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Annoying professors
There is one thing that I really despise in a professor and that is a professor who skips around from subject to subject and does not believe in helping their students. Our professor assigned sections 1.1 and 1.2 for homework over the weekend. When I sat down to do my homework, I noticed that every problem we went over in class last week was not on the homework. He could have been teaching about a petroleum hose for all the good his teaching did for me in regards to homework. In class today, he informed us that his theory with math is that we need to learn for ourselves because that is how you learn problem solving skills. I understand all of that and everything but he could have explained some problems on our homework. I do like this class since I really didn’t have too much trouble on the homework but a lot of people were upset in my class. I understand we are in college and need to develop better problem solving skills but it would be nice if he would have told us that before. Some people learn by example and he as a professor should realize that. Maybe that is just my two cents but that is still annoying none the less. How do you feel about my professor’s attitude towards teaching material and homework?
I am actually quite used to your professor’s attitude on homework and problem solving. I almost never ever get told how to do a problem. And it allows the some professors to cover more depth in class on a certain topic. The professors at my school don’t want to waste time teaching us to solve problems – that’s what recitation sections run by TAs are for. If there are no recitations, then we’re on our own.
However, the jumping around from topic to topic = no. That confuses students no matter what you’re teaching them. There are professors who just don’t care about teaching at all.