NCEA Level 2 Calculus and I’m Basically Teaching Myself
I’m a Year 12 student doing NCEA Level 2 Calculus and I genuinely feel like my class is becoming a risk to my achievement. I take academics very seriously. I’m in Extension for all my subjects (excluding calc), I got NCEA Scholarships in Year 11 last year, so I’m not someone who avoids hard work or expects to be spoon-fed. The issue is that my current calc teacher barely seems to understand how NCEA works (new to country) and the teaching has been incredibly unclear all year. Most of the class feels like we are teaching ourselves from YouTube or external resources just to keep up. We’ve been given almost no practice internals, explanations are confusing, and I constantly leave class feeling more lost than when I entered. The frustrating part is that Calculus is literally the only non extension academic subject I take, yet it’s somehow the one causing me the most stress because of the teaching. I’ve tried being respectful and independent, but there’s only so much self-teaching you can realistically do while juggling everything else. I want to ask to move into another calc class, which is in the same exact period as mine, therefore it will not affect any of my other classes. That class also has a teacher known for being excellent, but he’s also extremely strict and I’m worried he’ll take it as me disrespecting a qualified teacher rather than a genuine concern about my learning. Has anyone been in a similar situation and how did you approach it without sounding rude or entitled? I actually cannot continue in this class.