Reviews of professor Cristina Polesel

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Cristina is extraordinarily dedicated to her students. She makes herself available and earnestly wants her students to develop facility with Italian. She explains clearly. When students do not understand readily, it is because their previous schooling was deficient in grammar instruction.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Cristina is strongly passionate about Italy's language and culture. She is caring, understanding of difficult situations, and goes out of her way to help you. If you put in the work inside and outside of class, you will do very well. The number of resources she gives her students to study and practice is amazing. I highly recommend taking her class

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Outstanding instructor who cares deeply about students' learning. Exceptionally willing to meet students outside of class for extra help. Highly organized, uses class time efficiently and effectively, offers timely feedback when grading work. Only drawback: excess of resources. Overwhelming to receive so many emails. Less is more!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Cristina Polesel is a very conscientious & dedicated teacher! She finds & shares all kinds of resources, such as exercises, videos, websites, & songs, to reinforce the lessons. Since she is from Venice, she can speak to some of the peculiarities of the language--it's really helpful, and fun! She cares about each student & is very encouraging.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Cristina Polesel is a teacher who really wants to help you learn Italian. She provided many resources, including videos to improve listening comprehension and every element of grammar. We had options for projects to make them fit our different interests. She gave feedback for every assignment within a day or two. Always encouraging, considerate.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Cristina is an excellent teacher. She is knowledgeable and extremely patient. It is obvious that she loves teaching and wants her students to succeed. I took two classes with her. An Italian level 1 and Italian level 2. I wish that the college would let her teach an Italian level 3 class!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
she is very sweet BUT im writing an honest review. 2 hour class twice a week (basically mandatory) hour tutoring a week, 40+ questions due weekly, 1-2 writing assignments a week, and a test every two weeks. I feel like this workload would have been manageable if I was actually learning something in the lectures which are long disorganized&confusing

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I think Cristina is an awesome teacher. She is constantly trying to improve her teaching methodology and trying to engage students to participate and make the class fun. The home work is demanding but without it no one would retain any knowledge.