Reviews of professor Melanie Fierro

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Biology with Professor Fierro is just such a great experience, she has shown that you are her child for the semester. She loves all her students, but our class was her fav. She is such a great teacher, I wish that she could teach all the science classes here at Rio Hondo!!!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Fierro is one of the best Biology professors I have taken so far at Rio Hondo. I've learned so much compared to high school Biology. She's always willing to help out with anything. Her lecture videos are very enjoyable to watch. Make sure to focus on her lecture videos and take your time when it comes to taking the exams.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
My favorite professor at Rio Hondo! Her outlines help a ton. Tests are long but if you study the power points and the outlines you'll be fine. Take as many pictures of the specimens in Lab and draw as accurate as possible. Beware the Lab if you don't study you'll regret it.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Fierro is very nice. Lecture videos are interesting to watch and easy to understand. She responds fairly quickly to emails and tries to help students as much as she can. The labs aren't difficult as long as you read through it. She provides lab guides to help you through each one. Tests are based off of her lectures.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She is a great teacher. You will learn in this class. Uses Proctorio for her exams if you take her online class. Always ask her for help, she will point you in the right direction.  Your exams are a big part of your grade.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Extreme to assign long labs, along with chem assignments and quizzes at the same time. Not considering students have other classes, are parents, work, or are dealing with severe mental illness. Some of these labs need tools you wouldn't have at home but a bio class.. which in this pandemic we are not attending which u'd think she'd accommodate to..

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Fierro is one of the best professors Ive ever had. Super kind, very informative and really has a love for teaching and her students. She wants everyone to learn and is always there if you have a question. Very structured and organized lecture and tests are based on her lecture notes. Super easy to pass if you show up to class every day.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
she gives handouts that you can print out and its basically the lecture and you just fill in parts of it. Study the handouts and you should be good. Shes really nice and wants you to learn the subject and is easily reachable out of class. She makes biology fun. Im going to take her for all my biology classes if i can

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Fierro was the highlight of my semester. Her guidance and advice was invaluable to me especially during a particularly challenging time. She has an unwavering commitment to her teaching that has inspired me to persevere. As a former teacher myself, she is an exceptional educator who I am moving classes aside so I can take her again in BIOL 201.