Evaluating the complainer

I refuse to let myself be dragged down by all the unjustified comments. Which is why I will address them now and move on. 

1.

You don’t even care whether all the student get what you’re discussing and keep move forward. I really feel your tutorial section is wasting my precious time. If possible, please write it on board, or anything so student who are slow can still follow inside the class!

– Then why didn’t you speak up in class? If I honestly didn’t care, I would just paste the bloody solutions on the board and let you copy them then leave. YOU are wasting my precious time by not responding to my questions. 

2.

Teaching method is far beyond understanding. Reading the slides as if reading story books.

– Actually, I was reading from my notes. If you had bothered to actually listen to me, you would’ve realized that I wasn’t reading from the slides.

3.

So damn pretty

– Why, thank you, but that is irrelevant.

4.

Maybe its better if you be more friendly towards student. Don’t treat us like a kid. Learning process need a good mood. Smile more Miss. Don’t waste your cute face 😀

– Perhaps if most of you acted more like adults, I would have more reason to smile. 

5.

Knows a lot but don’t really care if students understand what she is talking about. Giving chocolate is really not helping to encourage student to learn anything. Perhaps, you can try other method. =)

– Please refer to comment #1. Giving chocolate is to encourage you to try to answer, instead of staying mum and dumb. If you have any better suggestions, please feel free to tell me, instead of saying ‘try something else’ all the time. 

6.

wrong way in teaching tutorial.calling student out to do tutorial making student unable to copy the correct answer for tutorial.

– WTF. I don’t even get this one. Not going to dignify with a response. Next. 

7.

conducting tutorial with wrong way. please give solution instead calling student out to do the solution. making student unable to copy the correct solution.

– Must be friends with #6. If you are so concerned about the correct solution, you should come ask me about it. Instead of bitching silently. 

8.

your teaching method is so unmotivational..by reading only the slide,i also can do it at my house.

– Well then, I hope you got an A+, since you seem so competent. 

9.

dont treat our tutor class like a kindegarten class.

– If you are actually a university student, you would know that it’s a TUTORIAL, and that university students are more proactive than what you all currently are. 

10.

Please provide more exercises for all the subject in lecture.

– Please request for more BEFORE the trimester is over. 

11.

She is so hott

– Thank you, but also irrelevant.

12.

very helpful

– Thank you very much. I can be nice, too. 

13.

dont treat us like kindergarten students pls~ class quiz for attendances is not a good idea~

– Why? Because you weren’t attending classes?

14.

your teaching skills is soo bad…u cannot simply get angry to the student when he/she asked u a question..when i asked u a question, u yelled at me during lab session..and, the activity conducted in class is so boring.u saw it clearly that students hate it so much and we find it meaningless…so next time, please change it.tq

– I’m sorry for snapping at you. It was most likely because of an inane question that I had already answered about a gazillion times and the answer which could obviously be found in the lab sheet if you had bothered to read it, although that does not justify my snarky attitude towards you. I don’t believe, however, that I yelled, because I am very loud when I yell. 

As for the class activity, perhaps if you had again, bothered to really take part, you wouldn’t have found it so boring. But since you’re brimming with ideas, why don’t you come up with a fun activity for us all? Oops, there I go, ‘yelling’ again…

15.

i dont like M&M

– But I do. 

16.

pointless memorization

– Yea, tell that to the subject. 

17.

I do not like the method of teaching. Tutorials should show how to answer the questions.

– What were you doing in class…sleeping? 

I rest my case. 

One thought on “Evaluating the complainer

  1. If you don’t mind me saying so, I remember well that I attended tutorials simply for 3 reasons back when I was a student:

    1. To get answers for the questions
    2. To ask a question if I had one
    3. To fulfil attendance requirements

    I never had time to do the tutorial questions before the class because uni life – both academic and non-academic – gets in the way. I did however know that I needed the have a copy of the correct answers with me so that when I do finally get around to doing the tutorial questions (e.g. while I study for an exam) – I need to know if my solution is correct. This is where I derive the value of my tutorial attendance – I now have the means to do the questions at a time of my choosing and compare my answers to those I got at class. If I’m wrong, I also now have the opportunity to look at the full set of steps to see where and why I went wrong.

    As for doing the question on the board in class – well I don’t have the solution at all when I get into the class, so asking me to do it in class would mean I’ll then need to figure it out in class what to do and that takes time. I also suppose most if not all in the class are like me so it wastes a lot of time to wait while one by one we stumble through the questions. I suppose this is where frustration builds.

    So if you’re read this far – let me illustrate what would be my ideal tutorial class:

    1. Give me a copy of the answers with the full set of steps.
    2. Explain to me the steps in the calculations and why that step was taken.
    3. Help me out if I have some questions.

    I know it seems a bit spoon-feedy and lazy and maybe even a duplicate effort of the lecture, but you have no idea how helpful a full set of steps and the reasoning for the steps can be when doing personal study – it’s a fantastic aide when I’m stuck somewhere and don’t understand why I can’t get the answer.

    And then about the part where they request to be “treated like adults”, you’ve got to remember that although they may seem immature to you – to them they are the most mature they’ve ever been in their life. Just treat them as you would a colleague.

    All the best! =)

    *p.s. I graduated a couple of years ago and I got my job offer on the second last week of the exam weeks. My job pays me well and I’ve been promoted a couple of times since being hired. So I suppose in my small way, I’ve “made it” in life.

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