A discussion vlog by Carl Schroeder: I never had a Deaf teacher until I was in middle school, which was very typical. They were way too strict but they were responsible in introducing us to the world!
Friday, March 28, 2008
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I agree with you! All my life in Deaf school, I have about 25 percent of Deaf teachers compare to 75 percent of hearing teacher. All I learned more educations and informations were from Deaf teacher than hearing teacher! Too bad is that my first Deaf teacher were in 8th grade class and wish I have more Deaf teacher to teach me at Deaf school!
wow big difference btw hearing and deaf teachers...interesting....never had deaf teachers from pre k til high school...only experienced with deaf dorm supervisors during H.S...til then at community college, finally had deaf professor-very strong ASL and herself graduated from Gally--learned wayyyyy so much from her....very strict but i thanked her!!! she kept encouraging me to go to Gally and i resisted for a while & finally went there! great experiences
forgot to add...she was college english professor and from there my english was improved because of ASL...
yes, same thing as what i've experienced. at my school, there was only one Deaf teacher at junior high, while ZERO at elementary school and a very few at high school. anyway, i had that teacher at junior high for two years, plus just one class for one year. she is best teacher i ever had from elementary school to high school! she had all same characteristic traits you mentioned!
I noticed this at Gallaudet. The Deaf Professors usually have high expectations from us whereby with hearing teachers, one had to look hard to find one who was tough.
At a hearing university, the average professor is demanding. Not true at Gallaudet with the majority of hearing professors.
From my personal experience, I found that some hearing professors in 1970s did not
know much about their own subjects
whereas some others deliberately
withdrew valuable information from
students. One of them who failed his PhD dissertation twice desperately needed my help in interpreting a certain phrase in a Shakespearean sonnet I learned from Daddy. My professor was
excited and tried to help his
colleague in question above. But, upon learning that he was going to come to the classroom "to observe" us (students), I played stupid through the class! Then I wrote a satire in MANUS about that
teacher. ;-)
The best deaf professors at Gallaudet were Dr. Deborah
Sonnenstrahl and Ms. Ausma Smits.
No one has surpassed them so far.
I am teaching ASL at the high school. The hearing students rate me the most strict teacher on their newsletter. Ironically, they vote me the most popular teacher. Now, I understand much better after I was watching your Vlog.
I agree with you in my experience. i went to the oral (sic) school. The deaf oral teacher and deaf oral guidance counselor were more stricter than hearing oral teacher.
Also, I learned better with Deaf/CODA Professors at Gallaudet than hearing Professors.
But I learn that high expectancy can lead me misery so I use dialect expectancy not too much expectancy.
I also I learned that pity is "contempt" so empathy is no contempt.
I wish it was true for me. At my deaf school which I will leave unnamed. The high school English teacher was deaf. People like that person. Sad to say, STINKS big time as a teacher. Taught nothing. Would sit and read something. The only assignment we were required to do is "letter writing" every Mondya. Books were untouched. Ten years old book looked brand new. SIGH!!!
Had great middle school English teacher who happened to be hearing. HS teacher before that deaf English teacher were deaf an was a good one. That perosn tried to stop the school from "promoting" the lazy teacher as English teacher. After a good twenty years, the school mananged to convince the lazy teacher to become History teacher. Replacement were a wonderful hearing person with outstanding signing skills. Kids acquired great English skills, much better than those of us. Was it fair? The school knew and did not do anything.
Deaf Science teacher, respected by many in certain area of DC, spent 75% or more of classtime giving lecture about what is wrong with each one of us. SO we heard more about what was wrong with each of us [that is oppressio, at its best], than learning about science. SIGH!!!!
That science teacher accepted a job at another deaf school. Years later, i met one of his student. We got talking about, "Is a good teacher, but the abuse of verbal attack were tiring and repetivie.". Finally one day, that student got sick and tired of it, simply spelled, "S H U T U P". Reaction was shock, asked, "What did you say?". Got the same response. From that day on, he worked on to cut back on "verbal abuse" and focus on teaching.
Not all deaf teachers are great. I surely had several great hearing teacher, I have always been grateful for them. You clearly had great teacher who made you think for yourself.
OK, I will be God-awfully honest here about some of my Deaf teachers who stank to high heavens. Yes, I never said all Deaf teachers were good. I once had a deaf teacher who discriminated against a black classmate of mine, saying there was no future for his race. It was before Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assissinated.
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