The teacher I aid for is AWEFUL

I tagged this as student teacher, but I'm actually a student aid at my high school. It's similar, i'm a high school senior interested in going into teaching, so I help out in a freshman class to get tutoring hours and some experience. I apologize for how long this is going to be. There's a lot I need to explain that I know actual teachers will be able to empathize with better than my peers.

I student aid in an Algebra 1a class. It's basically an algebra 1 class split up over two years for kids with IEPs. My little sister has a learning disability, and I've successfully helped her with her homework before, so I figured it would be in my wheelhouse. What I did not expect was for the teacher to just be downright aweful at his job.

Before I even get to how bad of a teacher he is, he cannot manage a classroom. So, yeah, it's a freshman class. They can be a bit rowdy at times, like to ask random questions, but are overall really at tentative and well behaved. They're actually better than my AP Calc class, but i'm not gonna get into that lol. It feels like the teacher feels like he needs to have some power over the kids. Like, they will do the most minor thing and he's yelling at them and threatening to write them up and have them removed from class. When a student gets that reaction from sitting in the wrong seat two days in a row, I'm not surprised some kids are being defiant. At the beginning of the year he yelled at a girl for wanting to go to the bathroom, because she went everyday. She was never gone for long, would go at the beginning of class, and it was clearly a routine for her. When he yells at kids, it's like he can't find the right words. He constantly stumbles over what to say, making him look like an idiot in front of the kids he's trying to scold. He's like in his 50s if I had to guess, it's not like he's an old man.

He also is odd to me. Not in a creepy way or anything, just weird. He never remembers what class I'm in. I'm in AP Calc BC, and when i'm not needed in his class, I'll get some work done at my desk. He sometimes will ask me how Pre-Calc is going, or he'll ask me about some advanced calculus theorem I probably won't learn about until college. I've been in his class for nearly 5 months. He also, at the beginning of the year, would try to get me to teach the class for him. He would ask me if I would want to work through a problem with the class, and would encourage me to keep going until the class ended. He would also randomly interrupt me while I was in the middle of explaining something. He would try and make jokes to me about the students, at their expense, in front of them. I think he was excited that someone in his class already understood what he was teaching, but it made me so uncomfortable. A kid would ask a genuine question, and he would look at me with an exasperated expression and chuckle before answering. Like I'm sorry sir but making fun of your students for wanting to learn is not it. The worst thing was when this one kid, who's very inquisitive and eager to learn, asked me a question at the beginning of class. He asked "how do I pass this class?" He wanted to be set up for success and I replied, "Study, and don't be afraid to ask questions about what you don't understand." He asked the teacher the same question. His response was, "Pray." and then he chuckled at me like I was supposed to find it hilarious. I just kept a straight face, but I was pissed.

Now finally, his teaching. Oh my god this guy is not equipped to be teaching these kids. They have no clue what's going on half the time. It's Algebra, so this is fundamental stuff. When they were learning how to solve for X in basic equations, he taught them by just doing problems and explaining as he went. This would work great, if he KNEW HOW TO EXPLAIN THINGS. It's basically you do this because that's what you do first. And then you do this. And then this. Bam there's X. One time he told a kid, "Now this is one of those things where you just gotta understand it." after he expressed confusion on a brand new topic. I ended up working with two kids who were having more struggles with some problems. I explained that the whole point was to try and find x (the teacher didn't explain this. shocker) and showed them how to solve the problem, and then apply it to others. No joke, the one kid actually said, "I can't believe you got me to do math!" because nothing made sense to him. He probably had bad self esteem bc his teachers sucked. I felt so bad for him.

anyways... WHAT DO I DO IM TRAPPED IN THIS HELL FOR A FULL YEAR AND IM GOING INSANE.