Re:What If Students Could Fire Their Professors?
by debacle on Monday April 27, 2015 @09:42AM
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I've never had a bad STEM professor who was proficient in English. I don't know if I've just been lucky or if this is a common misconception about the role of a teacher versus a professor.
Re:What If Students Could Fire Their Professors?
by maw on Monday April 27, 2015 @02:14PM
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I think you were lucky. I definitely had some miserable professors and TAs who were native English speakers. And some professors and TAs with comically bad English but who were good at what they did anyway.
Re:What If Students Could Fire Their Professors?
by debacle on Monday April 27, 2015 @02:57PM
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Yeah I had plenty of good ESL professors but I also had a few that, try as I might, I could not learn from.
Re:What If Students Could Fire Their Professors?
by ohfunkyeah on Monday April 27, 2015 @12:55PM
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Researchers who are forced to teach, and are bad teachers because of this, SHOULD be fired from teaching. If the university doesn't value their research alone enough to justify their employment they probably should also be fired altogether.
I am not in academia, but in retrospective some of my greatest professors where very hard to deal teachers with huge fail rates. Most students hated them.