Goblin from Arthur Rackham illustrations for Rosetti's Goblin Market

Teaching Portfolio

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Fall 2005:: ENC 1102, Section 5875 :: 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. Very friendly, helpful, and smart. Made learning fun.
2. no
3. Very good.

Student 2

1. Very personable, with her own ideas on how this class should be run.
2. No
3. Very good, allows for a steady writing pace.
4. I really like the way the class was structured, it was made to allow students to stay up to date with the class without overwhelming amounts of work.

Student 3

1. She is very kind and respects everyone in the classroom. She is always able to sit and amend papers and grades with students.
2. It's not her fault that the subject matter is awefully boring. Tough to teach an English course to hungover freshmen at 8:30 in the morning.
3. Wasn't too bad. Writing was simple and well articulated to us.
4. Awesome teacher. Terrible material. Laurie Taylor needs to have a class that teachs on interpretation, much like her new class next semester sounds.

Student 4

2. No; not at all
3. This course is enjoyable; the teacher makes it seems like its fun to learn.

Student 5

1. She was always trying to make things that were boring in a sense seem interesting
2. No not really
3. I really like the course. I would difinatly get others to take it.

Student 6

1. Always available to contact through e-mail, and would respond quickly. Laurie is very friendly and relates to her students.
2. No.
3. Very helpful, but I think more papers should be written instead of focusing so much on the big research paper at the end. We should cover more topics.
4. Overall, I enjoyed the class and Laurie is a great instructor.

Student 7

1. Enthusiasm, concern for students and ability to assist them at all times
2. No
3. It is well structured overall.

Student 8

1. Really enthusiastic and ynderstanding of students workload. A really nice person!
3. It was a good writing class. The books are pointless.

Student 9

1. She is fun to be around in the morning by being very awake and always trying to get the students involved. She also gives great suggestions that really make a difference.
2. No, she always encouraged the students in our class to work hard and to do the best they could.
3. Good course. The penguin handbook was helpful

Student 10

1. Extreme enthusiasm. It was always good to be met with happiness when I had to come to such an early class. She tried using examples that appealed to everyone, which was thoughtful as well.
3. The course was great; good workload, good teaching, good sized class.
4. Letting everyone use computers in class was nice, but at the same time, distracted from the subject at hand a little. Other than that, good luck to Laurie teaching her new class next semester!

Student 11

1. Laurie is very concerned and has a genuine personality that makes you want to do good in her classl even if your lazy.
2. No, shes great.
3. This course, thanks to Laurie, didn't turn out so bad. I had numerous people tell me not to take this class but now Im glad I did. We didn't have much printed material
4. I never had a instructor with Laurie's teaching style at first I was kinda surpirsed that she was the way she was but now I appreciate it and I like her not only as a teacher but also as a person. She singlehandedly made this class a much better experience than any of my other writing classes

Student 12

1. She was always very helpful and/or willing to help us with writing - even for other courses. She was encouraging in our work rather than just criticizing. The information presented was also clear and understandable.
2. I think the only bad thing about this class was that it was so early and she was often unable to get student involvement.
3. I thought this class was very helpful and will be beneficial in many other classes. The Penguin Handbook will be one book I don't sell back.
4. Pretty good class overall!

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