Intensive German Course, Stuttgart: Part 4

My Intensive German Course, Stuttgart continues to be interesting and our class is clearly irritating our teacher.  Today, she had an outright temper tantrum when someone asked her to explain the difference between "kennen" and "weissen" (both mean to know, but you have to know (pun intended) when to use each one), crumpled up the work sheet, threw it in the garbage and told us we had the option of not doing this verb, even though it is very important and  "very easy, but if we didn't think we were smart enough to do it then we didn't have to do it and would end up speaking poor German."   Note, she said all this in German so this is the gist of what she said, not word for word.  Now thoroughly embarrassed that we weren't getting something so "easy", we all meekly agreed to continue, and then each of us proceeded to get every question wrong.  Despite how apparent it was most of the class was struggling with this she simply moved on to a new exercise - no explanation provided and no one brave enough to admit they still didn't understand after her previous tongue lashing in our Intensive German Course.  

 One student in my Intensive German Course is going to call the school and complain.  This is not the first time he has complained but the last time he did this we were read the riot act for getting her in trouble with the school's administration and punished with two hours of homework with the thinly veiled excuse that we needed more homework since we were not "getting it".  I'm predicting a repeat episode tomorrow in our Intensive German Course.  

I haven't been in Germany for that long and am really trying to adjust to the German style of teaching in my Intensive German Course, but I must admit after working in adult education in Canada where we focused on creating a learning environment where everyone felt safe and there was no such thing as a stupid question, I'm struggling with her teaching style.  At worst it could be described as "temperamental, impatient and unresponsive." In fairness to her, she does make the class interactive and provides a variety of exercise which is a good thing.  We have some very well educated people in our class - a doctor, an engineer, a guy who is trilingual already....." and I have a hard time believing that we're all as "slow" as she keeps insisting we are.  Looking on the bright side, I can't say that I ever have to worry about falling asleep in my Intensive German Course :).
 See also:
Intensive German Course, Stuttgart:  Part 5
Intensive German Course, Stuttgart:  Part 3
Intensive German Course, Stuttgart:  Part 2
Intensive German Course, Stuttgart:  Part 1
German Vocab That Makes My Life Easier