<p>There’s multiple aspects of this - one is teaching skills, or lack thereof, the other is bad books, yet another is lousy TA’s, yet another is nonsense homework for nonsense grade, and so on. </p>
<p>The best Calc II (for the Basket Weaving Sciences but still) I saw was DD1’s Community College guy (she took it in the summer while at home). The guy was there because he wanted to teach, he taught well, homework was at Kumon level of effort and amount, and counted for 30% of the grade. Easily 3x to 4x the amount of homework I was used to. Another 10% for an interesting project plus class participation, and 3 tests of 20% each. The online homework system was key to all this, lots of problems, many different for everyone, so unless your kid sister is a math major… Plus a good down to earth book. Tests were half traditional problems and half word problems to show you can apply what you learned. </p>
<p>Maybe this won’t work in Engineering, I don’t know. But the traditional 1000 students, foreign prof, foreign TA’s, lousy textbook, and 10% homeworks is not working very well either. </p>