extremely pompus does not explain well and makes people feel ashamed for asking questions. should not be teaching

Lets just say not a very good teacher!!! Didn't know what he was talking about half the time!

I don't think he even understood the concepts he was teaching. Tiptoes around questions and leaves you still try to answer for yourself. take home tests are horrible!!! So are in class tests. If you take him, find a study group or use the MLC a lot!

This guy is a horrible teacher. He would be good if you already knew the material, but since odds are youdont know it before you take the class, he sucks.

He makes you feel like an idiot if you don't know the material and even if you do know it he still makes you feel like an idiot. Do not take him he is unclear and does not explain what he is teaching. He's a dick and a horrible teacher.

He is not approachable, and makes you feel like a idiot when you ask any questions. He is not very professional.

He was very unpersonable. He taught my math 99 class at a clculus level, not breaking it down expecting us to remeber and know everything we went through in the first half of the text book. He also made me feel inferior when asking simple questions. Lastley his class lacked much needed structure.

He was a big bag of crap for a teacher! I would use extreme cautiong in taking his classes. He doesnt like to answer you questions, and also plays stupid games by asking the class retarded questions, he was the reason i skipped!

He sucks. I've been in his class for 1 week and I already want to drop. I hope he sees this and does the proper thing by retiring and never teaching math, or anything, ever again. I agree with the person below me. He is a big bag of smoldering crap. don't ever take this guy for math.GROUP TESTS?!?!?

Did a horrible job. Never any real reviews for tests, including the final. Class goes quickly and he hardly gives you any time to grasp a concept. When I didn't understand the way he was teaching a concept and asked to explain it differently he told me I did know how to the concept and that was the help I got.

Had his class in 01/02 school year and hated him. Probably the worst teacher I've ever encountered. He was extremely negative and liked to belittle the class. Do not enroll with this teacher whatever you do.

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This guy I thought was going to be better than all these comments, you know, give him the benifit of the doubt....yeah,****TY IDEA! This guy treats all his students like stupid idiots and he doesnt care about anyone. He answers all your questions WITH questions! He is the worst teacher I have EVER had and that means something because I have had some pretty****ty teachers! If you HAVE to take a class with him, take the elementary education class....211 or something. I heard he was good in that one!

this teacher is not awesome at all

hallam was not helpful at all, I would go to his office and ask for help, and he was no help at all. I would not suggest taking this class unless you want like a teacher that doesn's explain a damn thing.

Never take a class from him. His take home tests were 12 pages and most of the problems took the whole class hours to just finish one.

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I came into this class with very high hopes, i love math and hadn't taken algebra in 2 years, and was excited to learn the material. Jim doesn't teach you anything, he gives you a ton of homework each day and then goes over 5 or 6 problems the next day. he grades test as if you are a major in algebra. DON"T TAKE HIS CLASS... PERIOD!!!

this guy doesn't teach you anything. i had taken the same math in high school, and got an A- out of the class. given i hadn't seen the material in a while, but still. he doesn't go over anything. there was one test i studied for all weekend, and when it came to the test nothing i had studied was on it. DON'T TAKE A CLASS FROM HIM.

Hallam does teach you. He expects you to go home and learn everything yourself. His tests usually cover everything from the chapter and he tries to get really creative with his questions. I spend the most time on this class and got the worst grade i've ever gotten.

Very hard teacher! assigns hw before he teaches the section, then uses the questions from the homework to "teach" it. there is no lecturing. when 3 out of a class of 30 pass, its a bad sign. tests are extreamly hard and alot of people dont finish them on time. DONT TAKE HIM!!!!

extreemly poor teaching skills, he does not lecture, he goes off in left field..and then you end up going to the math learning center to learn what he does not lecture or teach... total waste of time being in his class....

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Does not help at all, horrible math teacher.

Horrible in his approach to teaching. Avoid his class like the plague that it is. Try Barbara Harris for math. I barely passed his class, but in finite math, a much harder course, i've got 3.5 GPA. Register early and avoid his class.

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run...run far, far away. in the opposite direction, if you value your GPA

Maybe he could try teaching the course in a more constructive manner. Going blindly from assignment to assignment with no comprehensible explanation of how to solve problems really makes algebra more challenging. Also, there could be some control issues going on there.

You might as well buy the book and teach yourself cause then you dont have a failure on your GPA. if you think you can take it your wrong, he tests on stuff thats never covered anywhere in anything from that class. just say no and go to someone else.

he failed me with a 1.8 even though i had great tests but poor attendance and i have to take it again

The story of Jim Hallam goes on. Its a wonder that the staff at SFCC does not pull their heads out of their tails and dump this bad instructor. How many students have to get ran away from math related feilds because of a bad instructor like him... So much for the WASL. If you got instructors like him out thier to mess it up and scare student away.

