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Conflict with Community College professor ?
I spoke up in class and asked a professor to tell us about the public speaking assignments in advance rather than her email saying that she would give us only one week's notice. She wasn't in class the 2nd week so things could not be said then. My learning style is being prepared and doing assignments in advance. Public speaking speeches need to be practiced in advance, and I am taking 15 credits. Talked to other students prior to class who had the same concerns and mindset after we received an e-mail saying she would only tell us the specifics of the speeches and assignments a week in advance. I said if I would bring it our need to know stuff in advance , and they said they would back me. No one did. She said she felt she was being personally attacked by the requests ( there were some by e-mail). Then later I was told that I might consider switching out of the session which is for apprehensive students or dropping the course when I mention in an exercise about how we were feeling that I was dealing with what she said. Told me her sob story about what she was dealing with last Spring, and I felt was belittling and attacking my feelings. I am in a 12 step program so my sharing my feelings outside my group is big. It is past the date to get my tuition money back and she teaches all the sessions I could switch to. It is also a mandatory course. I have the same educational level as this professor, so I have alot of experience with school. Made nicey, nicey after class . She saw the results of my Strengths Quest's Connectedness #1 Strength and said basically OMG now I know why you want stuff in advance. Duh. If students are telling you they need to know the deatails of assignments in advance, Houston, don't you think there is a problem.
Other than sucking up to her what else can I do? I don't care about the grade. It will be a B or higher because I can do it academically. I am just rusty and have a speech problem where I mispronounce words.
She is in compliance with the college's rules about assignments giving us a schedule and other required stuff.
6 Answers
- MMLv 79 years ago
In the real world, sometimes you're going to have to speak without much notice. A week is pretty generous by those standards. Rather than demand she change a teaching method she presumably knows works from experience, you could have talked to her privately about your concerns about your speech problem and found out if there was a way you could work toward a solution that was agreeable to both of you. It's not too late for that, but only if you apologize. Otherwise, drop the class. Just don't expect your boss to take it well when you tell him you can't give the big presentation to the board using the latest numbers because you need more than a week to prepare.
- xDark_Genomex =)Lv 59 years ago
I do think you may have been a little rude. I would have just spoken to after class rather than in the middle of it. Also, just because you have the same education level as the professor does not mean you are at her level. She is the one with the credentials to teach at a college, not you. So have some respect. I know it seems trivial, but it avoids conflicts such as this. Professors don't work hard to get a degree to teach just so that students can speak as if they have done the same thing.
I would try approaching her again about it. If she still refuses to comply with your request, just deal with it. You can't win every battle. Just bite the bullet and do what needs to be done.
- AyaLv 79 years ago
She's in compliance with the rules, so find a way to deal with the rules she had set and work with them. When you get out into the real world you won't always get more than a week's notice about things you have to do. In fact, sometimes you'll be lucky to get that much notice. Learning how to deal with this is going to be part of your education in this class.
- Anonymous9 years ago
A week is plenty of time thats all I got in my speech class. The thing with professors is that it's their class their rules and if you can't hack it you ll get a bad grade. The college classes aren't just about the work their about working under deadlines and time constraint and ridiculous demands that happen in the real world. If you don't like it drop the class. And don't compare yourself to her she is the one teaching not you.
Source(s): Sophmore - 5 years ago
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