WOW. Wow. I have never seen an entire class rip a teacher to shreds on a review more than I did today for Dr. Taylor. I am so glad that it was not just me and a handful of the guys from my lab who had problems with her, and that people like Kassie spoke up to agree on the review. And the guy who a lot of people hate, kind of the "class know-it-all", actually spent more time ripping her than any of us, and he was super-harsh. He straight up said she should be fired and that she exemplifies every problem he's had with the civil engineering department. Damn, people. I'm not sure I should be so harsh, but I don't disagree with him.
I talked about her refusal to give us extra material, the fact that the textbook sucked, and that she has some weird ideas for grading policies. The problem is that I am not astute enough to remember all the problems we have had with her this year. I did remember to point out that she doesn't teach us well--she can't explain things--and she doesn't understand our questions, so we end up wasting a lot of time and half the class still doesn't know what's going on. But I should have added some things that I didn't think of but heard other people say later, like the fact that she is just not good at teaching, and that when we ask her to help in other ways because we can't understand her, she takes it as a personal attack rather than trying to improve or change her teaching methods. Or the fact that she focuses on minutiae while we sit there thoroughly confused, not understanding the basic outlines of processes she completely skips or blazes through expecting us to just "get".
You know, it just brings me back to freshman year when we had her for EGR 101 and she was totally unorganized and we ended up doing this "project" on microbial growth and learned how to use a turbidimeter, and I don't even remember why but she failed us on, no wait, she failed us on the final exam-quiz because we got wrong the simple answers that she never taught us. And she kind of haphazardly took points off our project. And the problem is, she doesn't explain her grading and her methods are already confusing, and it's more effort than it's worth to actually figure out where and why.
Which all sucks because she seems like a nice person and her husband is pure awesome. But she just... doesn't get it. Worse than McCrate, because he at least tried to improve when we were completely lost, though, uh, he didn't quite get the part where he was teaching us stuff significantly more difficult than the other half of the class (who had Prof. Taylor, incidentally) was learning. But he at least noticed that we didn't get it and tried to do something about it, even if it didn't work.
Hate to say it, but I hope she gets fired. Which is rather upsetting for her to hear, I'm sure, but I don't think any more students deserve to have to sit through that miserable failure of a class. I wonder if reviews affect the class grades at all?
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