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Originally posted by Aelia Jusa:
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Originally posted by Sazerac:
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Originally posted by Sazerac:
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I guess I lived a charmed life growing up. I never had "horror" teachers...my teachers were that good, they are who inspired me to seek education as my field of choice as well.
-Sazerac
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Obviously there are some horror teachers. I had a music teacher in year 10 which we managed to depose she was so completely incompetent and incapable of keeping a class of 10 with otherwise well-behaved students under control.
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I dealt with teacher ouster once:
I must say that when I was student teaching in law school, my worst experience was working for a bad teacher. I had him as a teacher, but I also assisted him in teaching a writing class to students who were in our Masters in Environmental Law program. He knew his subject well enough, but lacked any personality or presentation in front of the class. To make things worse, the writing style he was teaching the intrepid would-be enviro-techs was centered around writing grant proposals and communications with governmental officials in environmental matters - writing tasks that, while not utterly boring or useless, nevertheless force you to adopt either an "a**hole" or "spineless" or "lying cheat" writing style. Clearly a bad combination all around.
I spent all my time trying to balance my defenses of the professor with the need to appear competent to the students (they had a point regarding some of his issues). Anyway, it was a terrible thing to be stuck in the middle of. After 2 or 3 years of students in that class complaining to the Admin, they finally pulled the guy out of it.