At the awards ceremony that our school held in late April, I stood at the podium and introduced myself before I announced recipients of awards for "Outstanding Editor" in Journalism and "Outstanding Student in Journalism." As I was introducing myself and explaining the class and awards, I mentioned how I had never taught a Journalism class before this year and had never taken a Journalism class in high school or college. I paused and turned to look at my principal, forgot to mention that I had majored in Rhetoric, and proceeded to present the awards. At the end of the night, my principal thanked me for that.
However, I did mention how this year was the first that The Pigeonhole student newspaper became available online and the paper copy layout was updated for the first time in at least ten or more years. I imagine a fair estimate of student writing in Journalism this year would be between one hundred and two hundred original pages per student--the number grows exponentially when considering editing, revising, and redrafting articles, stories, essays, stream of consciousness prompts, journals, etc.At the beginning of the year, a Journalism student attempted to popularize "The Resurrection" as my nickname because I apparently resembled the Resurrected Christ to this young man. About midway through the year and until the end, the B5 Journalism was consistently referring to me as the Devil and my classroom as Hell. I laughingly related a version of "The Devil and Tom Walker" in which I sat at my desk and whittled down pencils with student names embossed upon them in an electric pencil sharpener.
Journalism I/II:
-Student expecting A with "Much" interest in subject
Overall Comments: W--- thinks Mr. S was a good instructor and very knowledgeable. Though the classes were fun, I think Mr. S would make a better archaeologist kind of like Indiana Jones, only Mr. S's biggest fear would be mice/rats instead of snakes.
-Student expecting A with "Much" interest in subject
Course Strengths: FUN! EXCITING!
Course Weaknesses: NONE!
Instructor Strengths: AWESOME!
Instructor Weaknesses: Devil! JK
Overall Comments: Thanks for this class! I enjoyed it! YOLO ;)
-Student expecting B with "Much" interest in subject
Course Strengths: help with reading & writing skills
Course Weaknesses: off topic at times
Instructor Strengths: could relate any thing to class
Instructor Weaknesses: off topic
-Student expecting A with "Some" interest in subject
Course Weaknesses: Learned a great deal about writing and reading, not so much on the actual Journalism subject.
Instructor Weaknesses: Gets off subject, but always finds a way to get back on track.
Overall Comments: Having Mr. S as my teacher made my senior year a lot easier to deal with. He taught me to view situations and things from other perspectives.
-Student expecting A with "Much" interest in subject
Course Strengths: helped improve: reading, writing, cognitive skills; related to life & made us think about alot
Overall Comments: I enjoyed this class compared to all my others. I feel I'll take a lot away from it, and I'm glad I took it. The instructor was one of the best teachers I've ever had and I think the class helped the majority of students both inside the classroom & in life.
-Student expecting A with "Some" interest in subject
Instructor Weaknesses: Does not know how to write someone up.
Overall Comments: I did not leave early, That write up was bull shit (Just kidding). Other than that were boys.
-Student expecting A+ with "Some" interest in subject
Course Weaknesses: not the most interesting
Instructor Strengths: smart, ability to mind-fuck
Instructor Weaknesses: overanalyzed a lot
Overall Comments: fun class, good time to relax and write
-Student expecting A- (Does not indicate level of interest in subject)
Instructor Weaknesses: not to good at telling time
-Student expecting A (Does not indicate level of interest in subject)
Instructor Weaknesses: new teacher
Overall Comments: I liked that it was a very open class and students were able to express themselves
-Student expecting A (Does not indicate level of interest in subject)
Course Strengths: improved writing skills
Course Weaknesses: somewhat unorganized
Instructor Strengths: gives creative projects
Instructor Weaknesses: Unexperienced
Overall Comments: I really liked being apart of this class. I had fun doing some of the projects, and I was able to freely express my opinion.
-Student expecting 89.48% (Does not indicate level of interest in subject and is probably annoyed that I did not round is 89.48% from 4th quarter up to an A to make him exempt from the Semester Exam)
Course Strengths: learn how to write better
Course Weaknesses: Didn't do to hot on placement test
Instructor Strengths: A Great speaking voice, I payed attention
Overall Comments: I learned more about english and writing in this one class then all four years of hs
-Student expecting A+++++ with "Some" interest in subject
Course Strengths: Overall I enjoyed the class. The assignments and reading was interesting.
Course Weaknesses: The Final is 4 pages too long.
-Student who does not indicate expected grade or level of interest in subject
Course Strengths: Writing a lot helped expand writing skills. Opened up to different types of different techniques.
Course Weaknesses: Hard to concentrate, disiplinary actions seemed to be based of favortism.
Instructor Strengths: Knowledgable, caring, helping, new ideas
Instructor Weaknesses: ranting, favortism towards D-Bags
Overall Comments: Great class, very interesting, never knew what to expect when entering class, learned more than I thought I would though--Have a good life!
-Student expecting A with "Much" interest in subject
Course Strengths: -made us have critical thinking when it comes to reading & writing
Course Weaknesses: -learned very little about journalism--focused more on creative writing, which isn't the course I signed up for
Instructor Strengths: -can relate to the students through conversation & by which projects he chose to assign
Instructor Weaknesses: -was a 1st yr teacher (seemed unprepared & didn't know much about journalism)
Overall Comments: -I'm disappointed in how little I was taught about journalism
-would have liked to open the book more
-Almost feel like it was a class wasted b/c of the little work I did/learned
-Student expecting A (Does not indicate level of interest in subject)
Course Strengths: Utilized unique content through original stories
Course Weaknesses: not enough time to learn everything
Instructor Strengths: knew a lot and cared about the students heavily
Overall Comments: I learned a lot and saw a teacher who truly cared about his students and did not let censorship hinder course
-Student expecting A with "Much" interest in subject
Course Strengths: I believe this class did a good job enhancing people's writing skills and literature analysis skills.
Instructor Strengths: Found a unique way to present meaningful concepts of both literature and real life.
Overall Comments: I ended up enjoying this class a lot and I think you did a great job making your lessons meaningful & applicable to life, instead of just going through a superficial lesson plan like a lot of teachers do.
-Student expecting A++ (Does not indicate level of interest in subject)
Course Strengths: lots of group activities & participation
Course Weaknesses: actual writing
Instructor Strengths: knew material and tried to make activities interesting
Instructor Weaknesses: DEVIL
Overall Comments: I enjoyed annoying you and calling you the devil.
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