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Professor Christy Cooksey
Georgia Perimeter College | Overall | F | 5 ratings, [AVG: 6 min, 47 sec] | | Workload: Way too much | Responsible Grading: | F |
| | Enjoys Teaching | F | Arrogance: | Extreme | | Speaks & Writes Clearly | B | Respect for Students: | Contempt | | Sensible Lectures | D | Appreciates Creativity: | Hates it | | Organized course | C | Student Feedback is: | Ignored | | Instructor Effort | F | |
Coursework:
Entirely Useless | |
Grading System:
Arbitrary | |
Course Requirements:
Unclear or random | |
Assignment Instructions
Unclear or Misleading | | | |
Exam Design:
A little Hazy | |
Exam Coverage:
Unknown or Unclear | |
Grades Reflect:
Nothing; no meaning at all | |
Final Grade Verification:
Grade is grade - no change |
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| | Gets class involved | C- | | Competent with material | D | | Friendly/Sociable | F | | Adds to content | F | |
This instructor is:
Strongly Disliked | | | | | | |
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Courses:
12-1
1201
COMM 1201
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Comments
| Overall: F | | If
you want to be treated like a child and insulted
by a teacher who demands “respect” then go for it,
but if this is how the other teachers are, then
change schools. She is a know-it-all who has no
respect for her students. | | | Student Competency: Unusually High
Student's Grade: A
Liked Instructor?: Strongly Disliked |
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| If
you want to be treated like a child in front
of the entire class, then this is the class for
you. After my first speech she posted an “alarm”
or something like that to the entire class about what
not to do, and it was clearly about me.
Now, I don't imagine that other people made the same
mistake I made, so why couldn't she just privately send
me an email instead of blasting me to the entire
class. She's got this extra credit part but she
has been so mean to everyone that no one will
post in it because they are intimidated. One guy
in our class posted a public message back to her
because he was so offended by her comments, so I
know it's not just me. She is bringing down
my GPA and I am a good student who tries
hard. If she is any reflection of how this
school is or how the other teachers are then I
am switching to another university. | | |
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is the worst instructor I have ever had from any
institution. She is failing me and all my friends
for speech class, and guess what, we are all straight
A students and we are all lodging complaints because she
grades so unfairly. She cuts off points for using
“big words” in our speeches like “suddenly” and other ridiculous
words. My family is all education and we all
speak with a good vocabulary and she continually cuts points
off when she NEVER told us whom our audience was
in giving the speeches. I am an online student
so I just video my speeches and send them to
her. She cut me off for having expressive eyebrows...like
I can control that. Anyways, I don't want this
to sound like a rant because I am unhappy with
my grade, she has publicly humiliated our class several times
and posted publicly what should have been handled in private.
Her feedback is inconstant, and even adopting her tips
only got me criticized for other things the next speech.
My best friend is in another class that she
teaches and he is also failing her class, and he
is a public speaker as part of his job.
He's polished and professional and she's giving him D's on
all his speeches. I have another friend taking her
class and she is a terrible speaker, saying “um” all
the time and staring at the ceiling and she's getting
A's and B's and even she feels the grading is
unfair and that she's getting a sympathy grade because she
talks about her dead child and dead friends. She
feels that Ms. Cooksey is a chauvinist and a man-hater.
All three of us are complaining to the school
but they don't care so at least I can let
others know what is in store for them if they
take this woman's class....just for giggles here is Ms. Cooksey's
reply to my “extra credit” posting in the “student initiated
discussion” blog area (which would imply that I could talk
about whatever I wanted - wouldn't it)..."if you truly believe
that you can learn how to be a better speaker
using someone's random blog - and not using the course
material - then you do not need to be taking
this class. Let go of the notion that you can
be a better speaker through tricks and tips. It is
work. And when you choose tricks, it shows in the
worst way. This is why you read, you critique, you
watch yourself and you receive feedback from me. This is
a highly complex skill that no random blogger's list is
going to properly address. There are no shortcuts. There are
no formulas. You must study and work. If you are
not willing to do so, then you should drop this
course.” Did you see that she told me TWICE
to drop her course? It was a student initiated
discussion area, and she attacked my post...something I felt she
should have done in a private email to me, rather
then to the entire class. There are so many
horrible things she said to people in our room that
I could fill up a whole blog by posting them.
I may just make a website dedicated to her
so other students can post their experiences. | | |
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| Wow,
I read that other post and I have to say
it sounds JUST like the Cooksey I am dealing with.
I wonder if we are in the same class.
She is hateful, there is no other way to
describe her. I can't imagine she has a good
homelife because she is completely evil to everyone in our
class. I wish I had dropped her class after
my first ridiculously critical speech feedback form. I have
always done fine in public speaking and suddenly I am
degraded into feeling like a child again. She had
a few people in my class in tears (so I
heard) and she won't allow make-up speeches, which would be
useless anyways since she hasn't given me a passing grade
on any of my speeches no matter how much work
I put into them. For a freshmen level class,
this instructor is WAY too critical and her grading doesn't
make any sense to me at all. We get
to do an extra credit speech worth 10 measly points,
and I really want to do it on “Why Ms. Cooksey should give up teaching”. | | |
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| I
gave this instructor a “way too much” on workload given,
but its NOT that there is too much work, its
that her speeches take so so so so so so
so much work, and then she gives you a bad
grade anyways. I put 3 straight days into one
speech and got a D+. It was an informational
speech so I had notecards to glance at my facts,
and she cut me OFF points for having notecards, but
then she tells the class NOT TO MEMORIZE the speeches.
She is so contradictory and no one in my
class seems to be able to figure out what she
expects. She is so rude to the students that
I can't believe it. At first I thought the
class was a bunch of dummies but after I got
to know them I realized it's just her being a
witch to everyone. What is funny is that her
syllabus is FULL of rules about being “professional” at all
times and in all communication, and then she is rude
and condescending to the class herself. I am not
exaggerating when I say I nearly dropped out of college
because of her class. She made me feel worthless
and stupid even though I got all A's and B's
in high school and all A's in my other college
classes. I am reading these other posts and thinking
maybe its HER and not me. | | |
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