after each semester, my university asks students to participate in an anonymous review of the teacher and the course. i had particular difficulty with a certain teacher last semster. the following is my review:
The strongest features of this course were:
the strongest feature of this course was the inexcusably terrible and incomplete teaching of the instructor. [teacher] clearly did not understand the material comprehensively enough to help us understand it. it is a wonder that he was considered competent to teach this course.
The best way to increase learning in this course would be to:
the best way to increase learning in this course would be to replace [teacher] with a youtube video tutorial. this is how i learned everything i did in this class. the only thing i learned from [teacher] is that sometimes life gives you shitty teachers and you need to make the best of it because no one is going to fix it for you.
Please describe the strengths of the instructor:
capable of tying his own shoes.
Please describe areas in which this instructor could improve as a teacher:
the area in which this instructor could improve as a teacher is the writing of his letter of resignation.
Please offer additional comments on the relationship of the instructor and the student.:
[teacher] did a poor job of explaining basic concepts and ideas. students had questions. [teacher] usually became irritated that students were not understanding the material and continued to repeat his previous, incomplete, explanation ad nauseum until students became aware that he had only a limited understanding of the concepts himself, and thus could not explain it to us. eventually students stopped asking questions.