My Least Favorite Kind of Instructor

one man's gripe with an extremely specific style of teaching
/ shaq
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[@TVBenSifka]

I had a stats professor who taught exactly like this and half the class either dropped or failed because it was an hour and a half twice a week. Genuine hell

[@scouthanamura2380]

oh this one's getting printed on a business card to hand out physically

[@Fiebich]

Flashbacks to some of my worst college professors, topped only by those who didn't actually know their material well. Unless we're doing review, this kind of teaching is needlessly stress-inducing.

[@Hofstetter17]

Thank you so much for calling this out for what it is.

[@willfleischer]

Whenever I have to give feedback for my professors I feel like I don’t know how to articulate a description of their teaching style very well and why it wasn’t working for me- this helps a ton, thanks netshaq as always

[@newworldotter8583]

After watching this I realized that I focused so much on the pauses, that I didn't process any of the information between pauses. I have no idea what exactly you were trying to say but I feel like that was kinda the point.

[@MarleyMe95]

Former high school teacher here, definitely not a good way to structure an hour plus of content but I do think these Q&As have their place. At the start of lessons, and peppered throughout after content is shared. These should be quick checks for understanding so a good teacher can clarify what a class isn't getting. Not so much about conveying info in the moment, more about informing what the instructor will do next. If you're getting blank stares on these, that's a hint you haven't given enough context and need to reteach. If half your lesson is this, that's a hint you don't have enough information to teach in the first place.

[@willdbeast1523]

I think it's fine for in person teaching when the group size is say 1-3 students, so they can actually target the specific questions they're asking/gaps they're leaving to the level of the people being instructed. More than that you just get no-one or the same subset responding.

[@Acc_Expired]

I love walking away from an hour long lecture with only 30 words of notes

[@urd3adnow]

i can visualize shaq in my head watching an annoyingly paced ted talk while scarfing down some chips and salsa and angrily spittling tomato juice across his screen

[@astridriver]

I had to take a professional training certification course for work once and not only did she teach like this, we never got her answers right. We’d be sitting there guessing and guessing and no matter how close we got to getting it right, if we didn’t say the exact words she was looking for she’d act like we were nowhere near the point she was trying to make. We’d all be guessing and guessing just so she’d get to the point but she just kept making us guess. It was a terrible two days.

[@321erup123]

Instructors should leverage the projector to play some Subway surfers gameplay

[@TastySnackies]

This really is the worst type of teaching. Like, why are you expecting me to answer questions as the lesson is going on? Teach me the damn lesson and let me answer the question on a test

[@connor1586]

I always knew some uni lecturers were bad but never pinpointed how until I watched this. Great video!

[@ReaperStarcraft]

Shaq I'd honestly love more videos on instructional design, or even just a recommended list of resources. To this day I still feel the uselessness of my classes in teaching and this takes me right back to sitting there mad as hell at them wasting my time.

[@kidyuki1]

Thank you! Even aside from the information density argument, this move is annoying and disruptive. Especially like the "close, feedback" part. So often, presentations are brought to a grinding halt for minutes on end while the instructor picks on 3, 4, 5 people to guess, only for the "right" word to be something no one in the room was thinking of.

[@bean2562]

So many flash backs from this video, you really nailed the vibe and it hurts my soul.

[@Infantry12345]

I'm not sure what training teachers get for providing engaging and effective teaching styles but it does sort of seem like most people just wing it and end up in these sorts of styles.

[@tomv8952]

God damn, had a dog trainer come over one time and employ this technique and kept it up even after it was obvious we were getting the answer wrong 3-4 times every time. Maddening

[@RageKroc888]

The combination of protracted pause after asking a question and second-hand embarrassment at the classmate who just got a finger wagged at them, despite you knowing you would have guessed wrong too. just makes me yearn to be anywhere else.