A certain incident....
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tcpipReaders of my last protected entry will realize that I have been having a bit of trouble with my CCNA instructors (not tutors, I have been duly informed) and access to module assesments.
On Wednesday one of the instructors, Graham Timmins, telephones and informs me - in the most abusive and threatening manner possible - that I had been expelled from the course and if I attempted to attend on Saturday that he would remove me. He also claimed that he "knew my type" and that I had done nothing in the past fifteen years except be a professional student (clearly he doesn't know how to do a websearch).
Now of course you can't prove anything by 'phone. So I requested that he send me an email of all this - at which point he hung up. Soon afterwards I received send email, minus the personal abuse and of course the threat to throw me out substantially modified ("you will be refused entry").
He also said for further discussion I should either 'phone him or see him personally. Neither is an option to me. I don't want to engage in a conversation with a man with that sort of 'phone manner, and the idea of seeing an erratic individual who wants me to go to a building which he has just threatened to throw me out of is unlikely.
I have submitted a formal complaint to RMIT on account of his actions.
On Wednesday one of the instructors, Graham Timmins, telephones and informs me - in the most abusive and threatening manner possible - that I had been expelled from the course and if I attempted to attend on Saturday that he would remove me. He also claimed that he "knew my type" and that I had done nothing in the past fifteen years except be a professional student (clearly he doesn't know how to do a websearch).
Now of course you can't prove anything by 'phone. So I requested that he send me an email of all this - at which point he hung up. Soon afterwards I received send email, minus the personal abuse and of course the threat to throw me out substantially modified ("you will be refused entry").
He also said for further discussion I should either 'phone him or see him personally. Neither is an option to me. I don't want to engage in a conversation with a man with that sort of 'phone manner, and the idea of seeing an erratic individual who wants me to go to a building which he has just threatened to throw me out of is unlikely.
I have submitted a formal complaint to RMIT on account of his actions.
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Ego and teaching
Date: 2004-08-01 05:54 am (UTC)He clearly fails both as a teacher and for abusive insecurity. I think they call this congruent behaviour.
All the necessary good advice has been given. I will just add my moral support.
Re: Ego and teaching
Date: 2004-08-01 04:43 pm (UTC)Thanks you that. You are quite right of course - teaching and egocentric behaviour are indeed quite antithetical, because the prime orientation of teaching is to impart knowledge and understanding to an alter.
Being an instructor however evidently is a very different kettle of fish.
Re: Ego and teaching
Date: 2004-08-01 05:59 pm (UTC)Which idiot decided that was the appropriate title?
Re: Ego and teaching
Date: 2004-08-01 08:00 pm (UTC)I have already mentioned his name in this thread as the protagonist...
Thought you'd like that one ;-)
Re: Ego and teaching
Date: 2004-08-01 08:21 pm (UTC)