Timeline for Should I complain to higher authorities about the incompetence of this teacher?
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| Oct 10, 2020 at 2:53 | comment | added | bta | @nabla - Even if you're not paying for school, if the professor is being paid to teach the class, a student shouldn't be doing his job for free. | |
| Oct 9, 2020 at 7:09 | comment | added | nabla | @bta - while I can certainly sympathize with students in a pay-to-learn system who don't think they are getting their money's worth (I am myself in a part of the world where you don't pay for college or university education), I find the whole paying customer mentality rather toxic for a good learning environment. If the syllabus itself had nothing worthwhile for OP to learn in the first place, having him/her teach one day might be the best learning opportunity available. If not to learn Python, then to learn the general level of other students, and how to communicate programming. | |
| Oct 8, 2020 at 22:37 | comment | added | bta | You have to balance any extra workload that follows from a complaint against the extra work that OP is currently doing. Based on their description, it sounds like the professor essentially had OP teach class one day. You can't let that become a habit. OP certainly shouldn't be paying to take the course and teaching it at the same time. | |
| Oct 8, 2020 at 14:37 | comment | added | Pedro Lamarão | I remember clearly of my time in college how me and my colleagues would pass judgment on what was appropriate curricula and appropriate teaching. My opinion at the beggining and end of my studies was very different, and my opinion at that time is very very different from my current opinion, now that I am in charge of interns. I do recognize a students general intuition of what a bad teacher is, but, not what appropriate paedagogy is. | |
| Oct 8, 2020 at 11:19 | comment | added | DRF | @LorenPechtel There definitely are. However there are also many students that are incapable of judging the teacher, his methods and their own ability/knowledge. Having been to a fairly good school I've seen many many more of the second than of the first. I'm always wary when someone is too confident that someone else is an idiot. | |
| Oct 8, 2020 at 0:52 | comment | added | Loren Pechtel | He's saying incompetent, not taught at a very basic level. There are utterly incompetent teachers out there. | |
| Oct 8, 2020 at 0:25 | comment | added | user69533 | While I agree that it'll be an extra workload, I would honestly wish a complaint by a student would come up. Bad programming courses cost students a lot of opportunities and are basically a worthless hassle, speaking as someone who did tutoring (non official) for six years and counting. Due to a lack of time I got most of my students through the course by "memorize this template, fill in the blanks and you'll pass; can't correct the damage of half a year". Most of them realized that they completely missed out on the opportunity to learn an important skill soon afterwards. | |
| Oct 7, 2020 at 4:20 | vote | accept | Anonymous | ||
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| Oct 6, 2020 at 14:58 | history | answered | nabla | CC BY-SA 4.0 |