professor eval
so i was going to post something actual in my usual rambling tone, but somehow i got sidetracked and now i'm supposed to be writing that "brief" that i should have done in the morning. but i am not.
so, for your enjoyment, a few of the comments left on Prof. Doug Leslie's Employment Law class this spring:
Comment on the method and quality of the instructor's teaching. Be specific about strengths, weaknesses, teaching techniques, congeniality of the learning environment and any suggestions for improvement.
You know what you're getting with Casefiles. Always entertaining and provocative, occasionally educational.
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Doug Leslie is like that creepy uncle that comes over on Thanksgiving and weirds out the whole family. Rude, morally bankrupt, and given to stream-of-consciousness tangents that extend to well over a quarter of the allotted class time, he conducts the class like a three-ring circus where talking out of your a** is made an art form. That being said, he's a competent professor with a novel way of teaching. Doug Leslie serves to fill a niche at the law school in much the same way as there's a place in the Bible for Satan.
Comment as specifically as possible about whether the selection and organization of the materials and the emphasis of the instructor were appropriate to achieving the goals of the course.
Organization?....Goals?....Aw, that's cute....
What, if any, constructive suggestions do you have for this instructor and/or course, e.g., specific areas requiring improvement.
My problem with Prof. Leslie's class stems not so much from the instruction as the "entourage" that Prof. Leslie accumulates. Because of his participation-intensive teaching style, Leslie is a magnet for every tool in love with his or her own voice. That pissy, effeminate little guy who just loves to play devil’s advocate for the sake of playing devil’s advocate? He’s here. Oh, and that guy who immediately scours the internet for the answer to every inane and irrelevant query that enters the discussion and, not two minutes after the entire class has moved on to a more germane issue and has ceased to care, fires his hand into the air to inform the rest of us that, in fact, the statute that governs the pension plans of frozen yogurt stand workers in Montana was actually repealed in 1972? Why, he’s here too!
So, here’s my suggestion. Survivor-style Casefile Employment Law. Every week, the class gets to vote anonymously to revoke one student’s “talking privileges.” From that point on, the student that’s been “voted off” does the rest of us the service of keeping his brain-farts to himself. How does that sound? Good? And if the “exile” feels the need to speak up in order to elucidate the rest of us on some mundane legal issue, to throw his mind-feces against the wall to see what sticks, then we lower his final grade a point...Agreed?
so, for your enjoyment, a few of the comments left on Prof. Doug Leslie's Employment Law class this spring:
Comment on the method and quality of the instructor's teaching. Be specific about strengths, weaknesses, teaching techniques, congeniality of the learning environment and any suggestions for improvement.
You know what you're getting with Casefiles. Always entertaining and provocative, occasionally educational.
*******************************************
Doug Leslie is like that creepy uncle that comes over on Thanksgiving and weirds out the whole family. Rude, morally bankrupt, and given to stream-of-consciousness tangents that extend to well over a quarter of the allotted class time, he conducts the class like a three-ring circus where talking out of your a** is made an art form. That being said, he's a competent professor with a novel way of teaching. Doug Leslie serves to fill a niche at the law school in much the same way as there's a place in the Bible for Satan.
Comment as specifically as possible about whether the selection and organization of the materials and the emphasis of the instructor were appropriate to achieving the goals of the course.
Organization?....Goals?....Aw, that's cute....
What, if any, constructive suggestions do you have for this instructor and/or course, e.g., specific areas requiring improvement.
My problem with Prof. Leslie's class stems not so much from the instruction as the "entourage" that Prof. Leslie accumulates. Because of his participation-intensive teaching style, Leslie is a magnet for every tool in love with his or her own voice. That pissy, effeminate little guy who just loves to play devil’s advocate for the sake of playing devil’s advocate? He’s here. Oh, and that guy who immediately scours the internet for the answer to every inane and irrelevant query that enters the discussion and, not two minutes after the entire class has moved on to a more germane issue and has ceased to care, fires his hand into the air to inform the rest of us that, in fact, the statute that governs the pension plans of frozen yogurt stand workers in Montana was actually repealed in 1972? Why, he’s here too!
So, here’s my suggestion. Survivor-style Casefile Employment Law. Every week, the class gets to vote anonymously to revoke one student’s “talking privileges.” From that point on, the student that’s been “voted off” does the rest of us the service of keeping his brain-farts to himself. How does that sound? Good? And if the “exile” feels the need to speak up in order to elucidate the rest of us on some mundane legal issue, to throw his mind-feces against the wall to see what sticks, then we lower his final grade a point...Agreed?
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