Help! - Kate Sommer

I thought that over all your teaching style was interesting and effective. I liked the practice you gave us with the timed writings and practice multiple choice (even though it sucked when you made us do them on a Friday). While there isn't much you can do to teach us how to do the multiple choice of the AP test I feel like just practicing it every month or so was very helpful. The timed writings were helpful in of practicing skills but sometimes the way you explained things was confusing. The concepts were hard to understand and when you were telling us to do something it took us awhile to catch on a lot of the time. If maybe there is a more understandable way of explaining things it might help. For example when we were learning the chronological approach to analysis essays it took a lot of us awhile to comprehend what you were telling us to do. I also feel like when we graded essays in the smaller groups it 1) took a lot less time, and 2) we got a lot more direct and helpful feedback and it didn't feel as harsh as when we read them in the big group. Also I thinks people sometimes forget that the person is in the room because sometimes people would get very harsh with their comments. But overall it was a very good year!