So a few weeks ago I started a physics class at my high school. Only problem? I was stuck with the teacher whom everyone said is a terrible teacher and cannot teach physics to save her life. I was thinking oh, well that's okay, maybe I'll just get it instinctively, I mean I got chemistry and for the most part I tend to get math!
Yeah - no. She is a terrible teacher. She will assign us problems and then when someone in the class asks her for help on them she will spend fifteen or twenty minutes struggling to figure out the answer herself. That's right - she doesn't fucking know the material she is teaching. And I don't get this instinctively like I do math.
Case in point: I just got done with a homework assignment due tomorrow. It's an online assignment and it was 67 problems of pure vector-related material. Only problem was that I am definitely positive that we haven't covered some of that information in class. And even though we did cover some of that information... well, somewhere between half and a third of the questions were fucking open answer. Meaning your answer has got to be really fucking close to the site's answer if you want to have any hope of it registering. To make matters worse, it doesn't tell you what you did wrong and offers no sort of help of any kind for the questions that you miss, meaning that if your first efforts at one of the open answer questions don't work, you're screwed. I had to skip a huge portion of the questions simply because we haven't gone over them at any point and they were confusing as all fuck. The website grades as you go, so I get to the end and I see that my grade on this assignment is a fucking 54, which is possibly the lowest grade I've ever gotten on any homework assignment ever. And this is only like the second week of this class. If I'm struggling this horribly at the beginning of the class, I'm fucking screwed later on.
I know that some of you TCoDians are pretty big on physics; would you mind helping me out in the future if I end up having immense problems figuring things out? I'm going to talk to the teacher tomorrow and see if I can figure out just what the fuck half those questions mean, why we were assigned them if we'd never covered them, how I'm supposed to figure shit out, and see if she actually has answers instead of being an unhelpful bitch. But if she's no help, I need to have a backup plan, else I risk failing the class.
Yeah - no. She is a terrible teacher. She will assign us problems and then when someone in the class asks her for help on them she will spend fifteen or twenty minutes struggling to figure out the answer herself. That's right - she doesn't fucking know the material she is teaching. And I don't get this instinctively like I do math.
Case in point: I just got done with a homework assignment due tomorrow. It's an online assignment and it was 67 problems of pure vector-related material. Only problem was that I am definitely positive that we haven't covered some of that information in class. And even though we did cover some of that information... well, somewhere between half and a third of the questions were fucking open answer. Meaning your answer has got to be really fucking close to the site's answer if you want to have any hope of it registering. To make matters worse, it doesn't tell you what you did wrong and offers no sort of help of any kind for the questions that you miss, meaning that if your first efforts at one of the open answer questions don't work, you're screwed. I had to skip a huge portion of the questions simply because we haven't gone over them at any point and they were confusing as all fuck. The website grades as you go, so I get to the end and I see that my grade on this assignment is a fucking 54, which is possibly the lowest grade I've ever gotten on any homework assignment ever. And this is only like the second week of this class. If I'm struggling this horribly at the beginning of the class, I'm fucking screwed later on.
I know that some of you TCoDians are pretty big on physics; would you mind helping me out in the future if I end up having immense problems figuring things out? I'm going to talk to the teacher tomorrow and see if I can figure out just what the fuck half those questions mean, why we were assigned them if we'd never covered them, how I'm supposed to figure shit out, and see if she actually has answers instead of being an unhelpful bitch. But if she's no help, I need to have a backup plan, else I risk failing the class.
