Students as guinea pigs for German teachers

I feel as if I and my fellow German language students are guinea pigs for the teachers. Today we met the person who will teach us for the next two weeks. She spent most of the time reading to us in German from an article on intercultural understanding. What this topic has to do with the "German as a Foreign Language" exam preparation is beyond me. She also took notes of what we said the entire time. It is as if she will write some sort of empirical article on the opinions of her students. Bizarre.

One of our regular teachers is an ex-, or retired-, or never tenured philosophy professor. He's interesting, but as you can imagine very windy. He talks a lot about the theoretical or etymological foundations of words and phrases. This can be helpful and interesting, but also has very little to do with the exam preparation. This class' instructors I have to say have been a rather sorry lot so far.