Reviews of professor Jessica Postma

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Postma is a sweet professor who likes to have fun. I enjoyed taking this course because I learned a lot about teaching elementary math. Every week there is a quiz but they are only worth 10 points and she drops the lowest two scores. You present a lesson one time individually to the class. Midterm and Final are very time consuming.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is a very nice woman and was very caring towards all students. However, there were a lot of instances where I felt she did not understand that people have other classes. I had to miss the class before this one on many occasions to make it to her mandatory tutoring sessions. This negatively impacted my other classes. Lots of homework as well.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
You could tell that Jess put a lot of effort into this course. Her lessons were thought-out and pretty engaging even in an online setting. She was always realistic with the amount of work due each week and had all of it in organized folders. She also arranged a tutoring opportunity for us which was my favorite part of the course!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I love Jess! I am so happy I had her twice. I love that she had us tutor an elementary student. She scheduled these sessions during class time with more than enough time during the scheduled class time to get to and from the sessions. When we went remote, she was honestly the most organized professor I had during that time. Would 100% take again!!!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Math is not my forte but I did enjoy how Jess approached this class to welcome all learning abilities. The presentation you do can be a little tedious based on your time/area. Also, participation is important and she requires you to participate 12x in the semester. Overall. really great professor and very helpful and accessible outside of class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I was not looking forward to taking a math course. It is not my strongest subject. Jess was always willing to help outside of class and was really good at getting back to my questions through e-mail super fast. My confidence in math has grown so much. I made sure I got into her course for next semester.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Jess was one of my favorite professors this year. Even with the course being online, I was amazed at how organized this class was. It made it extremely easy to understand and know when everything is due. There was quite a bit of homework, but most of it was graded just on completion. If you have the opportunity, take Jess!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Jess really changed my way of thinking about teaching math. She challenged me to not just focus on teaching algorithms and rules but instead to give students the opportunity to build their own understanding of the math content. Her expectations are high but reasonable; you will definitely need to work for an A. I learned so much in this course.