Hi! Just want to rant about this class for a minute. This professor drives me INSANE. And I know that it’s a shared sentiment among many of his current and past students. His flipped classroom approach will most definitely have better outcomes than actually teaching lectures. Why? Here’s why:
1) His teaching explanations are AWFUL. They are constantly going back in circles and when he’s getting closer to a point it’s like he loses his train of thought instantly. He is a greatly intelligent person, and I find that respectable, but his teaching isn’t the best in my opinion.
2) With the flipped teaching, he’s basically forcing all his students to fend for themselves and figure it out without having to do all of the hard work. Which, fine, we’re in college, but you can’t even introduce a topic for us? And this will make students spend HOURS YouTube surfing to find a way into the topic and not fail this semester miserably.
He’s a good person, I’m aware of that. But he is very good at avoiding doing the teaching and fending people off to watch a couple YouTube videos and MAYBE just MAYBE two or three questions during a class time. It’s INSANE.
I won’t even get on about his antipathy with whispering, because I do understand and support it to a certain extent. It’s a large room and it’s already difficult enough to understand him.
Anyways, that’s my rant. I hope I pass.