Why can't I understand my accounting teacher in class?
Classroom lessons often fail to click in real-time, leaving beginners lost and quickly falling behind. While concepts remain confusing during the actual lecture, studying the exact same topics through outside videos later makes them make sense. This disconnect prevents students from keeping up with the course pace and figuring out where to improve.
What the numbers show
Counted from the threads quoted below. How we count
- This comes up 16.3× more often in r/Teachers than across the site as a whole.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
Share your steps and trade-offs so fellow engineers don't have to reinvent the wheel. No account required.
- 1Searching for external study resources, YouTube channels, and alternative notesDid this help you?
- 2Watching YouTube lectures at home to relearn topics after classDid this help you?
- 3Watching YouTube videos to learn the material yourself before teaching itDid this help you?
- 4relying on traditional public schoolingDid this help you?
- 5providing intensive catch-up support when students re-enter traditional classroomsDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I know a second grader who went to "online school" that can't write his name or even recognize it in print. Zero letter sounds.”source ↗
“And most of them are insanely behind.”source ↗
“I genuinely struggle to understand what my teachers are saying during class.”source ↗
“somehow the information just doesn't click while I'm actually sitting in the classroom.”source ↗
“When I get home, I can watch YouTube lectures on the exact same topic and understand it much better.”source ↗
“I am not that strong in the curriculum that I am teaching at all it is not my strong suit at all. I barely understand it.”source ↗
“I exist in a depression spiral in my way to work, panic teach all day, and I know it’s not going well, and then have a total mental breakdown”source ↗
“I have been doing this but I can only do so much when I have such little understanding I can’t then teach someone who has no understanding I can barely teach the material in the class”source ↗
“Can only speak for high school level but home school and online school kids lack so many skills”source ↗
Where this came up
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