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The 25 Best Professors In America
By Abby Rogers and Andrew Shen
Source: www.businessinsider.com
The best professors in America are not necessarily the most famous and they don't all teach at Ivy League schools.
RateMyProfessor.com publishes an annual list of the highest rated professor based on student ratings and reviews.
The best teachers include David Mease, a business professor at San Jose State; Dr. Kimora, a criminal justice professor at CUNY; and Kateryna Schray, a professor of English at Marshall University
#25 Tom Gufrey - Chemistry. Cal State Long Beach
#24 Joseph Biel - Art. Cal State Fullerton
#23 Michallene McDaniel - Social Science. Gainesville State College
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Comment by Laura Witherington on February 1, 2012 at 6:48pm
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I agree, Sheila. Still, I'm glad they posted it. It is interesting. I'd like to watch a video of each one in action.
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Comment by Sheila A. Alexander on February 1, 2012 at 6:48pm -
Please bear in mind that there are significant flaws with using this, and only this, website as a data source for identifying the 'best' professors. Students choose to go and rate a professor. A student who is angry (perhaps unjustly) or very happy with their professor is more likely to go there and rate an instructor. The ratings are anonymous and respondents are not required to provide any justification for their ratings. I went to look up some of what I consider to be excellent professors (based on seeing their lectures and historical reputation) and was surprised to see some of them get bashed. I am sure there are some weaker instructors who get excellent marks on this site as well. It is very unfortunate that this was the only source to identify excellent professors and that it got any press at all.
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Yeah, we don't lobby anything. The lacuna was obvious and sad to me, though.
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Comment by FELAND L. MEADOWS, PH.D. on February 1, 2012 at 4:55pm -
Dear Laura Witherington et al:
A lot of us who teach in Colleges of Education are also good teachers. However, we are unlikely to invest a lot of our time lobbying our students to contact RateMyProfessor.com with complimentary reports about our teaching so that we can receive a high rating.
On their own, students at Kennesaw State University expressed their thoughts about my teaching. You can see the article they wrote entitled "A Tribute to Dr. Meadows" on our department's online journal "Taking Teaching and Learning Seriously" at:
https://education.kennesaw.edu/elementaryed/content/taking-teaching...
My guess is that your students would say very similar things about you!
Feland L. Meadows, Ph.D.
Goizueta Endowed Chair of Early Childhood Education
Montessori Specialist, Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw, GA.
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Not a single instructor from a school or college of education? If education can't teach, something is wrong, wrong, wrong.
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