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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2017 3:59:59 GMT
Someone asked me earlier how they should address their teachers and it made me wonder what's the norm nowadays.
When I was at school, it was always Sir or Miss. We'd use Mr/Miss if we were talking about one teacher to another. This custom was used in primary and secondary school.
At university, we'd always use Mr /Mrs / Dr or other address that the lecturer preferred. For some we'd use first names, typically with the male teachers. Didn't feel right to call the female teachers by their first name although I can't remember any who asked us to do that.
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Post by Miisa on Jun 27, 2017 5:08:52 GMT
It is very culture-specific. I went to school in Norway and Finland, and it was always the teacher's first name, even 40 years ago.
I honestly don't remember what the practise was in University, might have depended on the teacher/professor.
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Post by Mari on Jun 27, 2017 6:25:48 GMT
My students call me ms. + Surname. If they talk amongst themselves they'll drop the ms. I make them use the polite form of you as well when they address me.
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Post by juju on Jun 27, 2017 7:31:59 GMT
In schools here, it's always 'Miss/Mrs/Mr last name'. Or just 'Sir' or Miss' (never just Mrs' though).
In university it's always first names only.
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Post by JoeP on Jun 27, 2017 10:19:29 GMT
"Hey, teacher, ..."
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Post by JoeP on Jun 27, 2017 10:20:45 GMT
One thing you should never do, which a friend did once, is call a female teacher "Mum".
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Post by tangent on Jun 27, 2017 11:21:49 GMT
What did teachers call you? I was called by my middle name at primary school - my parents called me by my middle name - and by my last name at secondary school. (Our headmaster had pretensions of running a public school even though it was a state school.)
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Post by JoeP on Jun 27, 2017 11:43:25 GMT
What did teachers call you? I was called by my middle name at primary school - my parents called me by my middle name - and by my last name at secondary school. (Our headmaster had pretensions of running a public school even though it was a state school.) Mostly the same for me. Except first name not middle!
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Post by Kye on Jun 27, 2017 12:01:29 GMT
I was Karla in elementary school. In high school I forced all my teachers to call me Kye, and in university, I was back to Karla.
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Post by Moose on Jun 27, 2017 17:02:36 GMT
I switched to Jo when I was fourteen but there were some teachers, the headmaster included - like Steve, our headmaster had pretensions of running a public school even when he didn't - who insisted on calling me Josephine even when I politely said that I did not go by that.
I called teachers Sir or Miss. Can't remember what I said at university - I think it depended on his laid back the teacher in question was and how they introduced themselves
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Post by tangent on Jun 27, 2017 17:40:32 GMT
The chemistry teacher used to mispronounce my surname, I think on purpose, which mildly irritated me.
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Post by Moose on Jun 27, 2017 17:58:58 GMT
I actually always thought it was OGE-ley till you told me different .
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Post by Moose on Jun 27, 2017 17:59:14 GMT
Oge to rhyme with rogue
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Post by tangent on Jun 27, 2017 18:04:19 GMT
I actually always thought it was OGE-ley till you told me different. A lot of people think that but it actually rhymes with HOGG-ly.
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Post by Moose on Jun 27, 2017 18:07:36 GMT
I had known you well over a decade before I realised that
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jun 30, 2017 12:27:13 GMT
So how do you prounounce it?
In primary school I called teachers by their title and surname, eg Mrs Henry. Then in high school we no longer had just one teacher but many so they mostly became Sir or Miss. Except for one teacher who hated it and insisted we either call her by first name or title and surname but never just "miss". Then in university they wanted us to call them by their first names.
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Post by tangent on Jun 30, 2017 17:09:20 GMT
So how do you pronounce it? To rhyme with HOGG-ly.
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 1, 2017 0:16:38 GMT
Ahem...I was referred to by my middle name by my family, friends, and associates through the 8th grade. This is because my father and I shared the same first name.
At the beginning of high school, 9th grade, I went to an entirely different school and filled out a shipload of paperwork that requested that I fill them in with last name first, first name middle, and middle initial last. Which I dutifully did. Thereby, becoming officially known by my first name, despite every teacher and associate calling me by my surname. I can discern amongst my acquaintances whether they met me through family or really old friends, or from those who got to know me from high school on.
In my first high school, a public all-boys polytechnic high school, all teachers were referred to using titles (Mr./Mrs./Miss) and surnames, or 'sir' or 'ma'am'.
My senior year, I transferred to an experimental high school where the teachers not only went by their first names with students, they had avatars, like the team leader of my teacher team was Jerry Conrath, aka Jerry, aka 'Big Daddy' of 'Big Daddy and the Holding Company'. Like I said, it was experimental, and very relaxed. My reflexive use of 'sir' was viewed as being sardonic.
Years later, as a high school social studies teacher, I was dubbed, 'Mr. W'. It was that or 'Mr.' and my full surname.
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 1, 2017 0:29:16 GMT
So how do you pronounce it? To rhyme with HOGG-ly. AHH-glee? Or, AHHG-li?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2017 3:52:17 GMT
Dragging this thread back on topic is anyone involved in education to know how teachers are addressed nowadays?
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 1, 2017 4:29:14 GMT
Dragging this thread back on topic is anyone involved in education to know how teachers are addressed nowadays? In public schools in the US, it is usually, Mr. Surname, Ms. Sername, Mrs. Sirnaym, or, Mr. S., Mrs. S., or Ms. S. Like that. That is my experience.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jul 1, 2017 9:08:08 GMT
I work at a university. I think it depends on the student and teacher, but here it's usually first names.
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Post by Kye on Jul 1, 2017 11:43:27 GMT
When I was teaching at the University, I was called Professor or Professor Holmes. But I was also fine with students calling me Karla. Some of my foreign students would call me "Teacher" but this isn't a standard form of address in Canada, so I discouraged it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2017 12:16:49 GMT
When I was teaching at the University, I was called Professor or Professor Holmes. But I was also fine with students calling me Karla. Some of my foreign students would call me "Teacher" but this isn't a standard form of address in Canada, so I discouraged it. would it have been the Chinese students calling you "teacher"?
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Post by Kye on Jul 1, 2017 12:32:22 GMT
Indeed!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2017 12:40:30 GMT
They're unlucky that the Chinese word for "teacher" is also used as a polite form of address regardless of your profession
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Post by Kye on Jul 1, 2017 13:24:53 GMT
It's especially difficult for students when something translates only a part of the meaning from one language to another...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2017 13:45:20 GMT
I know
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Post by Kye on Jul 1, 2017 14:09:00 GMT
I run into that from time to time in my second language, French.
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Post by Moose on Jul 1, 2017 19:06:57 GMT
Ah .. I teach a lady from Burma (yes I know it is not the same country as China, for the record and she always refers to me as 'teacher.'
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