week 1 dq post

I do not have a specific instructor I liked that much. Most of my classes from my bachelors and gradschool have been to varying degrees frustrating. Form mild frustration, to more than a couple of Psychology instructors invited me to leave not only the class but the school.

I do not have a lot of good memories regarding my classes. My last two classes at Walden were some of my least frustrating classes, but they were still very frustrating. But taking the same class for a second time because Walden refused to accept the credits from another school did not help. So in effect I turned in all the assignments in 2 years twice.

The teacher was cooperative, but had issues with power and control over the class. The old “things will be run my way, but you have to spent the 2 months in class guessing what I want”. Which is the most frustrating of all. Classes become a guessing game, which the instructors who think they are the easiest to get along with are usually the worst regarding “I have my rules, all you have to do is guess what they are and follow them. I am the easiest teacher in the world, as long as you know I am god of the class”.

I had one instructor who was at least semi cool about 3 years ago. That instructor his tyrannical issue was slved by accident. I wanted to explore the concepts of the history of Psychology. So virtually every sentence I wrote was exploring a new idea about Wundt and hwere he actually was during his teens. Since virtually every single sentence was exploring new ideas, I sited virtually every single sentence I wrote in that 8 week long class. His “thing” other than citations (he would have actually preferred about 5 citations per sentence) was cognition. So since the study of cognition and neuro is right in the wheelhouse of wundt, I did not mind including cognitive aspects in most of the papers written, however in the next class which was entirely about cognition. Virtually everything I wrote in that 8 weeks he hated to the max, at the end of the class I was informed “do nt write a single more word about x subject in my class. No matter many citations you use, that subject is not welcome in my class”. 3 more hour long phone calls and 30 emails over the next 5 months and I was asked to leave the school. what I wanted to learn and what the school was willing to teach became incompatible. I wanted to learn science, they wanted to teach theocracy. The teachers minus 2 I directly interact with had hardened to their own ideas about psychology, not unlike walking into a class about anatomy and biology regarding the Neanderthal and the instructor is a Dr Boule devotee. Let us just throw out the science of those subjects to keep up the fictions that the 14-year-old arthritis riddled boy is actually 30-year-old battle damaged adult.

Consequently I have not run into many good teachers, mostly my teachers in my 5 separate gradschools have been more like tyrants who make nonscientific demands and are upset that said demands are not entirely obvious and should be followed without question.

Of the reading and the aspects of being a good teacher, only a few of them used even one of those tools in class.

The ability to develop relationships with their students

Patient, caring, and kind personality

Knowledge of learners

Dedication to teaching

Engaging students in learning

Have not experienced much if any of these features in my teachers. I strongly assume these features are much more of a demand in ground locations. Where personal interactions are fact to face. On line most of my under grad and gradschool teachers were there for the money and the Ds aspects of teaching.