Goblin from Arthur Rackham illustrations for Rosetti's Goblin Market

Teaching Portfolio

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Fall 2005:: ENC 5236, Section 2135 :: All student comments

Questions

1. What personal qualities or teaching skills of the instructor contributed to the success of the course?
2. Did any qualities or teaching practices of the instructor hinder the success of the course?
3. What is your opinion of the course, including printed materials?
4. Add any other comments.

Student 1

1. She is very open minded + willing to help students. She made me feel comfortable with my writing even though I felt I was a poor writer.

Student 2

1. Personable personality foster two way communication. Empathy and openned to new idea helped diverse and critical thinking
2. Lack of enunciation. Speaks too fats. Sometimes she doesn't speak up.
3. Learned different aspects of writing such as internet based writing, game based writing, and so on.
4. I especially enjoyed the website building class. Wonderful to meet a teacher with very unique qualities.

Student 3

1. Very creative, friendly, encouraging.
2. Was a bit too democratic, could stand to make the decision for class instead of having us vote on it.
3. If going to use the book, need to have assignment based on it
4. Enjoyable class. Liked the website project.

Student 4

1. Her enthusiasm for the subject.
2. No.
3. Excellent.

Student 5

1. Laurie was a great teacher. She structured the lectures around what we wanted to learn. She was flexible w/ the schedule + showed concern for the students. She is unlike any other teacher:)

Student 6

1. Very enthusiastic about subject
2. none
3. very helpful for professional writing
4. Overall, very enjoyable

Student 7

4. I really enjoyed the class & you did a wonderful job teaching

Student 8

1. Very enthusiastic
2. Thoughtful and caring
3. Tremendous concern for students
5. Excellent, relevant course
6. It was great having Laurie as an instructor. Her overall respect and concern for students is something other professors should strive for.

Student 9

1. Vibrant + expressive personallity that made the class quite entertaining + enjoyable
2. None

Student 10

[no responses]

Student 11

1. The "yay happy hands maneuver" really got me goin'.
2. At times... See above.
3. New book needed.

Student 12

1. All of them
2. None
3. Amazing course & an even more amazing instructor

Student 13

1. Very enthusiastic; extremely nice; very organized
2. Nope
3. Book was not good
4. She is very nice and approachable:) A++ teacher. Also she really helped me w/ out of class work!

Student 14

1. She was very enthusiastic and excited
2. No
3. I really enjoyed the class discussions as well as the assignments - they were beneficial

Student 15

[no responses]

Student 16

1. You are the bestest english teacher ever. May all accounting professors of the future say "Yay" at least once per class!
4. Go Gators.

Student 17

1. love the "Yay"s:)
   you let the students make a lot of choices as to what we did in the class for assignments, etc.
   super flecibe & fun
4. Good luck, Laurie! Thanks!

Student 18

1. Very knowledgeable and enthusiastic about the course
2. No
3. I believe the instructor made this course, without her this course is nothing special.
4. Her yaaaa's and video game knowledge made this course.

Student 19

1. She has great enthusiasm, easy to work with
3. The book was not much help
4. The teacher tried very hard to make course a success.

Student 20

1. Enthusiasm!! and Flexibility
2. No
3. Book was iseless but everything else is good.

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