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I had this psych instructor who taught us a communication course. At first she was super nice and I totally loved her! That didn't last very long, the lady is INSANE!

I'm studying in an Arab country and while the material and exams are in English, most of the time the students and instructors speak in Arabic. I understand 98% of the time, my only problem is when I speak Arabic, I have a hard time expressing what I want to say. (They don't understand my English because I speak so fast and have an american accent).

So anyway, this instructor makes us sit in a circle and basically talk about our "feelings" for almost 3 hours. I believe I was in my 2nd semester and I was totally shy and my arabic wasn't that good so I stayed quiet. In the beginning I got away with it, but then she noticed me and tried to get me to talk. I wouldn't say more than 2 sentences, so after that I became like a target to her. I dreaded my communication course! She would put me on the spot constantly and I would have to answer with my broken Arabic (My Arabic has improved so much since then, thank god lol) It was humiliating.

At the end of the course we have to do a presentation, I was with 2 other people and she gave us a date for our presentation at the beginning of the semester so we would be prepared. Our date was on a Thursday.

On Wednesday, 8 days before our presentation she announces that my group will be doing our presentation tomorrow! We weren't even close to being ready. So I automatically yell out "You told us we have till next Thursday!" She says "I change my mind." I'm furious. I scream "It's not fair!"

"It's not fair??! How dare you!" (apparently she didn't like that sentence)

We are yelling back and forth, mind you, we are still in the middle of class. The students were behind her making 'Ruba DONT' faces because there is no winning with her.

In the end, she put a hand in front of my face (SO RUDE) and basically told me to shut up before she fails me.

I totally cried! hahaha Not because I was scared from failing , but I WANTED TO HAVE THE LAST WORD!

She gave me a 0/20 in my evaluation *insert cuss word of choice here*

BUT I got a B in the class because I did well in the exams. YAY I DIDN'T FAIL!

In your face psycho psych instructor!

That is my horrible experience with a crazy instructor. :D Whats yours?

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Hmm... This whole post seems like a bad idea. It's not very professional. This is an "anonymous" forum, but I wouldn't recommend putting something on here that you wouldn't say to someone's face. Not to mention, your picture is on your profile.

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Hmm... This whole post seems like a bad idea. It's not very professional. This is an "anonymous" forum, but I wouldn't recommend putting something on here that you wouldn't say to someone's face. Not to mention, your picture is on your profile.

​I actually did say this to her face. She is currently suspended from teaching at my university because of all the complaints and she also got in a huge argument with 2 other students. I would say she is the unprofessional.

I'm just writing about my terrible experience. No names were used.

Thanks for the feedback.

(Removed my pic)

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I loved my Psych teachers! One of them is my mentor as I'm entering the last couple of days of school. I didn't do very well in Psych, but their material was some of the most consistent, and I definitely learned more than I thought (as evidenced by getting 90's-100's in Psych NCLEX questions :D )

I didn't have any overly bad experiences through out school. There were times I disagreed with questions, but I approached them (teachers) professionally, and with respect. Sometimes I'd win, sometimes I wouldn't, but in the end, I truly win, because I'm far more proficient with the material by questioning things I do not agree with.

I don't think there has ever been any circumstances like you had in my school. We're an accelerated course, and we don't have time for improvising schedules, haha.

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I loved my Psych teachers! One of them is my mentor as I'm entering the last couple of days of school. I didn't do very well in Psych, but their material was some of the most consistent, and I definitely learned more than I thought (as evidenced by getting 90's-100's in Psych NCLEX questions :D )

I didn't have any overly bad experiences through out school. There were times I disagreed with questions, but I approached them (teachers) professionally, and with respect. Sometimes I'd win, sometimes I wouldn't, but in the end, I truly win, because I'm far more proficient with the material by questioning things I do not agree with.

I don't think there has ever been any circumstances like you had in my school. We're an accelerated course, and we don't have time for improvising schedules, haha.

I love psych courses as well as my other psych teachers. I have never had any problems with any other instructor. Far from it. I have a really good relationship with all of them but this one psych teacher really got under my skin. lol I'm glad shes gone.

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Are you Arab? Is your family from the country you're studying from or anything? Personally, I think you are lacking understanding of the cultural climate in that area. It doesn't matter how bad the teacher was, what you did....going up and getting into a screaming match with your instructor is pretty unforgivable over there. My family is from there and even if my teacher was in the wrong, they would have been furious with me and extremely ashamed with me for crossing that line. Teachers and instructors are, in many ways, seen as worthy of an extreme amount of respect regardless of whether you think they're not worthy of it or of their own personality issues. Personally, I probably couldn't put up with the kind of things that are normal over there (eccentric and incompetent teachers, "fluid" earlier deadlines, favoritism..etc) but that is one of many reasons why I'm going to school in the US instead of abroad. And if you do plan to actually work as a nurse over there, you should be aware that you may well be treated with even less respect than this teacher afforded you and have to deal with much more 'unfair treatment'.

Really, you were both unprofessional. If you had dealt with this more professionally and more maturely, and taken the teacher aside to explain politely that based on what she'd previously said was the due-date, you were not adequately prepared to present today and did not have your materials with you but perhaps if she wanted you to present sooner, you could do so during the next class, maybe you would have been able to come to some sort of compromise. Instead, you broke a big cultural taboo (screaming at an instructor), earned her hate, probably earned yourself a bad reputation amongst quite a bit of the staff (and maybe even the other students who apparently knew better than to react that way since you said they seemed like they thought you should stop), and got yourself a 0 on your evaluation. Not worth it, IMO.

Also, as a nurse, you might want to rethink the way you're using the word 'psycho', especially given the context of this taking place in a psych class. Just my opinion though. I don't mean to come down extra hard on you but I am wondering if you understand what you signed up for when you started school overseas. When in Rome and all that...

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