Neilson

Be careful! You DO NOT want this teacher. There are several reasons. I will try my best to list them all. 1. Forgetfulness: She is extremely forgetful and disorganized. She loses assignments easily but then gives the student a zero for not turning in the assignment. This lowers the grade and makes students very frustrated. 2. Tests: She says that a GOOD class average on a test for her Living Earth Class is 72%. She said that is an exceptionally well class average. The reason for that is this: her tests are extremely vague and uselessly hard. Most teachers quiz students on the general gist of the unit and the cores of the lessons taught. But what she does is that she mentions a tiny part of the unit once, and never talks about it again. An extremely minor detail that most teachers will not have you know. But then she goes ahead and fills the test with these really small details, instead of what the students SHOULD know about the unit. 3. Lectures: She often goes into lectures in class (which is not a bad thing at all). But the problem is that she rambles on and on about something which we do not need to know about, and skips over the core content (which is then put on the test). She is extremely vague about anything she is trying to teach. Her lectures are dull, boring, and uninformative. it is easier to just study from a tutor or another class because she does not teach the content that you should know. When lecturing, she goes into topics that some other class is learning, yet not focusing on our class. Those are just a few of the many reasons why she has spoiled my high school experience so far. I really do not wish for any student to go through her class.