How not to email a teacher

Got a bad grade on a test and need to retake it, forgot to turn in your homework or truthfully didn’t do it, or you won’t be there for class tomorrow. This is how not to email your teacher so you can possibly get the good grade.

1. Do not call your teacher by their first name or last name only. Make sure you always use Mr/Mrs, which ever applies, and their last name when addressing who you are emailing. Teachers appreciate being addressed in this way, always use this form even if you are on a good basis with them.

2. Don’t use slag, often times teachers don’t like it when you say “hey dude” or “whats up.” Teachers when you use full and complete sentences other than short abbreviations of phrases that you use around your friends.

3. Don’t use shortened text expressions. Make sure you spell everything right, if your teacher were to read @TEOTD in and email they wouldn’t understand that it actually meant, at the end of the day. It is just as simple to write out the entire word.

4. When emailing a professor do not leave out what class you are in, to them you are just a name that probably means nothing to them. Unless you specify what class you are in they might never know who you are and why you are emailing them.

5. Do not go on about everything else that is happening, get to the point quickly. Your teacher really doesn’t care if the person next to you got a 100, they already know.

6. Don’t forget your subject, if you leave out a subject the teacher may just see that it has no subject and think that it is irrelevant.

7. Don’t just end your email after addressing the point, make sure that you put in there a thanks, best, or sincerely.

            8. Also don’t forget about your name at the end of the email, they want to know who it is from.

Hopefully this is helpful in the future of having to email any teacher. Good luck.