My history professor has a serious attitude problem. She purposefully makes people feel stupid for asking questions. I think she is a little bit slower because every time she gets a question she cannot understand what the person just said it seems. I’ve witnessed this a couple times now. Most of the students are intimidated to even raise their hand now. She mentioned that there were two study guides for our mid term. I raised my hand and ask how we tell the difference in the two meaning if she labeled our classes. She stared at me and gave me like a shrug as if I were stupid. She then made a smart remark and said "Good questions ay? Whole class started laughing at me. She is like a bully in an adults body. I don’t understand why she does this to students.
Oh she also treats the TA like crap and blames her for everything that goes wrong in the class.
Since many of your posts deal with pretty significant insecurity, I would say that it is in your best interests to just let this slide.
If you have to add additional sentences explaining what your question meant, maybe you weren’t as clear as you seem to think you were. What would you even report her for? Not being warm and fuzzy? Crappy professors exist. Survive the class and get on with your life. (And give an honest review on Rate My Professor, perhaps.)
Don’t know what you would report that is actionable. Lots of profs and TAs at research universities are there because of their research skills, not their ability to teach undergrads. I’d say just do your best, and (as maligned as it is), use RateMyProfessor to pick your future profs when possible.
This isn’t the first instance in which she has made students feel stupid for asking questions. She does it 9/10 times.
So??? That’s not illegal. Find where in the syllabus it says that profs are required to be nice people.
It’s not illegal but she is utterly terrible at her job. She should be teaching. Not reading from a textbook word for word as if we were in middle school. This is an entry level college course and most of the students are very young in age. This shouldn’t be their first exposure to academia. Who knows… that could be the deciding factor if they were going to pursue and finish their degree or not. If college is for them or not. I’m not a psych major but it seems like she intentionally intimidates students from asking questions because she cannot answer them herself. I like my college and really feel connected to the alumni so far. My school has a good reputation and I feel like these people should be weeded out.
It’s hard to tell online, but you have rate my professor and end of the class survey. Talk to her at office hours.
Some people are jerks. You’ll meet them anywhere you go. You can tell someone higher up about her behavior, if you really want to, but there’s nothing really to report her on. She hasn’t broken any rules. You might not like her, but there’s not a lot you can do about it. She also sounds like the kind of person that would target you if she found out that you complained about her and that really doesn’t seem worth it to me (especially since there’s a good chance nothing would change).
You can post about your grievances on Rate My Professor, if you like, to help prevent future students from taking her course. Also, if your school has any sort of end of class survey, then write about what your professor’s behavior there as well. If they are collected by the school, a professor’s ratings and comments from students may be considered when looking into who to teach the course next year.
Also, don’t assume that everyone feels the same way that you do. I’ve had teachers that I’ve thought were absolute jerks, but other students absolutely loved them. And even more students didn’t really care either way. You may hate her attitude, but other students may not feel nearly as strongly as you do.
Write your comment on the teaching evaluations, write a coherent description on RMP, and use word of mouth to iscourage other students from taking the class. That is it.