WOW... don't even know how to describe how awful that man is! He humiliates people, makes them feel dumb/less than he is, and blamed my 1.8 on not being in class when I only missed 4 classes all quarter!!!!!

Hallam was the rudest proffesor i have ever encountered. he made fun of us if we asked questions, and never answered any of them. tested on subjects never covered and gave homework on subjects he made clear were not important. i would strongly advise people not to get in any of his classes.1/3 of the final was on subjects we never covered in class.

Senility is a strong term, but it's what comes immediately to mind. By week 2, half the class had "mysteriously disappeared". I never found him to be rude, but his method of explanation is nigh incomprehensible. He grades on things that aren't in the textbook. Get out of this class while you can.

Worst teacher I have had in my life. STAY AWAY.

This professor is absolutely horrible. you cannot go through the class without being frustrated. he assigns homework that would normally take 20 min but after doing all his "work" and methods of explaining how you came up with the answer you have used 20 pages of paper and a ton of graph paper. absolutely ridiculous he should be fired. FAIL!

ABSOLUTE WORST TEACHER I HAVE EVER HAD IN MY 15 YEARS OF SCHOOL!!!! He doesn't teach anything! When you ask questions he tells you it is in the book but wont answer them! I asked if it would be possible to get a certain grade in the class and he told me that is a math problem and I can figure it out! how can he teach us how to teach if he can't?

I am very good at math, I have gotten almost all of the questions correct on tests, turn in my homework, and attend class. He is a horrible teacher, if you can't teach yourself from the book, don't even bother taking his class. I understand the material even, and I still get a lousy grade, since my work is apparently not acceptable.

Jim seems like a nice guy. However, do not take a class from him unless you can teach yourself.

This man is the worst teacher you will ever make the mistake of taking. You are always wrong in his class, I am serious, if you think you know how to multiply two and three, you will find that you are wrong in this class. I am not a hateful person, but I hate to have to say this about a person. PLEASE STOP SUBJECTING PEOPLE TO YOUR TEACHING.

Terrible teacher. He does not explain anything, his tests are terrible. You have to have everything perfect or he takes points away left and right. I suggest not taking him.

Horrible teacher. I started the class off with an F. Almost half of the class got an F on the first test. Don't take Hallam unless you enjoy wasting your money.

Just dropped this class today he is by far the worst teacher I have ever had. I was having to do 4 hours of homework a night and he didn't explain anything. When he grades your work he just gives you a score, doesn't show you what you were wrong on. I need feed back.

I'm an A student who had to work my butt off to get a D in his class. He doesnt explain ANYTHING. avoid him at all costs.

I was happy to get a 2.9. He works in the MLC, and expects you to live with the text book, yet he is very difficult to work with and get real help from. Demeaning and condescending when answering questions. Run away- far far away- if you value your GPA.

This is the WORST teacher ever. Seriously. Do not take this teacher. Answers questions with harder questions that leaves you more confused. AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

Worst teacher i have ever had. His teaching style is how to do it wrong, and does not teach the right way. avoid class at ALL COST. Beyond frusterating class, day in and day out. GET OUT!

Avoid this teacher if you can. All he likes to do is argue, and says he is always right, i you have a different way to do the problem with the same answer, you are wrong. if you do not do things his way, you get deducted points off a test, just because he doesnt like your style. pretty much, you teach yourself.

WORST TEACHER EVER! He does not explain things and he doesnt teach you how to do anything until after you do the hw. He spends the whole class period going over previous hw then assigns you new hw and expects you to know it. Plus if you dont so something his was your wrong...even if your right.

Worst teacher ever. He is super hard to understand. And he wants you to do the work his way which is not easy. Don't take any of his classes.

Don't take ANYTHING from Hallam. The WORST teacher I have EVER had. Biggest mistake i ever made was taking a class from him.

Mr.Hallam is not a very good teacher. He won't help a student. Attendance only guarantees that you will be subjected to his backhanded insults as well as his "cute" stories. none of which will help with the math. avoid if at all possible.

He could use some helpful hints from his peers his teaching style is obsolete hey new math new students catch up

Refuses to teach just tells you you paod for a book use it. Wll ve a test designed for two hours and tell you you have an hour to finish. No one in the class passed the test.

This teacher is bad

We started class with 31, by the end only 4 of us were allowed to go on to the next course. I received the highest grade in his class at a 2.8- I'm an honor student with an almost 4.0GPA, talk about disappointed. He refuses to acknowledge multiple forms of problem solving (canceling/multiply by reciprocal) and will not give credit. DONT TAKE!!!!!!

This teacher is awful. I took this class awhile ago, but the main thing I remember is that he treated us all like we were stupid. He talked slowly, and if we asked a question that he deemed unworthy of his time, he would treat us like the biggest idiots he had ever seen. So disrespectful and made me hate math even more.