This may take the form of oral response to students answers in class or written comments on tests. If you're like most students, you comb through your graded papers and tests craving a crumb of praise or even just positive reaction to your ideas. Sarcasm and bitter verbal attacks from a teacher should be reported to your Dean of Students. Seek teachers known to give positive feedback. Provides a variety of communicating with him or her.
Every teacher is required to distribute a course syllabus the first week of class.
Seek teachers known to be accessible by phone, email, fax and during office hours. Provides an atmosphere conducive to learning. Every semester a few students report that they are suffering in a class where the students' misbehavior and disrespect is so rampant that they can't hear the teacher lecturing. A critical job of every teacher is to create an atmosphere where you cannot only hear the lecture, but where you feel safe to participate in discussion, where you are encouraged to work in small groups for more intense projects, and where you are asked to play a role in planning your own learning. Good teachers demand and give respect.