroom, talking louder than any of the students who are sitting at their desks.

I haven’t figured out whether it boils down to a lack of respect for me or for the students. Either way, there is a point where certain teachers forget themselves when they aren’t the ones in front of the blackboard. I know because these same teachers will interrupt other teachers’ lectures, not just mine.

These particular teachers give their own lectures and demand the attention and respect they feel they deserve from their students. Yet, once these instructors are out of their own classroom and enter someone else’s, they cannot give the same respect back to the current teacher in charge.

Hypocrisy is the first word that comes to mind. And then I wonder if there is some kind of power that these teachers feel they possess. And then the next word I think of is arrogance.

I can only assume that these particular teachers feel so self-important in their own class that they cannot help but feel this way even after they have left their students.

Sounds like a major power-trip, in my opinion. Standing in front of a group of people, knowing that they are all listening to you and are trying to soak up your knowledge could be a bit intoxicating I guess.

It’s too bad this effect doesn’t happen to most students who have to stand in front of their classmates for a presentation. I used to fight every word from shaking with my own presentations. Then again, teachers do not look at their students as peers, which must make all of the difference in the world.