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This is an issue I have with a couple of my instructors. They give us homework, then when the homework is done they tell us we didn't do all of it. Despite the parts they say we didn't do not being on the assignment sheet. 
The worst was my class on Tuesday. We're doing redesigns of board games. I asked my instructor in the week previous to this one if he thought that doing a classic movie monster themed monopoly would be a good idea, he said it was, and actually sounded kind of enthusiastic. We even wrote our themes on the board. I very specifically worded it "Classic Movie Monsters", I even named a few (Dracula, Frankenstein's monster etc.). This week? He tells me that 1) I didn't do much work on my game board roughs (we had to have 6 full sized boards basically done except using clip art and such instead of our own stuff which we would do later), because I didn't change the shape (something he also never bothered to tell us we were allowed to do), and 2) I have to make up my own monsters. WTF?
I got rather frustrated and said very sharply that I had asked him the week before and that he said it was alright. He was like "oh but I said no movie stuff!" (which was the reason I asked him in the first place). Besides that these are classic archetypes. When I dropped that word on him he just mumbled something about creating your own archetypes. Which makes no sense.
I'm getting particularly sick of his critiques, which would be crits if you know, he actually did something other than tell us we suck and that we don't do the amount of work he expects of us. Blah blah. It's because he expects us to do 3 weeks worth of work in 1 week, some of us have 4 other classes. Yes I'm aware that when we get out into the work field we will have lots of work too, but we're in school to learn. This is not teaching. And you know what, I'm paying insane amounts of money for this!
My other instructor while she is a sweet lady, sucks at teaching. I mean I'm 5th quarter (there are 6 quarters in my program) I know how to organize my files! She spends an hour showing us how to do something that can be done in a matter of minutes. I've literally fallen asleep in her class, and not missed anything because she's still explaining the same thing
Luckily my other instructors are awesome, one even worked on Adbusters magazine for 7 years and has two books published*. See that kind of stuff is what I like to hear from instructors, that they have that kind of experience. When instructors don't show that they have the actual experience, it's harder to believe they know what they're talking about. I don't mean bragging either. But simply showing us their own work is immensely helpful.
Sorry for the rant, I'm burning my candle at both ends lately and I'm running out of wax...
*If you're curious as to what they are just PM me.
The worst was my class on Tuesday. We're doing redesigns of board games. I asked my instructor in the week previous to this one if he thought that doing a classic movie monster themed monopoly would be a good idea, he said it was, and actually sounded kind of enthusiastic. We even wrote our themes on the board. I very specifically worded it "Classic Movie Monsters", I even named a few (Dracula, Frankenstein's monster etc.). This week? He tells me that 1) I didn't do much work on my game board roughs (we had to have 6 full sized boards basically done except using clip art and such instead of our own stuff which we would do later), because I didn't change the shape (something he also never bothered to tell us we were allowed to do), and 2) I have to make up my own monsters. WTF?
I got rather frustrated and said very sharply that I had asked him the week before and that he said it was alright. He was like "oh but I said no movie stuff!" (which was the reason I asked him in the first place). Besides that these are classic archetypes. When I dropped that word on him he just mumbled something about creating your own archetypes. Which makes no sense.
I'm getting particularly sick of his critiques, which would be crits if you know, he actually did something other than tell us we suck and that we don't do the amount of work he expects of us. Blah blah. It's because he expects us to do 3 weeks worth of work in 1 week, some of us have 4 other classes. Yes I'm aware that when we get out into the work field we will have lots of work too, but we're in school to learn. This is not teaching. And you know what, I'm paying insane amounts of money for this!
My other instructor while she is a sweet lady, sucks at teaching. I mean I'm 5th quarter (there are 6 quarters in my program) I know how to organize my files! She spends an hour showing us how to do something that can be done in a matter of minutes. I've literally fallen asleep in her class, and not missed anything because she's still explaining the same thing
Luckily my other instructors are awesome, one even worked on Adbusters magazine for 7 years and has two books published*. See that kind of stuff is what I like to hear from instructors, that they have that kind of experience. When instructors don't show that they have the actual experience, it's harder to believe they know what they're talking about. I don't mean bragging either. But simply showing us their own work is immensely helpful.
Sorry for the rant, I'm burning my candle at both ends lately and I'm running out of wax...
*If you're curious as to what they are just PM me.
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