Worst teacher you've ever had?

m0ynihan wrote: »

Physical's the moles and stuff yeah? That stuff's a nightmare!

Well organic chemistry is a big one for the pharma sector but that also uses moles as does biochemistry. Phsyical chemsitry uses moles but you also study a lot more about individual molecules eg bond angles ect and a lot more besides.

PS. I'm a biochemist not a phsycial chemist so I dont no much or anything about phys cehm so feel free to correct me!

m0ynihan wrote: »

I really don't understand the fascination with biology, in my year we've about 60 people doing biology vs. 10 in chemistry..

Well its generally bad for biochem too. Anyone who wants to do it mostly comes through biology so most of them dont want to do anything chem related so run a mile from biochem!!

Corruptedmorals wrote: »

Had an alcoholic for 1st year maths. Would write the pages up on the board, read the newspaper and if anyone had a problem, ask the person next to you. Mysteriously dissapeared around parent teacher meeting time, but was fired the next year. Too late for me as it seriously stunted my ability at maths even with family help. The teacher died a few years later, presumably drink related which is sad...but just so ridiculous that it took the school so long to fire him.

I'm actually shocked that one got fired at all!!

I had a Geometry teacher in the States that felt that we should be learning everything on our own (through homework). He would assign us homework. Check it the next day and then explain how to do it. The entire cycle would continue ad nauseum.

He later became a local politician. He nearly got the head stuck in to him when he came to the door.

The funny thing is that in University I did more maths (including Geometry) and really loved it. It's amazing how one useless teacher can put you off of wanting to learn something.

m0ynihan wrote: »

Just curious.

My worst was my 2nd year maths teacher, complete pushover and couldn't explain stuff for his life...

Example:

My class used to throw shoes around the classroom. On numerous occasions the shoe would land right in front of him. What did he do? He gave it back!

No wonder I can't do factorising!

Sounds like the teacher I had for LC Honours Maths, was a bit of a pushover. Used to call him by his first name & that was the case for years by differet classes

We had a History teacher in 5th year who didn't even own the book we were using, she used to always borrow one off one of us. Then, in class, she would just get everyone to read the book aloud, then tell us to do the questions at the end of the chapter. Absolutely useless. At the end-of-year exams then she was even more erratic; we were expected to do essays even though she had never given us an essay to do during the time she taught, and then she gave out some crazy marks: some of the really good students got Ds, while others were getting 99%?!

In addition, one of the topics we did with her was Nazism, so she decided she'd make us watch Leni Riefenstahl's The Triumph of the Will :eek: Except she kept forgetting where she'd stopped it in the previous class, so we kept watching the same bit over & over, which seeing as it kept her from 'teaching' us we didn't complain too much about Then, during one class while we were studying Stalin, she borrowed my friend's book to read as per usual, and when she got it back this teacher had circled Stalin's name, drawn a little arrow out to the side, and written 'prick' in the margin?! :eek::D

I had an Irish teacher for 2nd/3rd year who was just a few years away from retirement and had obviously just had enough. He would come into the classroom at the beginning of class, do a roll call, and then head back to the staff room. He'd come back in about 3 minutes before the end of class to give us homework which he never checked. It was an Honours class and by the time the JC came, about 12 people had dropped to Foundation level.

leaveiton wrote: »

Doing physical chemistry at the moment in college, horrible stuff! Can't wait until we get to move on to organic.

Worst teacher I had would be my LC Honours Maths teacher. Could barely do the stuff herself. 9 times out of 10 she'd put up the answer from a marking scheme instead of encouraging us to do it out ourselves, or even doing it herself. If she did do it, she wouldn't do it correctly. Wouldn't explain some parts of the course "because that's only for people going for As and Bs." Because everyone in the class was only aiming for a C, of course :rolleyes:

Move into Biochem we need more

in 2nd yr my teacher used to give use fags, he was pissed most of the time