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A bad professor to me is pretty easy to define. Some one who no longer loves teaching, can't keep a class engaged, and gives a test below the student's capabilities. What I mean by that is say in a 300 level course with 70-100 kids having the test be multiple choice, especially if you have a TA or grader.
Multiple choice doesn't necessarily make the test hard or easy - it's the content.
My Law tests are extremely hard because they're each paragraph case-based scenarios.
But for my math class which is also multiple choice - that's just too damn easy. If you can't get your math right you often can just plug in one of the 4 answers and see which one works which is just stupid.
Each test should be craft to match the logic and critical thinking level of the class - some are hard enough as it is being multiple choice - others are too easy.
But for my math class which is also multiple choice - that's just too damn easy. If you can't get your math right you often can just plug in one of the 4 answers and see which one works which is just stupid.
Multiple choice math also murders dyslexics. Since the answers are all too similar, it's very hard for them to differentiate them.
The grad student TA's at my school decided to try to form a union. The school said that was retarded and told them to get bent, so the grad students decided to go on strike. A bunch of my hippie professors refused to cross the picket lines and decided to relocate our classes to various union halls spread throughout the city.
I would say that made them bad professors.
What the? :shock:
What reason did they have to go on strike?
Because they only got free tuition ($50k), stipends of $22k, and health insurance in exchange for their excruciating schedule of teaching 10 hours a week. Nothing screams "downtrodden worker" like a spoiled 29 year old working on his PhD in Critical Gender Theory.
What a bunch of jackasses.
Free money for lame ass papers, that hardly anyone will ever read. :doh
Graduate students who assist professors with teaching and research may not seem like typical workers, but more than 1,000 such assistants petitioned New York University on Monday to recognize a union that would represent their interests.
The school’s officials signaled they would not recognize such a union, which would be the only union of teaching assistants in the nation at a private university.
But with Monday’s move, N.Y.U.’s 1,600 graduate assistants are seeking to persuade the National Labor Relations Board, now dominated by President Obama’s appointees, to reverse a 2004 decision that found that graduate teaching assistants at private universities are essentially students, not workers, and thus do not have a right to unionize and bargain for a contract.
I was looking for a link with more details and found out that they're trying it again:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/nyregion/28grad.html
Ugh.
"The four-year accord raised stipends by nearly 40 percent, improved health benefits and paid the assistants extra if their work took more than 20 hours a week."
New York University you say? The place I should be applying to for graduate school you say?
I'm really wanting this to focus on college or high school level education. Most of the debates on "bad teachers" discuss elementary and junior high - public education.
So - from your personal experiences (either yourself attending or something you know who attended and had problems) what *were* those problems
If that teacher failed a considerable number of students, seemed disconnected from the learning process or didn't make an effort to actually *teach* the class - what do you think should happen to him/her?
My experience in 10th grade Spanish showed me essentially most of what is wrong with our educational system. Doctoro Hazard was probably the laziest teacher, or emotional supporter as he called himself, I've had in k-12. He was basically a grumpy old guy with no real interest in teaching. I wasn't even sure if he was fluent in Spanish until about half way through the class. During the whole 90 minute block, he'd give us one short assignment and then let us "roam about the country" for the rest of the class. Before tests he'd always literally give us the answers to an entire section.
Some of his greatest quotes include:
[to an Indian student] "What are you waiting for, Gandhi?!"
[When asked about his opinion on women] "Good for nothing, make me a sandwich!"
"Dr Hazard, when I'm talking to a baby do I use the imperfect or perfect command?"
"When your talking to a little ****, do you think you use the formal command!?"
"And if you look in the book, you can see all the kids having a good time at the party. Oh look there's the token paraplegic"
"No soy diccianario!"
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