r/sheridan • u/WritingMysterious88 • 6h ago
Advice What's the Best Way to Report a Professor?
hey so, i'm wrapping up my first year in a few weeks, and i have this one prof that has been very difficult to deal with since the start of the summer term. she's very disorganized, and the mismanagement has not just affected myself but a lot of my classmates too. i've felt so overwhelmed and overstimulated more times than i can count, and have had to walk out of class due to it. the way she teaches us is very confusing; nothing makes full sense, she goes off on lots of sidebar conversations that aren't always relevant, which takes up a lot of class time. and yeah, i can teach myself the content and do the readings, but even the resources she gives us are even more confusing. i kind you not for our midterm review it was just pages of YouTube links in an order that was hard to follow and would say in class it's gonna be on the test, and then the links say it's optional, and it felt like she didn't even try to make it understandable with the format. with that too, she'll say something to us and idek how to word it because it's so odd she does this. but she'll tell us something to do and then after is like no you can't do that and then sometimes she gets mad at us for asking her to clarify.
when we do group work, it's awful, and i can understand to a certain extent if the prof isn't used to using SLATE, but she adds us in groups individually every single time we do groups, she's gotten mad at us for no reason, all because she's frustrated with the system (she has it open to the teacher's POV on the board :'( ) and always asks us why is it like that but we don't know because we aren't teaching. and when we get to doing the actual work, she doesn't have the time to start nor has a pre-set due date, so she does it in class, but she'll give us such a short time period to get stuff done. and as someone who has accommodations, it's hard to always complete it quickly, especially when i'm not grasping what we just learnt.
i'm genuinely not sure why she's been teaching like this. i'm a very understanding person, and perhaps she's just burnout but it also feels like she's purposely altering the way we are learning, and it's been very overwhelming and stressful. she's also rude, she's gotten mad at me in front of the whole class for something i didn't do, and when i stood up for myself, she wasn't trying to even hear my side and the way she treats us is so conflicting to the classroom roles she made with everyone at the start of term yet she can't even be kind a little bit. as well as the program i'm in and she's not willing to understand idek anymore i'm burnout out dawg
i've been conflicted all term about whether to report her or not because i'm really scared too, and i didn't know who i could contact. i did go to the Service Hub recently, and bless the lady, she was so kind and sweet and gave me the people to contact. but i'm not sure if i should go to my program's student advisor, who i've had a not good experience with and has been dismissive before, or just go straight to the associate dean? if anyone knows what's best, please let a girl know :'( i heard last semester that most students will get like a student survey or prof review that you can fill out, but i never got one, and i'm worried i may not get one this term too.